Ohhhhhh Shirley Shirley Shirley Shirley. !
WHAT a total mess that post is, you've got a lot of good information but the way it's presented is SUCH an incomprehensible, confusing, and opaque, hodge podge.
That's why you haven't received any replies, no one could understand what you've written.
Not helped by the fact that you've posted it on the wrong part of the forum.
THIS board is about the origins of particular surnames NOT about the history of specific people and families with a particular surname.
Even the occasional line break spacing would have helped, I've read through it quite a few times and it honestly made me dizzy and I found it to be more confusing each time I read it.
The best thing to do would be to rewrite it in a more comprehensible and easily digestible style and repost it it the proper place on the forum, which would be the Lenington family board, and or, an appropriate geographical location board such as, for example, an Ohio board.
http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.lenington/mb.ashxhttp://boards.ancestry.com/topics.census.us.oh/mb.ashxhttp://boards.ancestry.com/topics.cemetery.us.ohio/mb.ashxhttp://boards.ancestry.com/topics.researchresources.lookups....Or even better, also put it into a tree form, it's much easier to follow visually.
In any future written posts list them all in order of age, oldest first, then the next generation, and if you're going to talk about John then TALK about John, don't talk about him then move on to someone else and then jump back to John again, that just makes your post confusing to read and almost impossible to comprehend.
You talk about email addresses, and yet neither you nor a lot of other people on this site put their email addresses in their posts or on their profiles, which just baffles me.
You should also be aware that non paying members of this site can't send or receive private messages via the site's messaging system to they have to be contacted via off site email.
My email address is on my profile if you need to use it.
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Right, let's take as your certain starting point, your grandfather ALBERT LENINGTON, I assume you know for certain that the person you listed truly is your actual grandfather.
I'm also assuming based on what you said about locations for other people and from some of the names listed that the chap below IS the ALBERT to whom you are referring.
Taking him as your definite and accurate starting point should enable you to work backwards and forwards from him with less risk of going off track and following false leads.
I'll leave it to you to figure out which is the town and which is the county in any results findings, that's important stuff, because sometimes a record will list the town, sometimes the county, sometimes both, and sometimes the town and the county will have the same name.
It's important to know which is which because that can affect other searches.
Say what religion they are, that can affect which cemetery they'll be buried in.
Do some research, build on and confirm your existing information, get your basic framework and relationships in place and you can then go back afterwards and find and fill in the missing details such as maiden names and cemeteries.
Don't worry about dates of birth and ages being out by a couple of years on a census, that's very common.
Find one person and you can usually click on each member of the household and check them out in more detail.
Also some census returns will also have a link to a picture of the original census document, so always view that and download it.
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O.K. "United States Census, 1880
Location = Casey, Clark, Illinois
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Township,_Clark_County,_I...Casey Township changed its name from Cumberland in September 1876.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MXNZ-9G9ALBERT LENINGTON AND FAMILY
Albert aged 32 a farmer and a widower ( poor Albert, and poor wife, both so young and with three children and a farm to run )...so no wife...
3 children
Emeline Lenington aged 8
Isabelle Lenington aged 6
John W. Lenington aged 2
We also learn that Albert and his late wife were both born in Ohio, which is where the also married.
Perhaps his wife had been a victim of milk sickness along the Ohio river valley which is where they had lived in Ohio, and perhaps that was why Albert moved to Illinois.
Milk sickness is an illness caused by a plant toxin when cows eat the plant concerned and humans are effected when they drink the milk.
it killed a lot of people along the Ohio river valley and had caused Abraham Lincoln's family to move from Ohio to Illinois.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_sicknessTheir wedding was probably circa 1871/1872, and his wife must have died circa 1878/1880.
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In the 1850 census for
Clayton, Perry, Ohio, United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Township,_Perry_County,...https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MXQY-69ZWe find the 1 year old Albert and his family.
His father John is 44 his mother Jane is 43.
Your great grandparents of course.
They have 4 children including Albert.
The oldest is 16 so that puts their marriage at circa 1833/1834.
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in the 1860 census
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MCGM-7JH11 year old Albert is living in Clayton Township , Perry, Ohio
the rest of his family must be listed individually rather than onone record as one group, but they'll br findable.
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4th July 1871 obviously a carefully chosen date because is on that date that we see Albert circa 23 years old marrying his wife and future widow Jennettie Coutter in Perry County Ohio.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XDD4-8ZXHe's listed as Lennington possibly a transcription error.
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and there I must leave Albert for now, meanwhile if you wan to continue your search kick off below...
https://familysearch.org/It takes a while to get the hang of, but it's very productive and well worth the effort.
and if you want some personal assistance and acess to a lot of records, and all for free, try a visit to one of their many local research centres below...
https://familysearch.org/locationsIf you want to know more about the historical origins of the Leningtons see below...
They were from The English county of Yorkshire originally.
Yorkshire was invaded and settled by the Vikings so perhaps you've got some Viking blood in you. !
http://www.ancientfaces.com/research/surname/Leningtonhttp://www.houseofnames.com/lenington-family-crest?a=54323-2...Right, time for bed for you and time for breakfast for me.
Au revoir.
PS- here's Albert's folks in 1850...your great grandparents.
Pike Perry Ohio
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