Loading...Biography
Thomas Henry Willoughby was born in Cornwall, England in 1840, the son of Thomas Willoughby and Christina Pascoe.
In 1841 he was age 1 and living with his parents and brother James in Illogan, Cornwall.
In 1851 he was age 11 and living with his parents and six siblings in Illogan, Cornwall. His occupation was listed as mine boy.
He moved to the United States and his family settled in Carroll County, GA, where they were living at the time of the 1860 census. He found love twice: first with Amanda Kennedy, whom he married in 1861 and with whom he had at least two children ( Thomas Jefferson Willoughby and Mary Ann Lucy Polly Willoughby), and then Elizabeth "Betsy" Kennedy, with whom he had Monroe Talley, Lonzo Talley, Mandy Odessa and Charles Willoughby.
According to the 1860 census, his siblings were: William, bc 1842, John, bc 1844; Oliver, bc 1846; Louisa, bc 1847; Charles, bc 1849; Lizzie, bc 1851; Emeline, bc 1852 and baby Joseph, newly born in GA during the census year of 1860. According to the Coaly Orchard genealogy, there was a sister, Lydia Ann, born in England c 1853. It is unknown why Lydia was not on the 1860 census, although she could be Emeline. She does appear in the 1880 census in Cass County, TX
It is unknown if he served in the American military during the War Between the States after he moved to the US.
Sources
- Volume 9, page 264, Redruth, Cornwall, Births June 1840 FreeBMD
- England and Wales Census 1841. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQYB-HQB
- England and Wales Census 1851. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SGKX-J57
- Georgia, Marriages, 1808-1967," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FWWG-6P2 : accessed 4 February 2015), Thomas Willoughby and Amanda Kennedy, 17 Dec 1861; citing , Carroll, Georgia; FHL microfilm 341,902
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=coaly&id=I30048 with thanks and credit to Jeanette Perrin Coaly.
United States Census, 1910," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MLQF-BCH : accessed 5 February 2015), Thomas H Willoughly, Grayson, Jefferson, Oklahoma, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 153, sheet 6A, family 91, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,375,267
United States Census, 1900," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MSRY-3RJ : accessed 5 February 2015), Thomas H Willoughby, Townships 6-7 S. Ranges 3 E., Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, United States; citing sheet 6B, family 98, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,848
Knowing that the family settled in the area of Carroll County, GA after migrating to the USA, this is believed to be the Willoughby family census of 1860:
United States Census, 1860," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MZMH-TBN : accessed 5 February 2015), Wm Willoughby in household of Thos Willoughby, 2nd Dist, Carroll, Georgia, United States; from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," Fold3.com; citing p. 17, household ID 122, NARA microfilm publication M653, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.; FHL microfilm 803,113
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=coaly&id=I30060 with thanks and credit to Jeanette Perrin Coaly.
note;
William James Willoughby ( aka James William Willoughby) married Margaret Hilderbrand. He had at least one child, son William Robert "W.R." Willoughby, who became a farmer. WR was born about 1873 in Douglas County, GA and died in 1936 in Villa Rica, GA.