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- [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1880 U.S. census, population schedule.
NARA microfilm T9, roll 233, page 299A. Illinois, Madison County, Edwardsville, Ward 2, Supervisor’s District 7, Enumeration District 21, census page 17A, enumerated on 7 June 1880; Wesley R. Brink household, dwelling 164; family 190; lines 32-37. Access through Ancestry.com (library edition) in November 2017.
In the household was: 32) Brink, Wesley R.; white; male; age 30; [head]; born in New Jersey; father born in New Jersey; mother born in New Jersey.
By calculation from the information provided, Wesley R. Brink would have been born about 1849-1850. For more details of this enumeration, see the notes on the 1880 U.S. census for this person.
- [S104] Personal communication, from Thomas G. Allen to J. Mark Fiegenbaum on 3 November 2017 via email.
"Elizabeth Eleanor (Nellie) Gillespie, dau. of Matthew and Martha,...married Wesley R. Brink, the publisher of History of Madison County, Illinois (1882)."
- [S203] History of Madison County, Illinois; Illustrated; With Biographical Sketches Of Many Prominent Men And Pioneers (Edwardsville, Illinois: W. R. Brink and Company, 1882), pages 362-363.
Biographical sketch of Judge Matthew Gillespie. "...he [Matthew Gillespie] again married March 10th, 1839, Mrs. Martha Hynes, nee McGrew, a lady of Scotch parentage. Only three children of this marriage grew to man and womanhood;...Nellie, wife of W. R. Brink, both residents of Edwardsville,..."
- [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1880 U.S. census, population schedule.
NARA microfilm T9, roll 233, page 299A. Illinois, Madison County, Edwardsville, Ward 2, Supervisor’s District 7, Enumeration District 21, census page 17A, enumerated on 7 June 1880; Wesley R. Brink household, dwelling 164; family 190; lines 32-37. Access through Ancestry.com (library edition) in November 2017.
In the household was: 32) Brink, Wesley R.; white; male; age 30; [head]; married; and, 33) Brink, Nellie; white; female; age 26; wife; married; keeping house.
For more details of this enumeration, see the notes on the 1880 U.S. census for these individuals.
- [S106] United States; Bureau of the Census, U.S. Census (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration), 1880 U.S. census, population schedule.
NARA microfilm T9, roll 233, page 299A. Illinois, Madison County, Edwardsville, Ward 2, Supervisor’s District 7, Enumeration District 21, census page 17A, enumerated on 7 June 1880; Wesley R. Brink household, dwelling 164; family 190; lines 32-37. Access through Ancestry.com (library edition) in November 2017.
The household consisted of: 32) Brink, Wesley R.; white; male; age 30; [head]; married; publisher; born in New Jersey; father born in New Jersey; mother born in New Jersey. 33) Brink, Nellie; white; female; age 26; wife; married; keeping house; born in Illinois; father born in New York; mother born in Ohio. 34) Brink, Florence; white; female; age 3; daughter; single; born in Illinois; father born in New Jersey; mother born in Illinois. 35) Brink, Julia; white; female; age 1; daughter; single; born in Illinois; father born in New Jersey; mother born in Illinois. 36) Gillespie, Martha; white; female; age 64; mother-in-law; widow; no occupation; born in Ohio; father born in Virginia; mother born in Virginia. 37) Bernius, Louisa; white; female; age 20; servant; single; domestic servant; born in Illinois; father born in Germany; mother born in Germany.
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