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I could not resist looking for the combo.
Saw this birth registry with Stempfley father & Kelly mother and then located him with his parents in 1900 and then located his father's death certificate.
Name: John C. Stempfley
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Clearfield Co., Penn.
Spouse: Rose Kelly
Child: Janet Lucille Stempfley
1900 census
Name: Joseph Stampfly
Age: 38
Birth Date: May 1862
Birthplace: Switzerland
Home in 1900: Osceola Mills, Clearfield, Pennsylvania
Race: White
Gender: Male
Immigration Year: 1880
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Annie Stampfly
Marriage Year: 1893
Years Married: 7
Father's Birthplace: Switzerland
Mother's Birthplace: Switzerland
Occupation: View on Image
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Joseph Stampfly 38
Annie Stampfly 32
John Stampfly 14
William Stampfly 11
Name: Joseph John Stempfly
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 61
Birth Date: 15 May 1863
Birth Place: Switzerland
Death Date: 8 Feb 1925
Death Place: Altoona, Blair, Pennsylvania, USA
Certificate Number: 12391
1910 census
Name: John Stemphley
[John Steinphley]
Age in 1910: 25
Birth Year: abt 1885
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1910: St Paul Ward 11, Ramsey, Minnesota
Street: Woodsworth Str
House Number: 1756
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Alice Stemphley
Father's Birthplace: Switzerland
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Native Tongue: English
Occupation: Helper
Industry: Foundry
Employer, Employee or Other: Wage Earner
Home Owned or Rented: Own
Home Free or Mortgaged: Free
Farm or House: House
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Out of Work: N
Number of weeks out of work: 0
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
John Stemphley 25
Alice Stemphley 25
John Stemphley 4
Gerald Stemphley 2
Grace H Stemphley 0
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1920 census
John C Stempley
[John C Stempfley]
[John C Stampley]
Age: 34
Birth Year: abt 1886
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1920: Lakeville, Dakota, Minnesota
Street: W Lettney Road
House Number: Farm
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Head
Marital Status: Married
Spouse's Name: Rose Stempley
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Able to Speak English: Yes
Occupation: Farmer
Industry: Farm
Employment Field: Own Account
Home Owned or Rented: Rent
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
John C Stempley 34
Rose Stempley 35
John Stempley 14
Gerald Stempley 12
Jenette Stempley 10
Clarence Stempley 8
Dorothy Stempley 6
Marvin Stempley 5
Mable Stempley 3
Ruth Stempley 0
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That's my family! Where did you find that? My dad was Clarence Kelly Stempfley. Please share. Thank you.
No wonder I heard we were Swiss/German. But Rose Kelly was Irish I thought. Her parents records were burned in a courthouse fire in Pennsylvania. Can you tell me how to go further?
Plantagenet. Yeah, English royalty, War of the Roses bunch. This was thru my dads mothers side which included the likes of Lady Baltimore who has a town named after her and a football team. Funny though, I've never gotten an invitation to have lunch at Buckinham Palace. But really, that is all correct. The rest of the family comes from Wurttemberg and Papenhagen, Germany.
My great grandfather was named Almy. I wouldn't have known that if it wasn't for a letter I found from my great grandmother to him, outraged because he ran off to a gold mine in California "leaving us in dire straits, your children are starving!" He eventually came back.
History fan, I want you to know you've started me on a qwest. I plan to go to PA to see if I can find something in the History Museum about my Stempfley roots.
I've been investigating through CD but want to actually go there - feel the soil beneath my feet, smell the air my grandparents smelt & see the sights they saw. I'm excited & it's all due to you.
I am also curious about the discrepancies in names/dates. I'd heard vague references about Grandfather John & a falling out with his brother William but could never get anyone to talk about it. My dad, Clarence, died when I was 15 & we weren't in contact with his side of the family because my mother & he were divorced.
My grandfather died @ 90. My grandmother lived to be 98.
I did stay in contact & visited my grandmother when she was is a nursing home but I was in my 20's when she died & not interested in genealogy.
Thank you for bringing me alive to this. My grandparents were very special to me & I was to them.
History fan, I want you to know you've started me on a qwest. I plan to go to PA to see if I can find something in the History Museum about my Stempfley roots.
I've been investigating through CD but want to actually go there - feel the soil beneath my feet, smell the air my grandparents smelt & see the sights they saw. I'm excited & it's all due to you.
I am also curious about the discrepancies in names/dates. I'd heard vague references about Grandfather John & a falling out with his brother William but could never get anyone to talk about it. My dad, Clarence, died when I was 15 & we weren't in contact with his side of the family because my mother & he were divorced.
My grandfather died @ 90. My grandmother lived to be 98.
I did stay in contact & visited my grandmother when she was is a nursing home but I was in my 20's when she died & not interested in genealogy.
Thank you for bringing me alive to this. My grandparents were very special to me & I was to them.
How delightful to go to Pennsylvania. Be sure to go to the local library & see if they have old newspaper files. My favorite sources are old newspapers and wills & probate records (at that county's courthouse).
I will poke around a bit more for you. The census records I posted earlier were from ancestry.com.
How delightful to go to Pennsylvania. Be sure to go to the local library & see if they have old newspaper files. My favorite sources are old newspapers and wills & probate records (at that county's courthouse).
I will poke around a bit more for you. The census records I posted earlier were from ancestry.com.
Thank you. I plan to spend at least a week there this spring. I will check out the history center and am also posting on the PA CD forum so folks will get to know me before I go there.
I have also put it in my retirement list as a possibility.
I have a relative (female) name Jack Ann. She was listed in a census and that is the only place I have ever found her. It looks pretty clear on the census form, but I suppose the census taker misheard her name. Or maybe Jack was short for something. She was 4 years old at the time of the census.
Then I saw a female Zelpha with a nickname of Zelphie. I thought that would be rare, but apparently not. The rest of the family used the name too.
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