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Antrim / Re: Agnews in Larne area
« on: Sunday 17 March 19 12:38 GMT (UK) »
hi Barb and all,
My DNA links me to the Irish Agnews, O'Gnihms line, I found out recently. Barb, we have spoken before. My family tree research goes back to a James Agnew in Cincinnati, Ohio. IN 1850 he is there, along with a new wife, Mary Ann Freeman, and new baby son, Alfred Freeman. James says he was born in Ohio in 1808. Mary was born in PA. There is an older Samuel Agnew (I think visiting) them in their household in 1850. HE doesn't ever show up again with them. Samuel also says he was born in PA. There is ALSO, my great-grandfather, James A. Agnew, a little boy of 8. Due to Mary Freeman's age, I believe the 8-yr-old James is the child of another mother. The little boy James is listed at the BOTTOM of that census page, with an asterik * linking him to *Samuel Agnew in this household further up the page. However, Samuel is the last one listed with the household so it could just be linking 8-yr-old James to this family above. We have never figured out why he is at the bottom of the page, or who is mother is. IN any case, I have never found anything earlier than this 1850 census on this family. (Is the 8-yr-old the older James' son? Is he Samuel's son? Did Samuel bring him to this family?) WE DO know he stays connected to this family, has a daughter later in life and brings her TO James and Mary to finish raising her. But by 1860 the 8-yr-old James is not in this household. We think, probably he is leaving to join the Union Army.
sincerely,
Carol Agnew Black, Agnew family tree on ancestry.
My DNA links me to the Irish Agnews, O'Gnihms line, I found out recently. Barb, we have spoken before. My family tree research goes back to a James Agnew in Cincinnati, Ohio. IN 1850 he is there, along with a new wife, Mary Ann Freeman, and new baby son, Alfred Freeman. James says he was born in Ohio in 1808. Mary was born in PA. There is an older Samuel Agnew (I think visiting) them in their household in 1850. HE doesn't ever show up again with them. Samuel also says he was born in PA. There is ALSO, my great-grandfather, James A. Agnew, a little boy of 8. Due to Mary Freeman's age, I believe the 8-yr-old James is the child of another mother. The little boy James is listed at the BOTTOM of that census page, with an asterik * linking him to *Samuel Agnew in this household further up the page. However, Samuel is the last one listed with the household so it could just be linking 8-yr-old James to this family above. We have never figured out why he is at the bottom of the page, or who is mother is. IN any case, I have never found anything earlier than this 1850 census on this family. (Is the 8-yr-old the older James' son? Is he Samuel's son? Did Samuel bring him to this family?) WE DO know he stays connected to this family, has a daughter later in life and brings her TO James and Mary to finish raising her. But by 1860 the 8-yr-old James is not in this household. We think, probably he is leaving to join the Union Army.
sincerely,
Carol Agnew Black, Agnew family tree on ancestry.