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Individual Record for: Joseph Hotchkiss (male)

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!Notes: By my search, this is the only Joseph Hotchkiss born in Scotland up to this time. -- Rex Hotchkiss.
!Source: IGI & Dan Huffman's website, http://www.westol.com/~huffman/Huffman2/TheHuffmanFamily.html, which took it from: The Huffman Family taken from page 667 of some Beaver County, PA book. This source is quoted below:
!Quote: The Hotchkiss family had long been resident in Scotland and it was there that Joseph Hotchkiss was born in 1810, died October 24, 1872. His parents were natives of that country, coal miners in occupation, in religious faith Presbyterian.
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His brothers and sisters were: 1. Edward, came to the United States, but returned across the ocean, settling in England. 2. John, proprietor of a hotel in Glasgow, Scotland, where he died. 3. Michael, also came to the United States, but did not ma ke his home here for any considerable length of time, recrossing the ocean to England, where he died. 4. Ellen, died in Scotland; married John Hodgett, who died in New York City, New York. Joseph Hotchkiss married (first) Mary Love; (second) Mar y Cranston, born in England, April 24, 1828, died March 22, 1908, daughter of James and Jennie (Moffit) Cranston, both natives of Scotland, who afterwards moved to England. Jennie Moffit was a daughter of James Moffit, a minister of the Reformed P resbyterian Church.
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Children of James and Jennie (Moffit) Cranston: 1. Jane, married Thomas Sherry; they made their home in East Palestine, Ohio, where he was a miner. 2. Mary, of previous mention, the second wife of John Hotchkiss. 3. John, enlisted in the Union arm y at the time of the Civil War from Peoria, Illinois, and was never heard from thereafter, nor has any trace of him been found.
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Children of the first marriage of Joseph Hotchkiss: 1. James, died aged eighteen years, the result of injuries received while engaged in mine labor. 2. John, died young. 3. Edward, died in boyhood. 4. William, a miner, lives in Darlington Township , Beaver County, Pennsylvania, with Michael Hotchkiss, his half-brother.
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Children of the second marriage of Joseph Hotchkiss: 1. Janet, of previous mention, married John Thomas Huffman. 2. Edward, lives in Darlington Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, at the home of his sister, Janet; his occupation is that of coa l miner. 3. Jennie, deceased, married Finley Rhodes. 4. John, a coal miner of Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. 5. James, baggage master in the Union depot in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he resides. 6. Joseph, a hardware merchant of Dillonville, Ohi o. 7. Michael, a farmer of Darlington Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania.

!Source: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ -- Statutory Register Births
Son Joseph's birth record shows parent's marriage as 1852 Aug 4th, Manse, Old Monkland.

!Source: 1861 Census of Old Monkland, Lanark, Scotland

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