Marilyn Trevorrow
born Oates
1930 to 2019aged 89
Cataloguer, Nevada County Library, 1952 to 1990
- Born
- 4 July 1930, Nevada City, California
- Died
- 19 January 2019, Grass Valley, California
She spent thirty eight years cataloguing for the county, most of it in a Carnegie building on North Pine Street in Nevada City that has held the county's local history since 1907. In the late 1970s she indexed the county mining payroll books as a volunteer project. In 1979 she found the name Trevorrow in the Empire Mine payroll for 1921 and wrote a letter addressed to The Postmaster, St Just, Cornwall, England, asking whether anyone of that name was still there. Loveday, who would have opened it, had been dead eight years. Her successor behind the counter walked the letter up Nancherrow to Ivy's front door. That letter is why this website exists.
Accomplishments
- Thirty eight years cataloguing for Nevada County Library1952
From 1952 to 1990, much of it in the local history branch on North Pine Street in Nevada City, a Carnegie library building completed in 1907 and on the National Register of Historic Places.
- Indexed the Nevada County mining payroll books as a volunteer1974
From 1974 to 1981, in her own evenings, because nobody else was going to.
- Reconnected the two halves of this family in 19791979
She found the name Trevorrow in the Empire Mine payroll for 1921 and wrote to The Postmaster, St Just, Cornwall, England. Fifty eight years of silence ended with one letter and a wrong address.