Frank Ryan From: Rebecca Rector [
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[email protected] Subject: Re: [TIGS] McParlin/Hogan Categories: GENEALOGY TIGS The 1870 Troy census shows Bridget McParlin 36, b. Ireland, with 4 children. Children b. NY & she must be a widow as no husband listed and youngest child is 2. Her occupation is brush drawing. > Dennis Hogan 19, b. Ireland, is within the household Bridget is also in the 1880 census of Lansingburgh (she was there in 1870), spelled Bridget McParttin, age 44 with 5 children: Mary is 19, John 17, Stephen 15, William 13, and Kate 9. John and Stephen both work as brush makers. It is odd that there would be another child, if she is in fact widowed... In 1860, there is a Bridget McFarlin, 24 in Lansingburgh with husband Frank. In the household are several others who are brush makers, probably unrelated (there were brush factories in Lansingburgh). It's likely that this is the same Bridget as she is the right age and born Ireland. There were other McFarlin and McParland families in Lansingburgh, possibly related. I just played around with the census on Ancestry.com, using the soundex etc. Names were never spelled correctly or consistently in the census, so it's always necessary to play around with every spelling possibility, and also search for people's ages - plugging in approx dates of birth and places of birth, looking for all possibilities, including other states.... Also, if you know that Dennis Hogan came From Co.