Joseph Isger
- Born: Jan 1824, Frome, SOM 10,12
- Christened: 22 Jan 1824, Frome, SOM
- Marriage (1): Sarah Ann Smith on 26 Sep 1847 in Newington, LDN
- Marriage (2): Jeanette Stafford about 1862 in Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA 5
- Marriage (3): Elvira Cecilia Marsh in 1886 in Pennsylvania, USA 8
- Died: 17 May 1900, Carbondale, Pennsylvania, USA at age 76 4
 General Notes:
1841 census - servant in Frome, Nunney Parish - Living with Rector Thomas Theobald [2 young children]
1851 census - woollen draper living at 7 Little New Street, St Bride Parish, LDN.
1870 census - Carbondale - Joseph [43][stable boss], Janet [36], Edward [Albert - 19], Elizabeth 16 -at home, Henry [driver -13], Joseph [11], William [5], Ellen 3, Wm. [3 months] plus Susan Collins [21]. Susan is shown as English born and is possibly his eldest daughter. House valued at $2500.
1880 census - Isgar - Joseph [54] - engineer, Jeanet [46], Lizzie [26], Henry [19 - loco linesman], William[ 15], Ellen [11], Cora [7] and Joseph Stafford [stepson - watchman].
1890 census substitute - living at 90 Salem Avenue, Carbondale - engineer
Buried at Maplewood Cemetery, Carbondale - also a trustee of that cemetery.
Joseph arrived New York 19/7/1851 on the Sir Robert Peel [transcribed as Joseph Jager]
Sarah and two children, Susan and Edward [aged 2 and 4 respectively], listed on the manifest of the ship Northumberland which arrived in New York on the 18 August 1853 - also William Isger listed.
Served in the American Civil War for a short time report Bob & Janet Isger.
Union Army, Company C, 13th Infantry Regiment PA - enlisted 12 September 1862 & mustered out at Harrisburg, PA on the 26 September 1862.
13th Regiment Militia Infantry - Called September 4, 1862, to repel Lee's invasion of Maryland. Disbanded September 24, 1862.
1865 - tax assessment - income $111, tax paid $5.55
Research Notes:
CLUES:
Marriage 26/9/1847 - John Isger to Sarah Ann Smith - Newington, Southwark (father - Joseph Isger, deceased) - occupation=draper
1860 census - no trace of him or family - Jenette Stafford is in Philadelphia with parents.
No trace of Sarah in the English death records.
Joseph enlisted in PA in 1862
Probability is that the family is somewhere in PA but name transcribed wrong.
Joseph married Sarah Ann Smith on 26 Sep 1847 in Newington, LDN. (Sarah Ann Smith was born about 1826 in Prittlewell, ESX 6 and died between 1860 and 1864 in Pennsylvania, USA.)
Joseph next married Jeanette Stafford, daughter of Samuel Stafford and Sarah Unknown Stafford, about 1862 in Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA.5 (Jeanette Stafford was born about 1834 in England 5 and died in 1885 in Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA 4.) The cause of her death was Typhoid.
Joseph next married Elvira Cecilia Marsh, daughter of Stephen Marsh and Mary Mercy Stuart, in 1886 in Pennsylvania, USA.8 (Elvira Cecilia Marsh was born on 4 Apr 1841 in Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, USA 5,10,22,23 and died on 3 Oct 1908 in Carbondale, Pennsylvania, USA 4.)
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