Charles GALLAGHER & Nancy BUNTON

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Charles GALLAGHER
Nancy BUNTON

WARNING: I have not found a direct, primary source listing the identities of our subjects' children; they've been attached based on circumstantial evidence and secondary sources. There is also the issue of our subjects' son, Charles. Some say he is the Charles GALLIHAR who moved to Clark Co., AR, and married there in 1831, but I'm doubtful. That Charles is in Arkansas in the 1850 census; and, clearly (see Source 8, below), in 1850 our subjects' son, Charles, is living with his widowed mother, Nancy, in Kentucky. So, how can the one in Arkansas possibly be their son?

Husband: Charles GALLAGHER / GALLIHAR
Birth: ca. 1760
Death: 1830-40, Mercer Co., KY
Occupation: farmer

Marriage: 7 Dec 1790, Mercer Co., VA [now KY]

Wife: Nancy BUNTON
Birth: ca. 1770, of Rowan Co., NC
Death: 1860-70, Mercer Co., KY
Occupation: homemaker
Father: James William BUNTON
Mother: Mary BYERS

Children — born in Mercer Co., KY:

1. Grace GALLAGHER, b. 1791
2. Charles GALLAGHER / GALLIHAR, b. 1794/5
3. (Daughter A) GALLAGHER, b. 1794-1800
4. (Daughter B) GALLAGHER, b. 1794-1804
5. (Daughter C) GALLAGHER, b. 1804-1810
6. (Daughter D) GALLAGHER, b. 1804-1810
7. (Son A) GALLAGHER, b. 1800-1810
8. William GALLAGHER, b. 1809/10
9. (Son B) GALLAGHER, b. 1810-20
10. Robert GALLAGHER, b. 1818-20
11. Minerva GALLAGHER, b. 1820

These children fit somewhere in the above listing, but without knowing at least their approximate birth years, I don't know where to place them.
. John GALLAGHER, b. ?; d. 1862
. Catherine GALLAGHER
. Nancy GALLAHER
. Sarah "Sally" GALLAHER

Keywords for search engines: genealogy; USA, US, United States, Kentucky, North Carolina

Timeline
Year	Location	Event
c1760		birth of Charles GALLAGHER
c1770	NC: Rowan Co.	birth of Nancy BUNTON
1780	VA [now KY]: Lincoln County formed from Kentucky County
1785	VA [now KY]: Mercer County formed from Lincoln County
1790 Census	VA [now KY]	census was destroyed
1790	VA [now KY]: Mercer Co.	marriage of Charles GALLAGHER & Nancy BUNTON
1791	VA [now KY]	birth of daughter, Grace GALLAGHER
1792 Jun 1	Kentucky achieves statehood
1794/5	KY	birth of son, Charles GALLAGHER
1800 Census	KY	census was destroyed
1800 Tax List	KY: Mercer Co.	Charles GOLLITHER taxed
1807 Jun 29	KY: Mercer Co.	1st marriage of daughter, Grace, to Nathaniel McCLURE
1809/10		birth of son, William GALLAGHER
1810 Census	KY: Mercer Co.	Charles GOLOHER head-of-household
1818-20	KY	birth of son, Robert GALLAGHER
1820	KY	birth of daughter, Minerva GALLAGHER
1820 Census	KY: Mercer Co.	Charles GALAGHER head-of-household
1824 Feb 19	KY: Mercer Co.	marriage of son, Charles, to Martha BROWN
1825	IL: Clark Co.	2nd marriage of daughter, Grace, to William P. BENNETT
1828 Jun 22	IL: Clark Co.	3rd marriage of daughter, Grace, to Robert N. BODINE
1830 Census	KY: Mercer Co.	Charles GALLAGHER head-of-household
1830-1840		death of Charles GALLAGHER
1836 Oct 16	IL: Clark Co.	4th marriage of daughter, Grace, to Hugh MALONE
1839 Jan 23	KY: Jessamine Co.	marriage of son, Robert, to Mary Catharine GRAY
1840 Census	KY: Mercer Co.	Nancy GALLAGHER, head-of-household
1848 Aug 8	KY: Mercer Co.	marriage of son, William, to Catharine C. WATTS
1850 Census	KY: Mercer Co.	Nancy GALEHER, living w/children
1860 Census	KY: Mercer Co.	Nancy GALLAGER, boarding

(Jessamine and Mercer Cos. are adjacent.)

Sources:

1. Jordan R. Dodd, ed. 1993. Kentucky Marriages: Early to 1850. Liahona Research, Orem, UT (Broderbund CD-229):

Gallagher, Charles Bunton, Nancy Dec 7, 1790 Mercer Co.

2a. 1790 U.S. Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): the Virginia census was lost.

2b. Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1790 (Broderbund CD-311): no GALLAGHER (or variation) found, and the CD contains at least some KY tax lists.

