tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743891692827566200.post5111936685170332425..comments2019-06-04T21:09:25.953-04:00Comments on One Girl, Two Cats: Study BreakUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743891692827566200.post-12619550226781209242019-06-04T21:09:25.953-04:002019-06-04T21:09:25.953-04:00Thanks for your comment. I haven't worked on t...Thanks for your comment. I haven't worked on this in forever, but did have Musgraves and other Cape Breton connections when I did DNA, so I am sure now that Bartholomew was a son of Thomas and Anne, even tho I still don't have documented proof; and I did have Patrick in there somewhere as a brother too. Carlanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743891692827566200.post-26365439701418620962019-05-23T14:49:54.993-04:002019-05-23T14:49:54.993-04:00I have found that my ancestor Patrick Lockman (bor...I have found that my ancestor Patrick Lockman (born in 1808) was also a son of Thomas and Ann. I too can't seem to find out where Thomas came from.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15204135106285864044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743891692827566200.post-90433011621211152582013-10-20T23:07:15.778-04:002013-10-20T23:07:15.778-04:00Thanks for your comment. I don't think I have ...Thanks for your comment. I don't think I have a way to email you but would love to connect and find out what you know about the family. You can email me at cal2296@yahoo.comAdminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14438660170810599250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743891692827566200.post-30103470939647825292013-10-09T16:07:36.870-04:002013-10-09T16:07:36.870-04:00I am also descended from Bartholomew Laughlin- if ...I am also descended from Bartholomew Laughlin- if you e-mail me privately I'll tell you what I have on the Lockman/Laughlin families.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743891692827566200.post-41342643199115781582013-02-10T20:54:50.228-05:002013-02-10T20:54:50.228-05:00Thanks so much for your comment and information. T...Thanks so much for your comment and information. The whole Methodist connection is new information to me and gives me another direction to work on. I could not get any further back on Thomas Lockman, where he was from in Ireland or who his parents were, but based on the naming conventions, I wouldn't be surprised if his father was Richard (his oldest son's name). I didn't work much at all on the Musgraves. If you're on ancestry, feel free to look me up there under cal2296.Adminhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14438660170810599250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2743891692827566200.post-52990596218607096182013-02-06T01:42:05.007-05:002013-02-06T01:42:05.007-05:00We are descended from the same Sparling - Musgrave...We are descended from the same Sparling - Musgrave - Lockman - Laughlin line.<br /><br />Your ancestor Bartholomew Lockman is the older brother of my ancestor Thomas (b. about 1810 in Cape Breton NS; d. after 31 May 1860 in Pennsylvania USA.) The three other sons we have of Ann and Thomas (Sr) Lockman are Richard, james and Peter. Thomas Jr. is the great grandfather of my grandmother Helen Lauglin McDonald)from Schuylkill County.<br /><br />On William Peter Sparling and the religion issue, there was a strong Methodist tie that seems to have been started among his group in Ireland, led by a colleague of John Wesley who may have visited their group in Ireland. Although Sparling christened some children, I believe Anne, at Trinity Church on Broadway at Wall Street, that Methodist community started an early, perhaps the earliest, Methodist church on John Street very near by. (the original John St Methodist Church and Trinity Church buildings have been replaced but the congregations continue at the same locations) Sparling among other business ventures, taught business practice, for his notice was printed in at least one local paper. He was pulled into land deals by the future (and first US) mayor of New York, on a piece of disputed land on the disputed New York State - Vermont border. Later Sparling was a target of attacks for insisting on payment of money loaned for these lands from Loyalist debtors who'd had to evacuate and lost all. Later Sparling co-signed for younger Musgrave land purchases in Cape Breton. <br />We have no idea if Thoman Lockman was Catholic, but apparently Lockman is an Irish, not a Palatine German, name. Presumably the Palatines were Lutherans, were sponsored to Limerick by Anglicans but were moving toward Methodism (more a variant of Anglicanism at first). But the Musgraves (the Edenhall Musgraves seem to have fought as Anglicans for Charles I in the 1640s) and the Sparlings must have been fierce protestants.<br /><br />We have no evidence -- do you -- for the father Richard and Grandfather Thomas of Bartholomew Musgrave. We have seen records in Durham of Bartholomew Musgraves. Perhaps a coincidence, but we would love to know sources for Bartholomew's ancestors !<br /><br />We assume there is a connection between the coal mining in Sidney Nova Scotia and the coal mining in hard coal country in Pennsylvania, but have no idea if Thomas was a miner. Perhaps this is what brought Thomas and Ann.<br /><br />One can imagine,once in Pennsylvania with so many Irish Catholics, it is natural for newcomers to adopt the local religion, and even change your name to a more commonly recognized Irish name of Laughlin.<br /><br />Finally, the Palatines under Queen Ann did not only go to Pennsylvania, but many in the early 1700s were involved in making pitch from the trees for the British Navy. This is difficult work. The first boatload dropped at Governors Island in New York Harbor for quarantine, and then upriver to work in the forest making pitch. In Limerick before that, they presumably linen-flax, also a tough job.<br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com