tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16623842331613483172024-03-23T03:16:12.250-07:00My Family's Branches and TwigsBarbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.comBlogger146125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-62413758977772144922023-09-29T10:39:00.000-07:002023-09-29T10:39:08.877-07:00<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31.43px; font-weight: bold;">52 Ancestors 52 Weeks - Longevity</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">I have in my family several Marriages that lasted into 60+ years. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I also have some relatives who lived 90+ years.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Most of my relatives who died in their 90’s are from my Grandparents generation. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>My Grandmother, Isabella Tierney Moore died at age 90. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Her sister Frances Tierney Miller died at age 92 and her other sister, May Tierney Newman died at 98.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">My Grandfather, John Nelson Moore, husband of Isabella, died at 91 and his sister Mary Moore Cosgrove died at 97.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Unfortunately, none of the next generation lived into the 90’s.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">On my husband’s side of the family his mother’s generation had 3 sisters who made it into their 90’s. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Florence Wipf died at age 98. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Another sister Valentine Zito died at age 96 and the other sister Anna Galligan died at age 93.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">My husband and I will celebrate our 60th anniversary next February so we will join the longevity club of marriages in our family.</span></p>Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-82666555166165891302023-09-01T09:46:00.001-07:002023-09-01T09:46:54.661-07:00<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31.43px; font-weight: bold;">52 Ancestors 52 Weeks - Tradesman</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">My Great Grandfather, William John Mathers, was a boot maker by trade.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZDiGuljIcJiFx9B_2KvXoPGShUuZgsPqXnbp6Mbfa41Pp7Af61QuNf6PkBcCAVmtQZ3srko-nacOB0-0RIwCbm05U2L7UGcTo_dhLlhkbCsYsyqZ07mGAq8OZHwI8x3YnP3-0E3ywA2Cg9kW3MxZh-Zg4a5Je3dzSCePR6mNW-av3ihbU79tdno4KVVw/s165/IMG_8117.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="165" data-original-width="161" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZDiGuljIcJiFx9B_2KvXoPGShUuZgsPqXnbp6Mbfa41Pp7Af61QuNf6PkBcCAVmtQZ3srko-nacOB0-0RIwCbm05U2L7UGcTo_dhLlhkbCsYsyqZ07mGAq8OZHwI8x3YnP3-0E3ywA2Cg9kW3MxZh-Zg4a5Je3dzSCePR6mNW-av3ihbU79tdno4KVVw/s1600/IMG_8117.jpeg" width="161" /></a></div><p></p><br /><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 9px 0px 8px; text-align: center;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><span class="s2" style="font-size: 19.08px;"><i>William John Mathers</i></span><span style="font-size: 19.1px; text-align: left;"> </span></span><i style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">1839-1902</i></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 9px 0px 8px; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">(Only photo and best copy of William John Mathers)</i></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">William Mathers came from County Tyrone, Ireland in 1868. I have not found a ship’s passenger list indicating a particular date but his first son, James, was born in New York, 31 July 1868.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Every census from 1870 to his death in 1902 has him listed as a boot maker or shoe maker. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The New York City Directory lists him being a shoe maker. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The family lived on W. 28th Street in New York City for many years. In 1902 when William died he lived on E 28th Street in New York City. Relatives have said they lived either behind the shop or above the shop. He and his wife, Mary McCrudden Mathers, had nine children living in the small apartment by the shop. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">I once watched a movie called Hobson’s Choice made in 1954 with Charles Laughton <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>playing the shoemaker. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was a wonderful look at the workings of a shoemaker and his shop back in the late Victorian era in England (1875-1901).</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">I believe that my grandfather’s shop was probably pretty much like that shown in the movie. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The shoes that were popular during his time were like boots. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Attached are some samples of the boots and shoes of that era.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWNF81-WGoqv-ypJxgdPsFh1EsYnWVlDqJiIeVo4AK2H9dCFr455UZVvFxzzTZXozaq3PUxRCdRcaeoQUoyUF-mwvlFPPYDER75FiHSrw9dgDHkO7AA9KXWhYFdP_z2T-wOn4b5IFeEoq0STgGA0LV-RqtnY6n4_WkwEzLL4ufDnReDG9-tUu4xAw6FXE/s2363/IMG_8115.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1787" data-original-width="2363" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWNF81-WGoqv-ypJxgdPsFh1EsYnWVlDqJiIeVo4AK2H9dCFr455UZVvFxzzTZXozaq3PUxRCdRcaeoQUoyUF-mwvlFPPYDER75FiHSrw9dgDHkO7AA9KXWhYFdP_z2T-wOn4b5IFeEoq0STgGA0LV-RqtnY6n4_WkwEzLL4ufDnReDG9-tUu4xAw6FXE/s320/IMG_8115.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 19.1px;"><i>Women’s Shoes c. 1880</i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 19.1px;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPNFjTkXyrnXizQMSEI0ktJ-wZWQBKockydwAZdLGIm84a4AfW-ZO_Uin_rj6RJ2GNI_pVs4h0c6Gr0aisOJnfu3M-j34zWoMeFaEZPFh1Z01U1g1u9llRZKy5OJV1kdA7Hq8ISH0aTkVg1Yt6YJPjZVlQuXahc4soF_znOgQNj52Xx_OYvCo5LWvBlw8/s533/IMG_8116.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="508" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPNFjTkXyrnXizQMSEI0ktJ-wZWQBKockydwAZdLGIm84a4AfW-ZO_Uin_rj6RJ2GNI_pVs4h0c6Gr0aisOJnfu3M-j34zWoMeFaEZPFh1Z01U1g1u9llRZKy5OJV1kdA7Hq8ISH0aTkVg1Yt6YJPjZVlQuXahc4soF_znOgQNj52Xx_OYvCo5LWvBlw8/s320/IMG_8116.jpeg" width="305" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Men’s Shoes c. 1880</i></div><br /><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><br /></span><p></p>Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-84545427987969366812023-08-06T08:07:00.000-07:002023-08-06T08:07:58.007-07:00<p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 31.4px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31.43px; font-weight: bold;">52 Ancestors 52 Weeks - Flew the Coop</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">My Grandfather, John Moore, was born and grew up in Savannah, GA. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>His father, Tristram Moore, was born in Moores Mill, NB, Canada as was his father, Horatio Moore. The family lived in Mobile, AL, New Orleans, LA, and Savannah, GA.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Tristram when in his teens and 20’s worked for a cousin in Louisiana. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Cousin, Frank Williams had the biggest Cypress Lumber Company in the south. Tristram did all odd jobs and piloting his boats, delivering the wood to customers up and down the Mississippi River.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">He eventually moved with his parents and siblings to Savannah, GA. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>His father, Horatio Moore, worked for the Ludden & Bates Music House tuning pianos. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tristram also worked at the company tuning pianos. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>At the Music House, Tristram met his future wife, Genevieve Counts. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>On 4 October 1885 <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>they married in Savannah. I found them as a family in the 1900 Georgia census with five children. In the 1910 Georgia census Tristram is gone. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Genevieve indicates she is widowed.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">This is where it gets interesting. The story that came down through the family is that Tristram abandoned the family and went to sea. