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Title: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: johnP-bedford on Wednesday 03 May 23 16:33 BST (UK)
I have a Benjamin Horsley born 1848 Soham Cambridgeshire on the 1871 Canada Census living in Ottawa age 23 English with wife Arminella age 21 Irish. I'm wondering if anyone can point me to their marriage. On her burial monument in Beechwood cemetery Carleton, Ontario it says that she was Armanella S Barry, wife of Benjamin Horsley. She died 24 March 1892 at Hoosick Falls, New York.

Also I looking for any immigration info for Benjamin prior to this marriage.

Thanks in advance
Cheers John   
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: rosie99 on Wednesday 03 May 23 17:08 BST (UK)
Is this them in 1880 in Hoosick Falls, USA
Benjamin   Horsley   32   born   England occ Editor
Nellie   Horsley   31   born   Canada
Ella   Horsley   Daughter   8   born   New York
Clara   Horsley   Daughter   3   born   New York

Nellies information says parents were born in Ireland

ADDED Image place of birth looks like Cannau  ::)
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: CaroleW on Wednesday 03 May 23 17:12 BST (UK)
This marriage mentions both Benjamin & Armanella

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZ9J-PPM
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: *Sandra* on Wednesday 03 May 23 17:21 BST (UK)
Obit - Armanella S Horsley. Mentions marriage was 16 December 1870 Ottawa. Canada
Middletown Times-Press
Middletown, New York
Sat, 2 Apr 1892 - Page 3

https://www.newspapers.com/article/middletown-times-press/123981858/

Ottawa Daily Citizen
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 
Mon, 28 Mar 1892 Page 4

https://www.newspapers.com/article/ottawa-daily-citizen/123982677/


Ottawa Daily Citizen
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Sat, 26 Mar 1892 Page 4

https://www.newspapers.com/article/ottawa-daily-citizen/124025999/


Ontario, County Marriage Registers  1858 - 1869  (so just miss that 1870 marriage)

https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2568642

Sandra

Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: *Sandra* on Wednesday 03 May 23 17:33 BST (UK)
Not what you asked for but may be interesting to have.

Mothers death notice - 1908

The Ottawa Journal
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Fri, 13 Mar 1908 Page 11

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-ottawa-journal/123982463/

Sandra

Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: *Sandra* on Wednesday 03 May 23 18:03 BST (UK)

Obit for sister Clara Horsley Wirth

Hartford Courant
Hartford, Connecticut
Fri, 8 Jul 1955 Page 6

https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant/123984354/

Sandra
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: *Sandra* on Wednesday 03 May 23 19:21 BST (UK)
On the passport application in 1919 (partial copy below)  - Benjamin Horsley - stated he lived in England from birth to 1869
He resided in the USA from July 1871

Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: johnP-bedford on Thursday 04 May 23 10:44 BST (UK)
Thank you Rosie, Carole & Sandra for that information, especially the newspaper reports.

Yes they are that couple who moved to Hoosick Falls, New York for the 1880 US census & prior to that were in Orange, NY for the 1875 NY census. After Armanella died in March 1892 Benjamin returned to England and married Mary Anne (Marian) Speller in Soham, Cambs on 25 May 1894 where he is recorded as being publisher & editor of the 'Rensslaer County Standard' of Hoosick Falls, NY. After their marriage the couple returned to New York.

They are found on 1900 US census in New York but seem to have returned to England in Sept 1901 initially to Soham but moved to Lowestoft, Suffolk around 1903.
 

   
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: *Sandra* on Thursday 04 May 23 11:51 BST (UK)
An account of the death of a son Montague Horsley in 1918

Middletown Times Press (Middletown, New York) - 28 May 1918

Star-Gazette
Elmira, New York
Mon, 15 Apr 1918 Page 7

https://www.newspapers.com/article/star-gazette/124028797/

Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: *Sandra* on Thursday 04 May 23 12:04 BST (UK)

marriage 1908 - Bennington VT Evening Banner - 18-4-1908



Louisa Horsley - last wife of Benjamin Horsley - died 1949



Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: *Sandra* on Thursday 04 May 23 12:11 BST (UK)


You will find many articles on Benjamin or Mrs Benjamin Horsley on this link:-

https://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html

Sandra
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: *Sandra* on Thursday 04 May 23 12:20 BST (UK)
Hartford Courant
Hartford, Connecticut
Fri, 5 Jan 1917 Page 14

https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant/124028855/

Hartford Courant
Hartford, Connecticut
Sat, 13 Jan 1917 Page 11

https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant/124028879/

Hartford Courant
Hartford, Connecticut
Mon, 15 Apr 1918 Page 12

https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant/124028910/

Sandra
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: *Sandra* on Thursday 04 May 23 12:32 BST (UK)

Marian Horsley - Cambridge Independent Press
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England
Fri, 30 Dec 1904 Page 8

https://www.newspapers.com/article/cambridge-independent-press/124029002/

Sandra
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: johnP-bedford on Thursday 04 May 23 12:37 BST (UK)
Thanks again Sandra.

Yes Benjamin Horsley married Louise Janes at Windsor RD in Dec 1907. On 1911 UK census they are living at Waveney Drive Lowestoft with son Montague Speller Horsley age 15 born in USA. They returned to the US sometime in 1919 (as per passport application) and are living in Bristol Connecticut on the 1920 US census with daughter Mary/May born 1886 NY who had married Robert L Hinckley around 1913?   
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: *Sandra* on Thursday 04 May 23 12:49 BST (UK)
The Hinkley marriage was in 1912.

