1799 Randal Rickey was born on February 19, in Trenton, New Jersey. [1] [2] [3]
1825 Randal Rickey and Susan McAulley were married on March 25, in Philadelphia. [4] [5]
1850 Randal Rickey (age 50) and Susan Rickey (age 48) lived in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio with children Anna S Rickey (age 32), Rosa C Rickey (age 20), John A Rickey (age 17), Amy E Rickey (age 11), and Margaret Rickey (age 5). Joseph Parker (age 27), Mary Parker (age 24), Charles R Parker (age 4), and Mary E Parker (age 1) lived with them. [6] [7]
1855 Randal Rickey died on August 6, in Cincinnati, Ohio. [8] [9] [10]
1860 Susan Rickey (age 58, born in Pennsylvania) lived in Covington Ward 7, Kenton County, Kentucky, in a household with Amy Rickey (age 18), and Alfred Rickey (age 27). [11]
1880 Widow Susan M Rickey (age 79) lived in Allegheny, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania with Ama H Rickey (age 35) and Margaret Rickey (age 30). [12] [13]
1883 Susanna Rickey, born Cincinnati, died at age 82y 8m of bronchitis on 19 December, 1883 and was buried 22 December at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio. She had been living at Allegheny, Pennsylvania. [14] [15]
Research Notes:
1820 Randell H. Rickey and Christiana Elisabeth Stief were married on June 1, 1820 in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Christiana Elisabeth Stief was a child of John Stief. [16]
Randal was for twenty years city and county engineer at Cincinnati. In religion he was a Friend. [17]
Randal Hutchinson Rickey was born in Trenton, New Jersey on February 19, 1799 and died in Cincinnati, Ohio on August 6, 1855. He was a city engineer of Cincinnati, Ohio during its formative period. He plotted the greater part of the present city. He and Susanna Macauley were married on March 25, 1825. She was born in Philadelphia on April 6, 1801 and died in Allegheny Pennsylvania on December 19, 1883. [18]
From an ebay auction: This folded lettersheet / stampless letter has a circular date stamp for CINCINNATI O., a matching PAID, a 25 cent rate, and is addressed to Mr. George Gardom, No. 13, South Seventh Street, Philadelphia, Pennsya., and is a two page letter written by Randal H. Rickey. The headline is Cincinnati Decemr th 10th 1841. Some abstracts:
"... there is little business I would like you to attend to for me in Philadelphia. There was a Mrs. McCoy who afterwards married a man by the name of McCallahan she was an Aunt of my wifes, she died in September 1837 previous to her death shen went to Ireland and before going she made a will in which she left my wife the sume of $500 Joseph M Doran now Judge drew up the will ..."
".... she left a son Samuel Irvine who served his time to the wheelwright business with ___ Snyder on Carpenter above Fifth Street and I believe he married a daughter of said Snyder this summer Mrs Cobb was on a visit to Phila she called on Samuel Irvine who told her ..."
"I have been doing rather more at surveying this fall, and my wife has a few boarders business is quite dull here there is but very little doing in the Pork packing busines the speculators and dealers in the article seem almost afraid to touch it at any price ..."
"... the stage contractor owed me a bill of eight dollars for surveying his place in the neck showing the Course of Broad Street ..."
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[5] Frederick Adams Birkus, ed., The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. 1 (1942), 374, [HathiTrust].
[6] United States Federal Census, 1850, family 977, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[7] United States Federal Census, 1850, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[8] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. III (1905), 727, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[9] Frederick Adams Birkus, ed., The Abridged Compendium of American Genealogy, Vol. 1 (1942), 374, [HathiTrust].
[10] Charles Meredith Dupuy, A Genealogical History of the Dupuy Family (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1910), 135, [GoogleBooks], [InternetArchive].
[11] United States Federal Census, 1860, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[12] United States Federal Census, 1880, [FamilySearchImage], [FamilySearchRecord].
[13] United States Federal Census, 1880, [AncestryImage], [AncestryRecord].
[14] Spring Grove Cemetery Burial Record, [Spring Grove Cemetery burial record].
[15] Find A Grave Memorial 79023633, [FindAGrave].
[16] Pennsylvania Marriages, 1709-1940, [FamilySearchRecord].
[17] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. III (1905), 727, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].
[18] Thomas Patrick Hughes and Frank Munsell, American ancestry: giving the name and descent, in the male line, of Americans whose ancesters settled in the United States previous to the Declaration of Independence, 1776, Vol. 8 (1893), 176, left column, [InternetArchive].