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In a year or two he died while at sea.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">I have not found a death record for Tristram anywhere in the country, I have looked for years. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I think he left the family and went back to Louisiana and worked with the cousin. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I think Genevieve thought up the story to put her in a good light, indicating she was a widow rather than an abandoned wife.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">I also think the children, who were in their 20’s by then, liked the idea that he died at sea rather than left them.</span></p>Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-45625151442149519372023-07-26T11:36:00.001-07:002023-07-26T11:36:59.037-07:00<p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 34.7px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 34.68px; font-weight: bold;">52 Ancestors 52 Weeks - In The News</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.2px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.05px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.05px;">My husband’s Great Grandfather, Owen J. McDonald made the newspaper on <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>4 April 1883 in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn, New York.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.2px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.05px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.05px;">Owen J. McDonald born in 1850, was a butcher with a shop in the Washington Market. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The article says that on the morning of 25 February 1883 he left his residence at 163 Nineteenth St., Brooklyn, NY to go to his office to do the accounts. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.2px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.05px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.05px;">The police put out a search and found that he did go to his shop and did the accounts as he indicated was his plan. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He then went to a bar close by and had one beer, which people said was very unusual for him. After that he was found to have gone for lunch and the next and last time he was seen was at the waiting room of the Pennsylvania Railroad Depot in Jersey City. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The article gave a description of him and the clothes he was wearing. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This was a great find because we haven’t any photos of the man.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.2px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.05px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.05px;">When the newspaper reporter spoke to the family, they said there is insanity in the family and maybe that is the cause of him wandering.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.2px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.05px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.05px;">This was a very long article on 3 pages with lots of detail. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It mentions his wife and one of his daughters, Nellie.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 21.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 27.2px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.05px;"></span><br /></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.05px;">I have not found another article that indicates that he was found.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.05px;"> </span> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.05px;">I do have his death certificate dated three years later, 28 November 1896, he died of</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.05px;"> </span> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.05px;">Emphysema in Bellevue Hospital, New York City. I have come to the conclusion that he had the beginnings of Dementia at that time.</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.05px;"> </span> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 21.05px;">In the 1800’s they had no idea about the disease and thought the people were insane.</span> </p>Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-13268257214388514902023-07-15T11:46:00.000-07:002023-07-15T11:46:41.857-07:00<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31.43px; font-weight: bold;">52 Ancestors 52 Weeks - Birthdays</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Birthdays are so important to us now but in the past they weren’t celebrated as we do and they had no need to remember the date. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>No drivers licenses, social security application, credit card applications.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">My Grandmother, Mamie McGuigan Mathews, came to Ireland when she was about 20 and married. She never celebrated her birthday. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Her husband, William Mathews, was born in 1884, in New York and never celebrated his birthday either.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">My other grandfather, John Moore born in Savannah, Georgia 1889 never celebrated a birthday.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Not until I was working on our family history and looked up the documents did I know when any of these relatives were born.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">We found Mamie’s birth date when her daughter, Catherine (Kay) Mathews Hurley, sent for her birth certificate from Ireland so she could apply for social security under her late husband. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It turns out the husband and wife were both born on July 3, one in 1875 and the other 1884. There is still some question as to what year William Mathews was born, it was always July 3 but in the baptismal record in was 1884, in the WW1 draft record it was 1882 and his WW 11 draft record it was 1883. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They could have celebrated together all those years.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">John Moore’s birth date was July 2, 1889. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The document never came to be because Savannah, GA did not require any documentation until 1919. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I found his date from the Social Security Application he filled out in 1936 when they became available. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I did eventually find his baptismal record to confirm this date.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">We make birthdays real special these days, which I am very happy about. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It is an important date in our lives.</span></p>Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-39004691024925141152023-05-20T20:09:00.002-07:002023-05-20T20:09:58.897-07:00<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31.43px; font-weight: bold;">52 ANCESTORS 52 WEEKS - BRICK WALL</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">My brick wall, or research that has come to a halt is headed by John Murphy born about 1853 in Ireland and his wife, Honora Quinlan born about 1852 in Ireland.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">They both came from Ireland in the late 1860’s or early 1870’s. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Murphy is one of the most common names in Ireland so to find a John Murphy without a townland, is impossible. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I don’t even have a county in Ireland. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The Quinlan family name is not that common and Honora isn’t as common as Mary but pretty common. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">The only documents I have found about John Murphy is a directory listing, one census, and the birth of his children. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>None of them have any mention of where in Ireland he came from.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">I have found several documents for Honora Quinlan but only after she is married, her children’s birth records which mention her maiden name, census records and a probate record for her sister.