Wade & Webb Family History

Harriet N. Ricker1834–1905

Massachusetts · Brooklyn

On this page
  1. Family Record
  2. Life
  3. Documents (1)
  4. Places
  5. Timeline
  6. Open questions
  7. Notes

Birth

  1. 2 Feb 1834 Massachusetts 1

Marriages

  1. 21 Oct 1869 James Duncan Wade, at Brooklyn, Kings County, New York 4

Death and burial

  1. 18 Jul 1905 Death: place not recorded 12

Family

Parents
Not recorded
Spouse, 21 Oct 1869
James Duncan Wade 1838–1902
Children
Henry Albert Wade 1873–1954

Line of descent Wade line

  1. Harriet N. Ricker
  2. Wife of James Duncan Wade
  3. William Henry Wade
  4. William Henry Wade Jr, son
  5. Frank Edward Wade, son
  6. William Albert Webb Wade, son

Wife of great-granduncle of Webb Wade, from whom this history is traced. Why Webb Wade?

Life

Harriet N. Ricker was born in Massachusetts on 2 February 1834, according to the FamilySearch tree, which attaches no record to the date.1 Inference She is probably the Harriet N. "Richer" listed in the federal census of 1850 in the household of Oliver H. Richer, whose name and middle initial match hers, although the index entry does not show the place or her relationship to him.2 By 1865 she was in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, where the state census listed "Hattie Ricker" in the household of Louis Nostrand in the Nineteenth Ward.3

On 21 October 1869 she married James D. Wade, a physician of the Eastern District of Brooklyn, in a marriage recorded in the New York City marriage series and placed by the tree in Brooklyn.4 A biography of her husband in Peter Ross's History of Long Island (1902) also records "the marriage of Dr. Wade and Harriet Ricker" in October 1869.5 According to the same sketch, he practised medicine in Brooklyn for thirty-five years, "maintaining his residence in the nineteenth ward," the ward where she had been living in 1865, and for thirty years had his home at 252 South Ninth Street, the address under which Lain's Brooklyn directory for 1886–87 lists him.6 Their only child in the tree, Henry Albert Wade, was born in 1873, and the censuses of 1875 and 1880 found the three together in Brooklyn.7

Her son also became a physician: Ross calls him "Dr. Henry Albert Wade," a graduate of the medical department of the University of New York in the class of 1894, practising in Brooklyn.8 His marriage record of 1895, to Helen May Brown, names his mother as "Hamet Ricker", a misreading of Harriet.9 "Dr. and Mrs. James D. Wade" were among the family at the wedding of their nephew Harry E. Wade in October 1900.10 Her husband died suddenly on 19 October 1902, survived, the newspapers said, by his aged mother, his wife and one son.11 The tree gives her death as 18 July 1905 without a place or a source, while a note on the same profile reads "Death in 1907, confirmed at Cypress", which suggests a burial record at Cypress Hills Cemetery; the two dates cannot both be right, and no death record is attached for either.12

Documents

  1. 1902 A History of Long Island, vol. 2: biographies of Dr. John E. Wade and Dr. James D. Wade Peter Ross, A History of Long Island, from its earliest settlement to the present time, vol. 2 (New York and Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1902) · book

Places

  1. 1865–1880Brooklyn

Timeline

  1. 2 Feb 1834BirthMassachusetts
  2. 1865ResidenceWard 19, Brooklyn, Kings, New York
  3. 21 Oct 1869Marriage, James Duncan WadeBrooklyn, Kings County, New York
  4. 1875ResidenceBrooklyn, Kings, New York
  5. 1880ResidenceBrooklyn, Kings, New York
  6. 18 Jul 1905Death

Open questions

None recorded yet.

