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Re: Wilson Elizabeth & Sophia Brooklyn Ny

vansicklen1  (View posts) Posted: 3 Jan 2010 5:27AM GMT
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I see in your other posts who they married, will these items be of any use to you?

(1900 U.S. Census)
NEW YORK , KINGS, 30-WD BROOKLYN BORO
NARA Series: T623 Roll: 1068 Page: 230
ED 553, sheet # 1B
head: Christian Beecher, b. Aug 1861, Germany, arrived 1872, occupation: fireman
wife: Sophia, b. Nov 1866, England, arrived 1873, married 15y, both parents born England
son: Harry, b. July 1886, NY
dau: Mabel, b. Dec 1887, NY
son: John B., b. Oct 1889, NY
son: Christian W., b. Dec 1891, NY
son: Otto A., b. Mar 1896, NY

New York City Bride & Groom Index
Wilson - Sophia & Bucher - Christian, Sep 16 1885, Kings County, certificate # 2699
Wilson - Elizabeth & Matthews - Leaman, Nov 11 1889, Kings County, certificate # 5526

Brooklyn Eagle death notice dated Dec 4, 1949, page 23
BEECHER-Sophia. December 2, 1949, beloved mother of Harry, John B., Christian and Otto. Reposing at the Halvorsen Chapel, 5310 8th Avenue. Services Tuesday, 1:30 p.m. Interment "The Evergreens."

Send for her death certificate, it may possibly show where in England she was born, I'm not certain that Brooklyn marriage certificates of the 1880s showed birth location.

The 1920 census shows that Sophia was naturalized but I can't make out the date, you might try to acquire those records as well.
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Here are a couple of items concerning Sophia's husband:

New York City Death Index
Beecher - Christian, 85 y, d. Oct 7 1946, certificate # 19469 Kings

Brooklyn Eagle obituary dated Oct 9, 1946, page 15
Services for Christian Beecher of 1147 57th St., a retired New York City fireman, who died Monday at the age of 85, will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in the Halvorsen Chapel, 5310 8th Ave. The Rev. Frank Peer Beal, pastor of the Edgewood Reformed Church, 14th Ave. and 53d St., will officiate. Burial will take place tomorrow morning in Evergreens Cemetery. Mr. Beecher, a native of Germany, was brought to the United States as a child and spent most of his life in Brooklyn. He retired from the Fire Department in 1916 at which time he was assigned to Engine Company 25 in Manhattan. In early life he was a member of the Brooklyn Volunteer Fire Department. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Sophia Beecher; four sons, Harry W., John B., Christian W. and Otto A. Beecher; 12 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.
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