David Castello Loughlin

  General Notes:

As "Dave Castello" he was a jockey and bareback rider, and 2-horse carrying act performer. Bareback somersault rider, P.T. Barnum's, 1871-74, 1877; boy bareback and hurdle rider, Howes & Cushing, 1875; Cole's; Cooper, Jackson & Co., 1882-83; W. H. Harris' Nickel-Plate, 1885-87, 1891; Albert Hose's, 1893; somersault riding act, Robert Hunting's, 1894-95; Stickney & Donovan, Central and South America, 1897; VanAmburgh & Co., 1896; Norris & Rowe's, 1908. His wife Ada was a principal equestrian and manege performer.⁸⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: circus performer, at the time of the US Federal census in 1880. ⁸¹ He was then living with his widowed mother, five siblings and a servant in Norfolk, Virginia, USA.

• Occupation: bar and billiard saloon operator, at the time of the 1900 United States Federal census. ⁸² He was then living at Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina, USA with his wife, four children and his mother-in-law. When they first settled in Henderson, they opened and ran a hotel there for a few years, while touring with the circus.

• Occupation: circus rider, at the time of the US Federal census in 1910. ⁸³ He was then living at Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina, USA with his wife, five children, his mother-in-law and a "daughter-in-law", Elizabeth Loughlin.

• Residence: Henderson, Vance County, North Carolina, at the time of the 1920 US Federal census. ⁸⁴ He was by then retired and living with his wife and four adult children, two daughters in law, a son-in-law, his mother-in-law and three grand-children.

David married Ada Wallett, daughter of Clifford Wallett and Fanny Jeffries, circa 1883.⁶⁴ (Ada Wallett was born on 5 Jan 1865 in Birmingham ^{65,66,67,68,69,70} and died on 15 Oct 1929 in Henderson, North Carolina, USA ⁶⁵.)