Sorry for the mess the first time in posting this reply. I forgot to turn
off the "reply stylized" feature.
Lynn,
I have not researched any Hagner line. However, there is one Hagner in my
family tree.
On April 10, 1827, an Eliza Ann Hagner married Joseph Hopper Nicholson (b.
1806 Baltimore - d. 1872 Annapolis). Joseph Hopper Nicholson was the son
of Judge and former U.S. Congressman Joseph Hopper Nicholson. Judge Joseph
Hopper Nicholson was the brother-in-law of Francis Scott Key and it was
Judge Nicholson who set "The Star Spangled Banner" to music and had it
printed. Key's original handwritten poem remained in the Nicholson family
for 75 years before eventually going to the Maryland Historical Society.
Your Sophia was born about 1825 and my Eliza Hagner was married in 1827.
There are only two Hagner families (George Hagner and William Hagner)
listed in Baltimore in the 1830 Census and both live in the same ward. I
would think almost certainly related. The youngest female in the William
Hagner family was listed as between age 10 and 14. However, in the
household of George Hagner, there was one female age less than 5 and two
females age 5-10. Thus, George Hagner seems like your best bet if Sophia
was born in 1825 or within five years of 1825.
I also found this reference on the MD Archives web site:
CHANCERY COURT (Chancery Papers)
1837/05/01
12412: Larkin Young vs. John W. Hagner, Henrietta
Hagner, Frederick Hagner, Isabella Hagner, Mary
Hagner, Elizabeth Hagner, Florina Hagner, Adam
Hagner, and Margaret Hagner. BA. Mortgage
foreclosure on Discovery. Recorded (Chancery
Record) 36, p. 106.
Accession No: 17,898-12412. MSA S512-12215 1/39/4/
The name "Isabella Hagner" caught my eye. Perhaps, your Sophia was called
Isabella or, more likely, she was given her mother's first name as her
middle name. I have had some remarkable successes in breaking down family
brick walls from court records and land records.
Joseph Hopper Nicholson was a very prominent man. Not only was he the son
of Judge Joseph Nicholson (b. Chestertown, lived in Centreville) who was
Chief Justice of Baltimore County (and City then) and a Judge on the MD
Court of Appeals but he (the son married to Hagner) was a high official in
Maryland government for many years (Attorney General if memory serves me
correctly). No doubt, the Hagner family was at least as prominent. If
your Hagner is related to this family (and it would appear almost certainly
so), there probably is a lot of information out there somewhere.
Sorry I cannot provide any more help than this but maybe you will find a
clue somewhere in the above information.
If you do find that your Sophia was related to my Eliza and how, could you
please send me that information? While I have the children of Eliza Ann
Hagner and Joseph Hopper Nicholson, I have not tried to go any further with
this branch of the family tree (still all consumed with my direct
lines). But, I always am interested in adding branches to the family tree.
By the way, thank you for the huge effort in posting of Queen Anne's
marriages. My Nicholsons were in Chestertown and then Centreville until
the late 1800s. I found sevral very useful bits of information in your
marriage listings.
If you want to read about Judge Joseph Hopper Nicholson or look at the
family tree and history, please take a look at my personal family history
web page"
www.geocities.com/brucelnicholson.
Good Luck!!
At 09:19 AM 4/20/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Hi,
I finally found a maiden name for my Sophia Isabella Smith.According to
marriage records she was Sophia Isabella Hagner born abt 1825 in
Maryland.Married Ferdinand Smith in Baltimore city Dec 14 1841.Anyone out
there researching Hagners in Baltimore or Maryland? She died Sept 24 1902 and
is buried in Western Cemetery.
Thanks
Lynn
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