My 3x g grandfather Thoms GARTLAND was born in Ireland (sigh!) about 1800.
He came to England about 1824 and is living in Barnsley, YKS on the 1841 census with his wife, Margaret, and six children. He is a linen weaver - along with many other Irish weavers in the same area.
Unfortunately the 1851 census for parts of Barnsley are too damaged to read and I suspect the family are hiding on a damaged page.
In 1861 Margaret is in Barnsley, a widow. I have never found a suitable death for Thomas between 1841 and 1861. Sent for the certificate Q2 1849, Huddersfield but it is an infant.
Yesterday I found a tree on Ancestry (OK so a lot are works of vivid imagination, I know). This tree claims that this Thomas Gartland was in Iowa, USA in 1850 and 1860 and died in 1861.
Does anyone have access to these US censuses who could check this out for me? I would be so grateful.
Anne
He came to England about 1824 and is living in Barnsley, YKS on the 1841 census with his wife, Margaret, and six children. He is a linen weaver - along with many other Irish weavers in the same area.
Unfortunately the 1851 census for parts of Barnsley are too damaged to read and I suspect the family are hiding on a damaged page.
In 1861 Margaret is in Barnsley, a widow. I have never found a suitable death for Thomas between 1841 and 1861. Sent for the certificate Q2 1849, Huddersfield but it is an infant.
Yesterday I found a tree on Ancestry (OK so a lot are works of vivid imagination, I know). This tree claims that this Thomas Gartland was in Iowa, USA in 1850 and 1860 and died in 1861.
Does anyone have access to these US censuses who could check this out for me? I would be so grateful.
Anne
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