Father: (Private)
Born about 1823 based on his wifes birth year
Mother: Hannah WHITE, b. ABT 1823, Massachusetts
This woman is the key to where Edward Whalen is in the year 1850, the first census year he is on once he escapes the potato famine in Ireland. Edward is in a house with Hannah's grandmother, her mother and herself all named Hannah White. They are both in the township of Roxbury, the County of Norfolk Not far down the street on the census in this area is John Woodhouse, Hannah White's future husband. They have a child John Warren Woodhouse who marries Edward Whalen's later stepdaughter Katie Fitzgerald.Due to time considerations, this census is not typed out in file on this genealogy. However others in the house include Hannah White, Mary White, Richard White, Hannah White, James White, Emeline White, Henrietta White, Hannah Merian, Daniel Dolan, Edward Whalen at 18 years old working as a miller and from Ireland, and Mary Bennett.
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