Wellington Genealogy Group - Ohio, USA

05/09/2024

Anyone here Irish? 🍀🍀🍀

Page 4 of 38 of the 1850 federal census for Wellington, Ohio, showing just some of the railroad laborers living communally in so-called “Irish shanties.” This is a topic I have long wan…

05/09/2024

Exciting news! (I hope this link works and isn't paywalled.)

The National Archives and the genealogy company Ancestry are teaming up to digitize and put online tens of millions of records from the Archives’ vast holdings.

03/10/2024

Part two of the history of 210 South Main Street is now up. Enjoy!

Photograph hand-labeled on reverse, “Vischer family & horses back of 210 South Main.” William Bentley Vischer and his young daughter Mary stand at center; note also the mustachioed …

03/01/2024

This one is going out to Laura Kostyn! :-)

“When Kossuth Rode Up Broadway,” (1897) depicts Lajos (Anglicized as “Louis”) Kossuth being welcomed to the United States by 100,000 onlookers in New York City on December 6…

02/28/2024

This is a shot in the dark but I am stumped. I got a question about why Magyar Street has that name. I've checked every single source I can think of and found nothing. The street already had that name when the village plat map was created in 1852. I thought perhaps an early inhabitant had that family name but I've combed through the census and other records and can only find one single person with that name in the entire history of the town. (It was Steven Joseph Magyar, born in Lorain in 1925, died in Wellington in 1995, interred in Pittsfield Cemetery.) Someone suggested that the word Magyar is another term for people of Hungarian descent and while that is certainly true, I am not aware of anyone in Wellington's first decades of Hungarian heritage. They mostly came from the Berkshires of Massachusetts and had English and/or Dutch backgrounds. By the 1870/80s there were loads of residents in town that were born outside the U.S.--something like 15% of the population--but again, I know of Canadian, Bavarian (German), Irish and even Chinese residents but no Hungarians. By any chance, has anyone ever heard a family story about how Magyar got its name?

02/24/2024

Saw this on another social media platform last night and thought this group would appreciate it. 🙂

02/21/2024

Happy 2024! Don't know if anyone is still following this page but just a heads up that I'm posting new research on 210 South Main Street over at the blog and it involves members of the Couch, Foote, Dickson and Fuller families. If any of those are names in your tree, you might want to check it out. The next post will talk about Vischers and Tripps.

And FYI, in case it's of interest, I've added new "When Was It Built?" pages for some village residences and churches. Only about 20 structures posted so far but I'm hoping to create a third page for downtown commercial buildings soon.

Hope everyone is keeping warm and doing well!

https://19thcenturywellington.wordpress.com/2024/02/20/the-story-of-a-house-the-story-of-a-town-part-one/

[Image: 210 South Main Street, ca. 1920]

09/10/2023

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/genealogy-workshop-series-tickets-692570857077?aff=oddtdtcreator

Lorain County Historical Society is proud to offer this three-session Genealogy Workshop Series with national expert Deborah Abbott, Ph.D.

02/18/2022

High fashion is timeless, am I right?

The image on the far left is a William F. Sawtell portrait of a young lady who lived in Wellington ca. 1875. But her hairstyle tickled me so much it immediately put me in mind of yearbook pictures of later generations. 😁

To see more images of Wellington residents from the 19th century, visit https://19thcenturywellington.wordpress.com/william-sawtell-photographer/ Who knows, one of them may be your relative!

02/04/2022

No posts for two years and now two posts a week apart! 😆

I also added a bunch of images to the "Sawtell photography" page and a few new Wellington trade cards to that tab, should you be interested in that sort of thing.

Unidentified portrait of a woman taken by W. F. Sawtell. Author’s collection. In late January 2021, I came into possession of seven small carte de visite portraits, all taken by Wellington ph…