THE FAMILY

A HISTORY OF MY FAMILY

by

MELVIN KIERNAN

2011

first edition 1986

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

THE KIERNAN SIDE

Owen Kiernan (1787-71866) ...... 1 Margaret Connell McGlynn Cavanagh (1790-1867) ...... 2 Ellen Flood Kiernan (1804-71849) ...... 4 Michael John Kiernan (1832-1872) ...... 5 Bernard Melvin (1836-1910) ...... 7 Margaret Finnerty Melvin (1842-1911) ...... 10 Mary Reilly Kiernan Callaghan (1843-1897) ...... 11 Eugene Henry Kiernan (1866-1914) ...... 17 Katherine Margaret Melvin Kiernan (1867-1932) ...... 18 Bernard Melvin Kiernan (1901-1965) ...... 21

Burns - Taylor - Holbritter Family ...... 22 Callaghan Family ...... 26 Finan Family ...... 35 Finnerty - Cavanagh - Brady Family ...... 41 Kiernan Family ...... 49 Edward Kiernan Family ...... 52 Daniel Kiernan Family ...... 55 Melvin Family ...... 61 Mullen - Smith Family ...... 67 Myers - Clutterbuck Family ...... 69 Reilly Family ...... 70

THE CAREY SIDE

Thomas Carey (1856-1914) ...... 13 Mary Ann Hyland Carey (1857-1926) ...... 15 Catherine Carey Kiernan (1900-1985) ...... 20

Carey Family ...... 28 Patrick Carey Family ...... 30 Curry Family ...... 32 Hunt Family ...... 45 McLaughlin Family ...... 58

APPENDIX

Irish Equivalents of Family Names Family Name Origins in Ireland Register of Marriages, Births, and Deaths In ainm an Athar agus an Mhic agus an Spioraid Naoimh.

Go dtuga Dia saol sona siochanta doibh abhus agus gloir na bhflaitheas doibh thall.

Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and may perpetual light shine upon them.

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. INTRODUCTION

A friend, traveling companion and distant cousin Deirdre McKiernan once told me that Ireland is like a disease. There is no cure. Once you catch it, you are infected for life. I can easily recall the occasion when I became Irish. In the early 1970s my cousin Jay sent me a pirated tape of Derek Bell's recording of Irish harp music, Carolans Receipt. I immediately contracted the disease, and it has been with me ever since.

Of course my ancestry is completely Irish on both sides, but there was little notice of this in my early life. That remote ancestors had come from somewhere in Ireland was a fact of history, but little more, and with few details. My father was the only one with any Irish interest. He had some old Victrola records by John McCormack, which were later augmented by Bing Crosby and Dennis Day. But most of this is Tin Pan Alley American. Music on a metal-strung harp is different and contagious.

The disease quickly spread to a subscription to Ireland of the Welcomes, to a pile of LPs, later replaced by CDs, of the early Chieftains and Clancy Brothers, and to a complete collection of Irish postage stamps. It wasn't until 1995 that I had the opportunity to visit Ireland, the first of ten pilgrimages home. During those visits I have been to all 32 counties, traveled from Mizen Head to Malin Head and almost everywhere in between. There are some memories that cannot be captured on film - a day at a valley in Connemara when, as William Butler Yeats said, I heard high up in the air / a piper piping away - an early morning walk in Killarney, just a block away from the tourist center of town, where I was met with the smell of turf fires from houses as breakfast was being prepared - a busker on Grafton Street playing an Irish harp outside Bewley's where I was having tea and a scone - the call of a skylark from heaven or near it circling over an excavated farm community at the Ceide Fields dating back almost to the Ice Age, pouring [his] full heart / in profuse strains of unpremeditated art.

I have visited the three towns known to have been homes of my ancestors, the Kiernans of Granard, Co Longford, the Melvins of Easkey, Co Sligo, and my mother's parents from Knock, Co Mayo. Knock unfortunately has become a kitschy tourist-trap surrounding a gaudy religious shrine. The other two sites have remained small villages, but with successive visits showing the slow decline of rural Ireland.