3a. 1800 U.S. Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com): the Kentucky census was lost.

3b. Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1800 (Broderbund CD-312):

1800 Tax List KY Mercer Co. Gollither, Charles

There is also a John GOLLIHER in Mercer Co.

4. 1810 U.S. Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #1 of 34 — list was roughly alphabetized; official enumeration date 6 Aug 1810; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1810 KY Mercer Co. Roll 7 p. 153 Ln. 12 Goloher Charles 22001-42101-00

These data indicate:

No. & Sex Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred

2 males 9 or under 1800-1810 = William GALLAGHER (b. 1809/10)
= Son A

2 males 10-15 1794-1800 = Charles (b. 1794/5)
= Nathaniel McCLURE (surely in wrong age class)

1 male 45 or over by 1765 = Charles GALLAGHER

4 females 9 or under 1800-1810 = Sarah McCLURE (b. 1810)
= Mary McCLURE (b. 1807)
= Daughter D
= Daughter C

2 females 10-15 1794-1800 = Daughter B
= Daughter A

1 female 16-25 1784-1794 = Grace (GALLAGHER) McCLURE (b. 1791)

1 female 45 or over by 1765 = Nancy (BUNTON) GALLAGHER

It's not impossible for Nancy to have had six children in ten years, but my guess here is that their married daughter, Grace (GALLAGHER) McCLURE, her husband, and at least two(?) of her young children (both daughters) are living with them — because I don't find Nathaniel & Grace anywhere else.

5. 1820 U.S. Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #11 of 29 — list was roughly alphabetized; official enumeration date 7 Aug 1820; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1820 KY Mercer Co. Roll M33_26 p. 96 Ln. 25 Charles Galagher 210001-12110-0-200 no slaves

These data indicate:

No. & Sex Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred

2 males 9 or under 1810-1820 = Robert (b. 1818-20)
= Son D

1 male 10-15 1804-1810 = William (b. 1809/10)

1 male 45 or over in or bef. 1775 = Charles

1 female 9 or under 1810-1820 = Minerva (b. 1820)

2 females 10-15 1804-1810 = Daugher D
= Daughter C

1 female 16-25 1794-1804 = Daughter B

1 female 26-44 1775-1794 = Nancy

2 persons engaged in agriculture

Where are the three eldest sons? Are they working out? Charles is the only GALLAGHER (or variation) in the county.

6. 1830 U.S. Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #1-2 of 8; official enumeration date 1 Jun 1830; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1830 KY Mercer Co. Roll M19_39 p. 295 Ln. 24 Chas Gallagher 001 010 000 100 - 001 010 010 no slaves

These data indicate:

No. & Sex Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred

1 male 10-14 1815-1820 = Robert (b. 1818-20)

1 male 20-29 1800-1810 = William (b. 1809/10)

1 male 70-79 1750-1760 = Charles

1 female 10-14 1815-1820 = Minerva (b. 1820)

1 female 20-29 1800-1810 = Daughter C or D

1 female 50-59 1770-1780 = Nancy

7. 1840 U.S. Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #62-63 of 169; officially enumeration began 1 Jun 1840; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1840 KY Mercer Co. Roll 119 pp. 166B-167A Ln. 14 Nancy Gallagher 000 - 000 101 001 no slaves 0000000

These data indicate:

No. & Sex Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred

1 female 15-19 1820-1825 = Minerva (b. 1820)

1 female 30-39 1800-1810 = Daughter C or D

1 female 60-69 1770-1780 = Nancy

Listed next to married son, Rob. GALLAGHER, and 13 households from married son, Charles GALLAGHER.

8. 1850 U.S. Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #43 of 158): District No. 2, Mercer Co., KY, Roll M432_213, p. 305A, 289/_, enumerated 2 Sep 1850, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Charles Galeher 55 M Farmer Kentucky

Nancy      " 80 F 330 Virginia

Robert     " 30 M Carpenter Kentucky

Mary       " 24 F "

John       " 7 M "

William    " 4 M "

Amanda     " 1 F "

Minerva    " 28 "

Charles appears to have become a widower. Mary is Robert GALLAGHER's wife, and the children are theirs.

9. 1860 U.S. Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #68 of 138): Harrodsburg P.O., Dist. No. 2, Mercer Co., KY, Roll M653_387, p. 612, PN 68, 487/487, enumerated 11 Jul 1860, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1860 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Peter Tewmey 58 M Farmer 50 Kentucky

Alice     " 54 F "

Mary C    " 24 F "

Adron? G " 21 M 50 "

William H " 18 M 100 "

Sarah ?   " 17 F "

Daniel    " 14 M "

Joshua    " 12 M "

Nancy Gallager 95 F "

I've found no obvious genealogical connection between our subjects and Peter & Alice (RYNEARSON) TEWMEY.

10. Public Member Trees (online at Ancestry.com).

11. WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com).

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