Arnold - 1830 Census: Sterling's Mother?
Backing up 10 years to 1830, we find two Arnold households: Polly Arnold and Mathias Arnold
Polly is a nickname for Mary, so she's really "Mary Arnold". Also, they are living next to each other, as they appear on consecutive lines of the census.
Polly's Household contains the following:
1 M 5-10
2 M 10-15
1 F 15-20
1 F 40-50
Mathias's Household contains
1 M 20-30
1 F 0-5
1 F 20-30
Polly (Mary) is probably Sterling's mom, based on comparing the 1830 and 1840 censuses. In 1840, the three males would be 15-20 (Sterling?), 20-25 x 2 (both out of house?), while the females would be 25-30 and 50-60 (which both match people in Sterling's household of 1840).
I want to float the possibility that Mathias is the Nathan we find in 1840. Here there is absolutely no real evidence, other than that when you take your glasses off and look at the handwritten name in the census logs, the names have the "same shape". My assumption is that the big log book wasn't carried from house to house, but that the names were filled in from notes at a later time. If that were the case, I can totally see misreading Nathan for Mathias, or vice versa. A stretch, but I did notice when looking at the names. It's the same way we get "Block" for "Klock" in the records for the Eiswirth orphans.
If we age Mathias's house 10 years, we'd get
1 M 30-40
1 F 10-15
1 F 30-40
while Nathan's house in 1840 has
1 M 20-30
1 F 0-5
1 F 15-20
Is that a young man with an even younger wife and newborn daughter, or a 30 year old widower with a 15 year old daughter and another daughter even younger. Who knows? Just a thought.
It's also possible that the Nathan in 1840 is one of the teenagers in Polly's 1830 household, and that he is the same as Anthony Arnold who pops up in 1850 living next to Sterling among the Hewitts, right where Nathan is in 1840.
Another possibility is Mathias Arnold could also correspond to Frederick Arnold, whom we haven't discussed yet. I'll get back to these conjectures in a couple of posts, and look at the evidence.
Polly is a nickname for Mary, so she's really "Mary Arnold". Also, they are living next to each other, as they appear on consecutive lines of the census.
Polly's Household contains the following:
1 M 5-10
2 M 10-15
1 F 15-20
1 F 40-50
Mathias's Household contains
1 M 20-30
1 F 0-5
1 F 20-30
Polly (Mary) is probably Sterling's mom, based on comparing the 1830 and 1840 censuses. In 1840, the three males would be 15-20 (Sterling?), 20-25 x 2 (both out of house?), while the females would be 25-30 and 50-60 (which both match people in Sterling's household of 1840).
I want to float the possibility that Mathias is the Nathan we find in 1840. Here there is absolutely no real evidence, other than that when you take your glasses off and look at the handwritten name in the census logs, the names have the "same shape". My assumption is that the big log book wasn't carried from house to house, but that the names were filled in from notes at a later time. If that were the case, I can totally see misreading Nathan for Mathias, or vice versa. A stretch, but I did notice when looking at the names. It's the same way we get "Block" for "Klock" in the records for the Eiswirth orphans.
If we age Mathias's house 10 years, we'd get
1 M 30-40
1 F 10-15
1 F 30-40
while Nathan's house in 1840 has
1 M 20-30
1 F 0-5
1 F 15-20
Is that a young man with an even younger wife and newborn daughter, or a 30 year old widower with a 15 year old daughter and another daughter even younger. Who knows? Just a thought.
It's also possible that the Nathan in 1840 is one of the teenagers in Polly's 1830 household, and that he is the same as Anthony Arnold who pops up in 1850 living next to Sterling among the Hewitts, right where Nathan is in 1840.
Another possibility is Mathias Arnold could also correspond to Frederick Arnold, whom we haven't discussed yet. I'll get back to these conjectures in a couple of posts, and look at the evidence.
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