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You can read some of the articles for yourself here:

https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/details?id=9980273&q=james+langton&page=1&rows=50&fd=title_t%2Cpaper_t%2Cdate_tdt%2Ctype_t&sort=date_tdt+asc&gallery=0&facet_type=%22death%22#t_9980273

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You know what's odd?

Every census return and the marriage for daughter Inez states that James Langton was born in Ireland.
His Obit says he was born in Milwaulkee to a pioneer family?

Also for clarification, James Langton and Susie Amelia Ross had 3 daughters.
named Birdie, Inez and Irene ( twins)

There were two similarly aged girls named Birdie Langton born in Utah but this is the correct marriage as the other girl's birth and marriage clearly shows different parents


Marriage of Birdie

Birdie Langton
Gender: Female
Age: 27
Birth Date: 1891
Marriage Date: 29 May 1918
Marriage Place: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Spouse: Adrian Debruyn Kops

Marriage of Irene

Irene Ardella Langton
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 19 Apr 1920
Marriage Place: Davis, Utah, United States
Father: James Langton
Mother: Susie A Ross
Spouse: Feramorz Tyler Little

James Langton
Gender Male
Burial Date 23 Jul 1913
Death Date 20 Jul 1913
Death Place Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah
Age 59
Birth Date 17 Sep 1853
Birthplace Wisconsin
Occupation Owner-Lime & Cem.Co.
Race White
Marital Status Married
Father's Name E.F. Langton
Father's Birthplace Ireland
Mother's Name Charlotte A. Paisley
Mother's Birthplace Ireland

parents born in ireland

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Wm. F. Langton
Event Type Death
Event Date 1886
Event Place Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Gender Male
Age 65
Race W
Birth Date 19 Apr 1821
Birth Year (Estimated) 1821
Birthplace Ireland

William Langton
in the U.S., Civil War Draft Registrations Records, 1863-1865
Birth Year: abt 1820
Place of Birth: Ireland
Age on 1 July 1863: 43
Race: White
Residence: Oak Creek, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Congressional District: 1st
a farmer


Cemetery Forest Home
Spouse's Name Charlotte A. Langton
Citing this Record
Wm. F. Langton
Event Type Death
Event Date 1886
Event Place Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Gender Male
Age 65
Race W
Birth Date 19 Apr 1821
Birth Year (Estimated) 1821
Birthplace Ire
Cemetery Forest Home
Spouse's Name Charlotte A. Langton

William Langton
in the 1860 United States Federal Census
Name: William Langton
Age: 39
Birth Year: abt 1821
Gender: Male
Birth Place: Ireland
Home in 1860: Oak Creek, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Post Office: Oak Creek
Family Number: 121
Value of real estate: View image
Household Members:
Name Age
William Langton 39
Charlott Langton 35
Anna Langton 13
Helena Langton 11
James Langton 10
Charlott Langton 8
Luessa Langton 6

Name: Charlotte Amelia Langton
Probate Place: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Inferred Death Place: Wisconsin, USA
Item Description: Wills, Vol 145-146, 1903-1904, 1908

Name: Charlotte A . Langton
Birth Date: 1827
Death Date: 1904
Cemetery: Forest Home Cemetery
Burial or Cremation Place: Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, USA
Has Bio?: N
Spouse: William Langton
URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-...

Name: Charlotte A Langton
Gender: Female
Residence Year: 1888
Street address: 535 Jackson
Residence Place: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Spouse: William F Langton
Publication Title: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, City Directory, 1888

G lass ,just spotted what Maddie put about James Langton, it was his father born in Ireland but James was born in Wisconsin and he married a Charlotte Paisley, so this is where the name Paisley came to be in the name of Inez P Langton/Curran. Also that his mother being down as born in Ireland, so this clears the Ireland part up.

Thanks Maddie, for finding the additional info on the Langtons

I have just contacted my friend in Holland regarding her half brother and his name is Julian Curran b 1944 Berkley CA ( she thinks) father Kenneth Curran and Marian Romney but I see on here that the marriage of Kenneth Curran was to a Marian McFarlane 13th March 1943 in Tulsa Oklahoma, perhaps a 2nd marriage for her and maiden name was Romney. Marian came from Utah.

