So I did a little more digging around to see what other records I could find on Francis Lamb and Anne Quinn and family today. I came across the family listed in the 1850 U.S. census as well, without any Thorntons in the same household. However, there were Thorntons elsewhere in the building in 1850…
The Lamb family in the 1850 census for New York City straddles two pages…
A few family units up on the first page shown here, the dwelling number they resided in was 307. On the second page, a few families further down but still in the same dwelling number, we see this group…
So in 1850, there was a Thornton family from Ireland also living in the same building as the Lamb family that I’ve been researching. The possibility here that I’d like to verify is that Francis A. Thornton (b. 1822) could have been the son of Mary Thornton (b. 1804) from my previous post. If so, it seems more likely that Margaret Thornton (b. 1854), also mentioned in the previous post, would have been a daughter in this Francis Thornton’s household, which would then obviously make Margaret the granddaughter of Mary (b.1804).
Whatever the relationships actually turn out to be, it seems likely to me that my Lamb ancestors would have known these Thornton families. The evidence for a connection is building, but what is the connection beyond what we see in the census?
References:
- 1850 U.S. census, New York, population schedule, 8th ward, pp. 388-389, dwelling 307, family 736, Francis Lamb household; digital images, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : accessed 1 August 2011).
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