Duncans in Douglas Co. NE

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Duncan research files of
Mary Ann (Duncan) Dobson
the Genealogy Bug

Last revised March 20, 2007

DOUGLAS CO. NE
Formed 1854, original county
Saunders formed 1856 from Sarpy, Douglas
 

CENSUS RECORDS

1860 Douglas Co. NE Census
      No Duncan indexed

1870 Douglas Co. NE Census
(handwritten page in parentheses)
Omaha Ward 1
Pg.367 (?), #50-56, many men on RR, including
                  DUNCAN, Henry 24 GERM bridge carpenter, parents of foreign birth, citizen of US
Pg.395 (64), #513-542, Boarding house, including
                  DUNCEN, F.R. (m) 24 GERM cigarmaker $0-$100
Pg.402 (77), #596-624, DUNCAN, George 27 SWITZ laborer $0-$75 with others
Omaha Ward 2
Pg.425 (39), #262-287, DUNCAN, W.D. (m) 31 MO laborer $0-$75 with others
Omaha Ward 6
Pg.532-3 (5), #34-40, DUNCAN, W.H. 30 SC engineer $0-$0
                  Eliza 26 IL keeping house
                  Georgia (f) 2 NEbraska
 

MILITARY RECORDS

Pension Index Card File, alphabetical; of the Veterans Administrative Contact and Administration Services, Admin. Operations Services, 1861-1934; Duff to A-J Duncan (negative FHL film 540,888, some cards very faint); Joseph Duncan to Dunn (positive FHL film 540,889, some cards very dark)
      Cataloged under Civil War, 1861-1865, pensions, indexes; does not say if Confederate or Federal, but probably Federal. Negative film, some cards much too faint or dark to read, some cards blurred or faded, particularly the service unit and the dates of application. Most of the very faint or dark cards were in a slightly different format, with space for years enlisted and discharged which were sometimes filled in. Many of these were for service in later years, although one or two were for service ca 1866.
      Name of soldier, alias, name of dependent widow or minor, service (military unit or units), date of filing, class (invalid or widow or minor or other), Application #, Certificate #, state from which filed (sometimes blank), attorney (sometimes blank, MAD: did not usually copy), remarks. Sometimes the "Invalid" or "Widow" class had an "s" added to it before the application #; occasionally the area for the service information included a circled "S". The minor's name was frequently that of the guardian rather than the minor.
      The military unit was frequently the Company Letter, the Regiment Number, sometimes US Vet Vol Inf. (US Veteran Volunteer Infantry), L.A. (Light Artillery), H.A. (Heavy Artillery), US C Inf (US Colored? Infantry), Cav. (Cavalry), Mil. Guards, V.R.C. (?Volunteer Reserve Corps?), etc. Sometimes there were several service units given.
      Cards appear to be arranged by the last name, first name, middle initial if any, and state (including "US") of service.
      Duncan, Robert L., widow Duncan, Alice M.; F 17 Ill. Inf.; 1883 Oct. 13, Invalid Appl. #497566, Cert. #554386, Neb.; 1906 June 13, Widow Appl. #850557, no cert., Colo. (MAD: b.1836 Washington Co. PA; lived Monmouth, Warren Co. IL, when enlisted; his brother Charles M. Duncan said to have married 11/17/1902 in Omaha, Douglas Co. NE and died Denver, CO)
 

HISTORIES before 1923

1928 "History of San Mateo County, California" by Roy W. Cloud; pub. Chicago, Ill.: S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1928 (HeritageQuest image 3/2007, Local History Reel/Fiche Number 11071; FHL book 979.469 H2c and film 1,320,734 items 1 and 2)
      Pg.138-139: S.D. MERK, of Burlingame, now giving his time to financial interests, was until recently owner and editor of the Advance-Star, ... Mr. Merk was born in Omaha [MAD: Douglas Co.], Nebraska, on the 21st of August, 1872, and is a son of George W. and Sarah E. (Dunkin) Merk. He is descended from a long line of American ancestors, the family having settled in this country in colonial days, and his paternal grandfather was a California pioneer of 1849. S.D. Merk was brought to this state in his early boyhood ... school at Santa Rosa [Sonoma Co.], in 1897 in San Luis Obispo, for past 20 years a resident of San Mateo Co. ... Mr. Merk was united in marriage to Miss Anne Moroney, a native of Ohio. ... (MAD: 1880 Sonoma Co. CA census)
 

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