| Home Surname List Name Index Sources Gedcom File Email Us | Third Generation26. Nahum Brotherton was born in 1827. Listed as age 43 in 1880 census? He died in 1882. He was buried in Riverside cemetery, Gouverneur, St. Lawrence, NY. "Nahum Brotherton" 1827-1882. Ezra's obit shows father as Nathan. "Nirum" listed as a farm laborer in Macomb, with a post office address of Rossie, in Child's 1873-4 St. Lawrence County Directory. Obits of both Rosella and Anna list their father as "Hiram". This may be the "N. Brotherton" recorded as voting at the Annual Town Meeting in Macomb, NY, 14 Feb 1854. Is this the Addison H., who died in Gouverneur 7 May 1882, aged 55?? Is there a death record? And who is the Hiram, born about 1826, who married Emma Rexford Nov 1848, in Antwerp? Nahum Brotherton and Nancy
J. Faulkner appeared in the census in 1870 in Macomb, St. Lawrence, NY.
Page 493B #205/215. Hiram Brotherton, 43, day laborer; Nancy J., 31, keeping
house; Nathan E., 14, M; Rosella, 10, F; Ezra C., 6, M; Hiram, 3, M; Jerome,
1/12, M; Jerusha, 1/12, F. [Cady transcription] They appeared in the census
in 1880 in Gouverneur, St. Lawrence, NY. Page 394D. N. Brotherton,
43, b. NY; Nancy, wife, 41, b. Canada; Roselli, dau., 19, b. NY; Clark, son,
16, b. NY; H., Son, 12, b. NY; Anna, dau., 10, b. NY; Jerome, son, 10, b. NY.
[LDS transcription] They were married about 1855. Ezra's obit shows
father as Nathan. Nancy J. Faulkner was born in
1840. She died in 1902. She was buried in Riverside cemetery,
Gouverneur, St. Lawrence, NY. Is this the Nancy Brotherton in an
item from abt. 1897 in SB #9, p. 83, SLCHA? "Last week Special County Judge
Johnson committed Mrs. Nancy Brotherton of this village to the insane asylum
at Point Airy. The examination was made by Drs. F.F. Drury and Close." Also
seen as Fortner, Fortin, and Foster, and as Mary. Nahum Brotherton and Nancy
J. Faulkner had the following children:
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