Cardinal family story from 1870 to 1970
Joseph Cardinal immigrated when a teenager to Manchester of New Hampshire in the 1870s. It is hard to find information about his early life but we do know that he married Josephine Girard in 1885 and he would die about 10 years later. He was a baker by trade so he did not work in the Manchester mills as so many did. His son George Cardinal did become a mill worker, in fact, for 50 years he worked at the Belknap Mill in Laconia. He married Marie Blanche Aurore Marcoux in 1915 and both would live past 90 years old. Many of the Cardinal family in Belknap County would descend from this couple. One son Lionel would only live to 45 years old. In the early 1950s, he would marry Dorothy Page granddaughter of German immigrants.
Karl Adolph Poetzsche would immigrate from Prussia of Germany in 1866 to Philadelphia. He would take on the name of Charles Page and have 11 children in that city with his wife Wilhelmina Johnson. One of their sons Frank Page would marry a gentrified woman named Emma Rose Chaput. Frank would work as a machinist in Laconia during and after WW2. They would have to leave their city life behind but in the early 1940s work was hard to find.
Samuel Henry Hume was a day laborer in Boston, Massachusetts since his youth. He married Margaret Hoey in 1874. Their son Samuel Henry Hume the younger must have did well enough that he could afford living in the southern suburbs of Boston. His son Warren Samuel Hume did the same. Warren married an Anna Walls of Utah in the 1930s. Not much is known about Anna beyond that she had four children. One of them Edward Thomas Hume moved from Boston to northern New Hampshire and there he would meet the Gordon family.
The Gordon family has roots solidly planted in New Hampshire soil. Enoch Gordon was born in 1745 in Poplin. He had a son named Eliphalet, and then a grandson named Eben, and then a great grandson named Ede. Typical name for early New Hampshire. In 1888, Lucius was born to Ede and Eva Gordon. The family was by then resettled in Laconia and were working mill jobs. His son Francis married in 1937 in Gilford to Winnifred Reister. Their daughter Rachel would marry Edward Hume in the 1950s.