Mallorys in the 1850 Dade County Missouri Census

 The 1850 Dade County Missouri Census is a good place to start investigating the Mallory family tree.

William, dwelling 498, and his sons, John (476) and Perkin (500), are enumerated with their families, as is William's daughter, Lucy Ann, married to Nester McDonal (475).  

The birthplaces of these family members is a map of their progress across the frontier.  Working backward:

Lucy Ann's son is the youngest of the clan at 7/12 months, born in Missouri within the year.  The oldest Mallory born in Missouri is John's daughter, Souza, age 6, born 1844. 

Previous to living in Missouri, the family resided in Tennessee.  John's wife, Eliza, and Perkin's wife, Margaret, were both born in Tennessee, so presumably they married there.  John's daughters, Elizabeth, age 12, and Sarah, age 10, were also born in Tennessee, in approximately 1838 and 1840. 

Thus, the Mallorys left Tennessee and arrived in Missouri between 1840 and 1844.

The youngest of William's sons, Constantine, age 14, was born in Kentucky in 1836, implying that the family was in Kentucky until at least 1836, but were in Tennessee just two years later when John's daughter was born in 1838.

The oldest of William's children born in Kentucky was John, age 37, born 1813.  This suggests that the Mallorys were in Kentucky for about 25 years, from 1813 to 1838, before moving to Tennessee.

William Mallory, age 63 in 1850, was born in North Carolina, about 1787.  He was therefore at most 26 years old when he left North Carolina and homesteaded in Kentucky, were John was born.  

So far, the 1850 Census has shown that the family traveled from North Carolina (1787) to Kentucky (1813) to Tennessee (1838) to Missouri (1844). 


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