Ocean County , NJ History

Pg# # Hse# Fam# Name Age Race Occupation Birth 103 1 837 848 WOOLMAN Franklin 46 w conveyancer NJ 103 2 837 848 WOOLMAN Jane C. 43 w PA 103 3 837 848 WOOLMAN Anna K. 10 w NJ 103 4 837 848 WOOLMAN Henry C. 8 w NJ 103 5 837 848 WOOLMAN Ellen H. 6 w NJ 103 6 837 848 WOOLMAN Franklin C. 1 w NJ 103 7 837 848 HITCHINS Ellen 25 w domestic NJ 103 8 838 849 SILPATH John 42 w grocery NJ 103 9 838 849 SILPATH Margaret 41 w NJ 103 10 838 849 SILPATH Susanna 17 w NJ 103 11 838 849 SILPATH John 15 w NJ 103 12 838 849 SILPATH Martha 12 w NJ 103 13 838 849 SILPATH Margaret 8 w NJ 103 14 838 849 SILPATH Mary L. 5 w NJ 103 15 838 849 SILPATH Anna 2 w NJ 103 16 838 849 LUCAS John 18 w shoemaker NJ 103 17 839 850 QUICKSALL William 56 w potter NJ 103 18 839 850 QUICKSALL Anna 50 w NJ 103 19 840 851 GARWOOD William 54 w...

Hse# Surname Given Name Age Birthplace Occupation 578 McEhee Elizabeth 60 NJ Tallman Jane 62 NJ nurse Elizabeth 20 NJ dressmaker 579 Clair Theodore 24 NJ carpenter Henrietta 22 NJ Emma D. 2 NJ Jackson Margaret 58 NJ 580 Richardson Amy B. 70 NJ Potts Mary 79 NJ 581 Zilley Hannah 54 NJ 582 Loree Charles 23 NJ shoemaker Martha A. 21 NJ Clara 1 NJ 583 Trayer Pathania 64 NJ Franklin 30 NJ shoemaker Lydia K. 27 NJ 584 Bartlett Jonah 60 MD shoemaker Catharine 40 NJ Susana 14 NJ E---? 12 NJ Kate A. 6 NJ Josiah 1 NJ 585 Middleton Esther 65 NJ Mary A. 35 NJ tailoress 586 Elberson Watson 27 NJ carpent...

We start with an article in the New Jersey Mirror 24 Jan 1906: Another fiendish crime was added to Burlington county's list, already too long, on Thursday afternoon( i.e., January 18, 1906) when the discovery was made that Miss Florence W. Allinson had been outraged and foully murdered in a barn at "The Orchards," a farm in the western end of Moorestown which she rented of Mrs. Esther W. Strawbridge. The condition of the dead woman indicated that she was first outraged, then strangled with a strap removed form a cow's blanket and beaten over the head with a club until her skull was frightfully crushed. The crime was committed between eleven o'clock in the morning and two o'clock in the afternoon, the discovery of the dead body having been made about the latter time by Benjamin Funk, a Bridgeboro oil man who had stopped at the house to leave the usual weekly supply. Funk entered the house and found no one there except little Bessie Walker, a five-year-old chil...