Shallcross of Pennsylvania USA and Derbyshire England

SHALLCROSS
This journal is the beginning of my search for my ancestors. I have started with my maternal grandfather. This journal will be updated as more information is gathered and substaniated – Carol VanDoran (July, 2011)

John Hamilton SHALLCROSS - grandfather
Born 12-13-1891 in Philadelphia, PA
Died 1942

U.S. World War II Draft Registration Cards, 4-27-1942 Record for John Hamilton Shallcross
Lived at 2913 Kipp Street, Philadelphia, PA – Signed by Mrs. Ben EVANS (my mother’s sister Gertrude Shallcross)
Age 50 – Unemployed – 5’81/2” tall, 164 lbs. hazel eyes, gray hair, eyeglasses

1930 United States Federal Census
Lived at 3131 Amber Street, Philadelphia, PA
John Shallcross – DOB abt. 1891 - age 38 – laborer – street cleaning department
Wife – Gertrude Shallcross – DOB abt. 1895 - age 35
Son – Joseph Shallcross – DOB abt. 1916 – age 14
Daughter – Gertrude Shallcross – DOB 1917 – age 13
Daughter – Marie Shallcross – DOB 1918 – age 11 (my mother)

1920 United States Federal Census
Lived at 2019 Clementine Street, Philadelphia, PA
John Shallcross – DOB abt. 1893 - age 27 – bottling factory
Wife – Gertrude Shallcross – DOB abt. 1897 - age 23
Son – Joseph Shallcross – DOB abt. 1915 – age 5
Daughter – Gertrude Shallcross – DOB abt. 1917 – age 3
Daughter – Marie Shallcross – DOB abt. 1916 – age 2

World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 Record for John H Shallcross
Lived at 2019 Clementine Street, Philadelphia, PA
Age 25 – Bottler, Booth Brothers, Clearfield and Ruth Streets, Philadelphia, PA – 5’ 6” tall, gray eyes, black hair – married, one child

Samuel F. Shallcross – great grandfather
DOB abt 1858
1930 United State Federal Census
Lived at 3072 Braddock Street, Philadelphia, PA
Son-in-law – Frederick Smith – DOB about 1903 – age 27 – chauffer – soft drinks truck
Daughter – Selena Shallcross Smith – DOB about 1905 – age 25
Niece – Viola SMITH – DOB about 1925– age 4 years, 7 months
Niece – Betty J. SMITH – DOB about 1928 – age 1 year, 10 months
Samuel Shallcross - DOB about 1858 – age 72 – laborer – soft drinks place
lived next door to his son Samuel Shallcross Jr. (age 34 – steelworker - automobile) who
Lived at 3070 Braddock Street, Philadelphia, PA
with wife Mary (age 38 – examiner – hosiery mill), daughter Martha (age 14 – winder – ribbon mill), son Samuel III (age 13), and son Joseph (age 10)

1910 United States Federal Census
Lived at 2031 Commissioner Street, Philadelphia, PA (Ward 25)
Father – Samuel F. Shallcross – est. DOB 1861 – age 49 – foreman - stable
Mother – Martha E. Shallcross – est. DOB 1862 – age 48 -
Brother – Daniel R. Shallcross – est. DOB 1892 – age 27 -
John H. Shallcross – est. DOB 1892 – age 18 (single) – finisher - Harts
Brother – Samuel F. Shallcross Jr. – est DOB 1896 – age 14 – errand boy
Brother – Joseph C. Shallcross – est DOB 1903 – age 7
Sister – Lillian J (G). Shallcross – est DOB 1894 – age 16 – folder – knitting mill
Sister – Martha E. Shallcross – est DOB 1900 – age 10
Sister – Selina E. Shallcross – est DOB 1905(2) – age 8

