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by Joyce M. Tice
1855 New York State Census Records for

Town of Horseheads, Chemung County NY
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Do You Know that you can search just the Census Records on the site by using the three county level Census  buttons in the Partitioned search engine at the bottom of the Current What's New Page

You can further limit your search by choosing the find all words option and entering a year or township name along with your surname. Remember that alternate spellings of surnames WILL affect your search results.

Census records are very often difficult to read because of handwriting, microfilm quality, and spelling issues. Our early census takers were not as well educated as we'd like them to have been, and even the people bearing the names often could not spell them with the same consistency we are accustomed to in our own time. The census taker wrote what he believed he heard as well as he could. Our volunteers have transcribed them for you to the very best or our abilities given the difficulties mentioned. Please be tolerant of what you would consider "mistakes." If you can recognize the names you are looking for, then it is a success. If not, then you may want to find a place where you can view the originals so that you can judge for yourselves. Excessive attention to outmoded spelling issues is the sign of a beginner in family research and will limit your research effectiveness.

Transcribed 2008 by Sherry LAMPMAN Nichols
Published October 2008 by Joyce M. Tice

Note from Sherry - The 1855 census for Horseheads was collected by DeWitt Curtis from June 1 thru June 19, 1855.  A group of people years ago looked at the original records and copied them to paper form for the library and indexed them.  I first typed the records from these paper records. Just like the original records some of the handwriting was hard to read or the person copying them had trouble reading the census. I then ordered the microfilm of the 1855 census for Chemung Co from the LDS church. This film is now on permanent loan at the LDS Church on Broad St in Horseheads. I spent many hours looking at the film and trying to be as correct as possible with the names.  I spent hours looking at the 1850 and 1860 census records trying to figure out names that were in question. I had other genealogists look at the records to help me figure out names. If you don’t agree with what I have typed I suggest you look at the film at the LDS church. There is a copy of the records at the clerk’s office in Elmira but the records in the census books there are copies that are faded and hard to read. For any names that I wasn’t sure of I put question marks after them. In a few cases I added names from other sources and put parenthesis around them. The census taker stopped putting visitation numbers in the columns after # 378 and either left it blank or put a 1 in the space. There was a page and half of records missing from the library’s records that I found and added from the microfilm. This took me about 1 ½ yrs to type up, much longer then I thought it would. I hope it will help everyone that looks at it. I did my best with what I had.

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Inmates of County Poor House are on page 37
Be sure to scroll to the right to see the entire page.
Dwelling # in order of visitation of what material built value family # in order of visitation Name of every person who lived in this abode 1st day of June age sex color relationship to head of family county born or what state married widowed years in residence profession voter native born voter naturalized alien persons of color not taxed persons over 21 who can't read or write owners of land
183 frame 1500 198 Christie James 34 M     Ontario 1   6 lawyer 1         1
        Christie Martha 31 F   wife Ontario 1   6              
        Still Harriet 17 F   servant Chemung     17              
184 frame 200 199 Foster George N. 40 M     Delaware 1   1 farmer 1          
        Foster Louisa 43 F   wife Delaware 1   1              
        Foster Harriet 15 F   daughter Cortland     1              
        Foster Gertrude 12 F   daughter Cortland     1              
        Foster Hellen 10 F   daughter Cortland     1              
        Foster William N. 9 M   son Cortland     1              
        Foster George N. 5 M   son Cortland     1              
        Foster Marilla 3 F   daughter Cortland     1              
185 frame 800 200 Conkling Ebenezer 70 M     Orange     15 farmer 1         1
        Conkling Amy 67 F   wife Orange     15              
        Conkling Charles M. 42 M   son Seneca     15 farmer 1          
        Parly/Parder Ebenezer C. 15 M   g-son Seneca     6              
        Parly/Parder Ann M. 13 F   g-daughter Chemung     6              
        Mathews Mary 86 F   mother Orange 1   61              
        Brown Bridget 17 F   servant Ireland 1   2              
186 frame 150 201 Porter David 32 M     New Jersey   W 25 laborer 1          
        Porter Lucinda 21 F   wife Chemung     21              
        Allen Charlotte 63 F   mother New Jersey 1   23              
        Porter Francis E. 3 F   daughter Chemung 1   3              
        Porter Ida P. 4m F   daughter Chemung   W 4m              
187 plank 25 202 Wait Henry 25 M     Tompkins 1   6 laborer 1          
        Wait Susan 21 F   wife Chemung 1   21              
        Wait Mary 3 F   daughter Chemung     3              
        Wait Henry Jr. 4m M   son Chemung     4m              
188 board 10 203 Decker George 40 M     Orange 1   4 laborer 1          
        Decker Abbie 30 F   wife Orange 1   4              
        Decker Amos 11 M   son Orange     4              
        Decker William 10 M   son Orange     4              
        Decker Charles 6 M   son Orange     4              
        Decker Eliza 3 F   daughter Chemung     3              
        Decker Samuel 1 M   son Chemung     1              
189 framed 600 204 Shute Edward 53 M     Westchester 1   6 farmer 1          
        Shute Phebe 43 F   wife Orange 1   6              
        Shute Jane 18 F   daughter Chemung     6              
190 framed 2000 205 Hetfield Richard 62 M     Chemung 1   62 farmer 1          
        Hetfield Susan 48 F   wife Chemung 1   48              
        Hetfield William D. 17 M   son Chemung     17              
        Hetfield Charles 15 M   son Chemung     15              
        Hetfield Abner 12 M   son Chemung     12              
        Hetfield Thomas 8 M   son Chemung     8              
        Nelson David 32 M   son Chemung     4 laborer 1          
        Cadway Angeline 24 F   boarder Tompkins     6m              
191 frame 200 206 Brown Polly 57 F     Broome     52              
        Kline John 30 M   son New Jersey   W 36   1        

Last Updated on 10/6/2008
By Joyce M. Tice