Robert Lawrence

Immigrant from Ireland before 1844

NOT A DIRECT ANCESTOR Robert Lawrence is not in my direct ancestry. Lucinda Ann Stoughton, wife of son Samuel Lawrence, is 1 step removed in the following ways: Sister of Elizabeth Ann Stoughton Daughter of John C. Stoughton and Mary Jane McCandless

	Date	Location	Notes	Sources
Birth	ca. 1806-1810	Co. Derry, Ireland
Marriage			To Catherine unknown
Death	bet. 1870 & 1880
Burial		[

Ancestry chart segment

       Generation 4                 Generation 5
 
                         
                         
                               +-- John C. Stoughton
                               |   (1832-1902)
    +--Lucinda Ann Stoughton --+
    |  (1860-1904 )            |
    |                          +-- Mary Jane McCandless
    |                              (~1832-1882)
    +
    |
    |                          +-- Robert Lawrence
    |                          |   (~1806- d.bet.1870/1880)
    +--Samuel Lawrence --------+
       (1846-1905)             |
                               +-- Catherine unknown
                                   (~1820-aft. 1880)
Sources: 

Children

(expect children with Catherine unknown)

Name	Gender	Date of Birth	Birthplace	Spouse	Notes	Sources
Sarah Lawrence	F	ca. 1844	PA
Samuel Lawrence	M	25 Aug 1846	Butler Co. PA
Susan Lawrence	F	ca. 1850	PA
Robert Lawrence*	M	ca. 1853	PA		*See Source Notes
Peter Kane Lawrence*	M	ca. 1859	PA		*See Source Notes

Places of Residence

Location	Dates	Notes	Sources
Ireland	b. ca.1806
Muddy Creek Twp., Butler Co.,, PA	by 1870

Sources

Ref. Num.	Description	Image of original
1	1850 United States federal Census,
2	1860 United States federal Census,Muddy Creek Twp., Butler Co. PA, P.O. Whitestown. Date of census 5 June 1860. Lines 15-26: Robert Lawrence, age 50, farmer, $1,000 real estate, b. Co. Derry Ireland. Katherine, age 40, b. PA Sarah age 16, Samuel age 14, Susan age 10, Robert age 7, Peter age 1. All children b. PA. Jane age 60; Elizabeth age 62; Samuel age 58 farmer; Isac Inglish age 28, Alexander Walton age 18. All b. Co Derry Ireland
3	Source:_1870_United_States_Federal_Census, Muddy Creek Twp., Butler Co, PA; P.O. Portersville; Anc.com pg 17. Census date not given, expect 13 June 1870.(Previous page (p 16), info carries over to pg 17, dated 13 June; following page (p 17) dated 14 June.) Lines 3-9: Robert Lawrence, age 64, farmer, real estate $2700, personal property $2100, born Ireland, father & mother of foreign birth, citizen of U.S. Catherine, age 50, b. PA, father of foreign birth,(mother's birthplace not marked). Samuel, age 23, farmer; Suzan, age 20; Robert age 17, farmer; Peter, age 11, at home. All children b. PA, father of foreign birth. Lizzie Lawrence, age 70, "living with family", b. Ireland, father & mother of foreign birth.
4	1880 United States Federal Census, District 48, Muddy Creek Twp, Butler Co, PA, page 1. Census dated 1 June 1880. Lines 39-45: Catherine Lawrence, 61, widow, mother; Samuel, 33, son, farmer; Annie, 21, wife; Peter Kane, 21, brother, farmer; Washington W. La., 2, son; Annie Gertrude, 1/24, dau; Robert, 27, brother, farmer. All and all parents b. PA. See Source Notes
10	Butler County Cemetery Inventory, Vol. 2, North Central Townships, Mt. Zion Baptist Cemetery, Franklin Twp., Butler Co. PA. (East of Rt. 529,on south shore of Lake Arthur). Pg. 5. Samuel Lawrence born 25 Aug 1846, died 25 May 1905; Lucinda A. born 2 Jan 1859, died 28 July 1904.

Source Notes

• 1880 census: Robert Lawrence (b. ca. 1853) and Peter Kane Lawrence (b. ca. 1859) are listed in the 1880 U.S. census, in the household with Samuel Lawrence (b. ca. 1847). Relationships were incorrectly recorded by the census taker. Nobody is listed as head of household, so it is unclear to whom the listed relationships refer. Samuel (b. ca. 1847) is listed as "son", and his mother Catherine is listed as "mother". The two males Peter Kane and Robert, aged in their twenties, are both labeled "brother", and are presumably both sons of Catherine, and brothers of Samuel.
  The two infants, Washington W. La.,age 2 years, and Annie Gertrude, age 1 month, appear after Peter Kane Lawrence's name, and would normally be presumed to then be his children. This might suggest that Peter Kane Lawrence had been married, and that possibly his wife died at the birth of the infant Annie Gertrude. Wilson Washington Lafayette Lawrence is however found listed as born 8 May 1878, the oldest son of Samuel Lawrence, (who was married in 1877). It is clearly the same child. Samuel may have adopted his brother Peter Kane's son, or the two children in the 1880 census may in fact both be the children of Samuel. The census is clearly not well recorded.
  The child Wilson Washington Lafayette Lawrence does appear (but infant Annie Gertrude does not appear) among the children of Samuel Lawrence listed by John Thomas Wilson(grandson of Elizabeth Stoughton, who was Lucinda Ann Stoughton's sister and would have been an aunt of these children). Annie Gertrude may not have survived, regardless of whose child she was, and been lost to memory. If number of names is a clue to parentage, Wilson Washington Lafayette Lawrence's having 4 names compares to Robert Lester Cleveland Lawrence's 4 names, suggesting Samuel Lawrence as the father of both.

Research

• A Lawrence family buried at United Church of Prospect, per Butler County Cemetery Inventory, Vol. 2:
  Samuel Lawrence, Sr. died 14 Apr 1850, age 85. (Calc. b.~1765)
  Martha Lawrence died 24 May 1857, age 16yr 7 mo 2 da. (Calc. b.~1840)
  Samuel Lawrence, Jr. died 4 Nov 1862, age 64 (Calc. b. ~1798)