Re: ORGIN OF THE WANZOR/WANZER/WANSOR/ETC FAMILY NAMES
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Re: ORGIN OF THE WANZOR/WANZER/WANSOR/ETC FAMILY NAMES
james clark 2/29/04
James,
I've been researching my Long Island, NY, Wanser/Wanzer line for about 5 years now.My gggm was Susan Ann Wanzer (1841-1926), daughter of Daniel M Wanzer (1810-1861) and Hannah J Thurston (1821-1860).Daniel's parents were, I think, Daniel (b c1780, age 70 in the 1850 Hempstead Census) and Nancy Wanzer (age 71 in the 1850 Hempstead Census).So, I've always noted with interest the letter your ggf, Moses G, wrote to the author of the Wanzer book in 1907, since it also shows a line of two Long Island Daniels that would have roughly the same years of birth as mine.
But what has really got my attention is the recent discovery that Susan's brother, Edward (1850-aft1930), had a son who called himself "William Parslo Wanser" (1900-1964).This is temptingly close to the "Paslow" middle name cited in Moses' letter as that of one of his granduncles.
When I reviewed my other male Wanzers, I found a number of others with middle initial "P", though I cannot yet say they all represent "Paslow" or "Parslo".
Also in that letter, "Wansors can be found....along the north side of Long Island, from Flushing out".My Wanser/Wanzer bunch is from Flushing/Great Neck from 1850 on, after a stopover in central Hempstead in 1840, and God knows where before that, perhaps the Glen Cove area.
Another curious observation is that Moses lives in Great Neck, Town of North Hempstead, in the 1900 Census, amid a number of people who are parishioners of the same church as my Wanser/Wanzer bunch.
That's enough for now.One can go crazy with this stuff, and do all sorts of nutty constructs with hardly any data, but I find this series of coincidences most interesting.
Bill Bracht
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Re: ORGIN OF THE WANZOR/WANZER/WANSOR/ETC FAMILY NAMES
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