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Polly or Mary Brown

Female Abt 1803 - Aft 1870  (~ 68 years)


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  • Name Polly or Mary Brown 
    Born Abt 1803  , , New Jersey, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died Aft 1870  of Copperopolis, Calaveras, California, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I3202  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Benjamin Winner,   b. Abt 1801, , Monmouth (now Ocean), New Jersey, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1870, of Copperopolis, Calaveras, California, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 70 years) 
    Married 1 Sep 1822  , Clermont, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F1698  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. We find an interesting entry in Familysearch's "Ohio Marriages, 1800-1958": David Brown and Barbary Turner or Winner, 7 Dec 1828, Brown Co., OH, per Ohio-VR; Source Film Number: 384273. Due to all pre-1855 Winners in Brown co. being related to Jonathan Winner, it would seem logical to assign Barbara as a daughter to Jonathan. This however does not prove out and is actually refuted by the 1850 census. We don't find any younger David and Barbara in a nationwide 1850 census search; however, 1850 shows a couple of exactly the same name in adjoining Clermont co. in their 70s. Barbara is from PA and not NJ and this was most likely a second marriage for David. Mary's surname of Turner or Winner is coincidental. David Brown is the father of James Brown of this database and others in the area including an Abner Brown as well as perhaps Benjamin Winner's wife Polly/Mary Brown. Ephraim Predmore, brother of Jonathan's wife Sarah Predmore, also married a wife named Mary A. Brown who could perhaps be a sister of David's. We follow David in the censuses as follows:
      1830 US: Perry Twp., Brown, OH (immediately next to each other):
      Jonathan Minor [Winner], males: 1@20-30, 1@50-60; females: 1<5, 2@10-15, 1@15-20, 1@20-30, 1@50-60.
      Benjamin Minor [Winner], males: 1<5, 1@20-30; females 2<5, 1@5-10, 1@20-30.
      David Brown, males: 1<5, 1@10-15, 1@15-20, 1@20-30, 1@50-60; females: 1@20-30, 1@50-60. [Appears to be a multi-generational family.]
      1840 US: Jackson Twp.: David Brown, males: 1@10-14, 1@50-59; females: 1@50-59. On same page is Ephraim Predmore who married Mary A. Brown.
      1850 US: Jackson Twp., Clermont, OH, 19 Jul 1850, 96/96 ( In the same census five entries away is Abner Brown, 39, NJ, with wife Martha, 45, PA, and 8 children with the oldest being David, 20. Abner is probably a son of David.):
      David Brown, 72, farmer, $1000, NJ.
      Barbary, 70, PA.

      2. Censuses:
      1830 US: Perry Twp., Brown, OH (next to each other):
      Jonathan Minor [Winner], males: 1@20-30, 1@50-60; females: 1<5, 2@10-15, 1@15-20, 1@20-30, 1@50-60.
      Benjamin Minor [Winner], males: 1<5, 1@20-30; females 2<5, 1@5-10, 1@20-30.
      (The names are clearly written as Minor; however, there is no other listing for Jonathan, but he was listed in the 1820 and 1840 censuses. George Ashton is on the same page. In the 1840 census George Ashton is listed on the same page as Jonathan Winner, George Ashton is also the son of Hannah Johnson, sister of Naomi, wife of Isaac Winner, Jonathan's wife.)

      1840 US: Pike, IL (Rinner in the index):
      Benjamin Winner, males: 2<5, 2@5-10, 1@10-15, 1@40-50; females: 1<5, 1@5-10, 2@10-15, 1@30-40.

      1850 US: Twp. 6 S 5 W, Pike, IL, 9 Nov 1850, 1230/1249:
      Benjamin Winner, 49, farmer, NJ.
      Mary, 47, NJ.
      Johnathan, 23, farmer, OH.
      James, 19, farmer, OH.
      Birt, 15, male, OH.

      1860 US: Atlas, Pike, IL, 26 Jul 1860, 921/921:
      Benjamin Winner, 60, farmer, $800/400, NJ.
      Mary, 50, housework, NJ.
      W.B.T. Winner, 23, male, laborer, OH.
      Barbary, 7, OH.
      Benj'n Conkland, 23, labourer, OH. [Nephew, son of sister Amy Winner and William Conklin; see him in 1850 census with parents.]
      Jonathan, 21, laborer, OH. [Nephew, son of sister Amy Winner and William Conklin; see him in 1850 census with parents.]
      Elisa Fox, 52, housework, KY.
      Susan E., 15, housework, KY.

      1870 US: Copperopolis, Calaveras, CA, 29 Jun 1870, 324/274:
      B. Winner, 69, teaming, $100/$300, NJ.
      M.C. Winner, 65, NJ.
      Note: B. Winner and wife, M. C. Winner, are in Copperopolis, Calaveras, CA in 1870. Their birth years and birth places match with Benjamin and Mary, whose daughter, Rhoda Fletcher, and her family also moved from Adams County, IL to Calaveras County after 1860. Copperopolis is the next town over from Angels Camp, which is where many of Rhoda's family are found in the census records after 1870. In fact, some of Rhoda's family are also to be found in Copperopolis.

      MARRIAGE:
      1. Ancestry.com's "Clermont County, Ohio, Marriage Records, 1800-1850": Benjamin Winner to Polly Brown, 1 Sep 1822 by Wm. Hunter JP."

      2. Many user submitted Internet databases indicate a wife named either Mary Winslow or Wilson. Not one of these databases offer any documentation for the same. They appear to have copied a bad entry from the old LDS Ancestral File without proving the name. Research shows Mary/Polly Brown as the wife of Benjamin Winner.