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">John Murphy died in 1891 in Brooklyn, NY, so he was only in one census, the 1880, before he died. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>If he was in the 1870 census before his first daughter was born, I haven’t found it. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So, I have figured he came to New York between 1870 and 1873 when his daughter was born. It still is impossible to find him in Ireland without a County or town.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">The probate record I found with Honora mentioned also indicates a brother Alexander. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I thought maybe I would have some luck with an uncommon first name of Alexander and Quinlan. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Everything I found for him never mentioned where in Ireland he came from.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">I do not have the parents or siblings for John Murphy. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I do have Honora Quinlan’s, Mother Mary and Father Michael. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The mother lived with Honora and was widowed. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In the Directory it lists Mary as wife of deceased Michael. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Honora had four siblings, Jane, Margaret, Michael and Alexander.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">I have looked at ship passenger lists and have not found the Quinlan family.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">This is my brick wall and I hope some day to break it down.</span></p>Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-885082528689184692023-05-08T12:08:00.002-07:002023-05-08T12:08:54.174-07:00<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31.43px; font-weight: bold;">52 ANCESTORS 51 WEEKS - BALD</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Hereditary hair loss is the most common cause of baldness.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">In my family on my father’s side baldness is very common. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It occurs mostly with boys who have curly hair when young. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">I know for sure that my grandfather, William Joseph Mathews, was bald in his 20’s. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The only photo I have of my great grandfather, William John Mathews, he has a hat on so not sure if he was bald. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>My father, James Mathews and his brothers, Thomas and William James Mathews all were bald in their 20’s. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">My brothers, Kevin and James Mathews <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>lost their hair early and even my half brothers, Michael and John Mathews, lost their hair in their 20’s.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">My one son, Michael who had very curly hair was told when he was very young to enjoy his hair while he could because he would lose it early. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So in the 70’s the Afro hair style was very popular, he had no trouble getting that style. My father thought it was terrible but we told him “you know he is going to lose it all in a few years let him enjoy it”. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>My other son, James took after my husband’s side of the family and didn’t have curly hair and still has hair in his 50’s.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">My sister, Pat’s boys, Chris, Kevin and Bob also have lost their hair early.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Unfortunately, my mother’s side also had the same problem. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I don’t have early photos of many of the ancestors. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>My grandfather, John N. Moore and his son, John N. Moore Jr. both were bald early. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Luckily none of the women had a hair loss problem.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p>Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-64226442694667734802023-05-03T12:45:00.000-07:002023-05-03T12:45:59.421-07:00<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31.43px; font-weight: bold;">52 ANCESTORS 52 WEEKS - PETS</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">I haven’t found any ancestors with pets, they lived in apartments and probably didn’t have room for pets.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">When we got married we got our first dog. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I hadn’t grown up with dogs but my husband always had a dog. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We got an Irish Setter (because we are both of Irish decent). <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We named her Kelly. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Well this dog was hyper active from the beginning. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We found out after that it was a trait of Irish Setters.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">We had no idea about training dogs, so she had free rein of the house. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Many accidents happened, but she didn’t chew things. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She would take off out the door if it was left open even an inch. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We would chase her down the street with the car and she I would jump right in to go home.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Three months after we got Kelly, our first son was born. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>What a noisy, busy house it became. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The dog and baby became very good friends. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After many years and 2 more children, Kelly finally settled down and was the most perfect dog. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She would lie out on the front lawn without being tied to anything and just watch the kids play and never went off the property.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">We had another dog after Kelly and several Grand dogs. </span></p>Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-31859913849025251092023-04-23T11:02:00.000-07:002023-04-23T11:02:11.857-07:00<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31.43px; font-weight: bold;">52 ANCESTORS 52 WEEKS - DNA</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Around 2010 I was contacted through Ancestry.com by a women named Myrna McGuigan. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She indicated that her husband, James J. McGuigan was a distant cousin of mine. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Myrna had looked at my tree and said her husbands family was connected to my Patrick McGuigan from Tynan, Armagh, Ireland.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Patrick is my 2nd Great Grandfather. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I was excited because I haven’t been able to find out what his father’s name was and hoped they had that information. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>James’ great grandfather, Michael McGuigan left Ireland around 1835 and lived on Prince Edward Island for the rest of his life. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The grandson, Austin McGuigan, immigrated to California</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Several years after that initial contact, Myrna and James McGuigan went to Ireland. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They went to the archives and found many documents pertaining to the McGuigan family. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They then went to the town, Middletown in Tynan, Armagh, where the family came from. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They spoke to several members of the McGuigan family while there. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They had two of the men take a DNA test so they could compare it with James’ DNA. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They wanted to verify that they were related.