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Elizabeth Cassidy Schuler is my great-great grandmother. She was born October 1849 in New York City. She was the daughter of George Cassidy and his wife Martha.  Or was it his wife Bathsheba? This is my attempt to sort through the evidence and determine if Bathsheba Williams and Martha Cassidy are indeed the same person- wife of George, mother of Elizabeth and her brother William and my three times great grandmother.   Let's begin with the 1850 US Census. George Cassidy is living in NY's enumeration district 2, ward #18, George is 31 years old, born in NY and his occupation is recorded as soda water. He is residing with Martha, who we assume is his wife. Martha is 26 years old and born in Ireland. The couple reside with William, age 5 and Betsey, less than one. Also, living with the family is John Williams, a 60 year old carpenter, born in Ireland.   The family remains intact in the 1855 NY State Census. They are residing in the 14th ward of enumeration dist...

Harry Schuler, my second great grandfather was born on this day in 1842 in Paris, France.  I refer to him as Harry from France to differientiate him from the other Harrys in my family, of which there are many and because he is my Schuler, who got on a boat, from France and came to America.  Harry did not come alone, he was about 2 years old and travelled with his mother, the elusive Catharina Blick and his older sister Leonie.  Catharina was 25 and Leonie was 4.  They reunited with Louis Schuler and settled for several years in New Orleans, where Louis and Catherine had seven more children.   There is a lot more research to be done (isn't there always?) but I am confident in saying that all but three of their children reached adulthood and all but one, stayed in New Orleans, while all the others moved north to New York.  Harry's first New York address is Clinton Street, where he lived with his brother Louis and his wife Ellen.  Soon Harry ...