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All of these pages are from the Old Stone Bank in Providence, RI. Not all of the entries have occupations or birth locations recorded, and the order of this information changes from line to line and page to page, so sometimes it isn’t clear if something is a residence, a birth location, or an occupation.
#1 – Last Name
#2 – Last Name
#3 – Last Name
#4 – First Name
#5 – Either a location or an occupation
#1- Last Name Lagerqiuit
#2- Last Name McTite
#3- Last Name Padiean
#4- First Name Peivis
#5- Location/ Noth Covered (North Coventry)
This is what I see.
1. Lagerquist
2. McTate
3. Padiean
4. Paris
5. North Corner
1. Lagerquist 2. Utica 3. Padiean 4. Pervis 5. Nortcovser
1. Lagenquist or Lagerquist
2. Mctate or McHale
3. Radican or Padican
4. Paris
5. _____coverer
4: Pervis
5: Woolcorser
1. Langerquist
2. McTate
3. Padiean
4. Paris
5. ______ courier
1. Lagerquist
2. Mctile or M’tile [really not sure]
3. Padieau
4. Paris
5. root coverer
1. Lagergicity
2. ___tite
3. Padiean
4. Pervis
5. N___ covered
#1 LAGENGICI 17
#2 McTATE
#3 RADIEAN
#4 PAVIS
#5 Not?covser
1- Lagerquist
2 – McTate
3 – Padican
4 – Paris Simmons of Foster RI found on Findagrave, b. 1809 corresponds to age 66 in 1875 listing of Old Stone Bank
5 – “north corner”
#1. Lagerquist
#2. I(capital i)L’tite
#3. Redieau
#4. Paris
#5. roof coverer
1 Carl Heinrich Lagerquist (see 1900 census)
2 Isabella McTate (?)
4 Pervis
5 Woodcarver? Woonsocket?
#3 – Pedican
#4 – Paris
1. Henry Lagerquist in passenger list to Boston
2.?
3. Catharine Padean in 1875 Providence Directory
4. Paris Simmons in 1880 U.S. Census in Providence
5.?
#1 – Lagerquist/Lagerqvist
#2 – McTate
#3 – Padiean (Padian would be the correct spelling) Search for Catherine Padian, 1851 – 1922 at My Heritage
#4 – Paris
$5 – No idea, but there was a William Dickinson in the area in the 1850 and 1860 census who was a reed maker. https://rmhh.co.uk/occup/q-r.html#R
1. Lagergrist or Lagerquist
2.
3. Padiean
4. Paris
5. Roof Coverer
#1 last name Lagergren or Lagergran
#3 Last name Padien
#4 is likely a male, first name Paris, last name Simmons. See 1880 census record for Paris Simmons Foster RI: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4SJ-FLS
1. Lagerquist
2.Mctate
3.Padieau
4.Pavis
5. nortcoveur
1. Lagerquist
2. McTate
3. Padiean
4. Pavis
5. Roof coverer
1. Lagerquist
2. M Tate
3. Padieau
4. Pavio
5. not covered
#1 Lagerquist
1 – Logerquist
2 – McCabe
3 – Padiean
4 – Pervis
4 – Paris
Lagerquist
McTabe
Padican
Pavis
wool com[b]er
1. Lagerquist (a known Swedish surname)
2. McTate ?
3. Padiean (a variation of surname Padian; in the 1860s and 1870s, a lady named Catherine Padien lived in Providence, RI., per the city directories.)
4. Pervis (a common name in late 1800s; also spelled Parvis and sometimes Purvis; here it appears to be Pervis.)
5. mouth coverer (misspelled occupation; a person who works on the “mouth” of a shoe, just under the laces, and folds the other parts of the shoes atop the mouth – might include lacing the new shoe(s); in modern times, this is called the ‘tongue’ of the shoe, but in 1800s, it was called the ‘mouth.’
1. Lagerquist
2. White
3. Padiean
4. Pavis
5. Roof coverer
#1 Lagerquis
#2 McTate
#3 Padieau
#4 Parvis
#5 north corner
1. Lagerquist or Lagergren
2. Utitc
3. Pedian
4. Pervil or Persis
5. Rule coverer
1. Lagerquist
2. McTate or White
3. Pediean
4. Paris
5. roof coverer
1. Lagerquist
2. McTate
3. Padiean
4. Paris
5. [?] Coverer
1. Lagerquist
2. McTite
3. Padican
4. Pavis
5. no??covered
1) Lagerquist — there are people of that surname in Providence, RI.
