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I've been helping follow up on the Andertons of the Kirkham - Clifton area
near Preston in Lancashire recently and we have come across a Pennsylvannia /
Irish / Lancashire connection. This is a summary of the household in Clifton
with a child born in the States. Richard is, I am told, the only Anderton in
the 1881 UK census born in America.
3. Marsh Cottage
Francis ANDERTON
| b.1852/4 Galway, Ir <1,2> [28 in 1881, 39 in 1891]
| d.post 1891 <2>
| m.1874/5 <1>
Margaret [Unknown]
b.pre 1858/9 Galway, Ir <2>
d.post 1891 <2>
|
|___Richard ANDERTON
| b.1874/5 Pennsylvania, USA <2>
| d.post 1891 <2>
|
|___Julia ANDERTON
| b.1875/8 Ir <2> ">3" in 1881
| d.post 1881 <2> NB Not in the household in 1891
|
|___Ann ANDERTON
| b.1881 Clifton With Salwick, La, En <1>
| d.post 1891 <2>
|
|___Lily ANDERTON
| b.1882/3 Clifton, La, En <2>
| d.post 1891 <2>
|
|___Thomas ANDERTON
| b.1884/5 Clifton, La, En <2>
| d.post 1891 <2>
|
|___Mary ANDERTON
| b.1887/8 Clifton, La, En <2>
| d.post 1891 <2>
|
|___Margaret ANDERTON
| b.1888/9 Newton With Scales, La, En <2>
| d.post 1891 <2>
|
|___Isabela ANDERTON
b.1890/1 Clifton, La, En <2>
d.post 1891 <2>
Francis is probably the eldest son of Richard & Mary Anderton of Newton With
Scales.
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SOURCES
<1> 1881 Census
<2> 1891 Census
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What it appears like to me is that Richard (and possibly a younger brother
Thomas) left his birthplace of Clifton in Lancashire for Renvyle, Galway,
where he married and raised quite a large family, including Francis. From the
age of Margaret, they must have married the year of Richards birth, so
perhaps there is a record of their marriage in Pa as well? Both Francis and
his father Richard returned to Clifton although not before they had Julia in
Ireland sometime between 1875-8. My interest in this is not simply academic -
this family could give us information to the generation previous from which
my friends are descended - although I must admit to being intrigued as to all
these comings-and-goings
Hope this rings a bell with someone. Good Hunting all
Alan Anderton, Bargo NSW Australia
Hi All,
I am new to this list. I am searching for Leibrook ancestors who came from
Germany. Mary Leibrook, b @1825, Francis B @ 1824 and Catherine b @ 1825
were siblings - all born in Germany. Their parents were Henry Leibrook and
Mary Eve Ginder, as noted on Francis' marriage record. The siblings married
and settled in New Orleans as I found Catherine's marriage record from 1836,
but I can't find anything earlier.
Mary Leibrook m. Issac Ramsey (from PA) in New Orleans in 1841; and then
married William Salisbury from VA @ 1842-43.
Since Issac Ramsey was from PA, I am wondering if the Leibrooks might have
also come from PA. Issac Ramsey died in West Goshen, Cheste County, PA,
1842.
If anyone has a connection to the Leibrook's, Salisbury's or Ramsey's, I
would like to share and exchange information. Any ideas about the Leibrook
name would be appreciated. I don't find many in New Orleans.
Thanks and appreciation.
Rose
The next day we engaged with a boatman to take us on the canal as far as
Lewistown. He belonged to Huntingdon and the canal along there had just been
made. We had to wait a day or two before he could start. Going out one
evening on Market (Broad) Street about to the highest ground, where the
public buildings are now, all unbuilt upon them but the streets were partly
graded with many low lying lots between them. I heard, I thought, a child
crying in one of these holes. I went down to see but when I found water
there and heard the cry more plainly, I remembered what I had heard or read
about the notes of frogs in this country.
Our boatman had to go up the Schuylkill past Manayunk and Reading. At
Reading he had a lawsuit. Then we crossed by the Union Canal through a
fertile region of German people with a sweep well at every door (Lebanon to
Harrisburg). At Harrisburg a couple of negroes in shining white dress were
standing on the bank near the old mulberry tree where Harris had been tied.
It was Sunday.
