Notes on Twig 21

This tree has been constructed mainly from census data. Marriages are inferred since I have not yet found a source of marriage data. Unfortunately, this means that the wives' surnames are unknown.

PL No
Surname
Forenames
Notes
2963 ASHBAUGH Mary C C1900; C1910; C1920: wid, living with her son, Robert; C1930: now living with her younger brother, James Ashbaugh, also wid;
2966 PLUCK Anna B C1900;
2979 PLUCK Anna C C1920;
2976 PLUCK Chas F 1910; C1920: described as "nephew of his brother Robert with whom he is living, laborer in a coke plant; C1930: a coal miner living with his uncle, James Ashbaugh, and his widowed mother;
2965 PLUCK Etta J C1900;
2974 PLUCK George W C1910: laborer, odd jobs; C1920: now married with four children, living in Fayette next to his mother and brother, Robert; a laborer - Minn Coal;
2982 PLUCK Hellen C1920;
2962 PLUCK Jacob R C1870: miner, living with parents in Carroll, Washington County, Pa; C1880: coal miner, living with parents in East Huntingdon, Westmoreland County, Pa; C1900: coal miner, married, living in Pleasant Unity, Westmoreland County, Pa.; C1910: laborer - odd jobs;
2975 PLUCK Jessie C1910;
2971 PLUCK John John's origins have not yet been found. The censuses all record his birth in Pennsylvania and, apart from 1870, tell a consistent story about his age: he was born in 1830. In the earliest census, 1870, he gave his age as 45 (i.e. 5 years older than in later censuses). This may be because he didn't want to appear younger than his 44 year old wife, or possibly he subtracted five years in all later censuses.
C1860: not found; C1870: miner living in Carroll, Washington County, Pa.; C1880: coal miner, living in East Huntingdon, Westmoreland County, Pa. born in Pennsylvania, father not foreign born; C1900: a coke drawer, living in Pleasant Unity, next to his son, Jacob; C1910: living with his son, Jacob, wid, retired.
I wouldn't give a lot of credence to the "father not foreign born" entry. I have found several instances when, in early censuses, the father has been recorded as "born in Ireland" but in later censuses, is shown as "born in Pennsylvania".
2964 PLUCK John T C1900: coal miner; C1910: now married and living in Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland county, Pa., coal miner; C1920: living in Unity, Westmoreland county, Pa., coal miner; C1930: unable to find John, or any of his family, in this census.
2980 PLUCK Laurence D C1920;
2968 PLUCK Lilian G C1900;
2970 PLUCK Mary B C1900; C1910: there isn't a Mary B in the family but there is a Bertha M with the right birth year - have her names been reversed?;
2973 PLUCK Mary E C1870;
2981 PLUCK Mary Edna C1920;
2983 PLUCK Robert C1920;
2969 PLUCK Robert E 1900; C1910: laborer - odd jobs; C1920: single, living with widowed mother, a niece (Alice J Belles), a "nephew, Chas F, who is presumbly his younger brother, in Luzerne, Fayette County, Pa, (next to brother George W and his family), a laborer in coke plant;
His dates of birth and death are from the US Social Security Death Index, his last residence was 48212 Hamtramck, Wayne, Michigan.
2978 PLUCK William E C1920;
2967 PLUCK William G C1900;
2984 TWIGG Lydia C1930: a widow.
2987 TWIGG/PLUCK Alberta C1930: stepdaughter;
2985 TWIGG/PLUCK Edward C1930: stepson, undertaker's helper;
2986 TWIGG/PLUCK John C1930: stepson, no occupation;
2988 TWIGG/PLUCK Loretta C1930: stepdaughter;
2972 [PLUCK] Elizabeth C1870; C1880; C1900;
2981 [PLUCK] Florence E C1920; C1930: not found;
2977 [PLUCK] Mary Edna C1920;

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