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John McAninch, born ca.1760, Armstrong County pioneer, western Pennsylvania |
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This article is just a brief update on data for this John McAninch’s date and place of birth, |
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based on recent analysis of the 19th-century census data [John McAninch, Notes 1, 2]. |
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John’s date of birth can be calculated “circa 1760” from the census records (previously, this |
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John McAninch’s DOB had been estimated as ‘1755-1765’ and even as late as ‘circa 1770’). |
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Summary of the five census records, and John's reported age at the time of each census record: |
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1790 |
“McAninch, John 1 1 3 - 0 0” |
John age ~30 [1790: over 16] |
[3] |
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1800 |
“McAninch, John 0 1 0 1 0 - 2 2 0 1 0 - 0 0" |
John age ~40 [1800: 26-45] |
[4] |
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1810 |
“John McIninch [sic] 1 1 0 0 1 - 1 1 2 1 0” |
John age ~50 [1810: 45 & over] |
[5] |
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1820 |
“John McAninch 0 1 1 2 0 1 -11201-0300” |
John age ~60 [1820: 45 & over] |
[6] |
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1830 |
“John McAninch 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 - . . . “ |
John age ~70 [1830: 60-70] |
[7] |
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Analysis of the five census records together shows that John must have been born ‘circa 1760’: |
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earliest possible year 1760 (‘lower bound’) |
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In 1830, John was ’60-70’, so he must have been born in or after 1760 (1800 implies |
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‘after 1755’; no ‘lower bound’ can be determined from the 1790, 1810 or 1820 records). |
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and the latest possible year 1765 (‘upper bound’) |
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In 1810, John was ’45 and over’, so he must have been born before 1765 (1790 implies |
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‘before 1774’, both 1800 and 1820 imply ‘before 1775’, and 1830 implies ‘before 1770’) |
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determine ‘born circa 1760’ |
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From the ‘1760-1765’ range, John would be ‘age 60-65’ in 1820, and we already know |
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‘age 60-70’ ten years later, in 1830; ‘born circa 1760’ is the only date that satisfies all of |
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these conditions, so, John’s estimated ages were ‘age ~60’ in 1820 and ‘age ~70’ in 1830 |
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[note: ‘circa 1760’ here means within +/- 1 year, could have been born ‘late in 1759’, |
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and one or more of the census records could be off, info given by another person, etc.] |
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John’s birthplace is harder to document, since none of the 1790 through 1830 census records |
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recorded ‘place of birth’. It has been said elsewhere that John was born in “Scotch Corners, |
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Ireland”, with no evidence available to support that statement [8]. |
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However, there is one source document that corroborates ‘born Ireland’ in the 1880 census. |
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Only one of John's children lived long enough to be in the 1880 census, when people were asked |
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where their parents had been born. John's daughter Elizabeth (age 76 in 1880, so, born 1803-1804) |
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married John (Johannes) S. Buzard. In the 1880 census, Elizabeth was living with her son |
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Martin Buzard and his family, and reported that her father (John) had been born in “Ireland” [9] |
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McAninch Family History NL v.XX n.1 / January 2012 / Frank McAninch, Editor / page 2012-06 |