Eleanor "Helena" J. WICKHAM

  General Notes:

NOTE: Betty Fink and others on Ancestry.com report that Eleanor married Robert Parker after her marriage to Aaron Pelton. However, it seems possible that she might have died after her son Ezekiel was b. in 1853 since Aaron Pelton was listed as widowed in 1855 and her Pelton children were listed with Eleanor's parents in the 1855 and 1860 census. In the 1900 census she states she has 2 children, 2 living. Could this Ellen who married Robert Parker be someone else??

1850 NY CENSUS, Albany Co, town of Coeymans:
Aaron Pelton, 25, laborer, b. NY;
"Ellenor", 25, b. NY;
"Ellenor" S., 3, b. NY;
"Marietta", 1, b. NY.
(Listed near Ezekiel "Weekham" and Daniel Wickham on census.)

1860 NY CENSUS, Albany Co, town of Bethlehem, Bethlehem Center P.O.:
Robert Parker, 37, farm laborer, b. NY, cannot read/write;
Ellen, 31, b. NY;
Matthew, 8, b. NY, attended school;
Daniel,1, b. NY.

1870 NY CENSUS, Albany Co, town of Coeymans, Coeymans Hollow P.O.:
Robert Parker, 46, farm laborer, $500 real estate, $100 personal property, b. NY, cannot read/write;
"Elanor", 46, keeping house, b. NY, cannot read/write;
"Mathew" V., 19, farm laborer, b. NY;
Daniel, 11, attending school, b. NY;
Anna, 3, at home, b. NY;
Jonathan, 38, farm laborer, b. NY, cannot read/write.
(Listed next to James Pelton, whose daughter Rebecca J. would later marry Benjamin F. Wickham, and near Ezekiel Wickham.)

1880 NY CENSUS, Albany Co, town of Coeymans:
Robert Parker, 56, laborer, cannot read/write, b. NY, parents b. NY;
Ellen, wife, 56, keeping house, cannot read/write, b. NY, parents b. NY;
Daniel, son, 21, teamster, married within year, b. NY, parents b. NY;
"Sharlot", dau, 17, domestic servant, married within year, b. NY, parents b. NY;
Anna, dau, 15, domestic servant, b. NY, parents b. NY.
(Listed on the same census page were Daniel "Wickam"& his mother Peggy "Wickam".

1900 NY CENSUS, Albany Co, town of Coeymans:
Jane Reynolds, head, Nov. 1819, 80, wd, 3 children, 0 living, b. NY, parents b. NY;
"Hellen" Carknoff, head, Apr 1842, 58, wd, 7 children, 3 living, b. NY, parents b. NY;
Mina Carknoff, son, May 1874, 26, single, day laborer, b. NY, parents b. NY;
Edward Carknoff, son, Jun 1867, single, b. NY, parents b. NY;
Ellen Parker, head, Jun 1822, 78, wd, 2 children, 2 living, b. NY, parents b. NY.
(Listed near Joel Pelton, John P. Van "Allstyne" and Martin Rarrick on census.)

Eleanor married Aaron PELTON on 5 Nov 1845 in Coeymans Hollow, Albany Co, NY.¹ (Aaron PELTON was born on 24 Aug 1824 in Athens, Greene Co, NY ^{1 5 6} and died after 1900 in probably Albany Co, NY ⁵.)

Eleanor next married Robert PARKER about 1854 in NY.² (Robert PARKER was born about 1824 in NY ⁷.)