Thursday, October 29, 2009

Correction to October 26th Post and additional information on John Bullman in Wisconsin

In the original post I had:

John (1816)
Henry (1818)
Louisa (1820)
Jeremiah (1824)
Polly (1826 est.)
William (1830)

This was a serious mistake and has been corrected...not sure what was going on. It should be:

John (1815/1816) Massachusetts
Jeremiah (1816/1817) Massachusetts

The upshot is that Jeremiah and Abigail Bulman definitely had a child who was born in Massachusetts in 1816 before arriving in New York. Their son Henry is listed as having been born in New York. So, we have to account for where Jeremiah and Abigail were. It might be that Jeremiah Bullman was also known as Jeremiah Bulmore as discussed in the earlier posts.

However, my theory about the eldest child might be thrown out of kilter. It will be a close call as the census takers and information givers were not always accurate in that regard.

Some other information that I have about in 1850 was that a John Bullman had an unsuccessful bid to become register of deeds. He got 4 votes and his opponent, Barstow, received 105 votes. Now this was for New Berlin, in fact, according to the Waukesha Democrat on Tuesday, November 12, 1850.

Also, the Milwaukee County Marriages has a John Bullman marrying Ann Cornelia ? (pg. 106, doc 532) on 9 March 1844. In the relatively nearby Cedarburg, Ozaukee, Wisconsin can be found a John Bullmann (Ballmann is an error according to the image) in the 1860 census. He was born in New York around 1824 and his wife Ann was born in England in 1826. Their eldest is a John born in 1848 and next a daughter, Lucy, born in 1854. Does not necessarily look like John and W. Bullman.

Finally, I have found that a John Bullman (First) enlisted in the 17th Wisconsin Infantry from Fond Du Lac (town of, I believe) on 15 January 1862. If this is John from Massachusetts, he would have been around 46 and a year or two older than the cut off...but people can lie about their age. He was a corporal at his death seven months later on 16 August 1862 at Corinth, Mississippi of disease.

Oddly, another John Bullman (Second) enlisted from nearby Rhine on 28 March 1864 and was mustered out as a corporal on 14 July 1865. (Source for both: Roster of Wisconsin Volunteers, war of the rebellion, page 57, Internet Archives). If this was John Junior from the 1850 census, then, he was 18 years old when he enlisted. Could this have been father and son in the same unit? Or, do we have the two elder John Bullman?

In any case, the 1850 John Bullman was in close proximity with the Patrick Bulman family at that time (Prairie and New Berlin). Also, the city of Fond Du Lac is very much associated with the Brothertown Bulman family. More information is, of course, needed. But, it is coming in slowly.

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