Tom Gelling, c.1860s
Name/Title
Tom Gelling, c.1860sEntry/Object ID
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Warrensville Township, 19th Century, Isle of Man, 1860sDescription
Tintype gem portrait of a young boy identified as Tom Gelling on verso. Tintype features some hand tinting on the subject's face and is mounted in an elaborate miniature frame to a decorative cartes-de-visite size card. Gelling was recorded in the Corlett household in the 1860 census.Photograph Details
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TintypeSubject Person or Organization
Thomas GellingContext
According to census records, Thomas Gelling was born in Ohio in 1850 to parents from the Isle of Man. In the 1860 census, he is listed as a pauper in the household of William Corlett. Other Gelling children appear in that census living with different Manx families, suggesting that the family may have faced difficult circumstances and that the children were cared for by members of the local Manx immigrant community.Category
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