Re: how one sibling was called "African" while others were called white: I know a family where the mother, like Barak Obama, is the child of a white anglo mother and a father from the Kenyan Luo tribe. She is sort of medium brown, perhaps a bit darker than Obama. Her husband is blond and blue-eyed. They have 2 boys: one whose colouring is exactly the same shade as his mom and the other is very blond and blue-eyed. I suspect the Harrington family being discussed had similarly wide-ranging colouring--Francis was probably much darker in colour and his siblings fair enough to be considered "white." Sharon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Colleen Andrews" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [CAN-ONT-SIMCOE] Harrington & 1861 Census > Yes, since the race column specified coloured, mulatto or Indian, & the > column next to Joseph & his children is ticked with an "m", I've > interpreted > that to mean they were considered mulatto, whatever that meant in reality. > On the 1871 census, Francis is the only member of the family distinguished > as being anything other than white. He's actually described as "African," > which seems stronger than mulatto. How his siblings got away with being > listed as white, is puzzling.