I would just like to say at this point, how grateful I am for all your help, I could never have done it without you, only on Ancestry Uk but not on their world wide. Do go on Family Search but can't find anything to the depth you have gone in to. Thanks so much

May have found the answer to the McFarlane/Romney conundrum

Marian was/is most likey to be a girl born in Salt Lake circa 1922.
She appears in Salt lake at both 1930 and 1940

1930: Cottonwood, Salt Lake

John H Mc Farlane 27
Gertrude E Mc Farlane 26
**Marian Mc Farlane 8
John W Mc Farlane 7
Gwen Mc Farlane 4

1940: Salt Lake

J Herold Mc Farlane 37
Gertrude Mc Farlane 36
**Marian Mc Farlane 18
John Walter Mc Farlane 17
Gwen Mc Farlane 17
Seryl Mc Farlane 9

Mother/Wife on both census is named Gertrude but is this Marian's mother?
Don't think it is......
John Harold Mcfarlane of Salt lake, Utah was married twice but, it doesn't look like polygamy.
( haven't spotted any evidence to show that anyone mentioned in this thread was actually LDS)
It looks like yet another divorce.


1st wife was Eleanor ROMNEY
J. Harold Mcfarlane
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Race: White
Age: 21
Birth Date: 22 Jul 1899
Birth Place: Salt Lake City
Marriage Date: 4 Sep 1920
Marriage Place: Davis Co., Utah
Father: John C. Mcfarlane
Mother: Alice Liddle
Spouse: ****Eleanor Romney****

According to Findagrave, Eleanor Romney remarried in 1928 and died in 1943

2nd Marriage
John Harold Mcfarlane
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 22
Birth Date: 22 Jul 1902
Marriage Date: 10 Jun 1924
Marriage Place: Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Father: J. C. Mcfarlane
Mother: Alice Liddle
Spouse: Gertrude Ethelwyn Meadows


See what you make of the info..
https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=58856

I think that Marian McFarlane bc 1922 was the daughter of Eleanor Romney and possibly used the name Marian Romney McFarlane

The death certificate for the child named Miriam Curran is available to view on Family Search.
To view it, you need to create a username and password .
There is no cost to this

The child was born prematurely

G lass regard the post John Harold McFarlane and the ref of LDS, my friend had said that Marian mother of her half brother was in the LDS church but left when she was young , so looks like that may tie up with your findings

Noticed the following for William and Charlotte Langton, only their youngest 2 children Charlotte 1852!and Luessa 1854 were born in Wisconsin, the others stated as being born in Ireland including son James in 1850 so William and Charlotte must have immigrated after 1850 when James was born. Unless census written down wrongly .Unable to find them leaving Ireland

You will not believe this...

I cannot locate the emigration data but, ... I DID locate the Langton births in Ireland!

They were from Dingle, Co Kerry

**CLARINA JAMES HENRY LANGTON**
Date of Birth 17 September 1849
Address DINGLE
Father WILLIAM LANGTON
Mother CHARLOTTE EMELIA LANGTON
Further details in the record
Father Occupation GENTLEMAN

James's DOB doesn't exactly match with his death info and it's possible that this one died and another born .

John, this is how to locate them for yourself:

www.irishgenealogy.ie
This site requires that you enter your name (any name) each time you access it
It's a free site with no registration process

Select: Church Records
Enter: Langton

Sort by date or select Kerry COI (Dingle Parish) but there are only a handful of entries to choose from
Scroll down to the correct time period

You will find them and there is also a link to the original church entry.
Other children born to William and Charlotte are there too.

I could post them but, It's more fun locating them for yourself.
You will see that the parent names and the older girls names match up too

All 3 x baptisms in Dingle (COI) between 1845 and 1849

Found another birth/ baptism by accident that hasn't been indexed.

