ChallengeAZ 2016: K for Kathryn

Kathryn Hoban TourvilleI’m cheating again since dealing with the letter K is difficult, especially in French! Kathryn Hoban—from Wilkes-Bare, Pennsylvania—was the wife of Jesse Herndon Tourville—from St. Louis, Missouri—a very colourful man who was a palmist. Married in Niagara Falls in 1905, the couple’s life was so astonishing that I could easily write a novel about it. Kathryn is the first person for whom I have discovered a picture in a newspaper. I would have never thought old newspapers would prove so helpful to get to know what a person looked like except, of course, for recent obituaries.


Statistics

Letter K: Less than 1% for the Hubou-Tourvilles’ first names.

Only a few, Katherine, Kenneth and Kevin.


Kind of Funny

A rare one: Kirby


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The 2016 ChallengeAZ is proposed by Sophie Boudarel of La Gazette des ancêtres