Showing posts with label 1860. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1860. Show all posts

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Frustrated!

I am so very frustrated with Ancestry.com at the moment. The 1860 census is a complete mess. The search engine shows various families, but when one goes to view the census it takes you to a completely different family in a completely different place. It is like this for the entire 1860 census. Of course, their customer service is not open on the weekends, so I have not been able to accomplish much without going through each census record page by page. It is very time consuming.

I have been recently working on the Pender and Haggerty families. I have been able to find some information, but not necessarily the information I am looking for. From what I can gather, there are two different Haggerty families in Wilmot in 1850 and 1860. The question is... are they related and, if so, how?

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Mysterious Quinn Children

Whilst researching the Quinn family, I came across the 1860 census for Cherry township where Elizabeth Farrell Quinn is living with John Farrell and Mary Farrell. Whether or not these two were married, I do not know yet. However, I find it interesting that Elizabeth is enumerated as Farrell though she is most definitely a Quinn. All of her children are enumerated in the household as well. There are also two children, Eliza, age 7, and William, age 2, both born in Ireland, also enumerated in the home. Who are these mysterious Quinn children? Are they Elizabeth's grandchildren? I cannot find them on the 1870 census, and they are obviously too young to be on the 1850 census. Are they even Quinns? It is not uncommon for mistakes to be made by the enumerator. Obviously Elizabeth was enumerated with her maiden name. It seems more than likely that John Farrell is her brother. So that presses the question... are the children really Quinns or are they Farrells?