There are no family stories about Grandma Maria. She was Belle Gamble's grandmother but died before Belle was born. Belle was my dad's grandmother. Maria was born in County Cavan, Ireland in l799 and traveled with her family across the ocean to Pennsylvania when she was a baby. Two or three of her siblings died on the trip over. From Pennsylvania, the Whitcrafts moved to eastern Ohio where Maria met James Carlile, whose family also was from County Cavan, and married him.
The Whitcrafts may originally have been from Scotland or England. There are Wheatcrofts, Whitecrafts, and similar names throughout the British Iles. Tuscarawas and Carroll counties in Ohio were the destinations of a lot of Scots-Irish. The same is true of Carlile and all its spellings.
Maria had nine sibling who lived and married in Ohio. She and her husband moved on to Scott County, Indiana about 1837 after her mother died in Ohio in 1834. James and Mariah had thirteen children, then she died in l843, perhaps in childbirth since their youngest son, James, was born in l843.
sue<william ervin lynch<ivan ebert lynch<martha isabelle gamble<elizabeth carlile<mariah whitcraft
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