The Cochrane & Allied Families

Cochranes from Scotland to Colonial Virginia (c 1760), to Kentucky (1811), to Kansas (1859) and beyond. Allied families to the United States from England, Scotland, Ireland and Switzerland.

VAN FOSSEN, Robert Wells and LANDOLT, Ethel M. Family

• Male VAN FOSSEN, Robert Wells

  
  

  Birth	10 Mar 1914	Camden, Camden, New Jersey, USA
  Death	1 Mar 1987	Manahawkin, Ocean, New Jersey, USA
  Burial		West Creek Cemetery, West Creek, Ocean, New Jersey, USA
  Marriage	Dec 1938  [1, 2, 3]
  Other Spouse	—?— | F543
  Marriage
  Father	VAN FOSSEN, Charles Linford | F531 Group Sheet
  Mother	WELLS, Ruiess Elizabeth | F531 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female LANDOLT, Ethel M.

  
  

  Birth	8 Oct 1915	Camden, Camden, New Jersey, USA
  Death	2 Nov 2008	Tuckerton, Ocean, New Jersey, USA
  Burial		West Creek Cemetery, West Creek, Ocean, New Jersey, USA
  Father	LANDOLT, John Theodore | F27 Group Sheet
  Mother	EYRE, Ethel Mary | F27 Group Sheet

  
  

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  Death
  Burial
  Spouse	F536
  Marriage

  
  

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  Death
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  Spouse	ROQUITTE, Bimal Chorone | F532
  Marriage

  
  

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  Death
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  Spouse	BRAVO, Luis Guillermo Sr. | F533
  Marriage
  Spouse	RAMSEY, David Laurence | F534
  Marriage

  
  

  Female VAN FOSSEN, Alice Ethel

  
  

  Birth	23 May 1943	Camden, Camden, New Jersey, USA
  Death	4 Apr 2010	West Creek, Ocean, New Jersey, USA
  Burial		West Creek Cemetery, West Creek, Ocean, New Jersey, USA

  
  

• Notes

  Married: In 1943 Bob quit his job at the Camden newspaper, took all their savings and bought a truck, and went to Uniontown, PA to haul coal as an independent driver. He was to send for his family after he located a house to live in. Ethel received letters for months saying he couldn't find housing. He also did not send any money, and the bank foreclosed on their house in New Jersey forcing Ethel and the children to move in with her parents. Ethel's father became irate, and he and his sons, Henry and George, went to Uniontown to see what the problem was. They found Bob living fairly well with a former babysitter, and a new baby boy. John LANDOLT offered to help Ethel get a divorce, but she was afraid the children would be placed in foster homes as she was unable to support them. John Landolt then gave Bob an ultimatum to find a house for his family, or else. He did, and Ethel and the four children moved to Uniontown. When the war ended in 1945, the coal companies took back their returning drivers, and the independent drivers, including Bob, lost their work. The family returned to New Jersey to live with Ethel's retired parents who were in their 70s, in what must have  been a very uncomfortable situation, both physically and  emotionally. [1] Residence: - Camden, NJ in 1938-1941 - Blackwood Terrace, NJ in 1941-1942 - Uniontown, PA in 1943-1945 - 555 York St., Candem, NJ in 1945-1949 with Ethel's parents - Ocean County, NJ beginning in 1949

  
  

• Sources

  [S253] Ruth E. Roquitte, Research Report - The Landolt Family, 19 Oct 2011, p. 18-25. [S251] Ruth Roquitte, Research Report - Descendants - Armbruster, Charlotta Herman, 15 Oct 2011, p. 3-6. [S255] Memoirs - Landolt, John T., 30 Oct 2011, "Memoirs - John T. Landolt," Jan 1956; Typewritten, carbon copy, 20 pages plus introduction and 2 pages of names and dates.