Documentation for Benjamin Ash and Maria [...]


Census Data

  1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890
Benjamin Ash ? 40 45 57 64 ?
Maria ([...]) Ash ? 41 51 61 72 ?
    Alonzo H. Ash ? 11 20 married and living in separate household
    Almira S. Ash 9 19 28 living in separate household
    Orlando Ash 7 17 27 living in separate household
    Elizabeth Ash 5 16 [living? in separate household]
    Adeline Ash 3 13 23 [living? in separate household]
    Mariam H. Ash 1 12 living in separate household
    Nathan Ash 3 m.
[see note below]		 10 20 living in separate household
    Julia Ann Ash 8 17 [living? in separate household]
    Minta Ash 2 m. 10 [living? in separate household]

1850 Gouldsboro, Hancock County, Maine - dwelling 32, family 35. According to a gravestone in Ledgelawn Cemetery, Bar Harbor, Maine, Nathan was born in 1852. Did the Nathan in the above 1850 census die young, and a subsequent son (b. 1852) was also named Nathan? Alternatively, is the birthdate on the gravestone erroneous?



1860 Eden [now Bar Harbor], Hancock County, Maine - dwelling 93, family 87:



1870 Eden [now Bar Harbor], Hancock County, Maine - dwelling 60, family 54:



1880 Eden [now Bar Harbor], Hancock County, Maine - dwelling 218, family 224. Also living in this household in 1880 was boarder Mary Alley (35 y., b. Maine).