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1950 census page for Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio, showing Gordon Ponceby, age 24, and wife Shirley, age 20, in the same household at house number 105 on 3 April 1950.
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1950 Census Page for Gordon and Shirley Ponceby
1950 census page for Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio, showing Gordon Ponceby, age 24, and wife Shirley, age 20, in the same household at house number 105 on 3 April 1950.
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- household location
- Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio, USA
- principal name
- Gordon Ponceby
- spouse name as recorded
- Shirley
- residence
- Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio, USA
- gordon role
- Head
- gordon age
- 24
- gordon marital status
- Married
- gordon birthplace
- Canada
- gordon occupation
- Comptroller
- gordon industry
- Car agency
- gordon hours worked
- 40
- shirley role
- Wife
- shirley age
- 20
- shirley marital status
- Married
- shirley birthplace
- Ohio
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- Household location
- Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio, USA
Household summary
- Residence
- Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio, USA
Other details
- Principal Name
- Gordon Ponceby
- Spouse Name As Recorded
- Shirley
- Gordon Role
- Head
- Gordon Age
- 24
- Gordon Marital Status
- Married
- Gordon Birthplace
- Canada
- Gordon Occupation
- Comptroller
- Gordon Industry
- Car agency
- Gordon Hours Worked
- 40
- Shirley Role
- Wife
- Shirley Age
- 20
- Shirley Marital Status
- Married
- Shirley Birthplace
- Ohio
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- Manual transcription created from the census image because local OCR tools were unavailable.
- The repo PDF excludes the printed FamilySearch citation page; the original two-page download is preserved separately.
- Gordon's birthplace is reported here only as Canada; the 1952 naturalization card gives the more specific Alberta, Canada.
- Gordon appears to be on a sample line with supplemental questions below, but those answers are not confidently transcribed.
- Shirley's labor-force marks appear to indicate she was not working, but the image is not clear enough to normalize that fact.
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1950 United States Census of Population and Housing Header transcription State: Ohio County: Wood Incorporated place: Bowling Green E.D. number: 87-6 Date sheet started: April 3, 1950 Sheet number: 8 Ponceby household transcription House number: 105 Serial number: 95 Line 12: Ponceby, Gordon - head - white - male - age 24 - married - birthplace Canada - worked last week - 40 hours - comptroller - car agency Line 13: Shirley - wife - white - female - age 20 - married - birthplace Ohio Uncertain or partial readings - Gordon appears to be on a sample line with supplemental questions below, but those answers are not confidently transcribed. - Right-margin codes are present for the household, but they are not confidently readable. - Shirley's labor-force columns appear to indicate she was not working, but the marks are too faint to normalize with confidence.
Place
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- county
- Wood
- place
- Bowling Green, Wood County, Ohio, USA
Details
Record details
- census year
- 1950
- sheet number
- 8
- enumeration district
- 87-6
- enumeration date
- 3 April 1950
- house number
- 105
- serial number
- 95
- pages
- 1
Notes
Research notes
- Entered as a Ponceby household source only; unrelated households on the same census page were not normalized.
- Treat the image-backed census as authoritative for co-residence and reported ages, but not as more specific than the naturalization card on Gordon's birthplace.
- Re-ingested from Transcript.pdf on 22 April 2026; archive PDFs refreshed; citation reformatted to standard citation
- block.
- Transcript-20.pdf was checked on 22 April 2026 and matched the same FamilySearch image already represented by this source; the supplied citation page had an accessed date of 9 April 2026 while the preserved original download has an accessed date of 31 March 2026, so no duplicate source record was created.
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