Lois from Montana's page on Tarling

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Updated 11 Nov 2003 (1880 census details added)

Lois Kenczka from Montana, descendant of Alfred Tarling

    I've been tracing many branches of my family history for over 5 years - including the Polish side - and have about 2,900 names.  However I have not long started using the internet so I have been delighted to find this new Tarling family history site where this Tarling page of mine is now being hosted.

    Alfred and Susie Tarling emigrated from the U.K. and Alfred was naturalized on 18 Oct 1884 in Ottawa, La Salle County, Illinois.  On their death certificates it says Alfred was born 12 Jan 1850 in England and his father was Benjamin; and Susie was born 15 Nov 1849 in England and her maiden name was Bath.  And thanks to a cousin WillaDene Kraft I also know the details from a family Bible of one of their children, which gave them as Alfred Isaac Tarling born 12 Jan 1848 and Susannah Bath born 15 Nov 1850.  Not a lot to go on really.  I had no marriage or birth certificates; but I did have a letter written in 1911 by a distant relative who talks of going to various places in South Wales to visit family and family graves and houses.
 
 

And now with help from the Tarling database I've found their marriage.  On 2nd. May 1869 in the Parish Church of Bedwellty in Monmouthshire, Wales: Alfred Tarling, a bachelor age 21, a collier (father: Benjamin Tarling, a carpenter) married Susannah Bath, a spinster age 19 (father: Isaac Bath, a collier). Both lived in New Tredegar. These are the exact places mentioned in the letter written in 1911 by Susie's relative.
    Now if Alfred's age on the marriage certificate is correct he would have been born between 3rd. May 1847 and 2nd. May 1848, in better agreement with the family Bible than his death certificate. However there is no Alfred Tarling in the index to match any of these dates (see also below).
    Similarly Susannah Bath would have been born between 3rd. May 1849 and 2nd. May 1850, which is in agreement with her death certificate.  However there is no matching birth for November 1849, but there is a record of a Susannah Bath birth registered in DQ 1850 in the nearby Abergavenny district and I had hoped this is my Susie Tarling, because that is a match with the family Bible.
     I'm delighted to say that I've had a lot of luck with the Bath family: Susannah Bath was born 18 Nov 1850 in Blackwood, Bedwellty daughter of Isaac Bath (a collier) and Ann, formerly Collier. I've just found the details of the monumental inscription for them both as well in St. Sennan, Bedwellty.
 

Contact details:  E-mail is the best way of contacting me; mailto: dlkenczka@in-tch.com
 

Some of my current Tarling items of interest:

Alfred Tarling and Susannah Bath's descendants.  I would be delighted to hear from anyone related to any of the children of Alfred Tarling and Susannah Bath.  In particular I am looking for descendants of:

  • Elizabeth Ann (nee Tarling, born 22 Mar 1870, Bevier, Missouri; died 07 Nov 1946 in Thermopolis, Wyoming), who married Robert Henry WEDLOCK 25 Apr 1893 in Great Falls, Montana. Six children.
  • Alfred Isaac TARLING (my direct ancestor, born 11 Ap 1872 in Streator, Illinois; died 03 Mar 1944 in Roundup, Montana) who married Osa Ora Geller in Sand Coulee, Montana on 16 Jul 1903. Children: Eleanor, Elmer, Susan, George and Ada.
  • Susan (nee Tarling, born Illinois, died California, dates unknown) who married Albert ZELLER and they had 4 or 5 children including Walter Roy Zeller.
  • William H. TARLING (born La Salle, Illinois, around 1875 and died about 1910 in Casper, Wyoming age 35, in a mining accident), who married a Jenny and they had 5 children in the Denver, Colorado area, who would have been born with the surname Tarling.
  • Emily Alice (nee Tarling, born 11 May 1884, Streator, Illinois; died Jun 1924 in Lodi, California), who married firstly a Mr. Smith or Smitch I believe and secondly William Roy Kane. I believe that Emily herself had no children, but there are 3 step-children and 7 grand-children listed in William Kane's obituary.
Alfred Tarling & 
Susannah Tarling (nee Bath), 
early 1900s.

The birth of Albert Tarling.
    Well I'm told there is no good match in the Tarling database for the birth of an Alfred Tarling in England or Wales, from JQ 1847 to DQ 1850. So where to next?  Well I've been searching around for an Alfred Tarling, perhaps born 12 Jan 1848, 1849 or 1850 with a father Benjamin (this is everything I know about him so far).  To my delight I've found in Charlton Kings in the 1851 census in Gloucestershire an Alfred Tarling, age 2, born Charlton Kings, and his father is Benjamin. However there is no corresponding birth of an Alfred Tarling registered in the area around Charlton Kings in the 1848 to 1850 period, so I'm slightly perplexed.  It also seems that none of that Alfred's brothers and sisters births were registered...
    And so in the Tarling side of my family history the search to find the birth and family of the right Alfred Tarling is now one of my major quests.

    Is the Alfred Tarling of the marriage certificate towards the top of this page the same as the Alfred in the 1851 census above?

   The coincidence of the fairly rare father's forename of Benjamin seems to indicate that these are the same families.  There is only one other Benjamin in the area: a 20 year old, unmarried (and no Alfred there).  I know there are a number of people tracing these Gloucestershire Tarlings so are there any descendants out there from this family living in Charlton Kings in 1851:

TARLING:
Benjamin 38, labourer, born Bishops Cleeve
Elizabeth 30, Charlton Kings
Neighbour 15, Lab Bishops Cleeve
Elizabeth 13, Bishops Cleeve
Ann 9, Bishops Cleeve
Amelia 6, Charlton Kings
Alfred 2, Charlton Kings
Eliza 11m, Charlton Kings

Latest News: in the 1880 United States Federal Census in Streator, La Salle, Illinois we see:

Alfred Tarling, age 30, born UK, married, head
Susanna Tarling, age 29, born UK, married, wife
Elisabeth A. Tarling, age 10, born Missouri, daughter
Alfred I. Tarling, age 9, born Illinois, son
Susan C. Tarling, age 5, born Illinois, daughter
William Tarling, age 2, born Illinois, son

all of which fits in well with the details above (Emily was not yet born)
 

I would be delighted to hear from you with any comments, suggestions or help mailto: dlkenczka@in-tch.com

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