{"id":193,"date":"2011-07-18T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/orphan-photo-91\/"},"modified":"2013-07-06T19:56:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T00:56:31","slug":"orphan-photo-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/orphan-photo-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Orphan Photo #91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Orphan 0091-A\" alt=\"Orphan 0091-A\" src=\"http:\/\/lh3.ggpht.com\/-U_3AM-Xq3KQ\/TiJi5Z3nAvI\/AAAAAAAAF0s\/WbNWcOaX6yQ\/Orphan0091A4.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"300\" height=\"469\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Orphan 0091-B\" alt=\"Orphan 0091-B\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.ggpht.com\/-btGz9XBrZJ0\/TiJi5w3TdBI\/AAAAAAAAF0w\/xMIWPBAQqWY\/Orphan0091B3.jpg?imgmax=800\" width=\"400\" height=\"252\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What an adorable baby girl!\u00a0 Before we get into the research, here\u2019s the transcribed version of the back of the postcard:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<table width=\"500\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"10\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"90\"><strong>Postmark<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"378\">Hard to read, but the stamps are from Norway<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"90\"><strong>Addressee<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"378\">Miss Charlotte Murphy<br \/>\n619 so 10 st<br \/>\nMinneapolis<br \/>\nMinn<br \/>\nU S America<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"90\"><strong>Message<\/strong><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"379\">Dear Miss Charlotte<br \/>\nI am now in Norway and will send you a card so that you hear that I am still alive how is cupid I often wondered how you all where [sic] maybe I will Return to America this fall, have been sick most of the time since I came home Clara is getting big now best Regards to all from Carrie Vicken [Wicken]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Charlotte (the recipient) has been identified.\u00a0 She is found in both the 1900 and 1910 censuses living with her parents William and Josephine Murphy.\u00a0 In 1910, the address matches the one on the postcard.\u00a0 The 1900 census has them listed at 603 S. 10th, with an entry for 619 right under it; this could be a simple recording error.\u00a0 I was unable to find the family in the 1895 or 1905 Minnesota state censuses or in the 1920 federal census.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1910 census, a \u201cCaroline Wicken\u201d is in the Murphy household as a servant.\u00a0 She is 27, born in Norway, immigrated in 1901, and single.\u00a0 A \u201cCarrie&#8221; Wicken\u201d with a daughter Clara is also found in the 1910 census living in Elmore, Minnesota, which is about 150 miles from Minneapolis..\u00a0 She is 44, born in Norway, immigrated in 1884, and widowed.\u00a0 These appear to be two different people.<\/p>\n<p>It makes more sense that the postcard was written by the \u201cCaroline\u201d found in the Murphy household, sometime after 1910.\u00a0 Another clue is that Carrie references \u201ccupid\u201d and I would assume that at the time the postcard was sent, Charlotte would be around the age to start looking for a husband.<\/p>\n<p>I did investigate the \u201cCarrie\u201d in Elmore seeing as she had a daughter Clara.\u00a0 But the reference to Clara \u201cgetting so big now\u201d would lead me to believe she\u2019s talking about a very young child, not an adolescent (Carrie\u2019s daughter Clara was 12 in 1910).\u00a0 I realize the photo could have been taken at one time and sent some many years later, but the reference doesn\u2019t really tie in with that theory.\u00a0 Additionally, it is my understanding that real photo postcards were not around prior to 1900, so this is probably not Clara from Elmore.\u00a0 Too bad that postmark isn\u2019t legible; that would have helped!\u00a0\u00a0 The photo could be of one of her grandchildren, but her son Elmer died in 1922, her daughters each had one known son, and her son Carl Morris had two known daughters neither named Clara (but his wife\u2019s name was Clara).\u00a0 And from what I can tell, other than a same-name individual, there doesn\u2019t appear to be any connection between the Wicken of Elmore family and the Murphy family through people or places.\u00a0 I have found descendants of the Carrie in Elmore, but I just don\u2019t think this photo belongs to their family.<\/p>\n<p>Since the author of the postcard was between Norway and America, I tried to locate passenger records or passports to help guide the research but was unsuccessful.\u00a0 The records available on FamSearch for Norway led nowhere.\u00a0 So I\u2019m pretty much stuck on this one.\u00a0 Any ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What an adorable baby girl!\u00a0 Before we get into the research, here\u2019s the transcribed version of the back of the postcard:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[37,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orphan-photos-identified","category-wwtts","cat-37-id","cat-36-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3HcLI-37","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3409,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/3409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}