Thomas Sands

Birth Name Thomas Sands
Gender male
Age at Death about 37 years, 11 days

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth about 1834 Ireland   1a
Naturalization before 1870     2a
Residence January 11, 1870 Ballaghanery Townland, Kilkeel Civil Parish, County Down, Ireland   3a
Event Note

Thomas' civil marriage record said he was "of Ballyanery." There is a Ballaghanery Townland in Kilkeel District.

Immigration (Husband) March 28, 1870 New York, New York, United States   4a
Event Note

March 28, 1870, aboard the City Of Brussels
Port of New York
Thomas Sands, 36, mason, country to which he belongs: United States
Selina Sands, 21, wife, belongs: England
both hope to be residents of United States

This is not Thomas' immigration voyage. Thomas is a citizen at the time of the 1870 census on August 1. So he had been in the US for a while.

Census (Head) August 1, 1870 Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States   2a
Event Note

1870 Census, Cleveland, 5th Ward, page 233, family 1892
August 1, 1870
Thomas Sands, 36, laborer in bridge shop, real estate worth: $2000, personal estate: $100, born in Ireland, parents foreign born, married in January 1870, a citizen
Salina Sands, 21, keeping house, born in Ireland, parents foreign born, married in January 1870

Death January 12, 1871 Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States   1a
Event Note

Record of Deaths, Cuyahoga County
January 12, 1871
Thomas Sands, 37, born in Ireland, of scarlet fever. residence: Cleveland

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Thomas Sands
         Thomas Sands about 1834 January 12, 1871

Families

Family of Thomas Sands and Selina Sloan

Married Wife Selina Sloan ( b. November 12, 1849 d. March 16, 1938 )
   
Event Date Place Description Sources
Marriage January 11, 1870 Kilkeel Catholic Parish, County Down, Ireland   3a
Event Note

RC Chapel of Kilkeel, Registrar's District of Kilkeel, County of Down
Marriage #37
January 11, 1870
Thomas Sands, of age, a farmer, of Ballyanery [Ballaghanery?], father: Thomas Sands, a farmer
Selina Sloan, of age, a spinster, of Ballymadeerfy, father: Henry Sloan, a farmer
witnesses: Edward Murney, and Sarah Rourke
married by Patrick Meehan, CC

  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Mary T “Minnie” O'RourkeNovember 17, 1870about February 25, 1962

Source References

  1. Ohio County Death Records, 1840-2001
      • Page: January 12, 1871, Thomas Sands, of Cleveland
      • Citation:

        "Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F6V6-SXJ : 13 December 2014), Thomas Sands, 12 Jan 1871; citing Death, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States, source ID p375 no25, County courthouses, Ohio; FHL microfilm 1,977,372.

  2. National Archives and Records Administration: 1870 United States Census
      • Page: Cleveland, 5th Ward, page 233, family 1892
      • Citation:

        "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6K2-LLX : 12 April 2016), Thos Sands, Ohio, United States; citing p. 233, family 1892, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,688.

  3. Irish Civil Registration Records, Marriages
      • Page: January 11, 1870, Sands-Sloan, Kilkeel District, #37
  4. New York Passenger Lists
      • Page: March 28, 1870, SS City of Brussels
      • Citation:

        "New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1891," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK9Q-7T31 : 16 April 2015), Thomas Sands, 1870; citing NARA microfilm publication M237 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm .