Susan Lee Morton
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At a flea market, I picked up a baptismal record for two dollars. The baptismal record is hand-writen on a form with blanks for the answers. The hand-writen answers tell us that Susan Lee Morton was baptised on 18 Mar 1961 at the Church of St Matthew in San Mateo, California. Signed John Edward Easton. | At a flea market, I picked up a baptismal record for two dollars. The baptismal record is hand-writen on a form with blanks for the answers. The hand-writen answers tell us that Susan Lee Morton was baptised on 18 Mar 1961 at the Church of St Matthew in San Mateo, California. Signed John Edward Easton. | ||
| − | Her parents are | + | Her parents are written-in as Robert Elisha Morton Jr and Judith Lee Morton. The sponsors are writen as Mary Dorothy Lange, Barbara Hartman Curry and James T Curry Jr. She was born 21 Mar 1960 in Oakland, California. |
The most interesting thing to me is, what happened to Susan Lee Morton that her baptismal card is floating around a flea market? At any rate, I'd like to re-connect this to the family, if they can be found. All I ask is the price I paid plus postage and an envelope, so three dollars would be sufficient. | The most interesting thing to me is, what happened to Susan Lee Morton that her baptismal card is floating around a flea market? At any rate, I'd like to re-connect this to the family, if they can be found. All I ask is the price I paid plus postage and an envelope, so three dollars would be sufficient. | ||
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| + | Susan's birth is confirmed in the California Birth Index [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&rank=0&f2=Susan&f1=Morton&sx=&f9=&f5=&f4=&rg_f3__date=&rs_f3__date=0&f6=&f7=&gskw=&prox=1&db=cabirth1905&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&fh=19&recid=15379727&recoff=1+3 here], telling us additionally that her mother's maiden name was Sinclair. Using this, we can see [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?rank=0&f2=&f1=Morton&sx=&f9=&f5=&f4=&rg_f3__date=&rs_f3__date=0&f6=&f7=Sinclair&gskw=&prox=1&db=cabirth1905&ti=0&ti.si=0&gl=&gss=rfs&gst=&so=3 here] her three siblings :Kathryn M Morton 1961, Cynthia L Morton 1963 and Robert E Morton 1965. | ||
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| + | Kathryn M Morton, might be the one of that name who, in 1984, in Contra Costa County, married Stephen P Simpkin. (California Marriage Index [http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=CaMarrIndex%2c&rank=0&tips=0&gsfn=kathryn&gsln=Morton&sx=&gs1co=1%2cAll+Countries&gs1pl=1%2c+&year=&yearend=&sbo=0&sbor=&ufr=0&wp=4%3b_80000002%3b_80000003&srchb=r&prox=1&ti=0&ti.si=0&gss=angs-d&o_iid=21416&o_lid=21416&fh=12&recid=6172434&recoff=1+3 here]) | ||
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| + | Two of the sponsors, James T Curry Jr and Barbara Hartman Curry, I think are husband and wife, and a few google searches, seem to have him pegged with something related to metallurgy. There is a couple named James and Barbara Curry living in either Hillsborough or Burlingame. | ||
