stories from Ross family genealogy
BIRTH 6 MAY 1907 • Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, USA
DEATH 11 MAR 1978 • Springfield, Sangamon, Illinois, USA
BIRTH 1 JAN 1885 • Pennsylvania or Maryland, USA
DEATH Unknown
BIRTH MAY 1864 • Yorkshire, England
DEATH 8 OCT 1905 • Peoria, Peoria, Illinois, USA
BIRTH 17 JUL 1897 • Menominee County, Michigan, USA
DEATH 24 JUL 1987 • Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Today the Blam family is known instead by Blum and there has been some question about the origins of this name since at least 1998, when the family hired a firm to research the name. The Blum surname replaced Blam not all at once, but slowly between when they immigrated in the 1890’s and the 1920 census.
BIRTH 18 MAR 1819 • Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
DEATH 14 JUNE 1895 • Grant, Portage, Columbia, Wisconsin, USA
BIRTH 19 JUL 1880 • Kilgarvan, Kerry, Ireland
DEATH 2 JAN 1960 • Des Plaines, Cook, Illinois, USA
Saint Donat’s Castle is a medieval castle in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, overlooking the Bristol Channel in the village of St Donat’s, about 25 km west of Cardiff. The earliest surviving parts of the castle were built in the late 12th century by the de Hawey family. Ownership passed to the Stradling family in 1298.