Harrisburg made but little show then, the riverbank was all in the raw and
not many houses or streets were to be seen. In about two weeks we reached
Lewistown one evening and stopped at Muttersbaugh. None of us were well when
we landed off the canal at Lewistown unless it was stout Elijah REECE, whose
confidence and patience and goodness never failed any more than his bodily
vigor. We walked from Lewistown to Philipsburg, going slowly and staying
overnight at Reedsville in the Seven Mountains and at Bellefonte and again at
the turnpike crossing of the Little Moshannon over the Allegheny Mountain.
Mrs. BLANFORD, Mrs. REECE'S mother, was ill, - had dysentery, and died of it
in August 1833, a day or two after they reached Pantalla, five miles beyond
Philipsburg, the walking no doubt, with the excessive July heat, rendering
the attack fatal. Our boat captain was very faithful and watchful to get us
inside of his little cabin after dark to avoid risk of fever and to keep us
from the water etc., but we no doubt all had narrow escapes. Mrs. REECE was
approaching her confinement and the poor woman must have suffered and endured
most severely, for we two boys, Mrs. REECE'S brother and I were sick and
sore. The pike was very dusty, in the heat, and we were not able to clean
ourselves well. At Greer's (Reedsville) the landlord sent us down to the
creek to wash before giving us beds and seemed to hesitate a good deal about
it even then.
When on the top of the mountain, in the 7 mountains between Kishacoquillas
and Penn's Valley, a thunderstorm came up suddenly, such as we had never had
any experience of. There was no shelter on the bald mountaintop. The wind
and rain nearly swept us away. Terrified as we were by the fearful lightning
and thunder we got to a tavern in the mountains and dried before getting to
bed. At Bellefonte they did not want to keep us but we got lodging at Evan
MILE'S, - then (1833) on the corner where Humes bank stands now (or before it
was burned in 1889). This ling wearisome journey afoot through torrid heat
and storms, over rock and stone most of the way and dust the rest - all
strange, barren and forbidding, was very depressing and we had little to say
to each other but moans and groans.
Our Rolla (ship) proved to be a roller indeed and we had a hard, long voyage,
but saw most of the wonders of the deep. Icebergs, flying fish, nautilus'
etc. etc. Once for two days the sea fell into a perfect calm, like a mirror,
and I, unforbidden, up the rigging to the second cross-trees. The sea looked
like a glass funnel, - the horizon as high as I was and the ship's bulk down
in the apex of the funnel. While there I saw dark steaks pass across the
shining surface. When I came down, the sailors I told of it said that was
what we all wanted, and soon the sails began to flap, they were opened out
and the ship began to move over the water, now growing all dark. When, one
morning the sea on one side was covered with cliffs, pinnacles, and detached
blocks of ice, it grew very cold. The ship was headed south to get clear of
danger. Within a week we were off Cape Hattera and the heat (it was about
July 1) made the pitch swell and bubble up between the planks of the deck.
We were out of provisions, - had only a few moldy brown ship biscuits in
moldy lumps and a pint of thick yellow stinking water a day for about 2
weeks. We obtained a barrel of fresh mackerel from a fishing boat, - very
rich and oily. My share was no sooner cooked and swallowed than it went back
into the waves. But we had wind and fair wind at last and about the only
time that I saw a real smile on the grim brown weather tanned face of our
Captain was when he turned around to some of us and said, "Two good things
together - a fair wind and a pilot!" We were then, it appeared off the mouth
of the Delaware. SE wind was blowing, soon the pilot boat appeared and we
went steadily on. The scent of the land and the woods came to us, so long
doomed to foul air and horrid stench in our narrow crowded quarters, where 80
persons were huddled in and had to be battened down during a two days storm
that carried away part of the railing of the deck with much else. Soon we
saw bright woods and many birds, and, after long waiting, a house, then a man
in shirt and pants carrying a scythe, a little dog trotting along. I felt as
if I was ready and willing to exchange skins with that dog only to be in his
place. Later a boat put off and offered bread to the shining hungry eyes
that were all along the deck, waiting. I got a piece and never did anything
taste so good. Why, I thought, do people put anything on bread to make it
taste better? On getting up to Philadelphia, July 9, 1833, I had an
illustration of the fact that one can hardly get into any strange or far off
place without finding some acquaintance. A man, not very good looking, came
on board before we could get leave to get off. He proved to be one who had
lived a mile from Didley, on the turnpike to Hereford, the next house beyond
the "Three Horseshoes." He had been sick, he said, and wanted help. But we
had great need of help ourselves. I had been robbed of provision on the way
and could think of nothing but getting a meal. When we did land and get to a
tavern (Philadelphia was then a very plain, half Dutch place) we could eat
but very little, and it did not at all meet expectations.
