To the person searching for a male Canterbury born ca. 1883 and residing and
dying in Texas.
I checked the online 1880 census transcription for the surname Canterbury -
this is all the information I gave the search engine.
There are 400 such surnames indexed for the 1880 US census.
The birthdates, more or less, are given with each name, so one, with careful
analysis, can eliminate those who were children in 1880, and more or less
narrow the search for the parents of your Canterbury male. A little tedious
task--but isn't that what genealogists are used to?
I probably would copy and print the two pages of listed Canterburys and mark
up the pages.
If you have later censuses for your male Canterbury, does he indicate where
his father was born? Perhaps you can eliminate other Canterburys if you have
the correct information.
But, as I discovered, sometimes the children don't know of their parents'
correct birthplaces. Example: my grandfather and his siblings thought their
Kentucky-born father, who died when they were young, was born in Mississippi.
True, he had lived in Mississippi about seven years or longer as a young
adult, but his widow, fortunately, told the compiler of a genealogy of her
family that her deceased husband was born in Kentucky. Only, she gave the wrong
place in Kentucky, leading us on a merry chase, until my aunt discovered an
old letter--partially mutilated--but containing the names of some neighbors in
another Kentucky county. Whew!!! close call.
E.W.Wallace
who has a female Canterbury [Northern Neck Virginia] in her lineage