William King Scrapbook
Page 33 – Family Recorder: James Hawkes & Margaret Esthers
Amanuensis Monday
[We have a project at the Scarborough (Maine) Historical Society (SHS) where we are scanning and digitizing scrapbooks. Most of the pages are newspaper clippings and other documents which lend themselves to optical character recognition (OCR); however, there are also pages that are handwritten. To make those pages searchable within the final PDF document, I have been transcribing them as needed.]
Scrapbook, accession number 62.74.4, is a scrapbook of William King, which was donated to the SHS in 1962. Its contents are mostly newspaper clippings. The clippings go back to 1905, and the most recent clipping appears to be from 1952. The majority of the clippings are undated. The handwritten pages seem to be mostly genealogical lists of individuals that are ancestors of the King family and are also undated. The following page is from Page 33, as identified in the scrapbook index. The original was scanned in two parts at 2550 × 3509. The two parts were then stitched together using PhotoStitcher into a 3672 × 3958 file that is available at the SHS Museum. The stitched image was duplicated, cropped, resized for the web to 504 × 487, and is displayed here.
One aspect of this list that I found rather interesting is that rather than using traditional month names, the writer used number months, for example, “Fifthmonth” for May and “Seventhmonth” for July. I encountered that use once before and am wondering if I should add “Numberedmonth” to my search methodology in the future. If you have thoughts about doing so, please leave a comment below.
Family Register
Children
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Births.
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Names.
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Deaths.
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20 Secondmonth 1771
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Elizabeth Hawkes
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16 Fourthmonth 1884
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15 Tenthmonth 1772
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James Hawkes
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24 Fifthmonth 1857
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25 Eleventhmonth 1774
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Anna Hawkes
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27 Seventhmonth
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7 Secondmonth 1782
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John Hawkes
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27 Seventhmonth 1830
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13 Fifthmonth 1783
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Benjamin Hawkes
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7 Secondmonth 1849
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24 Eleventhmonth 1784
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Eben R Hawkes
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1 Tenthmonth 1853
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29 Eighthmonth 1786
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Margaret Hawkes
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15 Eleventhmonth 1851
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18 Eighthmonth 1789
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Betsey Hawkes
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15 Eleventhmonth 1851
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27 Secondmonth 1792
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Isiah Hawkes
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3 Seventh-month 1858
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13 Sixthmonth 1794
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Eunice Hawkes
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21 Tenthmonth 1844
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18 Twelthmonth 1796
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Aaron Hawkes
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27 Sixthmonth 1866
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Endnotes:
Because all dates are after 1752, they are presumed to be Gregorian. I added a conversion for each of the months used for search purposes:
Secondmonth = February
Fourthmonth = April
Fifthmonth = May
Sixthmonth = June
Seventhmonth = July
Eighthmonth = August
Tenthmonth = October
Eleventhmonth = November
Twelthmonth = December
