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25. Yes, Julia Pomeroy has an interesting ancestry

Her mother was Esther Bradley Bradley, whose mother was Esther Bradley, The second Esther married Jabez Bradley, thus the double last name! Since Jabez and Esther Bradley were early settlers of the area, I think her parents wanted to memorialize the name.

Julia's first husband, Dr. Samuel Milliken (my ancestor), died young, at only 33 leaving her with the four children. She married Nathaniel Spaulding who had a number of children (according to a Bible record compiled by the Illinois DAR, he had nine children with his first wife). In 1850, a daughter by his first wife, the two children he had with Julia and two of her Milliken children are living with them.

Another of Julia's children ran away from home and in 1853 took ship for Australia to make his fortune in the gold rush. We have letters he wrote home on the way and in Australia, then New Zealand. He never made a fortune and ended up managing saw mills in both countries. When his sister's family moved to Vancouver Island, BC in 1890, the brother returned from New Zealand to live with them and is buried in Victoria, BC.

My family pretty much keeps everything and is really into genealogy - we have letters to that Milliken sister's husband from a cousin of his discussing genealogy - in the 1870s and 1880s! I know many of ancestors' stories very well since I grew up hearing about them.