William Broderick Langton was born in 1851
Therefore the Langton family was still in Dingle at 5 Mar 1851

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/keepsafe/asset/details/48012813

Look at the entry/ writing that runs along the side of this page.
It's been added later
This child does not appear on any US census and therefore must have died.

I now know a bit more about William Langton before he emigrated to the US.

There are a number of newspaper articles from 1846 to 1853 in which he is mentioned.

It was a complicated, long winded story called: The Dingle Controversy.

1844, a riot broke out in Dingle, after a Catholic Priest was converted to Protestantism.

( Google: The Dingle Colony Society and it will be found in Google Books)
The link is too long to paste and I dont know how to use tinycurl but an understanding of what went on will help.

However...
William Langton was a very well respected man who worked for The Dingle Colony Society and received a handsome salary. £80-£100 PA
As far as I can tell, he was the Manager or Overseer of Farming, Agriculture and other business interests in Dingle
At this time it was headed by Pastor, Rev Charles Guyer

Rev Guyer was the person accused of paying/ bribing/offering incentives to poor Catholics in the area to convert.

William's name came up a number of times in relation of being the person who was given the task of visiting those who had already "converted" and making their weekly payments.

Some church officials believed that the Society was corrupt and others believed that they were being conned by the Catholic Community who took the money, food etc ( potato famine) but still secretly practised their own faith.
They claimed that not a single Catholic had asked for, or been given any Religious Instruction to convert.

William Langton was only carrying out the work that he was paid to do and does not appear to have played any part in it but, his reputation was clearly tarnished by the whole thing

The story/court case went on for years
.By the time this had ended, William and his family had already moved to the US as mentioned in article dated 1853.
"You may recall the respected gentleman, Mr Langton, who emigrated to America some 3 yrs since"

1848
Address to William from the Converts ( support)
Reply from William
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/keepsafe/folder/contents/1

Possible Marriage of Anna

Annie L Langton

mentioned in the record of Theodore B Sheldon and Annie L Langton






Name Theodore B Sheldon
Event Type Marriage
Event Date 01 Jun 1893
Event Place , Lacrosse, Wisconsin, United States
Gender Male
Race White
Birthplace Burnaston, Mass
Father's Name Ijatus Sheldon
Mother's Name Mary T Wheldon
Spouse's Name Annie L Langton
Spouse's Gender Female
Spouse's Race White
Spouse's Birthplace New York City ????
Spouse's Father's Name William Langton
Spouse's Mother's Name Charlotte A Langton

Took some digging out but thanks to GlasgowLass' posts above have found William Francis Langton was Christened 27 April 1821 St Michaels Church in the Co Limerick son of James Langton and Ellen (no surname).
Confirmed by following Death Notice.....


Langton William 07/09/1886 Milwaukee, Wisconsin son of late Major Langton, Bruree House, death notice.

Landed Estates Ireland.

•(House) Bruree Lodge - Bruree was the home of the Langton family in the 18th century. The house was occupied by Michael Ryan at the time of Griffith's Valuation and held from Michael Shaughnessy, it was valued at £13+.

You will find more details on the following site relating to Major James Langton and Williams sister Harriet.

http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~townsend/tree/record.php?ref=605

Found this by sheer chance....

1854.
At San Francisco, on the 3d June, James Bell Esq., eldest son of George Bell Esq., Leith, to Dorcas, second daughter of James Langton Esq., of Bruree, county Limerick.

I had a feeling that William Langton was from Gentry.

What on earth do you make of this?
The church records in Dingle contain the birth and baptism of Henrietta Amelia Langton who was born to William & Charlotte
She was born on 29 Aug 1845

https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/display-pdf.jsp?pdfName=k-486-2-1-006

Henrietta does not appear on the US census returns but, would have been about 5 or 6 when the family emigrated and would have been around 15 yrs old at the time of the 1860 US census
When she was not on the return, I assumed that she had died.
Apparently not!

This does appear to be her 1864 church marriage... IN DUBLIN !
The notation states she was married by the Registrar in Dec 1863

https://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/display-pdf.jsp?pdfName=d-46-3-1-035