{"id":4874,"date":"2017-06-03T22:19:50","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T22:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4874"},"modified":"2025-03-05T18:49:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T18:49:17","slug":"ancestral-clues-and-lessons-probably-margaret-maybe-stephens-probably-born-canada-around-1825","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4874","title":{"rendered":"Ancestral Clues and Lessons: Probably Margaret (maybe Stephens), probably born Canada around 1825,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are qualifiers with this probable ancestor of mine: Margaret.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4876 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/probably-margaret-1850-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/probably-margaret-1850-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/probably-margaret-1850-768x437.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/probably-margaret-1850.jpg 777w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She is enumerated in the 1850 census with Benjamin Butler in Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan, as the oldest female in the household. She is twenty-five years of age and shown as having been born in Canada and it is assumed she is Benjamin&#8217;s wife and the mother of the children living in his household in 1850. She&#8217;s probably the mother of Benjamin&#8217;s daughter Ellen (Butler) Sargent who married William Ira Sargent in Union County, Iowa, in 1870 where Benjamin is enumerated with his second wife, Nancy Wolf. Some things I&#8217;ve learned about research from researching Margaret:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Females are more difficult to research<\/em>. This is especially true when their husbands do not have much money and move frequently.<\/li>\n<li><em>Sometimes &#8220;probably&#8221; is all you have.\u00a0<\/em>Given the family&#8217;s constant movement, the areas where they lived (that did not have great vital records), and the fact that they weren&#8217;t flush with cash, I may never find documents that explicitly states things. Sometimes we only are left with records that are suggestive and point in a general direction.<\/li>\n<li><em>The entire family is extremely important<\/em>. The few additional details I know about Margaret and the leads that I am following on her almost all stem from researching all the children of her husband, including those with both his wives.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note: There is addition speculation I have regarding Margaret. As it&#8217;s really speculative, I&#8217;ve chosen not to include it in this blog post.<\/p>\n<p>Probable Margaret is probably my 3rd great-grandmother. Probably. <a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?page_id=2\">My entire ahnentafel chart can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are qualifiers with this probable ancestor of mine: Margaret.\u00a0 She is enumerated in the 1850 census with Benjamin Butler in Port Huron, St. Clair County, Michigan, as the oldest female in the household. She is twenty-five years of age and shown as having been born in Canada and it is assumed she is Benjamin&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[311],"class_list":["post-4874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ancestral-clues-and-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11314,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions\/11314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}