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Facts and Events
| Name[2] |
Caroline Dudley |
| Gender |
Female |
| Birth[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] |
15 Jul 1816 |
Westmoreland, Cheshire, New Hampshire, United States |
| Marriage |
21 Oct 1841 |
Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts, United Statesto Ansel Davis |
| Death[3][4] |
5 Apr 1868 |
Orange, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States |
| Burial[4] |
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Warwick, Franklin, Massachusetts, United States |
References
- ↑ New Hampshire, United States. New Hampshire Birth Records, Early to 1900. (New Hampshire Division of Vital Records Administration)
[1].
Child's Name: Caroline Dudley
Date of Birth: July 15 1814
Place of Birth: Westmoreland
Sex: Female; Color: White
Condition: LIving
No. of Child: 4
Joseph Dudley
Color: White
Residence: Westmoreland
Mother: Mary Dudley
Color: White
Clerk of: Westmoreland
[See note below analyzing various sources of the birth information.]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Westmoreland History Committee (Westmoreland, New Hampshire). History of Westmoreland (Great Meadow), New Hampshire, 1741-1970: and genealogical data. (Westmoreland, New Hampshire: Westmoreland History Committee, c1976)
p. 403.
Children of Joseph Dudley and Mary Page: 40 Caroline, b. 15 Jul 1816, m. Ansel Davis.
[See note below analyzing various sources of the birth information.]
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Massachusetts, United States. Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915
[2].
Deaths Registered in the Town of Orange for the Year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.
No.: 14
Date of Death: April 5th 1868
Name: Caroline (Dudley) Davis
Sex: F.
Condition: Widow
Age: 54 y. 6 m. 10 d. [birth calculates to about 26 Oct 1813]
Cause: Lung fever
Place of Death: Orange
Occupation: [blank]
Place of Birth: Westmoreland
Parents: John Dudley / Sarah Dudley
Birthplaces of Parents: Westmoreland / Warwick
[See note below analyzing various sources of the birth information.]
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Find A Grave: Warwick Cemetery, Warwick, MA, in Find A Grave
Caroline Dudley Davis.
CAROLINE,
Wife of
ANSEL DAVIS
Died
April 9, 1868
AE. 5[4? 1?].
[See note below analyzing various sources of the birth information.]
- ↑ Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. 1850 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration Publication M432)
line 37.
[age 34, born about 1816]
- ↑ Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. 1855 Massachusetts State Census
left side, line 32.
[age 39, born about 1816]
- ↑ Franklin, Massachusetts, United States. 1865 Massachusetts State Census
right side, line 32.
[age 49, born about 1816]
- ↑ The information about Caroline's birth is mixed and confusing.
The New Hampshire state record says 1814. It looks like 1814 but has the smallest resemblance to 1816 if the loop of the 6 is presumed to be squeezed shut. The town records do not appear to be available online. The History of Westmoreland also gives 1816 and presumably, like the NH state copy, is based on reading the original town records, again suggesting 1816 might have been misread as 1814 somewhere along the line. Additionally, all the census records so far located (1860 missing) suggest a birth in 1816.
The death record gives different parents than the History of Westmoreland. It is assumed the death record is wrong as no evidence of such a couple has been located. But this is somewhat of an open issue. Certainly other children of Joseph and Mary Dudley appear in Warwick records, so Caroline's marriage there would fit that pattern. No probate for Joseph was found to confirm who his children were and as noted, the birth records from Westmoreland are not available online, so our identification of Joseph as the father is solely based on the secondary source.
The calculated birth date from the age on the death record, and from the age on the gravestone, give a birth around 1813. Combined with the discrepancy over parents, this is a problem, raising further doubts the History of Westmoreland may have made a misidentification? However, in the photograph of the gravestone, it cannot be determined, with confidence, if the age is 51, as it appears, or 54 as reported. Simply note, an age of 51 would be a birth about 1817, much more in line with a birthdate in July 1816 than is the 1813 that the reported ages give.
This needs more evidence.
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