Extended Family: Julia White’s Household In 1880

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Extended Family: Julia White’s Household In 1880  

I was thinking about the household of my 2nd Great Grandmother, Julia (Finney) WHITE. She was listed as a 60 year old widow on the1880 Missouri Federal Census with her 6 children, a daughter in law and 7 grandchildren. Her children were Isaac (White) BLAKEY, age 30 and her children who carried the WHITE surname were Spencer, age 28, John, age 26, David, age 22, Josh, age 20 and Martha, age 18 who was a widow with no children. The siblings were all laborers.

The crop photo listed below is of the1880 Federal United States Census for Chariton County Missouri for the household of Julia White. Some of this information was incorrect. And some of this information got me pondering.

I even wonder who was the person who gave the census taker the information? I don’t think Julia was the one. Why was some of the grandchildren’s identified as her children? And her daughter in law was her daughter? All had the WHITE surname?



The others listed in Julia’s household were Isaac’s wife, Rachel, age 29 who was the mother of Mary, age 8, (? son Andrew, age 6), Julia, age 4 and Henry, age 2. Isaac’s son, John, age 10 was by Martha (Scott) Blakey who was Isaac’s first wife.

There were some unknown grandchildren listed; Who were they ?
The grandchildren; Rebecca, age 10, mulatto and Andrew White, age 2.
Their parents weren’t listed on the census.

Who was the first Andrew age of 6 , born about 1873?
Did Rachel and Isaac have a son named Andrew?
Isaac had a son named Andrew by Martha.
That Andrew was he twin of John born in Mississippi in 1871.

Who was the last Andrew age of 2; born about 1878?
He doesn’t appear to be the child of any of the adult listed.
His name is listed after Martha.

Who was Rebeca’s Virginian parents?
This suggest that Julia had a child in Virginia..
It appears that Julia was caring for her grandchild.
Where both of Rebeca’s parents deceased?

There were two of Julia’s grandchildren who were not listed:
Isaac BLAKEY Jr. who was born either in 1873 or 1877 in Mississippi..
Jordan BLAKEY who was the twin of Julia. They were born in Mississippi in 1878.
It appears that the first Andrew could have been Isaac and the 2nd one was Jordan?

And what more of a mystery of the household of Isaac WHITE.?
This is the family unit listed above Julia White’s household in 1880.

I think that they are most likely related to Julia as an in laws and a child and grandchildren.
Julia had a son named Andrew White. (Isaac was born in 1845).
The Andrew White age about 30 is said to have been Isaac Blakey’s brother.
The Isaac White age 80 was perhaps the grandfather of Andrew.

What about Julia’s youngest son, Richard White?
He wasn’t listed with her household.
I was wondering where he was.
I believe that I located him with the household of Daniel WHITE.

Richard was 13 years old and a farmhand living not to far from Julia.
Daniel White was the brother of the former slave owners of Julia White and her family.
Daniel’s sister was Frances (WHITE) BLAKEY.

Before I began this blog, I googled. What’s a definition of Extended family?
– “grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, either all living nearby or within the same household.”
That’s how Julia and her household came to my thinking. This fits the extended family in one household. There were 15 in that household.

Our extended family are important part in our family journey.
It leaves us clues to missing family members and to how the family lived together.
I see that family members lived in the same general area on both my parents sides.

May include our extended family in our searches.
May we realized that they are apart of the family as well.
Happy Searching for more family connections.

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Extended Family Julia White’s Household In 1880: Week 27 In 2022

 Posted on July 8, 2022 by Susan Ann Blakley on another site. 
I added the In Remembrance: Januaryy

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S.A. Blakley

Week 27
The theme for Week 27 is “Extended Family.” We often focus on those people from whom we descend. But what about their siblings, aunts, uncles, and cousins? They played a role in our ancestors’ lives, just like those people play a role in our own lives. This is a good week to explre the lives of these other people in the family tree.