2) White, possibly. McTite isn’t really a thing. The big crossing of the t makes a possible “h” look like a “t” but take the crossing away from the first possible “t” and “White” might emerge.
3) Padien — My rationale is that this surname is plentiful, AND notice the 2 different hands between first name and last. There was a “correction” where an “a” is placed over an original “n” and then a new “n” put after the “a”…. take away the “an” at the end and a single “n” is underlying.
4) Paris — he is found in Foster, Rhode Island at the right age in other records to be 66 in 1875ish.
5) I am so stumped. “NotS covered”?? — This man was a “Clock Repairer” in the rear of 50 Lockwood in Providence in 1876 city directory. * ”’1876 Directory”’: “U.S., City Directories, 1822-1995”, database with images, Ancestry.com: accessed 2 December 2023), image 667, Name William Dickinson, Residence Year 1876, Street Address 50 Lockwood, Residence Place Providence, Rhode Island, USA, Occupation Clock Repairer, Publication Title Providence, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1876; citing Providence, Rhode Island, City Directory, 1876.
1. Lagerquist
2. McTate
3. Padiean
4. Pavis, Davis
5. Nothcorner
1. Lagerquist
2. McTate
3. Padiean
4. Paris
5. nort coverer
l. Lagergiest
2. Mactate
3. Padiean
4. Peivis
5 Employment: Nothing Covered
1. Lagerquint
2. McTite
3. Paidiean
4. Permission
5. Not covered
1. Lagerquist
2. Isabella McIntire
3. Looks like Padieau, but I think it’s Padian/Padien based on records
4. Paris Simmons
5. roller (roll) coverer – a textile worker who covered mechanical rollers used for spinning yarn
1. Lagerquist
2. McTate
3. Padiean
4. Pervis
5. norb coverer?
1. Lagerquist
2. McTihe or McTighe
3. Pedieaus
4. Paris or Pervis
5. North Coventry
1. Lagerquist
A Carl O.H. Lagerquist was born 6 Aug 1907 and bapt 21 May 1908 at Orange, Franklin, Mass., according to Bethany Lutheran Church records online on Ancestry.com
2. Isabella McTite
3. Catherine Padiean
4. Pavis Simmons
5. North (with a local accent, pronounced ” Noth”) Coventry [??]
Heinrich Helmut Lagerquist No 1 transcription challenge. You will find this person on ancestry.com.
#1 Lagerquist
#2 M’tite
#3 Padiean
# 4 Pervis
# 5 North coveren — probably North Coventry
1. Lagerquist
2. McTate
3. Padiean
4. Paris
5. not covered
1. Lagerquist
2. McTate
3. Padiean
4. Pervis
5. roof coverer, r–t coverer
#1 – Lagerquist
#2 – McTavich or McTate
#3 – Padien (There is a Catherine Padien in the 1860 Census living in Providence)
#4 – Pervis
#5 – Not covered or Nothing covered
1. Lagerquist
2. Mctate
3. Padiean
4. Paris
5. root coverer
5. Roll Coverer, 1860 Fall River MA USCensus has William Dickinson, born England in 1820, with an occupation of Roll Coverer. In 1880 he’s living in Providence working as a sorter. This matches the born in Yorkshire and 55 years old in 1875 on the document.
1. Lagerqicof
2. Ulake
3 Padiean
4. Parie
5 north corner
1. Lagerquist
2. Mctite
3. Padiean
4. Paris
5. Not’l covered
#4 Persis
1. Lagerquest
2. McTate
3. Padiean
4. Paris
5. not covered
4. Persis
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1. Lagerquist- According to Lagerquist Family History on ancestry.com, it is a Swedish ornamental name composed of two elements.
Larger or ‘laurel’ + quist or (Kvist) ‘twig’.(surname)
2. White (surname)
3. Padiean or Padian (surname)
4. Pervis (First name)
5. North Corner (location)
1. Lagerquist
2. White
3. Padean
4. Paris
5. Northview
1. Lagerqvist
2. McTete
3. Padiean
4. Paris
5. North Corner (location as no address number)
1, Lagerquist (a known Swedish surname)
2. McTate
3. Padiean (a bad spelling of the name Padien)
4. Paris – the 1850 census confirms Paris Simmons of Foster, Providence, Rhode Island.
4. Northview
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