Jeremiah Whittle born about 1775, location unknown, married Elizabeth Eyle on 5 Dec 18182<\/sup>, in Baltimore County, Maryland. Elizabeth was born 12 Oct 1785, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, died 19 Jun 1877, Towson, Baltimore, Maryland, and is buried in Govans Presbyterian Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland. Their children as we had them:<\/p>\n Unknown 1 \u2013 This is the father of our Samuel Whittle It\u2019s a great family group, but it has a potential glaring error staring me in the face. I have been operating under the assumption (yeah, yeah, yeah \u2013 it\u2019s a bad thing to do, but it looked good at the time) that Elizabeth, because she lived with Eliza and Samuel is Samuel’s grandmother. She probably is, but she may not be his biological grandmother. My stunning revelation hit me while working back in the 1820 and 1830 census records and trying to apply what we knew of this family group to the people listed on them.<\/p>\n The first clue came when I did a search on Ancestry for Jeremiah Whittle, born about 1775. The 1820 Census for District 2, Baltimore, Maryland3<\/sup> was my first stop.<\/p>\n 2 males under 10 years of age (probably Thomas and Unknown 1) What a mess! Jeremiah would have been 45, Elizabeth would have only been 35, but that could have just been an error. Who are all these kids? Jeremiah and Elizabeth were married Dec 1818 and it is probable that Thomas (born about 1820) is one of the males under 10. Then I remembered the information that Ruth had provided earlier. Jeremiah had a previous marriage to Nancy Best 16 Jun 18044<\/sup>(Ancestry has her indexed as Pest). If they followed the usual cycle of children, and the children survived there would have been 6 or 7 children in that time period. 2-3 between 10 and 16 and 3-4 under 10. All these other children are probably the children of Jeremiah and Nancy.<\/p>\n The 1830 Census for District 2, Baltimore, Maryland5<\/sup> shows:<\/p>\n 1 male under 5 years of age (probably John) This was where the “Er-Duh Moment” occurred. IF Samuel\u2019s father, Unknown 1, is the same age or older than his wife, he would have been born about 1815 or prior. Jeremiah did not marry Elizabeth until 1818. Unknown 1 could have (and probably was) the son of Nancy Best who apparently died about 1817. Elizabeth would have raised him and for all intents and purposes was his mother as she was the only one he would have known.<\/p>\n IF all the members of the household are actually the children of Jeremiah \u2013 there\u2019s that dangerous \u201cIF\u201d word \u2013 then the family group based on the 1820 and 1830 Census records would now look like this:<\/p>\n Jeremiah Whittle b. abt 1775 Elizabeth Eyle b. 1785 m. 1818 d. 1877 Have I been barking up the wrong family tree?<\/p>\n 1. See post dated 19 Oct 2008<\/a>. The Whittle Family Tree I can\u2019t let those darn Whittles go – so I\u2019m going to see what I can figure out in collaboration with Ruth. While Samuel N. Whittle\u2019s father remains a mystery, we know who some of his siblings are, and I\u2019ll explore the family group to see if we can find anything … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[27,57,150],"class_list":["post-459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-census-findings","tag-best","tag-eyle","tag-whittle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThomas – born 1820, Baltimore, Maryland
\nSusan Ann – born about 1821, Baltimore Maryland
\nJeremiah A. – Whittle, born about 1824, Baltimore, Maryland
\nJohn Whittle – born about 1829, Baltimore, Maryland<\/p>\n
\n2 males between 10 and 16 years of age (Unknowns)
\n1 male 45 years or more (probably Jeremiah)
\n2 females under 10 years of age (Unknowns)
\n1 female 45 years or more (probably Elizabeth)<\/p>\n
\n1 male between 5 and 9 (probably Jeremiah A.)
\n1 male between 10 and 14 (probably Thomas)
\n1 male between 15 and 19 (possibly Unknown 1)
\n2 males between 20 and 30 (Unknowns)
\n1 male between 50 and 60 (probably Jeremiah)
\n1 female between 5 and 9 (probably Susan born 1822)
\n1 female between 10 and 14 (Unknown)
\n1 female between 40 and 50 (probably Elizabeth)<\/p>\n
\nNancy Best b. abt 1775 m. 1804 d. bef Dec 1818
\nUnknown Male 2 b. bef 1810
\nUnknown Male 3 b. bef 1810
\nUnknown Female 1 b. bef 1815
\nUnknown 1 (Samuel\u2019s father) b. abt 1815
\nUnknown Female 2 b. bef 1820<\/p>\n
\nThomas b. abt 1820
\nSusan b. 1822
\nJeremiah A. b. abt 1824
\nJohn b. abt 1829<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.findyourdead.com\/wp\/wp-content\/themes\/antique\/img\/divider.gif\")
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\n2. Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, “Maryland Marriages, 1655-1850,” database, Ancestry (http:\/\/www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 Nov 2008), Marriage of Jeremiah Whittle and Elizabeth Eyle.
\n3. 1820 U.S. census, Baltimore County, Maryland, population schedule, District 2, p. 215, Jerrimiah Whittle; digital image, Ancestry (http:\/\/www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 Nov 2008); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M33, roll 41.
\n4. Dodd, Jordan, Liahona Research, “Maryland Marriages, 1655-1850,” database, Ancestry\u00a0(http:\/\/www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 Nov 2008), Jeremiah Whittle and Nancy Pest.
\n5. 1830 U.S. census, Baltimore County, Maryland, District 2, p. 72, Jeremiah Whittle; digital image, Ancestry (http:\/\/www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 Nov 2008); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M29, roll 55.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"