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- David Harten was probably born in County Monaghan, Ireland. His son William Harten's Ancestral File claims that David was born in Barnhill, Lanark, Scotland, and died in "Poorhouse" Springburn, Lanark, Scotland, but this is a mistaken reading of his death certificate. The name of the poorhouse in Springburn is "Barnhill". His death certificate shows his place of birth as "unknown" and his parents' names as "unknown". As he lived most of his life in Whitehouse District, Belfast, Antrim, Ireland and was married in County Monaghan, Ireland, then it seems far more likely that he, like his wife, also came from County Monaghan.
Family correspondence indicates that David's wife, Mary Ann Jackson, died in Whitehouse District, Belfast. David is not found in Scottish census records for 1861 or 1871, thus it is presumed that he lived nearly his entire life in Ireland and only came to Glasgow sometime between 1871-1873 after his wife died and presumably to be with his daughter and her family.
According to David's only surviving son, William, David had a very large family with many sons. All of his sons except for William are said to have died in the Crimean War (ca. 1854-1856).
David's official cause of death is recorded as "softening of the brain". His grandson noted the following: "He was a very small, reserved man. While sitting on a bench in Glasgow Green, he toppled over dead. No cause of death could be found at the inquest. So, after he was buried, his body was lifted for medical purposes, and it was found that his brain had gone to liquid."
The following excerpt comes from David's son, William, as preserved in Beverly Jackson's family notes:
David Harten and Ann had a nice home and a large farm in scotland. Because of the people they were ,a man that worked on there farm , need to be baled out of jail , the man ran away and David had to sell the house and the farm to payoff that bill. So he went to work at the whighthouse which was for poor people work. It was allso the poor house, the would buried them to. When sitting on a bench in Glasglow David fell dead after the funral his boby was taken for Medical purposes and found that he's brain had turned to liquid. David brother's were killed in the Criman War. David was a small man died about 1874.
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Abt 1803 - 1873 (~ 70 years)
