Thomas B. CAREY (b. 1834, PA, son of Orra Carey and Maria (Kennedy) Gallop) m. ca. 1875
Ellen A. MUMFORD (b. 1839, Wayne Co., PA, dau. of Thomas L. Mumford and Eliza Kennedy).
They lived in Scranton, PA, from at least 1880 until they died in the 1910s. (See 1880
census, PA, Lackawanna, Scranton, R 1138, p. 92B; 1900 census, Scranton, R 1420, ward 4,
ED 56, p. 150A; 1910 census, Scranton, R 1359, ward 4, ED 68, p. 1A.)
Ellen d. 30 June 1913, and Thomas d. 14 Dec. 1918, both in Scranton. I have posted
transcriptions of their wills on my website, which is devoted to the descendants of David
Kennedy and Eunice Lester of Mt. Pleasant, Wayne Co., PA. To view their wills, go to my
website (
http://PA-Kennedys.us), enter the database, search for Thomas Carey and Ellen
Mumford, and click on the will links. (Both Thomas and Ellen were great-grandchildren of
David and Eunice.)
Queries:
1) Thomass will says he had a brother Henry (presumably Henry Carey), who had at least
four children: Maris [Maria?], Harry, Olive and Winton. Does anyone know anything about
this Carey family?
Henrys son Winton may well be the Winton W. Carey b. in Apr. 1854 in PA of PA-born
parents who married Angeline MNU and had at least 3 children. (See 1880 census, PA,
Lackawanna, Carbondale, R 1137, p. 11B; 1900 census, Carbondale, R 1418, ward 5, ED 11, p.
211A; and 1910 census, Carbondale, R 1356, ward 5, ED 15, p. 223A).
Henrys children Olive and Henry/Harry may be the ones found in neighboring households in
Carbondale in 1870 (PA, Luzerne Co., Carbondale, R 1364, P. 278B). If so, they were born
in about 1850 and 1852, respectively. That means their father Henry probably was born by
about 1830, and he may have died between 1854 and 1870. (I have not yet found Henry in any
census between 1850 and 1880.)
2) Thomass will says he had a sister Mary, who had a son named Thomas H. Carey. That
suggests that Thomas B. Careys sister Mary (presumably Mary Carey, although it could be
his half-sister Mary Gallop) married a man named Carey, and then had at least one child,
Thomas H. Does anyone know anything about this Carey family?
There is a Thomas H. Carey (b. in 1865 in PA of PA-born parents, single engineer) in
Philadelphia in 1900 (R 1457, ward 13, ED 228, p. 242A). This could be the nephew Thomas
B. named in his will.