Notes

  1. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KLKK-553: birth 2 Feb 1834, Massachusetts; no source attached back to the text
  2. "United States, Census, 1850", FamilySearch, Harriet N Richer in entry for Oliver H Richer, 1850. Record: Harriet N Richer in the entry for Oliver H Richer, 1850 back to the text
  3. "New York, State Census, 1865", FamilySearch, Hattie Ricker in entry for Louis Nostrand, 1865. Record: Hattie Ricker in the entry for Louis Nostrand, 1865 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KLKK-553: residence 1865, Ward 19, Brooklyn, Kings, New York back to the text
  4. "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938", FamilySearch, James D. Wade and Harriet N. Ricker, 21 October 1869. Record: James D. Wade and Harriet N. Ricker, 21 October 1869 FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-GRF (their page): marriage 21 Oct 1869, Brooklyn; occupation physician 1902-10-20-dr-james-d-wade-obit-brooklyn-citizen: He graduated in 1866, and nearly all his time after that was passed in the Eastern District back to the text
  5. A History of Long Island, vol. 2: biographies of Dr. John E. Wade and Dr. James D. Wade, Peter Ross, A History of Long Island, from its earliest settlement to the present time, vol. 2 (New York and Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1902): In October, 1869, occurred the marriage of Dr. Wade and Harriet Ricker (p. 305) back to the text
  6. A History of Long Island, vol. 2: biographies of Dr. John E. Wade and Dr. James D. Wade, Peter Ross, A History of Long Island, from its earliest settlement to the present time, vol. 2 (New York and Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1902): For thirty-five years Dr. Wade has been engaged in the practice of medicine in Brooklyn, maintaining his residence in the nineteenth ward, and for thirty years he has been located at his present home at No. 252 South Ninth street (p. 304) "New York, State Census, 1865", FamilySearch, Hattie Ricker in entry for Louis Nostrand, 1865. Record: Hattie Ricker, 1865, Ward 19 1887-lains-brooklyn-directory-wade-goodrich: Wade James D. physician, 252 S. 9th back to the text
  7. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile LVPD-1F4 (their page): Henry Albert Wade, born 1873, son of James Duncan Wade and Harriet N. Ricker "New York, State Census, 1875", FamilySearch, Harriet Wade in entry for Jas D Wade, 1875. Record: Harriet Wade in the entry for Jas D Wade, 1875 "United States, Census, 1880", FamilySearch, Harriett R. Wade in entry for James D. Wade, 1880. Record: Harriett R. Wade in the entry for James D. Wade, 1880 "New York, State Census, 1875", FamilySearch, Henry A Wade in entry for Jas D Wade, 1875. Record: Henry A Wade in the entry for Jas D Wade, 1875 back to the text
  8. A History of Long Island, vol. 2: biographies of Dr. John E. Wade and Dr. James D. Wade, Peter Ross, A History of Long Island, from its earliest settlement to the present time, vol. 2 (New York and Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, 1902): Their son, Dr. Henry Albert Wade, married Helen Brown. He is a graduate of the medical department of the University of New York of the class of 1894, now practices in Brooklyn 1902-10-20-dr-james-duncan-wade-obit: word was immediately sent to Dr. Henry A. Wade, a son back to the text
  9. "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938", FamilySearch, Hamet Ricker in entry for Dr Henry Albert Wade and Helen May Brown, 11 June 1895. Record: Hamet Ricker in the marriage entry for Dr Henry Albert Wade and Helen May Brown, 11 June 1895 back to the text
  10. 1900-11-05-harry-e-wade-martha-lynas-wedding-announcement: Dr. and Mrs. James D. Wade back to the text
  11. 1902-10-20-dr-james-duncan-wade-obit: His aged mother, his wife and one son survive him 1902-10-21-james-d-wade-obit-new-york-times: A widow and son survive Dr. Wade back to the text
  12. FamilySearch Family Tree, profile KLKK-553: death 18 Jul 1905, no place, no source; note: Death in 1907, confirmed at Cypress back to the text
Every FamilySearch record attached to Harriet N. Ricker (6)
  1. 1850Harriet N Richer, "United States, Census, 1850"
  2. 1865Hattie Ricker, "New York, State Census, 1865"
  3. 21 October 1869Harriet N. Ricker, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938"
  4. 1875Harriet Wade, "New York, State Census, 1875"
  5. 1880Harriett R. Wade, "United States, Census, 1880"
  6. 11 June 1895Hamet Ricker, "New York, New York City Marriage Records, 1829-1938"