Hello, I am new to this list and I am looking for my 4th greatfather's birthplace and his wife's for that matter, I would be interested in births if possible. Here is what I got, William Barton born abt. 1800 in Donegal county?, Ireland and died in 1876 in Coshocton county, Ohio, he married Margaret North in Ireland somewhere, she was born abt. 1825 (birthdates can be off a couple of years). she died in 1900 also in Coshocton county, Ohio. I know they went to New York, New York since I did find them on the census in 1870, then came to Ohio between 1870 and 1880. I would like to find who his parents are and possibly a marriage date for him and Margaret. Now Margaret had a sister named Bridget North she married a James Carton and according to her obit it states she was from Wexford, Ireland: MRS. BRIDGET CARTON CLOSES SUNNY LIFE AGED LADY, RICH IN LOVE OF HUMANITY PASSES PEACEFULLY AWAY MONDAY EVENING SHORTLY AFTER EIGHT O'CLOCK DEATH CAME TO MRS. BRIDGET CARTON AFTER AN ILLNESS OF BUT THREE DAYS DURATION, THE SAD FATALITY BEING CAUSED BY A STROKE OF PARALYSIS WHICH SHE SUFFERED EARLY SATURDAY MORNING AND WHICH NEVER PERMITTED HER TO COMPLETELY REGAIN CONSCIOUSNESS. UP TO THE VERY AND HER DEVOTED CHILDREN FOUGHT WITH EVERY AID THAT MEDICAL SCIENCE COULD GIVE THEM TO SAVE HER LIFE BUT EVERY EFFORT WAS IN VAIN AND WEDNESDAY MORNING ALL THAT IS MORTAL OF A MOTHER WHO WAS DEEPLY BELOVED WILL BE LAID TO REST IN OAKRIDGE CEMETERY THE FUNERAL SERVICES BEING CONDUCTED AT 9 O'CLOCK BY REV. FR. O. J. SYNAN AT SACRED HEART CHURCH. MRS. CARTON WAS ABOUT "EIGHTY YEARS YOUNG" AT THE TIME OFHER DEATH, FOR HERS WAS A NATURE THAT WOULD NEVER GROW OLD: OF ALL THE PEOLE THAT GO UP AND DOWN MAIN STREET EACH DAY THERE WERE FEW THAT PASSED HER HOME WITHOUT RECIEVING A HEARTY GREETING FROM HER FOR EVERY ONE WAS HER FRIEND. HER LOVE FOR HUMANITY WAS DEEP AND HER CHARITY, ALWAYS GIVEN WITHOUT OSTENTAION, WAS BROAD AND ALL EMBRACING, SHE LEAVES MANY FREINDS. MRS. CARTON WAS BORN IN WEXFORD COUNTY, IRELAND, BUT CAME TO THIS COUNTRY ABOUT 54 YEARS AGO AND FOR 53 YEARS COSHOCTON HAS BEEN HER HOME. HER MAIDEN NAME WAS BRIDGET NORTH AND HER HUSBAND JAMES CARTON WHO PRECEEDED HER TO THE GRAVE MANY YEARS AGO. SEVEN CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THE UNION; TWO LITTLE GRAVES WERE LEFT IN IRELAND WHEN THE FATHER AND MOTHER CAME TO THIS COUNTRY, TWO CHILDREN WERE BURIED HERE AND THE SURVIVING ONES ARE THOMAS CARTON OF THIS CITY, JAMES CARTON; OF GALVESTON, TEXAS AND MRS. ELIZA GILLHOOLEY OF RONCEVERTE, WEST VIRGINIA. MRS. GILLHOOLEY WITH HER DAUGHTER MISS MARGERET AND SON LEO ARRIVED SUNDAY NIGHT BUT MR. JAMES CARTON WAS NOT ABLE TO REACH HER UNTIL AFTER HIS MOTHER'S DEATH. AMONG THE OTHER RELATIVES HERE ARE JOHN CORCORAN AND FAMILY OF BEAVER FALLS, PA., JAMES CARTON, JR., OF NEWCASTLE, PA., JOE GILHOOLEY AND FAMILY OF COLUMBUS, IND., AND JAMES AND THOMAS GILHOOLEY OF RONCERVERTE, WEST VIRGINIA. NEWSPAPER OBIT: MARCH 25, 1907 COSHOCTON DAILY AGE (COSHOCTON, OHIO) I would like to find info on Bridget and James if possible too. I am unsure as to who her children that died might be. Any help in finding any informatioin on these families is appreciated. jamie