ESGATE and BLANCHARD
ESGATE, VANDIKE, STRONG, BLANCHARD, WALKER
Posted By: Jean-Philippe CHAUMONT (email)
Date: 12/31/2003 at 04:33:50
Hello
I am looking for information on my wife’s ancestor : Charlotte V. BLANCHARD, and on her family.
Charlotte’s maiden name was ESGATE. She is b. ca 1817 in Saint-Michaels, Maryland, the daughter of Benjamin ESGATE and Mary VANDIKE. In the 1830s, she settled with her brothers Stephen and Benjamin ESGATE in Jackson county, Iowa., where is now the Esgate cemetery I assume, in Farmers Creek twp. She was not married but must be the mother of Mary Eleanor ESGATE b. ca. 1837 in Jackson County, and for sure was the mother of a son, Thomas - then ESGATE, b. Feb. 15, 1844 in Jackson County, may be in Farmers Creek twp.
In 1850, she was not married yet, and lived with the two children on her brother’s Stephen ESGATE farm, in Farmers Creek twp, (1850 census).
On the 24th of September 1854, John Walker, a Methodist minister , celebrated in Jackson County the marriage between Mary Eleanor ESGATE and James Franklin STRONG, b. in 1833 in London, Ontario.In the 1860 census, Charlotte V. ESGATE is the Charlotte V. BLANCHARD living with her son Thomas (also BLANCHARD) on Stephen ESGATE farm, in Union Twp, Iowa.
In the 1870 census, Charlotte V. BLANCHARD lived with James Franklin STRONG (a farmer), his wife Mary Eleanor and their 6 children in Columbus Twp, Missouri. The STRONG family removed from Iowa to Missouri in 1868. In the 1880 census, Charlotte V. BLANCHARD, widowed, lived with the STRONG in Hazel Hill, Missouri, but she was an “aunt” according to the relationship mentioned in the census. The STRONGS are mentioned in an article about their son Benjamin Franklin STRONG, MD, published in A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans by William E. Connelley, (Topeka. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1918) transcribed on : http://169.147.169.151/genweb/archives/1918ks/bios/strongbf.html
I don’t know where and when Charlotte V. BLANCHARD died (after 1879 in Hazel Hill ? Missouri ).
Her son Thomas ESGATE BLANCHARD, my wife ancestor, was a solidier in the civil war. He became a lawyer and in 1870 lived with his wife Sarah WALKER and children in Andrew, where he was a County auditor (1870 census). In 1880, he was a lawyer in Maquoketa (1880 census). He retired in Santa Cruz, California. According to military papers, Thomas’ father was “Jotham BLANCHARD”, a native a New York or New Jersey according to censuses . Did Charlotte ESGATE married “Jotham BLANCHARD” in the 1850s, and was he dead at the time of the 1860 census ?I would be very happy to correspond with anyone interested in exchanging information on these families.
Many thanks for your help !
Jean-Philippe Chaumont
Paris, France
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