♂Richard Merryman

Richard Merryman (a FamilySearch index dates him 22 December 1836 – 16 January 1914) was a man of Haverhill, Massachusetts, who grew up in a Brunswick, Maine, mariner’s household. He was the great-grand-uncle of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), the brother of her great-grandfather William Simpson Merryman (1840–1909). His parents were John Merryman (1808–1891) and Eleanor C. McManus (1809–1891).

A FamilySearch index gives his birth on 22 December 1836 and his christening on 24 December 1836 at Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine; the 1905 Merryman genealogy by the Rev. Charles Nelson Sinnett gives the 24th as his birthday. He was one of ten children. In the 1850 census of Brunswick he was thirteen, living with his father, a mariner, his mother and most of his brothers and sisters, among them William Simpson, three years his junior, and with his mother’s father, Robert McManus, a farmer of eighty-five. Sinnett’s genealogy says that on 4 July 1869 he married Ella A. Roberts. His brother William had settled at Haverhill by 1866, and the 1900 census finds Richard in Haverhill Ward 6, Essex County. A FamilySearch index gives his death on 16 January 1914 at Haverhill.

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The FamilySearch death index gives a birth year of 1837, and an index of the 1850 census gives 1838; the census itself, with his age of thirteen, fits 1836 or 1837.