Susannah Lolley in the 1850 Census

June 1, 1850
Ontario, Wayne County, New York

According to family tradition, after the death of her husband in England, Susannah married William Fowler and they immigrated to America around 1847. However, a ship's manifest shows Hannah Lolley (not Fowler) and her six children arriving in New York in 1845 with the notation "going to her husband" possibly in Wayne County, New York. A ship's manifest from two years earlier shows the likely arrival of her husband.

Three years after their arrival, vital records from Ontario, Wayne County, New York show the death of farmer William Lolly on September 8, 1848. So it appears that William did not die in England, but three years after the family settled in New York.

Susannah appears in the 1850 census of Ontario, Wayne, New York with three of the children that were listed in the 1841 census plus the youngest child, Mary Anne, who was born in June 8, 1846 in New York according to her death certificate. The inventory of Susannah's farm was included and appears below.

Living in the household next to the widowed Susannah is 22-year-old Francis Rice born 1828 in England. This fits the birth date and place of Susannah's daugher Frances.

In the same household as Francis and her husband Philip is William Fowler, a farm laborer, with a wife and three children. If this is the William Fowler who Susannah later married, what became of his first family?

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