Thomas BLANFORD & Eleanor HEAD & Mary Jane ROBINSON

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Thomas BLANFORD
Eleanor HEAD
Mary Jane ROBINSON

Husband: Thomas BLANFORD / BLANDFORD
Birth: 1804/5, KY
Occupation: farmer
Father: Nathaniel Momford BLANDFORD (1779-1853)
Mother: Nancy Ann BRYAN

Marriage-1: 17 Nov 1829, Nelson Co., KY

Wife-1: Eleanor / Elenor HEAD
Birth: ca. 1803
Death: ca. Sep 1835
Father: John HEAD (c1773-1826)
Mother: Elizabeth VOWELS (1777-1853)

Marriage-2: 20 Feb 1838, Hancock Co., KY

Wife: Mary Jane "Polly" ROBINSON / ROBISON
Birth: 1807/8, KY
Occupation: homemaker
Other Spouse: m1. 25 Nov 1828, Nelson Co., KY, George Washington BLANFORD ( -1837), our subject's brother
Other Children: David W. BLANFORD, b. 1833/4, KY; George W. BLANFORD, b. 1835/6, KY

Child with Wife-1 or one of Mary's children from her prior marriage:

1. (Son A) BLANFORD, b. 1830

Children with Mary ROBISON:

2. Margaret BLANFORD, b. 1838
3. Mary Emmaline BLANFORD, b. 1840/1
4. Martha A. BLANFORD, b. 1843/4
5. Thomas R. BLANFORD, b. 1845/6
6. Susan Eliza BLANFORD, b. 1848/9

Keywords for search engines: USA, US, United States, Kentucky

Sources:

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

Blandford, George W. Robison, Mary 25 Nov 1828 Nelson Co.

Blanford, Thomas Head, Elenor Nov 17, 1829 Nelson Co.

Blanford, Thomas Blanford, Mary 20 Feb 1838 Hancock Co.

2. 1830 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #3-4 of 48; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1830 KY Nelson Co. Eastern District Roll M19_40 p. 113 Ln. 21 Thos. Blandford 000 020 - 000 010 no slaves

These data indicate:

No. & Sex Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred

2 males 20-29 1800-1810 = Thomas (b. 1804/5)

1 female 20-29 1800-1810 = Eleanor

Listed one line below Mrs. HEAD, who is one line below Francis HEAD. The only other Thomas BLANDFORD/BLANFORD indexed in Kentucky is the one in Washington County.

3. 1840 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com, Image #4-5 of 12; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

1840 KY Hancock Co. Roll 113 pp. 8B-9A Ln. 4 Blandford Thomas 111 010 - 200 001 no slaves 0201000

These data indicate:

No. & Sex Age Class Therefore Born Individuals Inferred

1 male 4 or under 1835-1840 = George (b. 1835/6)

1 male 5-9 1830-1835 = David (b. 1833/4)

1 male 10-14 1825-1830 = Son A (b. 1830)

1 male 20-29 1810-1820 = Thomas (b. 1804/5)

2 females 4 or under 1835-1840 = Mary (b. 1840/1)
= Margaret (b. 1837/8)

1 female 30-39 1800-1810 = Mary (b. 1807/8)

2 persons employed in agriculture

1 person employed in manufacture and trade

Thomas is in the wrong age class, which is presumably enumerator error.

4. 1850 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #31 of 79): Hancock Co., KY, Roll M432_202, p. 281A, 207/213, enumerated 14 August 1850, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):

Thomas Blanford 45 M Farmer 700 Ky

Mary        " 42 F "

David W     " 16 M None "

George W    " 14 M "

Margaret E " 12 F "

Mary E      " 9 F "

Martha A    " 6 F "

Thomas R    " 4 M "

Susan E     " 1 F "

Benjamin Monarch 31 M Carpenter 786 "

David and George are Mary's children from her prior marriage to our subject's brother.

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

6. Messages posted to the Blandford Family Genealogy Forum (online at GenForum.com).

7. Email from Jim Blandford.

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