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1900 U.S. Federal Census — William Branchide (Branshide) Household, Spring Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania
Transcript
Uncertain readings are marked [?] or set in brackets; words that could not be read are marked as such. Each transcript is shown as written, with its transcriber’s notes.
The record
Only the Branshide household is transcribed (lines 63-64; no dwelling number of its own - col. 1 blank, so it shares the Hoehl dwelling above; family number 419, overwritten 427 as in the renumbered series 417/425, 418/426, 420/428 on neighbouring lines). All are White.
Branshide [Branchide], William [a middle initial is written over the first name; unclear] — Head — Male — born Apr 1875, age 25 — Married, 1 year — born Pennsylvania; father born Pennsylvania; mother born Pennsylvania — Laborer, 2 months unemployed — reads, writes, speaks English: yes — rents home (R); house (H)
Branshide, Lucy [written "Lucy"/"Lndy"] — Wife — Female — born May 1871, age 29 — Married, 1 year — 1 child born, 0 living — born Pennsylvania; parents born Pennsylvania — reads, writes, speaks English: yes
Family note: a William J. Branchide married Lucy Myers in April 1899 (license E 350, already in the archive); the ages and marriage length here fit that couple.