Mom and Grandma are sisters???
A couple weeks ago when I was reading Randy Seaver’s blog he asked bloggers to look up their “#21″. On an Ahnentafel report, you’re #21 would represent one of your great great grandmothers. In my case it was woman named Evelyn (Stach?) Finch. Her maiden name was always a mystery to me. The only clue I had was the 1880 Census which listed her husband’s mother-in-law living with the family and her name was Catharine Stach? (The last name was very hard to read.) Whenever I searched ancestry.com for Stach, Stock, Mench… any variations I could think of, I never found anything of use. When I read Randy’s post I decided to revisit this case and try a different method of searching. This time I searched for Catharine’s in Attica, NY and tried to match one up with a daughter Eveline. Its a small town so this worked out much easier than I anticipated. There they were in the 1870 Census! Owen, Catharine and Evaline Marchant! Next I searched ancestry for anything on Owen Marchant. Sure enough… he was mentioned in the “History of Warsaw, NY” which is scanned on the website.
It says:
Owen, born in 1796, married Amanda Brown… He had 5 children: 1. Esther, who married Henry Finch… Mr. Owen Marchant has a second wife.
Ut oh! Here’s where the problem comes in! “Esther, who married Henry Finch” is the mother of Henry Wesley Finch. Henry Wesley Finch went on to marry Eveline Marchant? If this is the case, HW married his mother’s half sister!
