Thursday, February 17, 2011

Allen Worden born 1838 in New Brunswick

My maternal great grandmother was Caroline Susan Worden, born 24 February 1830 in Greenwich, Kings County, New Brunswick, Canada to Anderson Gidney Worden and Elizabeth Williams. To go beyond my direct line I looked at the 1881 Canada Census for New Brunswick. My primary tools in the search were the 1881 Census in www.familysearch.org and www.ancestry.com. I chose Family Search because it listed all Wordens in the census born in New Brunswick who were still living in New Brunswick at the time of the census. Ancestry.com provided further data about the families and allowed me to look at the same families in earlier or later censuses.

One family I looked at was that of Allen Worden (born about 1838 in New Brunswick). In 1881 the family lived in Westfield, Kings County, New Brunswick. Their religion was declared as Baptist.

Allen Worden (farmer, born about 1838) in New Brunswick, Canada
Hannah Worden (wife, born about 1841) in New Brunswick
James Worden (son, born about 1871 in New Brunswick)
Martha Worden (daughter, born about 1873 in New Brunswick)
Charlotte Worden (daughter, born about 1875 in New Brunswick)
Herbert Worden (son, born about 1877 in New Brunswick)
Fredrick Worden (son, born about 1879 in New Brunswick)

On new.familysearch.org I found William Allen Worden (born 1841) married to Hannah Haslet.
A search of the 1861 census didn’t find a family with a Hannah Haslet. However, I found Hariett Haslet (born about 1845) listed as a Native. Her father was William Haslet, 40, who was Irish. They were living in Kingston, Kings, New Brunswick in 1661.

William Haslet (born about 1821) Irish
Margart Haslet (born about 1822) Native
Hariett Haslet (born about 1845) Native
Ralph Haslet (born about 1846) Native
William Haslet (born about 1849) Native
James Haslet (born about 1851) Native

Also in the 1851 census for Kingston, Kings, New Brunswick was the family of James Haslet (born about 1820 in Ireland).

James Haslet, born about 1820, Ireland
Mary Haslet, born about 1825, Native
Frederick Haslet, born about 1846, Native
Alexander Haslet, born about 1848, Native
Ralph Haslet, born about 1851, Native

A search in new.familysearch.org found William Haslet, born in 1822, in Kings, New Brunswick, married to Margaret Pendergass, born in 1823, in Kingston, Kings, New Brunswick. William was the son of Ralph Haslet (born 1787 in Ireland) and Martha. Margaret was the daughter of John and Hannah Pendergass. John was born about 1795 in New Brunswick. A John Pendergrass is listed in the 1851 and 1861 tax censuses for Kingston, Kings, New Brunswick.