Bos Family Research

John Bos II Part 6 1900s John Bos II mini-pedigree from Ancestry.com 1900 Federal Census Coupeville, Oak Harbor, and San de Fuca Precincts, Island County, Washington John Bos 1900 census Oak Harbor WA with Wilhelmina, Chris, Cora, Peter, John, Minnie, Girtie, Nicholas John and Wilhelmina Bos living on what looks like a farm in Oak Harbor WA.  John was born in Holland February 1855, is aged 45.  Wilhelmina was also born in Holland, in May 1849.  She and John have been married 23 years at this point, and she has 9 of the 12 children she bore are still alive.  This is a document that tells us John Bos arrived in the US in 1882, and has been in the country for 18 years by now.  The children living with them are Chris age 20, Cora age 19, Peter age 15, John age 13 (you can see the age was corrected from 14), Minnie age 12, Girtie age 11 and Nicholas age 7.  I've written about  Nicholas in an earlier post . Interest...

1910 -- Census Oak Harbor WA 1911 -- Historical Insight Circus 1917 -- historical Insight WWI              Registering for Draft WWI              Nicholas Registration WWI 1917 -- married Grace Westerdyke 1919 Peace Paris Conference 1910 age 18 Nicholas Willard Bos 1910 Census Oak Harbor, Island, Washington The census was done 21 April 1910.  This is sheet 3B, and we start by finding Nicholas on line 73 (red arrow), living with his parents John and Wilhelmina Bos, and two older siblings, Pete and Minnie.  Interesting to note a John W. Bos, his wife Mary and their son John Wayne Bos, who is about a year old.  This family has to be related to our Bos family ... hold on a second while I research. Still searching ... loading ...  and I found that relationship.  John Wayne Bos' father, John M. Bos is brother to our Nicholas Willard Bos.  Therefore, although they are ...

1892 -- birth 1897 -- Historical Insight Barnum Brown 1900 -- living Oak Harbor When Nicholas Willard Bos was born on July 8, 1892, in Cowlitz, Washington, his father, John, was 37 and his mother, Willhelmina, was 43. He married Grace M. Westerdyke Bos on August 29, 1917, in Coupeville, Washington. They had three children in 13 years. He died on September 19, 1970, in Mount Vernon, Washington, at the age of 78, and was buried there. -- Ancestry.com Nicholas Willard Bos mini pedigree, Ancestry.com  1892 Birth "Nicholas Willard Bos was born on 8 July 1892 in Cowlitz Washington to Wilhelmina Usi Bos age 43 and John Bos age 37." I am not able to find any birth record for this man.  I have gone through Island County records found on Ancestry and Family Search, but there is no record of his birth.  The sources available to confirm this date for his birth is his death record, the censuses, the draft registration cards for both WWI and WWII, the marriage recor...