martha truelove c1841 mansfield area

[familytrees]

if any one has the time iam looking for martha truelove c1841  from mansfield area could even be located outside the county.

many thanks

ps.  i think should would be single and a servant

[familytrees]

pps martha would be 44 years + old.

[Frank E Masland]

I have been researching the Truelove family of Mansfield recently and came across your post. My connection to the Trueloves is through my 5th great grrandmother, Ann Truelove, who married Charles Paulson in 1778 in Mansfield. I believe she was the youngest daughter of George and Ann Truelove and had an older sister Martha as well. Her younger brother, John, married Ann Roby in 1781 and also had a daughter named Martha born in 1782, so the name Martha was in use in our branch of the family. Perhaps there is some connection.

I have in my posession a letter dated August 20, 1834 from Charles Masland to his mother, Mary Ann (Paulson) Masland, daughter of Charles Paulson and Ann Truelove, in which he states,

"I went to see James Truelove in Patterson, New Jersey but he was gone to New Orleans, had got a contract to make three miles of railroad from there to Mobile and when he was gone, the mechanic's bank …and he only got a dividend  one and a half cents on the dollar.  He had eighteen hundred dollars in the bank as his wife told me. She is a fat, genteel looking woman from Staffordshire. She behaved very well with me, wanted me to go to New Orleans with her and family. They have 3 children, the oldest a boy about 13 years of age, the other a girl about 11, the next a boy about 8.  She informed me that George Roby died in Troy, the State of New York, about four years ago.  His first wife died before him and he married a young Yankee woman who is living now in Poughkeepsie, the State of New York.  He had eight frames when he died and considerable money."

As you can see from this some of the Trueloves and Robys came to the United States. I would love to know if you have any more information about those families.

Frank E. Masland IV
Carlisle, Pennsylvania, USA

[familytrees]

  thankyou for your reply -  this seems beyond coincidence- i  think we are connected  and myself and three other researchers believe we are of the same family -  i didny know of the american connection-do you know if martha ended up in the u.s.

many thanks

will be intouch soon

[familytrees]

hi frank

i think my martha was 1782 the mother of elizabeth 1807(first wife of john boole 1820.) 2nd wife mary) john was approx 20 and elizabeth 32 when they got married(1840), the marriage cert  says elizabeth bastard child of martha.FIRST CHILDjohn boole 1841, elizabeth and baby girl also elizabeth died 1834. john 1820 remarries mary.i will private post you family tree in which you will see the roby name mentioned again. it looks to me as if these two families married each through different generations thats assuming its the same roby family.

[Frank E Masland]

Thanks for the info. I would love to see the Truelove, Roby, Boole family tree.

I have been researching my English roots for some time now in conjunction with a book I am working on, "Weavers and Warriors the Story of the Masland Family." John and Charles Masland were grandsons of Charles Paulson and Ann Truelove and Framework Knitters by trade as was their father James Masland of Arnold, Nottinghamshire. I have an indenture dated 1725 of Charles Paulson's father (also Charles) for his apprenticeship in the knitters guild.

John and Charles Masland came to North America on the King's penny as soldiers in the Duke of Cornwall's 32nd Regiment stationed in Quebec in the early 1830's. They were drawn to greener pastures to the south and crossed the border one night in search of a better life. John returned to his weaving roots while Charles enlisted in our American 3rd infantry and went off to fight both Indians and Mexicans with "Old Rough and Ready" Zachary Taylor. For that he was rewarded by having his head blown off at the Battle of Resaca de la Palma in 1846.

John brought most of the remaining members of his family to America including his mother, Mary Ann (Paulson) Masland. He and two of his brothers and two of his sons fought in our Civil War, John enlisting at the age of 54.

My book is based on scores of family letters which survive dating back to the late 1700's through the end of the Civil War in 1865. The year after the war John's two oldest sons,  Charles Henry and James William, returned to the weaving trade and eventually founded the firm of C. H. Masland & Sons which became a large multinational carpet firm before it was bought out in 1986.