Abbott, Thomas 1 2a
Birth Name | Abbott, Thomas |
Gender | male |
Age at Death | about 66 years, 4 months, 20 days |
Notes
Note
Thomas' birth to Thomas and Jane was recorded in St. Paul's Anglican Church in Northumberland County, New Brunswick. He was not in the 1852 or 1861 New Brunswick Census.
It looks very likely that he was the Thomas Abbott in New York State, where his mother and two sisters lived.
He may have been in New York as early as 1855 - there was a Thomas Abbott of the right age, born in NB, with wife Mary (born Ireland). Both Thomas and Mary said they had been living in the city for 10 years. He was a ship's carpenter. This was the same Thomas and Mary in the 1860 US census.
In the 1870 & 1880 US census records, he and Mary were living with his mother Jane, born in Ireland and a widow. In some census records his place of birth was recorded as Lower Canada, Canada or New York, but he was in the same area of the city, with a wife Mary born in Ireland of the right age. In the 1880 census, Thomas' birth place was recorded as New Brunswick. In the 1870 US census, Thomas was a clerk. He was living on Avenue C between 2nd and 3rd Streets.
He and Mary did not seem to have any children. Thomas' wife may have died after the 1880 census. A Mary Abbott, daughter of James and Mary Colter, died in Manhattan on 18 August 1882 at the age of 54. Her marital status was unknown.
Thomas married again:
Name: Thomas Abbott (age 59, marital status unknown, born Province of New Brunswick)
Spouse's Name: Elizabeth Toy (age 39, born Ireland, single)
Event Date: 16 Sep 1885
Event Place: Manhattan, New York, New York
Father's Name: Thomas Abbott
Mother's Name: Jane Crawford
Spouse's Father's Name: James Toy
Spouse's Mother's Name: Martha Gardner
Elizabeth Abbott McArthur's obituary indicated that only one sister was surviving at the time of her death in 1905. I was unable to find Thomas in census records after 1880, so I have assumed that he died before his sister. Although there were two or three men named Thomas Abbott in New York around this time, it seems very likely that he was the Thomas Abbott who died in Manhattan NY 21 May 1889. The record for this Thomas said he was born in Ireland, but his parents' names were Thomas and Jane.
Events
Event | Date | Place | Description | Sources |
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Baptism | August 13, 1823 | Newcastle, New Brunswick, Canada | ||
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Birth | about 1823 | Chatham, Northumberland, New Brunswick, Canada | ||
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Death | May 21, 1889 | New York, United States | ||
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Parents
Relation to main person | Name | Birth date | Death date | Relation within this family (if not by birth) |
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Father | Abbott, Thomas | before 1860 | ||
Mother | Crawford, Jane A. | 1793 | August 28, 1885 | |
Brother | Abbott, John Crawford | 1812 | June 23, 1888 | |
Sister | Abbott, Anna | about 1814 | November 8, 1855 | |
Sister | Abbott, Jane | May 28, 1819 | February 3, 1907 | |
Sister | Abbott, Elizabeth | 1821 | 1822 | |
Abbott, Thomas | about 1823 | May 21, 1889 | ||
Sister | Abbott, Elizabeth | August 1825 | January 7, 1905 | |
Sister | Abbott, Bellinda | December 10, 1827 | before 1905 | |
Brother | Abbott, Hugh | May 27, 1831 | before 1905 |
Families
Family of Abbott, Thomas and Abbott, Mary |
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Married | Wife | Abbott, Mary ( * + 1882 ) | |||||||||||||
Family of Abbott, Thomas and Toy, Elizabeth |
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Married | Wife | Toy, Elizabeth ( * 1846 + ... ) | |||||||||||||
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