Orphan lines, by assigned definition here, can be any lines with ancestral OR descendancy connection problems. They will invariably lack hard evidentiary documentation like bibles, church or probate records, to specifically identify parentage.
1. JOHN BARKELOO, is presumably born in New Utrecht, Kings Co.,NY. about 1804. His father, or parents, may have died in early childhood. He claims to have been born in Kentucky, which seems only distantly possible because I'm not aware of any Barkeloo branch lines emigrating to Ohio or Kentucky before 1811. If he were an orphaned son of Benjamin Barkelow(c1760-c1807), of the Jacques Barkeloo(1732-1796) line, he could not only have been born in Kentucky, but might have retained the "Barkeloo" spelling of his surname, as opposed to the transitional Barkelow to Barklow spelling for most others of that branch.
2. JOHN BARKELOO, appears in the 1880 Federal Census of Idaho, (Ada County, City of Boise) as a 76 year-old carpenter and widower. He gives his birthplace as Kentucky, but claims his father was born in Scotland, his mother in Kentucky. The POB of his mother may be correct, and the "Scotland" must refer to his stepfather, not his biological father. Because he's admitted to being born in the U.S., it begs the question how he's managed to avoid being tracked in the censuses of 1830-1870. Was he living in territories and states whose censuses were coincidentally lost or destroyed by fire or flood? Or, was he living in Canada for a good portion of his life? Or, was his name so badly spelled that we couldn't recognize it? He could also be a Barkelew, whose origin is unknown.
There is currently insufficient evidence to even hazard an educated guess about John Barkeloo's ancestry. If he's a Barkelew or his surname an aberrant spelling of Buckelew, he's not of the Van Borculo lines. His age doesn't seem incorrectly deciphered from the census schedule, but his untrackability has to be a major factor behind the probability he may not be a legitimate Van Borculo line descendant. He may, in fact, have been adopted, and only learned of his real surname fairly late in adulthood. Whatever the reason, he's got me stumped unless he's related to either the line of Harmanus J. Barkeloo(c1775-1822) or Benjamin Barkeloo(c1760-c1807).
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