u/bakerfredricka

About a year ago I had posted about my fourth great grandfather, Thomas Morton who was born in Belmont County, Ohio, in 1814. Y'all have had some good ideas to help me figure out who his parents and ancestors were!

An Ohio relative of Thomas's wife (my fourth great grandmother, Sarah Lashley) ended up discovering him in an 1820 census record. According to this census record, Thomas's dad was named Thomas Morton. There is very strong circumstantial evidence that his mom was Sarah Jane McCluney, born in the mid 1780s in Pennsylvania who married Thomas Morton Sr. in 1809 in Ohio. The William who lived with my fourth great grandparents Thomas Morton and Sarah Lashley is actually Thomas's younger brother (he has at least a handful of older siblings or so and AT LEAST two younger brothers).

Ancestry told me that Thomas Morton Sr.'s dad was named Samuel Morton and Sarah McCluney's dad was named William McCluney. Not even the slightest hint as to who either's mom is. IMO McCluney sounds like a very Irish or Scottish surname, so it seems possible that at some point this line just goes over there to become basically a dead end. As it is, I already have known Irish and Scottish ancestry....

So I reckon I'm here to ask if y'all think that finding out more about my Morton side is possible. I am grateful for all of the help that I got last year and I am happy that the case of his parentage seems to have finally been cracked!

https://www.reddit.com/r/Genealogy/comments/1kgu3qm/is_it_possible_to_find_the_parentage_of_an/