FERRIS, Charles Alexander - 28th of August 1869 - 20th of June 1899: Working of FERRIS family during month of October starting with the children of Thomas FERRIS I plan to work on the basics of obtaining references for Birth, marriage, death and other documents for all 10 children. Today worked on Charles finding Birth Record, two Federal Census records, record of Marriage, one death and three birth records of children and finally one record of death for Charles. Still missing records for one of his children (Walter). Beginning a timeline for Charles's life helps to build facts and history on him and his family. Left messages on Ancestry.com for people I found who had added Charles to their family trees in hopes of collaborating with them. All in all a decent start to getting back into researching a bit each day and putting back the discipline needed in my time to take my research a few levels up ! Today I found Charles was born to Thomas and Sarah on 28th of August , 1867 in Cambridge. He shows up on the Federal Census of 1870 at 3 and 1880 at 12 yrs old living in Cambridge still with both parents and siblings. In 1894 working as a glass polisher he marries Margaret L DeArmond of Nova Scotia. In 1894 their first child Charles Perley Ferris is born. William comes along in 1895 though perishes from Enteritis in 1897. John is born on October 13th ( same birthday as mine ) though in the year 1897. Charles dies from Phitisis ( consumption or Tuberculois ) at the age of 31 on the 20th of June 1899 and is buried in Cambridge Cemetery. His wife takes the children and returns to Nova Scotia to her family and farms the children out to different farms. I have found the descendants of this family and met with one of them and talked to several of them. I am hoping this next summer to once again get together with my "cousin" and continue to collaborate on filling in the missing people of this branch tracing the them from back in the late 1800s to the present. I discovered that Cambridgeport had several large glass factories which several of the FERRIS family worked in. One husband of a FERRIS started their living in such a factory and started his own business which continued for a generation or two afterwards. Charles is buried in a Family plot ( pictured ) with his father and other Ferris family
