Thomas Harker, 1790

[Calverley Lad]

http://www.gunnerside.info/
Gunnerside Swaledale is in North Yorkshire.
The link above may help you to get the atmosphere.
 Regards Brian

[Captain2]

You're very welcome  That's an interesting link Calverley Lad, there are a lot of Harker's being baptised at and around that time  and it appears that alot of the men were miners

Hopefully you may get a bit more information for Thomas that will help, but I do hope that atleast you may now have a starting point

Good luck with your research

Kind Regards

Angie

[sherlynn]

Thank you, will check that out tonight. I keep running into a brick wall.  The only thing I can figure at this point is that the birth year is wrong and that maybe his wife had his body sent back to England after he died.  I have found his wife's grave but his is no where to be found.  Was that a custom or does anyone know?

[Calverley Lad]

Given that I provided a link to Gunnerside, I didn't have a look round the site.
Having looked around this morning, I found a picture of a MaryHarker (widow) with a brief history of her.
The mining in question is lead, very heavy work, more so than coal, leading to early death.
Could Thomas have died before Mary going to USA?
 Brian

[sherlynn]

I seen that also.  Of what I have found so far, Thomas moved to the US and died in 1840 in Bartholomew County, Indiana.  I just don't know where he was  buried.  He isn't buried with his wife Rebecca.  Her tombstone is single.  I am going to make a trip to the cemetary where she is buried this weekend to look around.  Not sure if he was shipped back to England to be buried.

As for mining, I really don't know.  I do know that all of the Harkers I have found so far were farmers.

I am still checking out all of the church archives.  Taking me awhile

[Captain2]

If you get anything more sherlynn let us know, there are a number of possibles for the baptism of Thomas Harker in Yorkshire.  Can you get a death certificate for Thomas in the U.S.? I'm not sure how it works there but in the U.K. we are able to get certificates from 1837 onwards. 

[sherlynn]

I looked up death certificates for the county he died in but I actually have to go to the courthouse personally to check.  Might be able to do that next week.

Now, for my GOOD news!!  My local library has a genealogy department and I found a link there for www.familysearch.org  I entered Thomas Harker and went through about 9 pages and found this:

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NJ9C-143

This may very well be him.  Christening 06 April 1790 and lists Joseph Harker as his father but no mother.

I am still searching this site, been through almost 100 pages of this website and still going.  Will let you know if I find anything else.

I really hope what I found is him but I guess I'll never be 100% sure.

Thanks everyone!

[pete edwards]

Hi Sherlynn,

Best of luck from us hicks in Shropshire, I will keep my eyes open for your Surname in my visits to the archivies here in Shrewsbury just in case a few strayed,

Pete

[sherlynn]

Hi Sherlynn,

Best of luck from us hicks in Shropshire, I will keep my eyes open for your Surname in my visits to the archivies here in Shrewsbury just in case a few strayed,

Pete

Hicks?  I have to admit that I really don't know much about your country.  I have always wanted to visit though   There are probably millions of Harkers but don't think they are all related to me

If hicks means there what it means here, I doubt that, lol!  You all sound so elegant when you talk and I sound like a stupid Yankee