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Margaret Brown is listed as 65 years old, a housekeeper and native of Ireland, married to John Brown, and as having a 27 year old son, John, also a barber and native of Ireland.

Margaret Brown is listed as a resident of the first ward in New York, aged 55, employed in "keeping house", and registered as unable to read.

second page of the 1860 census

This document is page one of two. Margaret Brown, age 42 in 1860, is a sixth ward resident.

The records shows Brown to be 38 years old at the time of the census, wife to a barber named John Brown, an immigrant from Ireland. The document additionally show that she had been a resident of the city for 6 years at the time of the census and was…