Person:Jane Wakefield (3)

Notes from Dorothy Johansen: CENSUS: 1850 Census: Guernsey Co., OH

    1860 Census: Guernsey Co., OH
    1880 Census: Morrison Co., Minnesota

HISTORY: Passengers from Ireland by Ronald Schlegel - 1811-1817 p. 121 Sailed from Limerick on ship Victory, arriving after 35 days at New Bedford on 11 June 1817, intending to proceed to Ohio. DEATH: Nevada City, Nevada County, California court house records Funeral notice on file Searls Historical Library in Nevada City, CA DEATH: Sebastopol, Nevada Co., CA - One mile southwest of North San Juan. Shown on Doolittle's mag, 1868. Like a number of other camps and mines it was names when the siege of the Russian fortress during the Crimean War in 1854 caused excitement in the world. McKeeby, who mined here and in the vicinity from 1852 to 1863, gives a good account of the early history (p. 151). Vischer mentions the place, and "Transactions", 1858 (p. 176), reports that it "has for seven years paid hundreds of miners amply." It was populated by miners of Junction Bluff and Manzanita Hill (Bean, p. 342). Shown on the USGS Smartsville quadrangle. "California Gold Camps". They sailed from Limerick on the ship Victory in May 1817, traveling with their year old daughter Jane and a Robert Wakefield, possibly a brother to Nathaniel. They came from Ballinsloe in Galway where there are Wakefields. I believe my daughter Juliane and I located her grave in Nevada City, a large graveyard separated by a highway, Pioneer Cemetery. We followed impressions and came upon a large cement slab in the oldest part of the cemetery, with only the name ERSKINE engraved in the cement. I believe the large cement slab was to protect the gravesite from the animals that roamed the forest there.

1. ↑ Johansen, Dorothy; Askey geneology.
2. ↑ Johansen, Dorothy; Askey geneology.