{"id":2185,"date":"2021-10-07T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2021-10-07T10:00:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T17:00:32","slug":"a-young-woman-with-many-footprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=2185","title":{"rendered":"A Young Woman with Many Footprints"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\/Common wisdom states that genealogical research comes more easily for male ancestors than for female ones. I often find the opposite to be true in my family.\n<\/p>\n

One example is my Irish ancestral couple, Daniel Ryan (1829-1863) and Jane Lawless (abt. 1829-1853), who resided in Illinois. I have found much more information about her and her family than I have located for his. I believe other researchers have encountered the same difficulties with Daniel because online family trees commingle him with another Daniel who lived in New York.\n<\/p>\n

Everyone seems to have difficulty with him, yet Jane has been easy to find. Although she lived a short life, I have several records for her:\n<\/p>\n

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  1. Arriving New York passenger list for the Home<\/em> on 1 May 1849. Jane and her family travelled in steerage from Ireland.\n<\/li>\n
  2. 1850 U. S. census for Peoria, Illinois. Jane resided in the Thomas Lawless household with perhaps 10 siblings. Two other Lawless families appeared on the same page.\n<\/li>\n
  3. 1851 marriage record for Jane Lawless and Daniel Ryan in Peoria, Illinois. They married 15 June 1851 in the Catholic Church.\n<\/li>\n
  4. 1852 baptism record for her son Richard in Kickapoo, Peoria County, Illinois.\n<\/li>\n
  5. Death in 1853. I have not located a death or burial record for Jane, but an affidavit in a Civil War pension application file states that she died at Bloomington, Illinois in 1853.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    These records will provide ample fodder to learn much more about Jane and her family. All her siblings would have left tracks in Illinois and elsewhere.\n<\/p>\n

    Once again, the female in my family becomes the easier one to document.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Common wisdom states that genealogical research comes more easily for male ancestors than for female ones. I often find the opposite to be true in my family. One example is my Irish ancestral couple, Daniel Ryan (1829-1863) and Jane Lawless (abt. 1829-1853), who resided in Illinois. I have found much more information about her and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genealogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2186,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions\/2186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}