ROBERTSON, Blanche Tyrrell

ROBERTSON, TYRRELL, DAVIS

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 12/2/2011 at 18:18:59

Blanche Tyrrell was born in 1873, in Iowa, to Lewis Warren Tyrrell (1826-1919) and Sarah Lucinda Davis (1841-1878).

Blanche married Walter Robertson on 8 May 1889 in Hamilton county, Iowa. They were the parents of two children Flora and Webster.

Walter died in 1933, and is buried at Charles City, Iowa. (See his obituary in this collection)
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1900 US Census: Woolstock, Wright, Iowa--

W. Robertson, 37, born Scotland, February 1863.

B. B. Robertson, 27, born May 1873, Iowa.

(1st child) Flora Robertson, 10, born April 1890, Iowa.

(2nd child) W. Robertson, 8, born October 1891, Iowa

NOTE: The second child is Webster W. Robertson born October 25, 1892 in Woolstock. [According to his WWI Draft Registration.]
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Note: The 1925 Iowa Census: Charles City, Floyd, has his father as Joe Robertson; and Blanche’s parents as Louis Tyrrell and Lizenda Davis both born New York [Note: spellings are not always accurate in census records]

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Blanche was still alive in the 1930 Census and they were living in Charles City, Floyd, Iowa
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Ancestry.com did have a tree that had pictures of Walter Robertson, Blanche Tyrrell Robertson and another one of their daughter Flora (see below).

This tree has her parents as Lewis Warren Tyrrell born June 14, 1836 in NY; died 1919 Woodstock, Iowa; and mother as Sarah Lucinda Davis 1841-1878.

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Iowa Marriage Record:

Name: Walter Robertson
Spouse: Blanche B. Tyrrell
Marriage Date: 8 May 1889
Place: Hamilton county, Iowa.

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(Credit: DM Scott)

Photo of Blanche Robertson:

Floyd Obituaries maintained by Lynn Diemer-Mathews.
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