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  1. Dominic F Watry: Birth: 7 Dec 1867 in Belgium, Ozaukee, Wisconsin . Death: 9 Aug 1940 in Belgium, Ozaukee, Wisconsin


Notes
a. Note:   Notes for Jean Baptiste Watry: He was known as John in the United States.
  He immigrated May 3, 1851 as a six year old with his three siblings, two parents and an uncle.
  The 1870 U.S. census had an effective date of June first. The Watry home was enumerated June ninth. The census page shows John "Watery", 25, a farmer; his wife "Barbery", 25; and two year old son "Dominik" living in Belgium, Ozaukee, Wisconsin.
  In a little quirk of history, the next family listed on this 1870 U.S. census page is the family of John Nicholas Goschey, (although the name was misspelled "Goshe") including his five year old son Albert. So, Robert Jac Watry's father's father's father, Dominic Watry, and Robert Jac Watry's mother's father's father, Albert Goschey, apparently lived on adjacent farms as very young children!
  The 1880 U.S. census had an effective date of June first. The Watry home was enumerated June eighth. The census page shows John, 35, a farmer; Barbara, 36; and six children, including 12 year old Dominic, still living in Belgium. It was stated that John and Barbara and their parents were born in the country of Belgium. The Goschey family is not listed near the Watry family on the census page.
  The 1890 U.S. census records were accidentally burned or damaged by water in 1921. Most of the remaining records were destroyed about 1934.
  The first link below leads to a map showing farm locations with owner's names in the area of Belgium, Wisconsin in 1892. I have outlined the farms of six ancestors of Robert Jac Watry, born in 1949. One of those six men, John Watry, owned two farms. The second link shows that same map overlaid on a 2017 satellite map of the same area. <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/Kc5WU3y59vVtZh1W6">1892 farm map</a> <a href="https://photos.app.goo.gl/gADiA76TZtMbvdTHA">1892 map on 2017 map</a>
  The 1900 U.S. census had an effective date of June first. The Watry home was enumerated June sixteenth. The census page shows John, born in August of 1844; Barbara, born in October of 1845; and four children, living in Belgium. John owned a farm. It was stated that he immigrated in 1852. Actually he immigrated in 1851, when he was six years old. Barbara is listed as having immigrated in 1848, when she would have been about four years old. John could read and write, but could not speak English. Barbara is listed as being able to read, but not able to write or to speak English. If she was only four years old when she immigrated, it is surprising that she didn't learn to speak English. This could be a mistake on the census. The couple had been married 33 years.
  The 1905 Wisconsin state census, taken June first, shows John, 61, a farmer; Barbara, 61; three adult children and a laborer living in the same home in Belgium.
  The 1910 U.S. census had an effective date of April fifteenth. The Watry home was enumerated May twelfth. The census page shows John, 65; Barbara, 66; and two adult daughters living in the same home. It was stated that John immigrated in 1851, and Barbara in 1849, both one year different than what was stated in 1900, but people forgot those exact years.
  The 1920 U.S. census had an effective date of January first. The Watry home was enumerated January twenty third. The census page shows that John was 75 and retired. The census taker mistakenly wrote that John was married, but John's wife Catherine had died two months previously. John still lived in Belgium, with his 38 year old unmarried daughter, Susan.
  From the March 16, 1926 <i>Sheboygan Press,</i> an obituary for John: <a href="https://goo.gl/photos/n6vtw9g4NhgBwV1i9">Photo</a>
  John's FindAGrave memorial includes photos of his grave markers: <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41559467/john-b.-watry">Memorial</a>


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