Robert Dunlap Jr. (1798 - 1832)

Born 17 Mar 1798 in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland

Died 19 Oct 1832 at age 34 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio

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Biography

Robert Dunlap was born 17 March 1798 in Carrickfergus, Antrim, Ireland to William Dunlap and Jane Thompson.

On 30 August 1818 he departed from Carrickfergus Bay arriving at the port of New York on 15 October 1818. Travelling on foot, he arrived in Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania on 8 November 1818 where he joined his Uncle Robert who had immigrated a year earlier.^[1] By 1822 he had relocated to Cincinnati where he joined the Second Presbyterian Church.^[2] In 1824 he returned to Pittsburgh where he married Margaret Carson Ledlie on 11 May 1824.^[3] Robert returned to Cincinnati with Margaret where they had four children.^[4] Robert wrote a personal history in August 1830 which is the source for much of the information about his family. Robert died on 19 October 1832 in Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio in the cholera epidemic.^{[5] [6]} His younger brother William died the following day of the prevailing epidemic^[7], and his business partner Gurdon R. Gilmore the day after William. Robert Dunlap is buried in Spring Grove Cemetery.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ Robert Dunlap personal history, dated 24 August 1830, typed 30 October 1889 by grand-daughter Ella Dunlap, Cincinnati History Library & Archive, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio.
2. ↑ Second Presbyterian Church (Cincinnati, Ohio), Registrar of Communicants 1816-1884 (Admissions and Dismissals), Mr. Robert Dunlap (1822, 1829) and Mrs. Robert Dunlap (1824, 1829), FHL microfilm 1955128 (Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah).
3. ↑ Robert Dunlap and Margaret Carson Ledlie marriage record, dated 11 May 1824, typed 30 October 1889 by grand-daughter Ella Dunlap, Cincinnati History Library & Archive, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio.
4. ↑ 1830 U.S. census, Hamilton, Ohio, population schedule, Cincinnati Ward 4, handwritten page 97, William Dunlap household, Robert Dunlap household, David Martin household, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com: accessed 12 February 2016). Source also available on FamilySearch: "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH5L-1FD : 9 September 2017), Robert Dunlap, Cincinnati Ward 4, Hamilton, Ohio, United States; citing 97, NARA microfilm publication M19, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 132; FHL microfilm 337,943.
5. ↑ Robert Dunlap obituary, Cincinnati Advertiser, 20 October 1832, p. 3 (The Cincinnati Public Library, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio).
6. ↑ Hamilton County Ohio Wills 1791-1901, University of Cincinnati, Archives and Rare Books Library, Box 2, Last Will and Testament of Robert Dunlap, filed 2 November 1832.
7. ↑ Cholera death notice, Liberty Hall and Cincinnati Gazette, 25 October 1832, p. 2, listings for Robert Dunlap and Wm. Dunlap (The Cincinnati Public Library, Cincinnati, Hamilton, Ohio).
8. ↑ The Spring Grove Family (Cincinnati, Ohio), Spring Grove Cemetery, card file, digital images (www.springgrove.org : accessed 10 February 2016), card 4781 for Robt. Dunlap Jr., citing section 46, lot 19, space 2.