Need assistance. Looking for documents on person in Michigan.
Hello
I am looking for any and all documents etc from the years 1870-1879 on a person named Noe Godmer also used the name noah godmare when he came to the U.S.. In a later document noah states when he came to the U.S he first came to a place called the port of marquett Michigan in the 1870's.
Im still searching for that place. I am trying to place him in michigan in the 1870's by finding any documentation showing him in this state.
I did find a marquett county marriage list record which shows a jean baptise godmer who was a witness in the marriage in 1872 of a younger godmer who i would guess is his daughter or maybe his little sister. Shes 15 yrs old.
The marriage is in Clarksburg Michigan.
Noah has a older brother named jean baptise godmer and this could be his older brother.
So far so good. Now i need the documents showing noah anywhere in michigan from 1870-1879 to confirm and place him in the state of michigan.
Any and all assistance is very appreciated.
I thank you for your time and help.
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Good morning. The only Noe Godmer I could find appears to have lived in Canada during this time frame with his Father Jean Baptise Godmer, reference ID P9RJ-5XS in FamilySearch. Do you have any dates of possible immigration?
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@ sc woz
Hi sc. Thank you for your time and assistance. Yes i do know noe's father and his family and his older brother carries the same name as his father. Jean Baptise Godmer.
The Jean Baptise Godmer mentioned in the michigan marriage record above is a possible match to noe's older brother. I do know noe's father Jean Baptise lived his life in canada and died there.
Its the posible brother match i am checking in to. Noe's possible migration date to michigan is 1876 and this is on a document i came accross. He did come to michigan first and that is what i am looking for now.
I do have noe researched back to 1880 and up to 1860. Its the yeas 1861-1879 i am researching right now.
I do appreciate your time and help and i thank you very much. If you come across anything in michigan on noe please let me know.
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We do not think of cities in Michigan as "ports". I would look at the record sets associated with Marquette in Marquette County in the Upper Peninsula. I believe cooper mines were in full swing in that area. Even if he was not a miner, they needed people for shop keepers, lumberman, farmers, and etc.
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Hello yvonnefo.
First i would like to say thank you so very much for your time and assistance and i would also like to thank
sc woz again. You are correct about there not being an actual port of Marquette Michigan. But you are also correct about there being copper and iron being in full swing in that era. There was ports on lake supirior on the north part of michigan. They were not far off from marquette. I do believe that is why
noah called it the port of marquette. He new it as a port.
I do understand that they were not lagitament ports of entry for people coming from canada but people come on the ships on lake supirior from the northern parts of lake suprior to the upper peninsula at the top of wisconsin wich is part of michigan.
I am still researching noah posibly coming to michigan first and then on to wisconsin, I do have documents that showthat. As i mentioned in my first post above i did find 2 records in michigan of 2 people who were
on a marriage document and the witness at the wedding was a man named jean baptise Godmer and noah has a older brother named jean baptise godmer. It was in a place called Clarksburg Michigan and
i think it is marquette County. Im still trying to line things up. There is other people with a name thats close
to the name godmer but it is spelled GODMERE. There is a few of them in michigan in that time frame but there is no relation that i could find in my research of them. They are also from canada.
Well i will stop typing now. Again i thank both of you yvonnefo and sc woz for letting me keep this post up
and running. I do appreciate it. I do stop in now and then to check for response to this post.
I wish you both the best.
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