Robert Hinckley
Marriage Date   10 Feb 1912   Naugatuck, Connecticut
Spouse    May Horsley

https://www.ctatatelibrarydata.org/marriage-records/

Second marriage for May Horsley/Hinkley/

May Hinckley - May Horsley born 1886 - 5 December 1931  (aged 45 years)
Marriage Place   Putnam, New York
Father    Benjamin Horsley
Mother    Armanella Barry
Spouse    Dana Fitzgerald Lawrence.

May A Hinckley - 1913 - 1981

FIND A GRAVE - with obit/death  notice attached.

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01s9q/

partial copy below

Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: johnP-bedford on Friday 05 May 23 17:14 BST (UK)
Hi Sandra,  I have this newspaper clipping annotated 8-6-63 (don't know if this is 8th June or 6th August 1963) which mentions Benjamin Horsley of Lowestoft. I'd be interested if you could identify the   newspaper. I have used FultonSearch to try and find anything on 'Alice Scott Ross' who wrote the article. Results returned list entries in the Greenfield MA Recorder saying that she was a columnist in the Springfield Union.   
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: *Sandra* on Friday 05 May 23 17:30 BST (UK)

American date 6 August 1963 - will have a look later

Meanwhile this was the obit for Alice, gives details of her life,

Daily Hampshire Gazette
Northampton, Massachusetts
Mon, 3 Nov 1986 Page 4

https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-hampshire-gazette-obituary-for-ali/124097158/

Sandra
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: johnP-bedford on Wednesday 23 August 23 18:45 BST (UK)
Hello all, thanks again for previous supplied info.

Can I ask if you can find any newspaper articles or obituarys for Robert Lester Hinkley who died 15th Feb 1963 in Hampden, Connecticut and for May Lawrence (previously Hinckley originally Horsley) who died 7th Mar 1962 at Bristol, Connecticut 
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: *Sandra* on Tuesday 29 August 23 20:21 BST (UK)


The Bridgeport Post
Bridgeport, Connecticut 
Tue, Feb 19, 1963 Page 42

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-bridgeport-post/130871987/

Sandra
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: johnP-bedford on Wednesday 30 August 23 12:25 BST (UK)
Thanks Sandra, The obit mentions his wife Helen who I think he married in August 1947 in Chicopee and died in Dec 1989 
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: *Sandra* on Wednesday 30 August 23 12:35 BST (UK)
Yes, she did died in 1989

Transcript-Telegram
Holyoke, Massachusetts
Wed, Dec 6, 1989 Page 4

https://www.newspapers.com/article/transcript-telegram/130907997/

Was that marriage not 1949 ?

Sandra
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: *Sandra* on Wednesday 30 August 23 16:53 BST (UK)

Dana F Lawrence -

The Bangor Daily News
Bangor, Maine 
Mon, Dec 29, 1947 Page 13

https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-bangor-daily-news/130917717/

Sandra
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: johnP-bedford on Thursday 31 August 23 10:51 BST (UK)
Was that marriage not 1949 ?

I found an entry on the Connecticut Marriage Index for Robert Hinckley & Helen Wright on 4 Aug 1947 in Hartford
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: *Sandra* on Thursday 31 August 23 11:08 BST (UK)
That's ok then. I was looking in Chicopee Hamden Massachusetts and this entry had the middle initials strange.  Only because Helen had lived there all her life and they were there together on the 1950 census

Sandra

Added This was apparently a remarriage.

Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: *Sandra* on Thursday 31 August 23 11:27 BST (UK)


Transcript-Telegram
Holyoke, Massachusetts
Fri, Oct 28, 1949 Page 4

https://www.newspapers.com/article/transcript-telegram/130965238/

Sandra
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: *Sandra* on Thursday 31 August 23 11:35 BST (UK)

Marriage of Robert and Fannie (both divorcees)

New Britain Herald
New Britain, Connecticut 
Wed, Jun 20, 1923 Page 5


https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-britain-herald/130965350/
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Sandra
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: johnP-bedford on Thursday 31 August 23 12:21 BST (UK)
Thanks Sandra, Seems like both marriages are for same couple, Robert married Helen in 1947 & then they remarried in 1949.  Also thanks for his previous marriage to Fannie Waller.
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: *Sandra* on Thursday 31 August 23 12:34 BST (UK)

You're very welcome. Fills a few gaps.  :)

Sandra
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: *Sandra* on Thursday 31 August 23 13:14 BST (UK)


Oops - mixed the posts up - no hope !!!  :) :) :)

Sandra
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: johnP-bedford on Thursday 31 August 23 16:33 BST (UK)
Sandra, the last posting you did on this thread is not meant for me, seems it's for another post you've been working on.
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: johnP-bedford on Thursday 14 September 23 14:36 BST (UK)
Hello again

I wonder if you can find me any news clipping regarding the divorce of Robert Lester Hinckley from wife May previously Horsley in Hartford Connecticut dated around 15 Dec 1922. 
Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: bbart on Thursday 14 September 23 19:06 BST (UK)
I'll save *Sandra* some work here  :)

https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant-hinckley-divorce-1/131792457/

and the outcome

https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant-hinckley-divorce-2/131792355/

Title: Re: Benjamin Horsley married Canada prior 1871
Post by: johnP-bedford on Saturday 16 September 23 07:14 BST (UK)
Thank you bbart