Adelia A Studwell is a widow in 1850. In fact, searching for Studwell, no first name, in Greenwich in 1850 yields only women, whereas in 1840 there are many households. Many of them don't have women of the right age to be Adelia, but George, Henry, Richard, and possibly Solomon do. The household she was in at that time can't be narrowed down with this information.
It's interesting that many of them live very near to Elijah Scott, father of Alfred's wife Hannah.
Did a young female Adams marry a Studwell before 1850? Or was she Adelia with some other maiden name beginning with A? There are about 12 candidates in the Greenwich census in 1820.
There is information on Ancestry.com on Sarah E. Adams Bent, the youngest daughter of Rufus and Sarah Douglas Adams. I haven't looked at it closely, but I suspect it will be helpful.
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ReplyDeletePart 1, Karen writing to Peg: Well, here she is but this doesn't give you any other information.
http://virts.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hal/Studwell/ps01/ps01_274.html
Part 2, Peg responding to Karen:
Hmm, interesting. This would mean that she was an older sister to the boys, not married to their brother. In fact, it means she had not been married because her name was still Studwell. She was 35 in the census, they were 18 and 23 or 24.
If she married, it was after she was 35, and that's unusually old. I mean, we don't seem to see much of it in that day, that I've noticed anyway.
The one in this citation is a bit old compared to the one in the census. And since she didn't marry at all till after 35, and had two husbands after that, she would have been fairly old at her second marriage.
Too bad the only reference is the 1850 census. Hard to get all that out of one census! It's hard to make the details work together.
Part 3. Additional comment from Peg to Karen:
And if this is true, she wasn't married for the first time until she was 38 or 39!
Mary - That is a critical part of the story, and I see that I have not posted that chapter of it yet. I will do so! Thanks, Peg
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