I would like to locate further information or descendants of this family group to help with identification for Edward H. Scout of 1880 census for Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., PA. He is age 38 born in PA, and occupation is bricklayer. He has wife Elizabeth, and sons Edward (or Edmund), age 13, Harry Scout, age 10 and Leon Scout , age 8.
Philadelphia City Directory, 1890
Scout Edmund, Jr.
Profession: spinner Address: h 1636 Bancroft
Scout Edmund Profession: bricklayer Address: h 1636 Bancroft
Son, Harry Scout, is found in Phila. census of 1910.
1920 US Census for Edmund J Scout
Age: 42 State: PA
Color: W Enumeration District: 0596
Birth Place: Pennsylvania Visit: 0012
County: Philadelphia
Relation: Head of Household
Other Residents: Relation Name Age Birth Place
Wife Jennie 40 Pennsylvania
Son George T 14 Pennsylvania
Daughter Maria 12 Pennsylvania
Son Bertram 04 Pennsylvania
Daughter Dorothy 02 Pennsylvania
Bertram Scout, age 24, found in 1930 U.S. Federal Census • Pennsylvania • Delaware County,Yeadon • District 179. He is living with his father, Edmund J. Scout, age 61, who is likely the son of Edward H. Scout and Bertram is the grandson of Edward H. Also in the 1930 household is Jenny M. wife of Edmund, age 60, another son Francis Scout, age 19, and a daughter, Mary Scout age 8.
I would like to learn more about where this Scout family group originated and who Edward H. Scout's parents were.
Below is family tree gleaned mostly from US Census data and is only tentative.
1-Edward H. Scout b: Abt 1842, PA
+Elizabeth //Scout// b: Abt 1845, New Jersey
|--2-Edmund J. Scout Jr. b: Aug 1867, PA, d: After 1930
| +Jennie M. //Scout// b: Feb 1869, PA, d: After 1930, m: Abt 1893-1895, Est.
| Per 1900 and 1930 Census Age At Marriage
| |--3-George F. Scout b: May 1895, PA
| |--3-Marian Scout b: Jun 1897, PA
| |--3-Edmund Scout b: Nov 1898, PA
| |--3-Bertram Scout b: Jul 21, 1905, PA, d: Mar 1974, Wilmington, New Castle, DE
| | +Roseanna Elkins Sprogell
| | |--4-Joseph Scout b: Mar 26, 1939, d: Sep 1979, DE
| | |--4-Richard Scout b: Jan 20, 1945, d: Dec 6, 1983, Wilmington, Delaware
| |--4-Bertram Scout Jr. b: May 1, 1935, d: Oct 1993
| |--3-Dorothy Scout b: Abt 1908, PA
| |--3-Francis Scout b: Abt 1911, PA
| |--3-Mary Scout b: Abt 1922, PA
|--2-Harry Scout b: Abt 1870, PA
| +Charlotte //Scout// b: Abt 1869, PA, m: Abt 1896
| |--3-Harry Scout b: Abt 1896, PA
| |--3-Helen Scout b: Abt 1899, PA
| |--3-Ethel Scout b: Abt 1905, PA
| |--3-William Scout b: Abt 1908, PA
| |--3-Isabelle Scout b: 1910, PA
|--2-Leon Scout b: Abt 1872, PA
Please feel free to contact me by email if anyone has any further data will help connect them to their ancestral SCOUT family.
Thanks.
Virginia