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">The DNA came back as a match! <span class="Apple-converted-space"> O</span>ne of the men that did the DNA, Peter McGuigan, is a grand nephew of my Grandmother, Mamie McGuigan. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Peter lives in the house that was owned by Patrick McGuigan, then my great grandfather, Thomas McGuigan. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>My grandmother, Mamie McGuigan was born in the house, so it has been in the family for many years. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Myrna and James said the house has been renovated and doesn’t look anything like it did back in the 1880’s.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ-kGlXkaeo0k04RQS3RlXtPmL4m3EdSyUYf7LCrD7OcpQs5rZ7DFo5PeeYDzUGqkaMHkEW6Jc5enu9-SYyEPor0ehanmVdLi9jvw9HoZ8AFXlgyLzdH2RwTT42bYAqiAEyyvaq3YioaWhOBl9kI8YCFkfdep5UMtUS9iA8lIHlt4uNadHHYtK5KAi/s2933/MARY_ANN__MC_GUIGAN(4).jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1880" data-original-width="2933" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ-kGlXkaeo0k04RQS3RlXtPmL4m3EdSyUYf7LCrD7OcpQs5rZ7DFo5PeeYDzUGqkaMHkEW6Jc5enu9-SYyEPor0ehanmVdLi9jvw9HoZ8AFXlgyLzdH2RwTT42bYAqiAEyyvaq3YioaWhOBl9kI8YCFkfdep5UMtUS9iA8lIHlt4uNadHHYtK5KAi/s320/MARY_ANN__MC_GUIGAN(4).jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>McGuigan Farm </i></div><br /><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Unfortunately, none of the records we both have found indicated the father of Patrick or the father of Michael McGuigan. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>We haven’t been able to figure if Michael is a brother or uncle <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of Patrick. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Patrick and Michael were both born about 1820.</span></p>Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-23068313872035999382023-04-15T17:45:00.001-07:002023-04-16T07:00:42.638-07:00<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31.43px; font-weight: bold;">52 Ancestors 52 Weeks -</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31.43px; font-weight: bold;"> Should have been a Movie</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31.43px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXfn4-GOGaU1BGj07ScGVVRIiUXf2aEUwiOdka0WAVGmep4aH4OKcPC2cXjObD8b2mXPcy-BAjSP8_lhIkcQb56zSn8IWVMg2GlgK1LyUICxzfeXgmDDGmycGQcaRSIi4daQlFyJ3ZU1WxmTa62kamlASaBie47RiCH22S14DXk1_aovnbTg7uOvyp/s980/D94270E1-656D-4A0A-BDFE-32F5BFEF9022.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="539" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXfn4-GOGaU1BGj07ScGVVRIiUXf2aEUwiOdka0WAVGmep4aH4OKcPC2cXjObD8b2mXPcy-BAjSP8_lhIkcQb56zSn8IWVMg2GlgK1LyUICxzfeXgmDDGmycGQcaRSIi4daQlFyJ3ZU1WxmTa62kamlASaBie47RiCH22S14DXk1_aovnbTg7uOvyp/s320/D94270E1-656D-4A0A-BDFE-32F5BFEF9022.jpeg" width="176" /></a>`<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQPujJupIVhbJRtANJzT8_ebBjMEY1n-UV-HFiJnQEMZSzHXQGbd82AiduDLh-9svrIsR4I4I6zfOX7tpl74gDdB-4obx_f8JhFtuS6LDaBUuxgyOv0ScIMRxVCWfUFSYM_Mr3Q5wt2ZnABc_PGDt4nXfYoSPOSaHgoo3SvGTIVKVLjrBEGe7rBedd/s653/7E24F0B0-F103-431B-ABB6-213E9378F9B2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="485" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQPujJupIVhbJRtANJzT8_ebBjMEY1n-UV-HFiJnQEMZSzHXQGbd82AiduDLh-9svrIsR4I4I6zfOX7tpl74gDdB-4obx_f8JhFtuS6LDaBUuxgyOv0ScIMRxVCWfUFSYM_Mr3Q5wt2ZnABc_PGDt4nXfYoSPOSaHgoo3SvGTIVKVLjrBEGe7rBedd/s320/7E24F0B0-F103-431B-ABB6-213E9378F9B2.jpeg" width="238" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">MARGUERITA CLARK</div><br /></div><br /><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31.43px; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Their life should have been a movie. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In fact she was a famous movie star in the early days of movies, mostly the silent screen movies.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">He was born in Louisiana to Frank and Emily Williams. Frank owned the largest Cypress Lumber Company in the country and his son worked with him.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">I am talking about my maternal 2nd cousin 2x removed, Harry Palmerston Williams b. 6 Oct 1889 and his wife. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>His wife was Marguerite Clark b. 22 February 1883 in Ohio.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Harry Williams was a pioneer in the field of aviation. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He owned the Wendell-Williams Air Service in Patterson, Louisiana. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He was also a Lieutenant in the Army assigned to the Corp of Engineers in Washington DC. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He met his wife while they were both rallying for Bonds during the First World War.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Marguerite Clark, was the darling of the silent movies. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She made dozens of movies and was working even as they got married on 12 August 1918 in Greenwich, Connecticut. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After finishing her contract and he was released from the service they moved to New Orleans, Louisiana. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They lived a whirl wind social life and were involved with many charity organizations. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Harry continued working and flying. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The day he died he had been in conferences with the Governor of Louisiana to further the aviation field. He was flying from Baton Rouge to Patterson, Louisiana when the plane crashed. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He and his co-pilot died that day, 23 May 1936.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Marguerite died at the age of 57 in New York on 25 September 1940 and was buried beside her husband in Louisiana.</span></p>Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-9045526320604363032023-03-31T12:10:00.000-07:002023-03-31T12:10:05.002-07:00<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31.43px; font-weight: bold;">52 ANCESTORS 52 WEEKS -</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31.43px; font-weight: bold;"> BEGINS WITH A VOWEL</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">ALICE is a name that appears in my family tree frequently. It is also in several different branches of the tree. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I think it was just a popular name in the 1800’s that everyone loved.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">The earliest Alice in my tree is Alice McGuigan born 25 July 1842 in Tynan, Armagh, Ireland.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNH8zqVJM9YTCxTJSVNDdcnXVOjBAs0GGJLEr_ej9W0L20PPEf3AUMevRywg3oald6B6-1NwY66XOq-L4J9m_RADiL0i3-Ha4BGuUzSuTamrR7WQbS6OgGXU-uf6Iy7Jc9u65EvzUCP0OTqNFGPePC5cChHZxpweBfcX4mtzQuZwaUuj66RSEHf8Z4/s1943/5301FFAD-686E-474D-9CF8-62AB4804039D.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="940" data-original-width="1943" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNH8zqVJM9YTCxTJSVNDdcnXVOjBAs0GGJLEr_ej9W0L20PPEf3AUMevRywg3oald6B6-1NwY66XOq-L4J9m_RADiL0i3-Ha4BGuUzSuTamrR7WQbS6OgGXU-uf6Iy7Jc9u65EvzUCP0OTqNFGPePC5cChHZxpweBfcX4mtzQuZwaUuj66RSEHf8Z4/w299-h155/5301FFAD-686E-474D-9CF8-62AB4804039D.jpeg" width="299" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 19.08px; font-style: italic; text-align: left;">Birth Register from National Library of Ireland website.</span></div><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 19.08px; font-style: italic;">(25 Alice of Patr McGuigan & Mary Hughes, Sponsors Michl McMullin and Rosy McStorey Crossdall)</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 19.08px; font-style: italic;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Alice was the only girl born to Patrick and Mary (Hughes) McGuigan. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She had 3 brothers, Patrick born in 1825, Peter born in 1839 and Thomas born in 1846.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Alice married Edward Mooney 8 May 1877 in Crossdall, Armagh, Ireland. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Alice and Edward had a son Peter born 27 November 1879. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Once I had these documents I wasn’t able to find anything else about this family. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The family wasn’t in the 1901 Ireland Census, so I starting looking in the U.S. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I found the marriage certificate for Peter Mooney in 1918 in Massachusetts indicating his parents as Alice McGuigan and Edward Mooney and that he was born in Armagh, Ireland.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqw-LmGDQa2gp0YeA0J48N7MC1NaNw-fPB9KRPOyriYWM19Eb8s_UdlF1dgHDJ44gjaLzU33cUbu3wiWkf231Gap_mqiIiyoCxmZsj_iuxgurhCSZQUSDRZBqA4y2k73Je9vkYGryoP1oFPk_VSMNC53ZBlyxfqZg8QbnDOEU6boBHEEOijK-DT3Ey/s1592/C12976D3-8989-4EE1-9E68-FD4EB0234093.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="985" data-original-width="1592" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqw-LmGDQa2gp0YeA0J48N7MC1NaNw-fPB9KRPOyriYWM19Eb8s_UdlF1dgHDJ44gjaLzU33cUbu3wiWkf231Gap_mqiIiyoCxmZsj_iuxgurhCSZQUSDRZBqA4y2k73Je9vkYGryoP1oFPk_VSMNC53ZBlyxfqZg8QbnDOEU6boBHEEOijK-DT3Ey/s320/C12976D3-8989-4EE1-9E68-FD4EB0234093.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 19.08px; font-style: italic;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 19.08px;"> </span><span style="font-size: 19.1px;"> </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Massachusetts, U.S., Boston Archdiocese Roman Catholic Sacramental</span></div></span><p></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 19.08px; font-style: italic;"><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Records, 1789-1900</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">I thought that my grandmother, Mamie McGuigan and her sisters were the only ones in the McGuigan family to immigrate to the U.S. </span><span style="font-size: 19.1px;"> </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">I was wrong, her Aunt Alice and cousin Peter Mooney immigrated to Massachusetts. </span><span style="font-size: 19.1px;"> </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">In the 1920 census, it indicates that Peter came to Massachusetts in 1885. </span><span style="font-size: 19.1px;"> </span><span style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">I find Alice Mooney widow of Edward in Massachusetts in the1902 directory.</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">I don’t know if my grandmother knew that her Aunt and cousin were in Massachusetts. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I surmised that she did know they had left but maybe not where because she was living in the same town and didn’t leave until 1892.</span></p>Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-20878769519399278302023-03-24T09:26:00.000-07:002023-03-24T09:26:41.709-07:00<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31.43px; font-weight: bold;">52 Ancestors 52 Weeks - Light a Candle</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Many years ago, my father’s cousin, Bunny Morris, her name was actually Irene, would tell me about my cousins and aunts and uncles.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Bunny had the family stories all in her head. She would tell me all about how it was growing up in Richmond Hill, NY with all her cousins. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Everyone lived within a block or two. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You didn’t need school friends you had your cousins. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Bunny and my Aunt Kay, or Sister as she was known to everyone, were best friends. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Even when they were in their 60’s and 70’s they spent every weekend together, having tea and playing cards. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Of course, they gossiped about all the family too.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">I had never met these cousins she talked about but I felt I knew them all. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I would visit Aunt Kay some weekends with my father. It was fun to listen to the stories. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I finally said to Bunny, please write down all these names and their connection to me. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I had to figure out who everyone belonged to.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">It was like I lit a candle under her, the next time I saw her she had pages and pages listing all the sisters and brothers of my grandfather. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Then all their children and their children, with dates when they were all born. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>After many years I have verified all her data, it was all right. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I have all the birth, marriage and death certificates to prove everything she listed.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Sometimes people just need a little push to write down what they know. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They think everyone knows what they know about family until you let them know you don’t and are very interested.</span></p>Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-11233357306251969752023-03-18T13:21:00.000-07:002023-03-18T13:21:16.321-07:00<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31.43px; font-weight: bold;">52 ANCESTORS 52 WEEKS - MEMBERSHIP</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">I have been interested in genealogy for most of my life. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I did start seriously researching when I got married and wanted to merge the two families. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It has been a long and interesting process. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You start with just what and who you know and work back in time through the family. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>You accumulate information on each ancestor and hope you can fill in some of their life as you go along.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">One such ancestor, Benjamin Foster, had a very interesting life. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He was born in 1699 in Ipswich, Massachusetts. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In 1775 he was living in Machias, Maine at which time the townspeople were hearing that the British wanted to retain Boston and all New England under British supremacy. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When the British armed vessel </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 19.08px; font-style: italic;">Margaretta</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"> was ordered to Machias as convoy of merchant vessels to procure “lumber and boards” to build barracks and officer’s houses in Boston, for use of British troops, the citizens of Machias felt they had to do something. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>A council of war led by Captain Jeremiah O’Brien and Col. Benjamin Foster voted to make an attack on the </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 19.08px; font-style: italic;">Margaretta</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">The attack was successful, it was the first surrender of a naval flag by the British Crown on 12th of June 1775 and the first naval victory of the American Revolution.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Benjamin Foster is my patriot and my 6th Great Grandfather. He is the reason I was able to join and be a member of the Daughters of the Revolution, the DAR.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Note-The Capture of the British Sloop of War </span><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 19.08px; font-style: italic;">Margaretta</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"> published by Hannah Weston Chapter - Daughters of the American Revolution, Machias, ME</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizAEregtUvxu1_JHWP7HHcf54xlK4CHV681iNdcx7MezEC2j4FNrw_yeXnCFX5YYL-QgJ0ThIOE1pTkPPWKDMj3qJrE0vqV3mS3ML9sE4cmplJ27ZuFq8sqrNCsp-QJ1xgDVECSvErJa0dgvVyGU6DH_k5rvlM0Z90s9xulzOly3HDEUZB5DWQeVlu/s1687/5B6F964A-00A8-4079-8602-5D015B8F7D18.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1194" data-original-width="1687" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizAEregtUvxu1_JHWP7HHcf54xlK4CHV681iNdcx7MezEC2j4FNrw_yeXnCFX5YYL-QgJ0ThIOE1pTkPPWKDMj3qJrE0vqV3mS3ML9sE4cmplJ27ZuFq8sqrNCsp-QJ1xgDVECSvErJa0dgvVyGU6DH_k5rvlM0Z90s9xulzOly3HDEUZB5DWQeVlu/s320/5B6F964A-00A8-4079-8602-5D015B8F7D18.