Well the simple fact of the matter is that I\u2019m on information overload. I sat down and went through all the information I have on the Whittles and started trying to sort out all the collected documentation so that I could write a summary. I am still looking for name of the father of Samuel Whittle. I am also unable to name the parents of Jeremiah and John Nelson Whittle born c. 1770s. Jeremiah is the grandfather of Samuel, and according to the family, Jeremiah and John Nelson are brothers.<\/p>\n
My friend Marcia told me that sometimes you can only see the whole picture when you put it on paper or into a database. I created a large spreadsheet in Excel where I just covered the known information of birth, marriage, death, and parentage, and that turned into about eight pages. I was looking for people that fit into those \u201cunnamed male age 10-15\u201d slots from the early census records and what a mess that turned out to be. It\u2019s bits and pieces of things without solid connections. I sat and stared at it and had the feeling that it\u2019s there, I just can\u2019t see it.<\/p>\n
Arwen came by and looked at it and we discussed the gaps in the records \u2013 okay there are huge gaps in the records! There is documentation of a series of Whittles in Maryland from 1646 arrival to a group of Whittle siblings born 1730 \u2013 1737. Then the next documented Whittles appear to be born in the mid-1750s and later. It creates generational gaps in the documentation. This is further complicated by the lack of \u201cnamed\u201d documentation. Those darling early census records which list a sex and age group. These are often helpful for elimination, but hardly proof-positive of anything else. There are no guarantees that the female between ages 26 to 36 is really the wife of the head of household. She could just as easily be a sister, cousin, or the hired help!<\/p>\n
There are very few Whittle households listed in the early census records considering the number of people that appear later. The other issue is that there is no guarantee these are our people. Not every Whittle that appears is going to be part of the line that I\u2019m searching. There are still Whittles immigrating throughout the 18th and 19th century and they come from Ireland, England, and Germany. Their children born in Maryland become part of the confusion factor in the late half of the 1800s.<\/p>\n
The other part of the equation is that not everyone who came to Maryland stayed in Maryland. Many came as indentured servants, many of the first generation were \u201cbound to others\u201d at the age of sixteen and they went where their masters went. Like all families they had members that moved on and there are large populations of Whittles in the states of Pennsylvania, Virginia, South Carolina, and Tennessee, to name just a few. Sorting out who belongs to who could take a lifetime and may never happen without more documentation.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve decided that I\u2019m going to put the information up in groups: immigration, birth (not much of that considering the era we are dealing with), marriage, death (wills, obits, cemetery), and other loose information. Then I\u2019ll post my Excel file (at least part of it) with my theories and let everyone poke holes in them. Maybe something in this pile will trigger a reader to look through their pile of stuff and add to the mix.<\/p>\n
So let\u2019s begin with the early immigration: 1646 – William and Magdalen Whittle) arrive. From Passengers to America: A Consolidation of Ship Passengers from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register<\/em> by Michael Tepper (Editor) There are other later records of Whittles from Ireland and Germany, but this is the principle group in Maryland.<\/p>\n Census Records 1790 Census 1800 Census 1810 Census 1820 Census 1830 Census 1840 Census Whittle Family Tree Well the simple fact of the matter is that I\u2019m on information overload. I sat down and went through all the information I have on the Whittles and started trying to sort out all the collected documentation so that I could write a summary. I am still looking for name of the … 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":[10,5,6],"tags":[116,150,153],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-census-findings","category-research-bits","category-research-reports","tag-parker","tag-whittle","tag-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","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=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/findyourdead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFrom: The Early Settlers of Maryland, An Index of Names of Immigrants Compiled from Records of Land Patents, 1633-1680, in the Hall of Records, Annapolis, Maryland<\/em> by Gust Skordas<\/p>\n
\n1657 – Susan Whittle with 2 daughters named Elizabeth & Susan Williams arrive.
\n1658 – George Whittle arrives. George Whittle and Alice Parker patent 400 acres of land in Anne Arundel County. George is dec\u2019d by 1677.
\n15 Jul 1659 \u2013 One of the several men named Nicholas Whittle arrives.<\/p>\n
\n1699
\nNicholas Whittle arrived Virginia, aged 22, from Leland, Lancashire. Footnote states he was the bastard son of Nicholas Whittle and Alice Parker, baptized 19 Apr 1676. Leland is a parish in which there is a township Whittle-Le-Woods.<\/p>\n
\nMaryland Heads of Household thru the 1840 census, all spelling is from the index on Ancestry \u2013 I did not list anything beyond the obvious.<\/p>\n
\nDavid Whittle is the only Whittle listed for Maryland as a Head of Household<\/p>\n
\nAnn Whittle, Anne Arundel
\nJohn Whittle, Frederick County
\nZachariah Whittle, Prince George County
\nBenj Whittell, Montgomery County<\/p>\n
\nRichard Whittle, Baltimore
\nJeremiah Whittle, Baltimore
\nZacharia Whittle, Prince George
\nGeorge Wittel, Charles
\nJames Wittel, Charles
\nSolomon Wittle, Charles<\/p>\n
\nNicholas Whittle, Anne Arundel Co
\nReed (should be Richard) Whittle, Baltimore
\nJeremiah Whittle, Baltimore
\nJohn Whittle, Frederick County
\nZachariah Whittle, Prince George
\nJohn Wittle, Frederick
\nThos Whittle, District of Columbia<\/p>\n
\nHonor Whittle, Baltimore
\nJeremiah Whittle, Baltimore
\nWilliam Whittle, Baltimore
\nNich Whittles, Anne Arundel
\nJohn Wddle, Frederick<\/p>\n
\nHannah Whittle, Baltimore (this appears to be Honora)
\nJeremiah Whittle, Baltimore
\nJohn N. Whittle, Carroll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"