There is a Rowland Whittington coming to the US on the ship Bolivia on 24 May 1876.  He shows up on the US 1880 census with wife Mary and children Jane, Wm and Edward, in Sugar Creek, Allen Ohio.  But the census shows he was born about 1825.  Is this your Rowland? Lillian Williams (Palko)

Lillian I think my Rowland (bardic name 'Egwisyn') may have left Wales a little earlier. He died in desperate poverty in Utica (or nearby) on 7 February 1878. His wife was also a Mary and I believe they had three daughters. Mary died years later in Tywyn (formerly rendered 'Towyn' by the English) which is not far from the Machynlleth/Penegoes/Cemmaes Road area where Rowland's family came from. From the fact that mine died before the 1880 US census I suspect we do not have a match. However, there was a whole tribe of Whittingtons in that area who reused the same set of names (Rowland, Edward, John, William—nothing too unusual) and I should not be surprised if the one you have nominated—if he also came from that area—is a relative. David Canberra On 10/10/2013, at 2:18 AM, Lillian Palko <[email protected]> wrote: > There is a Rowland Whittington coming to the US on the ship Bolivia on 24 May 1876. He shows up on the US 1880 census with wife Mary and children Jane, Wm and Edward, in Sugar Creek, Allen Ohio. But the census shows he was born about 1825. Is this your Rowland? > Lillian Williams (Palko) > -- >