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><br /></span><p></p>Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-62369655874346742822023-03-10T13:27:00.000-08:002023-03-10T13:27:28.590-08:00<p class="p1" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 31.4px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 3px;"><span class="s1" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31.43px; font-weight: bold;">52 ANCESTORS 52 WEEKS <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>LUCKY</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">I would not be here except for the luck of my ancestor, John Howland.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">John Howland was born about 1599, probably in Fenstanton, Huntingtonshire, England. He came on the Mayflower in 1620 as a manservant of Governor John Carver. During the Mayflower's voyage, Howland fell overboard during a storm, and was almost lost at sea--but luckily he managed to grab hold of the topsail halyards, giving the crew enough time to rescue him with a boat-hook.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">He married another passenger on the Mayflower, Elizabeth Tilley who was traveling with her Aunt, Uncle and parents. They had ten children after settling in Massachusetts. </span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">I am descended from John and Elizabeth Howland’s, daughter, Hope Howland born 1629 in Plymouth, Massachusetts.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">There is a wonderful book written about John Howland’s adventure getting on the Mayflower, his fall into the ocean and his staying in America and building a legacy. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The book is “The Boy Who Fell off the Mayflower or John Howland’s Good Fortune” by P. J. Lynch. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>There is also a beautiful painting called “Howland Overboard," by maritime artist Mike Haywood. </span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkTi1y042MtEkkI2SpMCre96xV6sToz6SZ-KwuIT2JeYEoKDGz_SAX_Dro-4tYKracPvdHilOqfZGayezvEyBOqxWj0chZ2V4weVV_Gi99PiQSKvJWJyU9PhdXSodCkN_T-B3CVGSpRtNleAYZVduarX0LfdRje_DKSycOgAQ2Yr3uKRCsDkMfTZXm/s1899/8F819A41-4F3F-4CBA-A8D6-F64DBC656256.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1276" data-original-width="1899" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkTi1y042MtEkkI2SpMCre96xV6sToz6SZ-KwuIT2JeYEoKDGz_SAX_Dro-4tYKracPvdHilOqfZGayezvEyBOqxWj0chZ2V4weVV_Gi99PiQSKvJWJyU9PhdXSodCkN_T-B3CVGSpRtNleAYZVduarX0LfdRje_DKSycOgAQ2Yr3uKRCsDkMfTZXm/s320/8F819A41-4F3F-4CBA-A8D6-F64DBC656256.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><br /></span><p></p><p></p>Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-84366876384344215012023-02-25T13:09:00.001-08:002023-02-25T13:10:29.974-08:00<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31.43px; font-weight: bold;">52 ANCESTORS 52 WEEKS -</span></p><p><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31.43px; font-weight: bold;">GONE TOO SOON</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">When someone is gone too soon, many people are affected.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">My mother, Ruth Isabel Moore Mathews, died at the age of 37 in 1956. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She had breast cancer at a time when there was little known about the disease and little to be done for it.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Ruth’s brother, John N. Moore, lost his only sibling. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He joined the Merchant Marines right out of school during WW11. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>When he left the service he ended up living in Chicago while the rest of his family was in Brooklyn, New York. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>So he wasn’t around for his sister’s wedding and births of her 4 children. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He did come to visit Ruth after her 4th child was born. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He told me he was sorry he missed being with his sister as they turn into adults.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Ruth’s mother, Isabel Tierney Moore, lost her only daughter. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>As a young child Isabel lost her own mother, Margaret Delaney Tierney at the age of 41 and knew the heartache Ruth’s children would go through.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Ruth’s father, John N. Moore Sr., lost his only daughter. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>She was always going places with her father, they loved to go for rides in his car from Brooklyn out to Long Island, mainly to Ronkonkoma Lake.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">They also went to Mitchell Field when Charles Lindbergh flew to France.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Ruth’s husband, James R. Mathews lost his young wife. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>James met Ruth on Wall Street where they both worked. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>He as a “runner” taking messages from one brokerage house to another and she as a telephone operator. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They set up the family first in Jamaica, Queens, then Bellerose , Levittown and Hicksville. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Having two daughters first then 7 years later 2 sons, they needed more and more room.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">They were very happy together with many friends and family around all the time.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Ruth had several friends from the old neighborhood in Brooklyn who lived out on Long Island. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They were more than friends they became family. So even though she had few cousins and only one brother she ended up with a large “family”. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They were all devastated when she died so young.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">My sister and brothers and I had a very hard time adjusting to not having Mom around anymore. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The boys were only 2 and 4 years old. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They needed constant care, so they were sent to live with relatives for awhile. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Soon they came home and went to nursery school and elementary school with us sisters caring for them after school. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Dad did a wonderful job and kept us all together. We felt loved all the time, but Mom was gone to soon.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitJ2868TTTY6w74NHyP1n8_JzhXnMs89ehckFcWuhDL6EWmVu6dnkr46WM8EQ007lTObyhv5jmNSj7Dpcodv25c0BfZb-ZHpGoHX9TK35gt_kesYxjW6OjuqD9JJhFPAgNK1xX42KcbzWCdYqof_Fxyw0zo22uWLX5tzOw4v1UsA0cpDjh-WEZ3oyT/s2971/717BA9FA-6733-470D-9EDB-C6088C4A4BB2.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2971" data-original-width="2375" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitJ2868TTTY6w74NHyP1n8_JzhXnMs89ehckFcWuhDL6EWmVu6dnkr46WM8EQ007lTObyhv5jmNSj7Dpcodv25c0BfZb-ZHpGoHX9TK35gt_kesYxjW6OjuqD9JJhFPAgNK1xX42KcbzWCdYqof_Fxyw0zo22uWLX5tzOw4v1UsA0cpDjh-WEZ3oyT/s320/717BA9FA-6733-470D-9EDB-C6088C4A4BB2.jpeg" width="256" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="714" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju6ubBVEO-tBo3WeTWDhslKcVo8xORFsrCIL3-KFWskfWuDHP0dNmZsqqQkoIe9nYLNTqPT4AvX2Q3HbhlNakxMFgofTvb-pMIzKV2BGwsLcqgG49nkBsPlGiMpBlpIanCI5WoF67FOUdE5_HibTjWBEWMo5zdyd8s3zmjmqXkAcoH6qNeOAgdHRpA/s320/44501FBD-83B0-4ED8-84EA-870F22045C24.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><br /></span></p>Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-71191827407147235292023-02-21T12:13:00.000-08:002023-02-21T12:13:52.407-08:00<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 31.43px; font-weight: bold;">52 Ancestors 52 Weeks. - I Can Identify</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">When you are researching Irish relatives, you must know the town and county they lived in to find the exact family and to find more ancestors.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Our Murphy family all originated in Ireland. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>This is according to the census records I have found for the different families.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Most of the census just say they came from Ireland. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The few marriage and death records only state Ireland as their place of birth.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">I was working on my husband’s grandmother, Florence McDonald Murphy. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I found her Marriage record and her Death record. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In both certificates she stated her father was Owen McDonald and her mother was Mary Ann Callahan. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I couldn’t find her Birth certificate but she always indicated she was born in New York.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">I searched further looking at her siblings. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They all indicated the same parents and that they were born in New York. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I checked the death certificate for Mary Ann Callahan McDonald and it indicated her parents Callahan O’Callahan and Julia O’Brien both born in Ireland. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Of course it didn’t give the town just Ireland.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">I looked at all the census records for Florence and her siblings. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In one I noticed an Ellen Callahan living with Florence’s sister,Ellen McDonald Fitzgerald. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>They lived together for many years, until Ellen Callahan died in 1921. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I believed she was the sister of Mary Callahan McDonald, mother of Ellen McDonald Fitzgerald. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I searched for Ellen Callahan’s death certificate and obituary. The death certificate confirmed that they were sisters, listing the same parents as was mentioned in Mary Callahan McDonald’s death certificate.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">The obituary was an exciting surprise, <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="s3" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleItalicBody; font-size: 19.08px; font-style: italic;">I can identify</span><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">, finally, a place in Ireland for part of the Murphy family.</span></p><p class="p2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 24.7px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"></span><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">The obituary indicates the place of birth for Ellen Callahan as Castletown Roach, County Cork, Ireland. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It also lists her parents and nieces including Florence McDonald Murphy.</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><br /></span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_YyPix6AFCCxlmCrJxfJgzLYo0DWBD9DESiNn_WK2MeqsLE4DBpvFCJyc95-s73-EgyVQNKFllj_NV5pyIHq98bK4Iz2A3RuFUCGccCxuNil6KU1j09pshGttN3ErddzpJ476E9nHLGZnpOaiuqMXN5fdSnrj8l7LZzuzyVmwM8aDdSvjJdgqzYjT/s347/65084CC0-D660-4EE1-9C97-DD212BF3D4AC.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="265" data-original-width="347" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_YyPix6AFCCxlmCrJxfJgzLYo0DWBD9DESiNn_WK2MeqsLE4DBpvFCJyc95-s73-EgyVQNKFllj_NV5pyIHq98bK4Iz2A3RuFUCGccCxuNil6KU1j09pshGttN3ErddzpJ476E9nHLGZnpOaiuqMXN5fdSnrj8l7LZzuzyVmwM8aDdSvjJdgqzYjT/s320/65084CC0-D660-4EE1-9C97-DD212BF3D4AC.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="p4" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 9px 0px 8px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">Brooklyn Eagle Newspaper</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">22 April 1921 page 22</span></p><p class="p3" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-size: 19.1px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span class="s2" style="font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; font-size: 19.08px;">(Web site Bklyn.newspapers.com)</span></p>Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-95215377248544582023-02-04T09:41:00.000-08:002023-02-04T09:41:03.953-08:00<p> <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: 700; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"> 52 Ancestors 52 Weeks</span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Social Media</span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Newspapers used be the social media before the internet. The newspapers reported the news, world wide, national, statewide and local. The local news was like our social media today. You found news of weddings with photos of the bride. Announcements of the birth of a child. There would also be stories of the people who were going out of town or were having guests visiting. You would read about the ships coming into port and who was on the ship.</span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There were also columns that you could put in a personal note. You could say you were looking for an apartment to rent, or you would not be paying bills for your wife anymore. One of the columns that was very common was looking for a date. These are some examples.</span></p><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><ul style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 91px; overflow: hidden; width: 472px;"><img height="91" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/oEJrU3svCnklAKAYxZb0gw4gb7Bq2Qm6ZD2TPSy273v9O3ttFU_cVjYg2QEFIErnT8wNiopMgcLLtwUdBQGAxvxrJtpnAVQu8APYCtKSAVpXP7ZF8OP9jSBPVkCW75jg9_Osv0O-7YKaiPGvU4b4Exc" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="472" /></span></span></p></li></ul><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><ul style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 325px; overflow: hidden; width: 434px;"><img height="325" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/NXdBDhXqQduMD1Q2VygSoIpHEkUySLhFE56c2XFL3l76R6o4yGH9wyg5fJ8B_Dtmw1kPdoyx2ZvPcx8i6GF-bk3BasL9uj35jfxTQNMbd-SxK-7-HJy5L2gY5l0qwg5nsh0HgxQIZzSoSJBRSlpBjiU" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="434" /></span></span></p></li></ul><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><br style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;" /><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My Aunt Florrie worked in a travel office. She would help people make plans to take a trip on a passenger ship. This was in the 1920’s. One of the things they did when it was slow during the day was to check out the personal columns in the newspaper.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">They loved reading about the men and women who were asking for a date and giving there description. One day they dared Aunt Florrie to put in a ad as she was single in her late 20’s and not dating. She did and a very nice gentlemen answered. They arrange to meet in a public park to check each other out. There must have been a spark between them because they married in Marich of 1929 and stayed married until their deaths.</span></p><br />Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-77423176442091321762023-01-27T12:05:00.002-08:002023-01-27T12:06:54.744-08:00<p> 52 Ancestors 52 Weeks</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span>OOPS!</span></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Years ago I found my husband’s grandparents in the Ship’s Passenger List. They arrived in New York harbor 16 June 1899 on the Ship H.H. Meier out of the Port of Bremen in Germany. They came from Moscow to Bremen. I originally read it as Jwan and Alexandra Glasow. Jwan used John when he was living in New Jersey until his death in 1910.</p><p>The oops, comes when I spoke to someone who was Russian and he read the name. He said it was Ivan. The w has a v sound. Also, when I look at the script on the passenger list, it definitely looks like an I not a J. The last name Glasow eventually ended being spelt Glassoff/Glessoff.</p><p>All these years I have been writing Jwan when he should have been Ivan, and Ivan make more sense for a Russian first name.