Blogger Amy Johnson Crow has
challenged us with writing about an Ancestor once a week for the year
2019. She will give us prompts to get us started. This week's
prompt is In The Library.
This week’s challenge is In the Library. The last 20 years I have volunteered at the
local Family History Library. I help
everyone who comes in and have learned so much from each person I have
helped. When I first started there were
three volunteers and we worked together with the patrons and on our own
families.
One day I had come in with a new Internment List from
Calvary Cemetery in Woodside, New York.
It was for my grandfather, William Mathews’, oldest sister, Mary Jane
Mathews Flanagan. Mary Jane was the only
one of the siblings to be born in Ireland.
She was born in 1864 in the parish of Urney which includes parts of
Tyrone and Donegal. The Mathews, or at
that time they were Mathers, family lived in Sion Mills, Tyrone.
Mary Jane Flanagan died 29 September 1916 and was buried 2
October 1916. The internment list for
Section 34, Range 7, Plot 0, Grave 14 includes the following names –
·
Katherine Flanagan 8 Jan 1905 11yrs Born in New York
·
Nell Flanigan 25
Feb 1907 10yrs Born in New York
·
Mary J. Flanagan 2
Oct 1916 48yrs Born in Ireland
·
Joseph Flanagan 28
Aug 1935 61yrs Born in United States
·
Bernadette Connolly 13 Oct 1939 2yrs Born in United States
·
James Connolly 3
Aug 1962 64yrs Born in United States
·
Anna Connolly 23
April 1983 84yrs Born in New York
I was showing this list to Anne one of the other volunteers
when she said that the name and date for James Connolly was the same as her
brother-in-law and he had a sister Bernadette who died young. We then started checking the family tree and
found that her brother-in-law was my third cousin. Anna Connolly was James’
mother who Anne new personally too. We
were both surprised, amazed and very happy to find the connection.
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