This is from the Memoirs of William Griffith Waring.
When we moved to the Red House, we children had either small pox or measles
and were taken in beds, in carts. I don't think I rode that way, and I
remember that after Aunt Fanny had inoculated us and it had taken and Emma
especially had her round face all full of mattery pustules it was said that
mine failed (?), but that I was taking it in the natural way. When, abut
1870, I was boarding in a house where small pox broke out in the next room, I
felt very doubtful about my liability to take it and went to Williamsport
until I should find out, fearing to carry it to where I had grandchildren (at
Tyrone PA. WGW) I was ill, and in some doubt for a time, but proved exempt.
At Williamsport a girl died in the house next door, and I saw her bedding and
clothing being burned in the garden about 30 feet away.
This is my first posting to this list. I live in Canada. This past week we found my g.g.grandfather who had disappeared from all records in Canada in the 1860's. He was living in Saginaw Michigan. In his death registration it stated that his parents were from PA. However, we know that his mother, Elizabeth Dougherty Taggart was born on Orange Co. N.C. So it must be his father who was a Pennsylvanian.
His father was Alexander Taggart [Tagart, Tagert and var.] who gave his age as 71 in the 1851 census of Ontario, which would make him born +or - 1780. He came to Ontario [The Long Point Settlement on the North Shores of Lake Erie] in circa 1803. This community was mainly made up of United Empire Loyalists who came starting in 1783 until the late 1790's.
Betsey and Alex had these known children:
Mary; Anthony; Alexander Jr.; John; Samuel; Jacob; James; Robert; Martha; and Mary Ann. Perhaps some of these names are "family names" and would be recognized.
If anyone knows of an early mid-1700's Taggart family residing in Pennsylvania would you please contact me.
Thank you,
Carol E. Taggart
Windsor, Ontario
tagg(a)sprint.ca
Hi, I am looking for information on the Addis Family of Philadelphia Co, PA.
On the 1820 census, Philadelphia Co, Penn Township page 035 their is a
Benjamin Addes listed. Could someone with access to a census resource or
Ancestry please do a look up and tell me the household copmposition in the
1820 and 1830 census please? Also is anyone researching this family? Thank
you, your help is appreciated. ann
Can anyone tell me anything about this John Brady, such as a potential father?
Anna Christina Michael to a John Brady in Berks Co., Pa., Sep 5, 1797
................................
"Whereas Christian Michael, late of the County of Berks, did make his last Will and Testament dated May the Third A. D. 1787, and did amongst other things
order that at a certain time the executors in the said Will named, viz: Michael Miller and John Michael should sell his plantation and did give and bequeath
the money that should arise from the sale of said plantation to his children.........
"And Whereas John Brady, of Penalton (as spelled) County, in the State of Virginia, who is intermaried with Christina, one of the daughters of the aforesaid Testator.....etc.""
"Witness....etc. December 15, 1802
Signed: John Brady (Seal)
..........................................................
Recorded: Deed Book Vol. # 19, pp. # 417, Register of
Deeds, County of Berks, Court House, Reading, PA.
.......................................
Several of you have graciously given me information regarding Margaret
Klein, of Townville. I have also been given information that she was
survived by a cousin(?) named Helen Buchanan of Meadville. Margaret died in
the 1980's, not sure if Helen was approximately the same age or what.. ...
does/did anyone know of her? Would she or anyone in her family still be
alive?? If so, an address to write to would be wonderful!!
(Additionally, curious to know if there were any surviving family member to
the Alonzo Squier family, other than Margaret Klein or Mary Grace Squier).
.. and still looking for any pictures of Archie, the Townville Cheesemaker
or Alonzo the postman, although I realize the age is stretching it a bit!!).
Thanks for any information!!
Sincerely, Pam
What county are you looking in? meg
Phyllis wrote:
> Is there anyway to tell what Enumeration District a street is in? In particular, I am looking for 222 Poplar Street in Towanda, PA in the 1910 US Census.
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> Phyllis
Is there anyway to tell what Enumeration District a street is in? In particular, I am looking for 222 Poplar Street in Towanda, PA in the 1910 US Census.
Thanks for the help.
Phyllis