</p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: center;"><span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-89598062234536893842023-01-23T10:37:00.001-08:002023-01-23T10:40:27.959-08:00<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><p style="text-align: center;"><b>52 ANCESTORS 52 WEEKS</b></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> <span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><b>EDUCATION</b><span> </span></span></p><p><span><span><br /></span></span></p><p><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrI6gIlHBOir3atwizAo2J9wcumbS6avKno1GIZmg-2Ihx4H6LT5REHperdcDn0-DljzNi9tFdCWr0zVKpUpDYfGdFjTma1pO_EIh5lGTCZHZwGb0LbisiuDy_4RoIEZRHijW6749lpX6HQdEebZQaNrAJte2Pc91mykHwdFUv2rEjWy8nIT1vz052/s640/F9108EBC-DBD1-4624-BCC8-776C1DBD8AE1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="640" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrI6gIlHBOir3atwizAo2J9wcumbS6avKno1GIZmg-2Ihx4H6LT5REHperdcDn0-DljzNi9tFdCWr0zVKpUpDYfGdFjTma1pO_EIh5lGTCZHZwGb0LbisiuDy_4RoIEZRHijW6749lpX6HQdEebZQaNrAJte2Pc91mykHwdFUv2rEjWy8nIT1vz052/s320/F9108EBC-DBD1-4624-BCC8-776C1DBD8AE1.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span>I have not found any special occupations that required additional education in my family tree. Most had some schooling. Not until the 20th century did I find people finishing high school.</span><p></p><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>My mother, Ruth Moore Mathews, born in 1919 lived in Brooklyn, NY and went to Catholic school from 1st to 12th grade. This was very common for Catholics during the 1920’s up to 1960’s. Brooklyn had a school connected with every parish church. Ruth went to St. Edmunds for elementary school and graduated the 8th grade in 1933. Above is the graduation photo. Ruth is 4th from the right in the front row.</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>At the time Ruth was going to school, a lot of the High Schools were for just girls or just boys. Ruth went to St. Brendans all girls High School until she graduated in 1937. Ruth decided not to go to college and went right into the work force. Her father, John N. Moore, worked at the Paine Webber Brokerage Firm on Wall Street and probably was instrumental in getting Ruth to work there as a Clerk and later on in communications as a telephone operator.</span></div><div><span><br /></span></div><div><span>I am sure all the skills she learned during high school prepared her for working with the public. They were taught all the regular subjects, English, Math and Sciences but they were also taught manners, deportment, ethics and religion.</span></div>Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-90876933732086340952023-01-15T09:13:00.001-08:002023-01-15T09:17:04.075-08:00<p> 52 Ancestors 52 Weeks</p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGtdWd6lgXVL-LH-T7YzZzspD0YY-Ing9kPurXYs6liVYVGywFcUQ2LoMQD_DahKA2gxnRbDAZUkIxbSgIMxe_m0dZ7Rr7k1y1Kg_IeEeLtoOFdSLvwJBcAyi-EHRQF4cH5NwWaL2QhUbTOqxEvzjhYB_Y2qWMUZU44mtLUEs8E13hv5ZATArz3xIK/s1167/15D8EB38-A918-488F-A58A-FCC08C0E61BA.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1167" data-original-width="902" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGtdWd6lgXVL-LH-T7YzZzspD0YY-Ing9kPurXYs6liVYVGywFcUQ2LoMQD_DahKA2gxnRbDAZUkIxbSgIMxe_m0dZ7Rr7k1y1Kg_IeEeLtoOFdSLvwJBcAyi-EHRQF4cH5NwWaL2QhUbTOqxEvzjhYB_Y2qWMUZU44mtLUEs8E13hv5ZATArz3xIK/s320/15D8EB38-A918-488F-A58A-FCC08C0E61BA.jpeg" width="247" /></a></div><br />Favorite Photo<p></p><p><br /></p><p>One of my very favorite photos is of my paternal Grandmother, Mary Ann (Mamie) McGuigan. She was born in the parish of Tynan in Armagh, Ireland on the border of County Monaghan in 1875. Her parents were Thomas McGuigan and Ann Mallon.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mamie came to NYC with her sister Alice in 1892 and they both worked as maids in a New York City Hotel. There she met her future husband, William Joseph Mathers/Mathews. They married in 1909.</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe this photo was taken around 1900. I particularly love the lace dress and puffy sleeves. The hairstyle is fantastic too.</p><p><br /></p><p>#52Ancestors52Weeks</p><p><br /></p>Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-62241548274867787362023-01-13T17:49:00.001-08:002023-01-13T17:49:28.798-08:00<p> 52 Ancestors 52 weeks. Jan 13, 2023</p><p><br /></p><p>Out of Place</p><p><br /></p><p>I researched a brother of my Grandfather. His name was William Joseph Mathers/Mathews. Everything I knew about him had him in New York City or Queens New York, particularly Richmond Hill. He was a dancer on Broadway and several census records said he was a prop man in Broadway plays. I found him in the 1940 census living with his Aunt Katie. After that I couldn’t find him. No one I talked to in the family remembered when he died. I then got a hint on Ancestry that I almost didn’t look at. It said Lake Placid, NY. I checked it out and sure enough it was him. He was in a sanatorium because of TB. I never would have looked upstate for him. It was all because the hints on Ancestry. I did find when he died and where he was buried. Thank you Ancestry.</p>Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-61922600661111820422023-01-13T13:27:00.004-08:002023-01-13T13:27:52.704-08:00<p> 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks. Who would want to talk to January 1, 2023</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The person I would love to talk to would be my Grandfather, John Nelson Moore. I knew him very well but never asked about his family. I knew he was born in Savanah, Georgia and came to New York in his 20’s. I would like to ask why he came to New York. He brought his mother, aunt, sister and nephew. What prompted the whole family to move?</p>Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-57070803307798645562020-05-25T10:37:00.001-07:002020-05-25T10:38:24.987-07:00Memorial Day 2020<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;">
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Barbara Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02659297400715296533noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1662384233161348317.post-48659272576242110022019-06-29T08:59:00.000-07:002019-06-29T08:59:30.786-07:0052Ancestors 52Weeks – Namesake
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Thankful (Foster) Moore in Moore’s Mill, New Brunswick, Canada.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Strangely, the day Horatio (1804) died in
1825, Thankful Moore gave birth to another son, her 12<sup>th</sup> child. She
and her husband name this boy after the first son, Horatio NELSON Moore.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>It was the custom of the times to name
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came from</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri Light",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;"> Admiral </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Calibri Light",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">Horatio
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; margin: 0px;">The next time NELSON was used in the family was for my
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1662384233161348317" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1662384233161348317" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1662384233161348317" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1662384233161348317" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><span style="font-family: "calibri";">Several members of my family have served in the Military and
I am very proud of them.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Early on we had
Benjamin Foster who was involved with one of the first naval battles in Maine
during the Revolutionary War.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>Both of my
2<sup>nd</sup> Great Grandfathers were in the Civil War. John Counts was in
Savannah, Georgia and Horatio N. Moore was in Mobile, Alabama. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I probably have relatives in the First World War but haven’t
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">My father, James Mathews and his brothers, Tom and William
all served in the military during WW 11.<span style="margin: 0px;">
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Washington D.C.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>The other two were in
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">My cousin William Mathews Jr. also served in the Army during
the Viet Nam War.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>I do not have a photo
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Towards the end of the Viet Nam War my brother Kevin was in
the Marines.<span style="margin: 0px;"> </span>He also was trained and
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