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Henry Whitley

b. 1805

Life

c. 1805Born

Records & Research

Henry Whitley (born 1805 per the family report) is named as a son of John Whitley (1761–1838) and Margaret Hagerman (1771–1845), an early settler family of Elizabethtown Township, Leeds & Grenville County, Upper Canada (Ontario). The PARENTS' identities and vital details are independently confirmed: the RootsWeb Shunk Family Tree family-group record (verified directly) shows John Whitley born 17 Nov 1761 at Elizabethtown Twp., Leeds Co., Ontario (died Sep 1838; parents John Whitley & Mary Tucker) and Margaret Hagerman born 28 May 1771 at New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachusetts (died 1845, Leeds & Grenville Co., Ontario; parents John Hagerman & Phoebe Ferguson), matching the family report on all four years and adding places and the prior generation. IMPORTANT CAVEAT: that same RootsWeb family-group page lists only ONE child — Jane Whitley — and does NOT list Henry. No citable record was found establishing Henry as a child of this couple, nor Henry's own birth place, birth year, death, marriage, or descendants; the claim that Henry belongs to this family rests on a Geni profile the researcher could not open and on the family report itself.

  • Henry Whitley's reported parents, John Whitley (b. 17 Nov 1761, Elizabethtown Twp., Leeds Co., Ontario; d. Sep 1838) and Margaret Hagerman (b. 28 May 1771, New Bedford, Bristol Co., Massachusetts; d. 1845, Leeds & Grenville Co., Ontario), are confirmed as a real couple with these vitals; their dates match the family report exactly. John's parents were John Whitley and Mary Tucker; Margaret's parents were John Hagerman and Phoebe Ferguson. (This corroborates the PARENTS, not Henry's own membership in the family.)

    · Elizabethtown Township, Leeds & Grenville County, Ontario, Canada family-tree ↗

Open questions (7)
  • Henry Whitley's 1805 birth year is UNCITED. It appears only in the family report; no consulted source (RootsWeb, Geni-as-readable, FindAGrave) actually states a 1805 birth for Henry. A direct record (FamilySearch, parish/township register, census) is needed to establish even his birth year.
  • No record was found giving Henry Whitley's own birth PLACE. A birth in Elizabethtown Twp., Leeds Co., Ontario (~1805) is plausible given the family but entirely unverified.
  • Henry Whitley's death date and burial place are unknown. No FindAGrave memorial exists for a Henry Whitley born ~1805 in Canada (searched +/- 4 years).
  • No spouse, marriage, or children were found for this Henry Whitley in any public record.
  • CRITICAL: The only directly-verifiable family-group record for John Whitley (1761-1838) & Margaret Hagerman (1771-1845) — the RootsWeb Shunk Family Tree page, fetched and read during this audit — lists Jane Whitley as the SOLE child and does NOT include Henry or the siblings (John, Samuel, James, Abigail, Sarah, Phoebe) named in the original dossier. Henry's membership in this family is therefore corroborated by NO readable source.
  • The Geni profile for John Whitley (cited as listing Henry among the children) is login/JS-gated and was never actually opened; the child list was only 'surfaced via search' and could not be read or verified. A logged-in review of that Geni profile, or Henry's own Geni/FamilySearch profile, is required before any claim about Henry's parentage, siblings, or 1805 birth should be published.
  • Because no source ties a distinct individual named Henry Whitley (b. ~1805) to this couple, there is a non-trivial risk this is a tree-only or speculative attribution; treat Henry as an unverified person pending a primary or directly-readable secondary record.
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Ancestry

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Henry Whitley b. 1805
father John Whitley 1761–1838
father John Whitley b. 1740
mother Mary Tucker
mother Margaret Hagerman 1771–1845
father John Sr. Hagerman 1725–1813
mother Phoebe Ferguson b. 1730