George Renton ^{1 2 3}

  Baptism Notes:

Name: George Renton
Event Type: Christening
Event Date: 1 May 1825
Event Place: Innerwick, Haddingtonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Event Place (Original): Innerwick, East Lothian, Scotland
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 9 Apr 1825
Father's Name: Andrew Renton
Mother's Name: Agnes Wallace
Reference ID: - 2:15RNPCD

Citing this Record
"Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTYW-9GD : 12 February 2020), Agnes Wallace in entry for George Renton, 1825.
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  Burial Notes:

Find a Grave Memorial ID: 217888327
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/217888327/george-renton: accessed 14 Aug 2026), memorial page for George Renton (9 Apr 1825\'96unknown), Find a Grave Memorial ID 217888327, citing Riverside Cemetery, South Rockwood, Monroe County, Michigan, USA; Maintained by Loretta (contributor 47069766).
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  Noted events in his life were:

1. 1851 Scotland Census, 30 March 1851, Spott, East Lothian, Scotland. ¹ 1851 Scotland Census
ED 3, Page 12, Household schedule 45, Roll: CSSCT1851_193
Spott, East Lothian
Address: Village Of Spott
George Benton..Head..25..Innerwick, Haddingtonshire..Farm Laborer

(Living with wife and daughter.)

2. Immigration: Harmonia, 14 July 1851, New York, New York, New York, United States. ⁴

3. 1860 US Census, 22 June 1860, Huron Township, Wayne, Michigan, United States. ³ 1860 US Census
Page 75, Roll 564, Dwelling 657, Family 620
Huron Township, Wayne, Michigan
George Renton..35..SCOTLAND..Farmer

(Living with wife and 3 children.)

George married Agnes Hamilton, daughter of Archibald Hamilton and Little, about 1847.¹ (Agnes Hamilton was born on 18 May 1824 in Cockburnspath, Berwickshire, Scotland, United Kingdom,^{1 3 5} died on 22 February 1905 in Ash Township, Monroe, Michigan, United States and was buried on 24 February 1905 in Riverside Cemetery, South Rockwood, Monroe, Michigan, United States.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

1. 1851 Scotland Census, 30 March 1851, Spott, East Lothian, Scotland. ¹ 1851 Scotland Census
ED 3, Page 12, Household schedule 45, Roll: CSSCT1851_193
Spott, East Lothian
Address: Village Of Spott
George Benton..Head..25..Innerwick, Haddingtonshire..Farm Labourer
Agnes Benton..Wife..26..Cockburnspath, Berwickshire
Agnes Benton..Dau..3..Dunbar, Haddingtonshire

2. Immigration: Harmonia, 14 July 1851, New York, New York, New York, United States. ⁶ Event Date: 1851
Event Place: New York City, New York, United States
Ship Name: Harmonia

3. 1860 US Census, 22 June 1860, Huron Township, Wayne, Michigan, United States. ³ 1860 US Census
Page 75, Roll 564, Dwelling 657, Family 620
Huron Township, Wayne County, Michigan
George Renton..35..SCO..Farmer
Agnes Renton..36..SCO
Agnes Renton..12..SCO
Jane Renton..8..NY
Andrew Renton..4..NY

  Marriage Notes:

George and Agnes were marriage about 1847 in Scotland. In 1851, George, Agnes and their one daughter immigrated to the US arriving with George's parents on 14 Jul 1851 in New York City. While living in New York, they had one more daughter and one son born there in New York. Sometime between 1856 and 1860, George and his family traveled once again with his parents to Wayne County, Michigan where they all appeared on the 1860 US Census there. Nearly all of the other family members stayed in the Wayne County, Michigan area for their entire lives.

In spite of the family appearing in 1860 in Wayne County, Michigan, nothing else is known about the parents or their two daughters. The son ended up in Monroe County, Michigan.

There are records of a George Renton and wife, Agnes Hamilton who were living in Ash Township of Monroe County, Michigan which was just to the south of Wayne County. What is unique about that is that the son of George Renton and Agnes (?), Andrew Renton, was married to Mary Reinhart and they were living in Ash Township of Monroe County since 1880. This would certainly seem like they were the same couple except for a few points. The first is a death record for a daughter of the George Renton living in Monroe County indicates that he had a daughter named Nancy who was born on 15 Feb 1848 in Scotland. That birth date would seem to conflict with the birth date of a daughter born in 1848 in Scotland named Agnes. That daughter, Agnes, was named on the passenger ship's list while a daughter named Nancy was not listed. (Update Aug 2026: the full name of the daughter was Nancy Agnes Renton, thus they were the same person.)

There are additional records of another daughter named Marian that was born on 31 May 1861 in Flat Rock, Wayne County, Michigan and who died in 1932 in Waukegan, Lake County, Illinois. Her parents were named as George Renton and Agnes Hamilton.
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