1900 Census
Having just heard about Virginia Carbis, I redid my searches, checked old maps and found that Virgina Burd, Mary Ann Carbis and Pauline Carbis Gelstin always lived next door to each other.
I find them lined up in a row in the 1870 Census of Pittsburgh, and then again in the census of 1900, in New Derry. Neighbors, Mary Ann is living with Pauline. 78 years old, she tells the census taker that she bore 9 children, three are still alive.
I have always had very serious doubts about Harry J. Carbis, but it seems that he, Pauline Gelstin and Virginia Burd might be the last surviving children of Mary Ann Logan and Samuel Carbis.
You know, it seems that no one can spell their name correctly. I find them in the 1840 census of Pittsburgh and again in the 1870 census. At some point between 1872 and 1880, Samuel Carbis dies.
I have done searches on their neighbors from both 1840 and 1870, but can find nothing. 1840 strikes me as a *starter* house, the place in 1870 as somewhere that they can give the girls a place next to them.
I cannot find them between 1840 and 1870, the years during which Mary Ann Logan will have those 9 children. One of them being my Maggie.
How many ways are there to spell Carbis wrong ?