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Samuel Whitley

b. 1803

Life

27 Mar 1803Born

Records & Research

Samuel Whitley (born 1803 per the family report) is said to be a son of John Whitley (1761-1838) and Margaret Hagerman (1771-1845), a United Empire Loyalist-associated family connected to Elizabethtown Township, Leeds County, Ontario. The parent couple is asserted by online family trees (Geni, RootsWeb), but only via uncited secondary trees, not primary records. Critically, the single source said to list Samuel among the children (Geni) could NOT be rendered directly by the auditing fetch (status 200, empty body) — the child list was obtained only from search-engine snippets and remains unverified. No independent record confirms Samuel's own exact birth date (27 March 1803), and no death, burial, marriage, or children records were located. All identity-level claims about Samuel himself are therefore unconfirmed.

Open questions (7)
  • No independent source confirms Samuel Whitley's exact birth date of 27 March 1803; this date comes only from the family report and was not corroborated online.
  • The central claim that Samuel is listed among John Whitley and Margaret Hagerman's children rests solely on the Geni profile, whose page body could NOT be rendered by the auditing browser fetch (status 200, empty body). The child list is known only from search-engine extracts and must be confirmed by a logged-in Geni view or an independent FamilySearch/primary record before publication.
  • No death, burial, marriage, spouse, or children records were found for this Samuel Whitley. A FindAGrave/BillionGraves memorial could not be located (all 'Samuel Whitley' grave matches were 20th-century US individuals or different surnames).
  • Both parent findings were downgraded from confirmed to likely: they are supported only by secondary family trees (no primary records) and concern relatives rather than Samuel himself.
  • Resolve Margaret Hagerman's birthplace conflict (New Bedford, MA vs. Dutchess Co., NY).
  • The tree-stated birthplace of father John Whitley (Elizabethtown Twp., Ontario, 1761) is chronologically implausible for a Loyalist family and casts doubt on the precision of these trees.
  • Samuel's middle initial 'C' is unexplained and itself unverified — could indicate a middle name worth tracing (e.g., a family surname).
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Ancestry

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