1900 United States Federal Census
Lived at 3055 Braddock Street, Philadelphia, PA (Ward 25)
Father – Samuel F. Shallcross DOB 02-00-1859 – age 41 – driver (builder)
Mother – Martha Shallcross DOB 05-00-1860 – age 40
Brother – Daniel Shallcross DOB 04-00-1882 – age 18 – driver – coal cart
John H. Shallcross DOB 12-00-1891 – age 8 – at school
Sister – Lilian Shallcross DOB 11-00-1893 – 6
Brother – Samuel Shallcross DOB 12-00-1894 – age 5
Sister – Martha Shallcross DOB 12-00-1899 – age 5 months

JOHN HAMILTON SHALLCROSS - posted 12 Sep 2012
(1835 – 1911)

John Hamilton Shallcross is my 2nd great grandfather. He was born on Tuesday, May 5th, 1835 in Pennsylvania. This date was calculated based on his death certificate, which shows that he was 75 years, 10 months, and 5 days of age when he died. Though he was born just a few years into the mass immigration from Europe to the United States, his ancestors had actually immigrated more than a hundred years before he was born. He was the youngest of the ten children of Charles Shallcross and Jane Van Buskirk. Living on a farm on the eastern coast of the United States, he was probably little aware of the Mexican-American War which was being waged in the western part of the country when he was a boy. Apparently his family had not been lured by the prospect of untold riches as they did not migrate west during the California Gold Rush. Until 1856, he lived on his parent’s farm in Oxford Township, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In June of 1856, at age 21 he married Phoebe A. Fisher. The American Civil War broke out in 1861, and while he did register for the draft a couple of years later, there is no evidence that he actually served during the Civil War. At age 26, he was married and had two children, Josephine, age 4, and Samuel, age 2. When he was 27, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. John was a farmer and had a farm in Oxford Township, Pennsylvania, that was situated between the farms of Leonard and Mary Shallcross, his grandfather and grandmother, and George and Rebecca Shallcross, his brother and sister-in-law. The value of his real estate at that time was $2300.00. The value of his personal estate was $700.00.

In June of 1863, John registered for the United States Civil War Draft. The area in which he was living was now beginning to take shape and he found himself living in Precinct 9, Ward 23 of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Bristol Road. At the age of 29, he was baptized in the Rehoboth Methodist Episcopal Church in what was and still is the Frankford section of the City of Philadelphia. Shortly thereafter, President Abraham Lincoln became the first of two presidents that John would live to see assassinated. By the age of 37, in 1870, he had two more children, Edward, age 6 and Eva, age 3. He and his wife were still living on the same farm they occupied in 1860. By 1872, he had given up the farm and was now a wheelwright. By 1880, at the age of 45, he had had one more son, Albert, then age 10. He was living with his wife and his four youngest children at 938 Bridge Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Although he was now living in the City of Philadelphia, his home was not really very far from his former farm. City expansion had brought the cities northeastern boundaries out to engulf what was once Oxford Township.

His oldest daughter Josephine had left the family home, but his son Samuel married a girl named Martha and she was living with John’s family in 1880. Samuel and Martha are my great grandparents. Toward the end of that decade, when he was in his early fifties, both his daughter Eva and his son Edward were married. Edward left the family home, but his sister Eva remained with her new husband. In 1901, President William McKinley was also assassinated. In 1903 the Wright brothers made their first historic flight, and just five years later, the first Model T Ford automobile was manufactured. By 1910 the family had moved to 1782 Bridge Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was living there along with his wife Phoebe, his son James, his daughter Eva and her husband, William Hinkle, and their children, William Jr., Eva, and Ethel. John died on March 10th, 1911 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The cause of death was listed as apoplexy. He was buried on March 14th, 1911 in North Cedar Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a cemetery that his ancestors had helped to establish.

1870 United States Federal Census
Lived in Philadelphia, PA, Division 9, Ward 23 – Post Office: Frankford
Head John Shallcross – est DOB 1833 – age 37
Wife Pheby W. Shallcross – est DOB 1836 – age 34
Daughter – Josephene – est DOB 1857 – age 13 (died or was married before 1880)
Son – Samuel Shallcross – est DOB 1857 - age 11
Son – Edward Shallcross – est DOB 1864 – age 6
Daughter – Eva Shallcross – Est DOB 1867 – age 3