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William was born on November 30th, 1770 in Maryland or Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.1   William's father was William Henry Ambrose and his mother is Sarah. He had nine brothers and two sisters, named Mathias, Peter, Henry, Philip, John, Frederick, Jacob, Daniel, Solomon, Peggy and Catherine.  He was the fourth oldest of the twelve children.  He died at the age of 79 on August 23rd, 1850 in Hillsboro, Highland County, Ohio.  He was buried in Ambrose Cemetery, Newmarket Twp, Highland County, Ohio.2 2 

William's family

William and Susanna were married in a religious ceremony in 1796 in Frederick County, Virginia.3   They had six sons and four daughters, named Jacob, George, William, Christian, Mathias, Lewis, Elizabeth, Christena, Susan and Catherine.


1 1850 Federal Census,  Maryland
2 David N. McBride & Jane N. McBride, Cemetery Inscriptions of Highland County, Ohio (2nd Ed., 1972)
3 Religious Telescope, Obituary for William Hanby Ambrose (Circleville, Ohio: United Brethern Church: 8 Jan 1851)
4 Wendell F. Inskeep, Family History
5 Jane Neuharth
6 Kay Roberts Martin
7 Harold K. Byrd, Descendants of William Hanby AMBROSE (27 Mar 1999)
8 Yoland Campbell Lifter, Tombstone Photos
9 Ruth Ambrose Stennett, Ambrose, Kapp, and branch lines dating from their 1770s immigrations to 1990
10 Elsie Johnson Ayres, 1972, Highland Pioneer Sketches & Family Genealogies (H. K. Skinner & Son)
11 Roberta Buckley
Sources/Citations Family history written by Mathias Hathaway Ambrose, 1910 (Transc. Marie Pieffer), Marilyn K. Harton, Harold K. & Carol J. Byrd, BYRDS and SONNERS of Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, U.S. Federal Census


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