Posted By:	John Pepper
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	Subject:	Re: Laughlin in Centralia
	Post Date:	March 22, 2006 at 14:13:39
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	Forum:	Columbia County, PA Genealogy Forum
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The Centralia Laughlin family are in the 1870 and 1900 censuses too; but in 1900 the name is spelled Loughlin and indexed accordingly, so I had to do some fishing to find it. 1900 gives William's birth-date as Jan. 1844, his birthplace as "Fr Canada", his parents Irish, date of immigration 1850. I suppose Fr = French & that the reference is to Quebec. Please ask if you need more information about these census records. My grandmother was Helen Laughlin, born 1898 I think; I know nothing about her family except that she had a brother William, but I had a couple of hints that the family came to PA from Nova Scotia & that they might have been of Scottish descent. The 1900 Centralia record is the only hopeful thing I have found, but they're Irish & not from NS. In one of your Ancestry messages you mention that William might be from Sydney, Cape Breton, NS; what was your reason for thinking that? If you're interested I will be glad to tell you more about my family. There is a Thomas Laughlin, age 45, living in Shamokin, Northumberland Co., in 1880, who was born in Cape Breton. I couldn't find him in any other return, but three of his unmarried children are living together in Shamokin in 1900.