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Descendants of Thomas M. Markley

Generation No. 1

1. Thomas M.¹ Markley was born Abt. 1803 in Welney, Norfolk, England ^1,^2,³, and died Aft. July 1860 ⁴. He married Elizabeth (Betsy) Watson May 18, 1823 in St. George Parish Church, Littleport, Cambridgeshire, England, daughter of Thomas Watson and Sarah Porter?. She was born March 13, 1803 in Littleport, Isle of Ely ,Cambridgeshire, England ⁵, and died March 30, 1873 in Minneapolis, Ottawa County, Kansas⁵.

Notes for Thomas M. Markley:
Thomas Markley thought to be the son of Abraham & Lydia Markley.

Per the Markley family history from a biographical history of Central Kansas, "Thomas Markley was one of a large family at the time when one of his brothers drank from a pool of impure water, which brought on an attack of cholera that spread throughout the family, carrying away all but four. Thomas Markley being among the surviving members came to America in 1853 and located in Niagara County, New York, and finally emigrated to Michigan where he died in 1857 (but see below). His wife, Elizabeth Betsy Watson was of Scottish descent and came to the United States in 1857, with nine of her twelve children. Two daughters had died in their native country, and son Israel Markley had come to America the previous year. She located in Lake County, Illinois, and came to Kansas in 1865 to take up land with her sons."

Thomas Markley is identified on the 1860 census in Liberty, Lake County Illinois, dated July, 1860, and presumably died sometime shortly after this date in Illinois. Members of the family living with Thomas and Elizabeth Watson Markley on the 1860 census are six of their children, including Benjamin, Watson, Michael, Elizabeth, and Dinah, together with the John and Susan Markley Lee family. Son Jacob Markley is married with family and is identified on the 1860 census as remaining in Springport, Jackson County, Michigan. Son Israel Markley had previously migrated to Kansas per his 1860 marriage in Lawrence, Kansas. Son Thomas Markley Jr. is married and remained in England, but emigrated to Ottawa County, Kansas in 1875. Daughters Sarah and Lydia Markley were married and remained in England and did not emigrate, although several of their children later emigrated.

On the 1860 census, Thomas Markely is identified as a farmer. According to a family descendant, Thomas Markely had once been a prizefighter in England.

More About Thomas M. Markley:
Immigration: 1853, Niagara County, New York, migrated to Jackson County, Michigan & Lake County, Illinois.⁶

Notes for Elizabeth (Betsy) Watson:
On 1870 census for Ottawa County, Kansas, Elizabeth Watson is living with son Jacob Markley & family.

More About Elizabeth (Betsy) Watson:
Burial: Highland Cemetery, Minneapolis, Kansas
Immigration: 1857, Lake County, Illinois - migrated to Ottawa County, Kansas in 1865⁶

Children of Thomas Markley and Elizabeth Watson are:

+	2	i.	Lydia² Markley, born Abt. 1826 in Littleport, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England; died March 17, 1891 in Littleport, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.
+	3	ii.	Sarah Markley, born December 25, 1827 in Littleport, Isle of Ely ,Cambridgeshire, England; died August 19, 1896 in Ely, Isle of Ely ,Cambridgeshire, England.
+	4	iii.	Jacob Markley, born March 17, 1830 in Littleport, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England; died August 22, 1915 in Minneapolis, Ottawa County, Kansas.
+	5	iv.	Thomas M. Jr. Markley, born August 20, 1831 in Prickwillow, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England; died February 15, 1890 in Bennington, Ottawa County, Kansas.
+	6	v.	Susan Markley, born March 15, 1833 in Littleport, Isle of Ely ,Cambridgeshire, England; died August 13, 1910 in Minneapolis, Ottawa County, Kansas.
+	7	vi.	Israel Markley, born May 25, 1834 in Littleport, Isle of Ely ,Cambridgeshire, England; died February 12, 1909 in Minneapolis, Kansas.
	8	vii.	William Markley, born Abt. 1836; died Bef. 1841.
	9	viii.	Isaac Markley, born March 07, 1837 in Ely, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England; died in Littleport, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.

More About Isaac Markley:
Burial: Ely, Holy Trinity, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England

+	10	ix.	Benjamin Franklin Markley, born December 30, 1838 in Ely, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England; died October 12, 1902 in Kansas City, Missouri.
+	11	x.	Absolem Watson Markley, born April 10, 1840 in Ely, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England; died July 31, 1926 in Minneapolis, Ottawa County, Kansas.
+	12	xi.	Michael Thomas Markley, born August 10, 1841 in Littleport, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England; died April 05, 1929 in Pueblo, Colorado.
	13	xii.	Elizabeth Markley, born Abt. 1845 in Littleport, Isle of Ely ,Cambridgeshire, England ⁷; died Bet. 1860 - 1870 in Lake County, Illinois.

Notes for Elizabeth Markley:
Listed on 1860 census, at age 15, in Libertyville, Lake County, Ilinois. Presumably died in Illinois before family migration to Kansas. Not located on 1870 census in Ottawa County, Kansas, and not identified as buried with family in Highland Cemetery in Minneapolis Kansas.

xiii.

Thomason Markley, born Abt. 1845 ⁸.

Notes for Thomason Markley:
Thomason Markley could be different name for Elizabeth Markley who was also born in 1845 per 1860 U.S. census report. On the 1851 census report for Ely, Cambridgeshire, Elizabeth Markley is not identified, but Thomason Markley is listed as born in 1845.

xiv.

Dinah Markley, born May 10, 1848 in Littleport, Isle of Ely ,Cambridgeshire, England; died April 16, 1942 in Boulder, Colorado.

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