Samuel Tripp's children (without Sarah Ann, the mystery girl)
As I wrote about last week, I've started adding the descendants of my 2 x great grandfather, Samuel Tripp, to my family tree. Well, I've added his children, at least the ones for which I found birth records. It appears that he had six children with his second wife, Mary or Mary Ann Redin or Rowding. Samuel and Mary Ann started having children in 1870 and then every two years or so they had another one. The birth records are a road map of the different places that they lived in around Ontario until the last child, James Wilbert Tripp, who was born in Buffalo, New York in 1881.
The move to New York State must have been just before James Wilbert's birth as the family appeared in the 1881 census in Pickering, Ontario. The 1881 Canadian census was taken on April 4, 1881 and James Wilbert made his appearance on October 23 of that same year. Interestingly, there was another child who showed up on the 1881 census, Sarah Ann Tripp, aged 13.
In past searches while looking for evidence of what happened to Catherine Matheson/Tripp, Samuel's first wife, I've found traces of Sarah Ann. In some cases Catherine has been given as her mother. I'm not sure if she was the child of Catherine or Mary Ann and have not been able to find a birth record for her. In the 1881 census her age was given as 13, so a birthdate of 1868 maybe or, as the census was taken in April, perhaps the date of birth could be 1867. Samuel Tripp and Mary Ann tied the knot on September 5, 1867. It remains to be seen if I can pinpoint who Sarah Ann's mother was as I continue to research this family.
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