branwynbreeze - I was checking a LDS site and found the below information. Where did you find the "Goss" info? I found a Lucy S. Burbank that married a Charles Foss but in 1858.
Spouse: CHARLES E. FOSS
Marriage: 28 JAN 1858 , Kane, Illinois
EDIT: Found more info on branwyn's Chicago Lucy - I'll try attaching an image, they are at lines 27-34:
- In 1870, her father was 64, a carpenter and was born in New York.
- Her mother, Eliza, was 49. She was born in Ireland.
- Her sister, Anna, was 14. It looks like she was born in Michigan. I believe it says she "works in store".
- Sister Lilly, 16, Book binder. Born in I think Illinois (crazy 19th century script is really hard to read lol) looks like Lucy followed her sisters footsteps with the Book binding.
- Lucy was 13 (you had a typo in your message, she was 23 in 1880 when she was a book binder) but...
I can't read what her occupation was. Dem Revend? Sevend? Help?
- Sister Jessie, 11, same occupation as Lucy.
- Sister Laura, 9, at school
- Brother Abram L, 4, occupation "at home"
Some interesting tidbits:
- It appears people other than the Burbank family lived in this house/apartment/etc as there are others listed under dwelling #345.
- I think Tracy was the owner of this dwelling, as he is the only one in the household that is listed with a "Value of Real Estate". The value is $4000 which is much much larger than his neighbors' of which are 500 and 700. This is not a typo as each page has a sum on the bottom, with this one coming up to $5800. Thoughts: either he was rich and passed on money to Lucy when she was older, or he was very frugal and she "inherited" this.
- While he has a high number on his real estate value, his personal estate value is only $100. I don't know what this means or what constitutes as "personal estate". Worth noting, this is lower than his neighbors'.
- Lucy had not attended school that year.
- This location was ward 12. Map at the time:
http://chicagology.com/population/ward-map-1869/
Can anyone read what Lucy's occupation is?