Latta Ancestry - Emigration from Ireland to United States to Canada (Stage 2)

William John Latta (1761-1796) and Anne Jackson (1761-1847)

William John Latta was born in 1761 in Donegal, Londonderry, Ireland. At that time, his father James Latta (1727-1800) was age 34 (research has yet to identify William’s mother). The ancestry records indicate that he was christened on October 21, 1762 in Dalry, Ayr, Scotland. He emigrated to the United States with his father and siblings about 1768 at the age of 7 years, arriving at Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

On October 30, 1776, William John Latta enlisted in Captain John A. Bradt’s company of State Rangers, being discharged on January 23, 1777, as unfit for duty. His name appears on the rolls of the 3^rd Albany County Militia. In 1778, when he was 17 years old, he married Anne Jackson in New York. As their family tree shows, they had eight children in 17 years.

Family of William Latta and Anne Jackson

When their son, John William Latta was born on August 11, 1782, in Manhattan, New York, William and Anne were both 21 years old. The 1790 United States Federal Census shows that William and Anne, along with their five children, lived in Watervliet, Albany, New York. In the 1790 Watervliet Township census, William is listed as a lime maker by trade but educated for sea captain. William John Latta died in 1796 in New Scotland, Albany, New York, at the age of 35, and was buried there.

United States Federal Census 1790 (click to enlarge)

When Anne Jackson was born on May 15, 1761, in Tyringham, Massachusetts, United States, her father, Colonel Giles Jackson (1733-1810) was 28, and her mother, Anna Thomas (1740-1780) was 21. She married William John Latta in 1878. When William died, she remarried and had four sons and four daughters with David Manning (1759-1816). She died on August 5, 1847, in New Scotland, Albany, New York, having lived a long life of 86 years, and was buried in Broome, New York.

Family of Giles Jackson and Anna Thomas

Latta Ancestry – Five Generations in Canada

The Latta family lineage originates in Ireland with emigration in 1768 to the United States and then to Canada in 1833, as explained in the previous posting Latta Ancestry - Emigration from Ireland to United States to Canada (Stage 1).

Four Generations of Latta Men in Canada, c.1906

The above photograph (Four Generations of Latta Men in Canada, c.1906), presents our direct Latta lineage in Canada. Gilbert James Latta, the son of John William Latta, was the first in the Latta family tree to be born in Canada in 1822, almost 200 years ago. The stories of the following five generations of Latta men in Canada are based on family history and Ontario vital records (birth, marriage and death).

•  John William Latta (1782-1846).
•  Gilbert James Latta (1822-1906), seated.
•  James Gilbert Latta (1852-1938), left rear.
•  Walter James Latta (1873-1932), right rear.
•  James Cyril Latta (1901–1986) at 5 years of age.

The Ontario Birth Records indicate that James Cyril Latta was born on March 18, 1901 in Thurlow, Ontario. He was the first-born and only son of Walter James Latta (1873-1932) and Sadie Elizabeth Coulson (1881-1941). Cyril had only one sister, Marjorie Uldean Latta, who was born in Toronto, Ontario on April 28, 1905. Marjorie Uldean Latta and Harold William McConnell were married on January 9, 1924 in Campbellford, Ontario. At that point, the Latta family history became inter-twined with the McConnell family history (refer to the posting McConnell Ancestry in Canada – An Overview).