Family of John Joseph (or Sam) CHARLESTON and Lillian Maud MCCLAY
Wife: Lillian Maud MCCLAY
| Name: |
Lillian Maud MCCLAY |
| Sex: |
Female |
| Father: |
- |
| Mother: |
- |
| Birth |
28 Oct 1888 |
Missouri, USA |
| Name: |
Lillian (Doll) Angeline CHARLESTON |
| Sex: |
Female |
| Spouse: |
James Francis FERRY ( -1960) |
| Birth |
5 Sep 1909 |
St. Louis, Missouri, USA |
| Death |
7 Feb 1995 (age 85) |
Poma, California, USA |
| Name: |
Gerusia (Geraldine) Olivette CHARLESTON |
| Sex: |
Female |
| Spouse: |
Jacob Joseph HARR ( - ) |
| Birth |
30 Jul 1911 |
St. Louis, Missouri, USA |
| Death |
28 Jul 2001 (age 89) |
Chicago |
| Name: |
John Joseph CHARLESTON |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Spouse: |
Kay THOMAS ( - ) |
| Birth |
22 Aug 1914 |
Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Death |
4 May 1993 (age 78) |
Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada |
| Name: |
Gertrude Bonnie CHARLESTON |
| Sex: |
Female |
| Spouse: |
Anton John KOHLER ( - ) |
| Birth |
22 Jul 1916 |
Geneva, Nebraska, USA |
| Death |
13 Jul 1990 (age 73) |
Washington, Missouri, USA |
| Name: |
Unknown CHARLESTON |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Birth |
c. 1917 |
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| Death |
c. 1918 (age 0-1) |
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| Name: |
William Wallace CHARLESTON |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Spouse: |
Norma Mae SMITH ( - ) |
| Birth |
5 Feb 1920 |
Chicago |
| Death |
23 Oct 2015 (age 95) |
California, USA |
| Name: |
Clarence Gilbert CHARLESTON |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Spouse: |
Jean SERVIER ( - ) |
| Birth |
18 Apr 1922 |
Chicago |
| DNA Match |
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DNA match between descendants of Clarence and descendants of his grandmother, Ellen Charleston.
The common ancestors are John Charleston and Mary Ann D'Cruz. |
| Death |
25 Mar 2004 (age 81) |
Tempe, Arizona, USA |
| Name: |
Charles CHARLESTON |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Death |
1925 |
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| Name: |
Rosaland (Rose) E. CHARLESTON |
| Sex: |
Female |
| Spouse: |
Walter BLANCHARD ( - ) |
| Birth |
5 Apr 1926 |
Chicago |
| Death |
16 Jan 1991 (age 64) |
Clearlake, California, USA |
| Name: |
David Ernest CHARLESTON |
| Sex: |
Female |
| Spouse: |
Mary O'DONNELL ( - ) |
| Birth |
9 Oct 1927 |
Chicago |
| Death |
24 Dec 1994 (age 67) |
Kansas, USA |
| Name: |
Daniel Maynard CHARLESTON |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Spouse: |
Mary THORNTON ( - ) |
| Birth |
28 May 1931 |
St. Louis, Missouri, USA |
| Death |
15 Jan 2017 (age 85) |
Florida USA |
| Name: |
Private |
| Sex: |
Male |
| Birth |
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Note on Husband: John Joseph (or Sam) CHARLESTON (1)
Most of the information I know about John Joseph Charleston has come from his family living in USA.
John's first name is a bit of a puzzle, his family in USA knew him as John Joseph or sometimes Joseph John but his family in India knew him as Sam. In 1877 when John was 5, his parents had another son who they called John David Charleston, he died after only 3 months. I don't think John and Mary Ann would give two of their sons the same first name, but I have settled on a first name of John because that is the name he seems to have used in USA where he spent most of his life.
Note on Husband: John Joseph (or Sam) CHARLESTON (2) - shared note
Most of the information about the family of John Joseph Charleston has come from one of John Joseph's descendants who is a DNA match.
Note on Husband: John Joseph (or Sam) CHARLESTON (3)
John was born in 1872 in Calcutta, his father was a clerk in the high court.
In 1881 when John was 8 his father died of T.B. John's mother Mary Ann remarried in 1881 a few months after the death of John senior.
It is believed that John was sent to an orphanage after the death of his father, I wonder if this could have been a boarding school?
John supposedly left the orphanage when he was 14 and stowed away on a ship travelling to Liverpool and from there he journeyed on to USA arriving in 1887.
John served in the U.S. army at different times between the ages of 21 and 33.
Some time around 1903 John married Ruby Ethel Wiltz and they had 2 children, this marriage did not last and John married again in 1908 to Lillian Maud McClay. John and Lillian had 13 children.
John died in 1940 in Chicago USA.
John's occupation seems to have been: Soldier, Clerk and Preacher.
Note on Husband: John Joseph (or Sam) CHARLESTON (4) - shared note
DNA comparisons carried out using ancestry.com and gedmatch.com have matched descendants of Charles, John and Ellen Charleston.