So if you want to share my disease, visit Ireland soon, before it becomes completely, homogeneously Europeanized if not Americanized, before, again quoting Yeats, Romantic Ireland's dead and gone.

It is difficult for us today to imaging the feelings of our immigrant ancestors as they faced the Atlantic crossing. In an age before five-hour flights, direct-dial telephone connections and e-mail, the prospect of a ten-week sail (and literally sail, before steamships were common), the prospect of never again seeing or hearing from family left behind (Could they read or write?), of not knowing whether they were alive or dead, is far from our experience. The stories of an American wake, the ceili on the night preceding the departure of some family member to America, perhaps never to be heard from again, are common in the folklore. Some of our own ancestors left family behind, but others were the last survivors of a family wracked by the Great Hunger, An Gorta Mor.

But nevertheless they entered this brave new world and, for the most part, prospered. We are never truly parted from the old, never completely enclosed in the new. Deirdre's sister Ethne McKiernan captured this feeling in a poem as she stood on the Clare hillside where her mother was born, from which she left for America. Mama Mor, I stand here now where you once stood, the unchanged land beneath my feet, certain that my bones were formed from that same air that made your bones first stir.

But the old heritage breeds a different pain in me: a stranger to both countries, I cannot make my roots take hold; can only stand and hear the sea return the poems that you'd willed it as a child, while the wind raises ghosts behind me.

I do not have the advantage of her first-hand knowledge of the immigrant generation. For memories beyond the new friends I have met on visits to Ireland, I have CDs of genuine, spontaneous seisiuin, bricks of turf to burn when I need to enhance the mood, stones gathered from beaches, from the Burren, from Giants Causeway, as well as from the old home towns, all these to rely on. But more importantly there are bits of information, data that, once lost, cannot be restored. Luckily some fifty years ago I had gathered a few scraps of information about ancestors, names of grandparents and great-grandparents, names of dimly-remembered cousins. I had saved but put aside those notes until the 1980s when I began genealogical research in earnest. Luckily, I say, because that earlier information was, and in some cases still is, the only basis from which the later searches could begin and because the persons who supplied that early information were by then dead. But is it all luck? After coming across several pieces of information that ordinarily would not have been recorded or preserved, I am more firmly convinced than ever that my sainted ancestors want to be better known to their descendants still living. Why, for example, was the county of origin in Ireland recorded for his mother on my grandfather's marriage license, when that bit of information wasn't asked for? So I like to think that from time to time those ancestors give gentle nudges. Why don't you look again at .... Think of another way to misspell the name .... They may be gone, but they are still with us. Is this part of the disease? Who's to say?

Sometimes indeed the dead are better sources of information than are the living. When after a long search I found the date and place of burial of my great-grandfather Michael Kiernan, I learned that the grave also contained his previously-unknown sister and her family. And why does that sister's death certificate mention the Irish county of her birth, again information not asked for? More often, unfortunately, contact with the current surviving family of an early gravesite in the peripheral family only brings the response "Sorry, you already know more about my family than I do." But a chance conversation at a wake, with some retired secretaries I had known in passing for years, led to the discovery that they too were from Easkey and were cousins of cousins of mine, and supplied details about peripheral branches of the family, if not about my immediate ancestors.

Many records have recently been computerized, and that collection is growing daily. When I first started on this research, almost all records available to the public were on microfilm, usually with only meager indexing. Today, the computer has left most of those microfilms in the dust, sometimes literally. The collection of the Latter Day Saints in Utah, once a valuable and close-to-unique source of records, has been largely replaced by other, computerized sources. Their own records are only slowly being entered into computer files. World-wide records are available on the Internet, though some come with a modest fee. But often these same Internet sources are available to the public in libraries, for example the New York Public Library. I have made extensive use of that source. The New York Public Library has access to all the United States Federal Censuses through 1930; the Irish censuses of 1901 and 1911 (Nineteenth century Irish census records were destroyed.); immigration records at all American ports from the 19th and 20th centuries; surviving New York and New Jersey state census returns from 1855 to 1925. The Library has records of depositors at the Emigrant Savings Bank of New York dating from a brief but useful period of the mid-nineteenth century. There are many other local sources of information. The New York City Archives has birth, marriage and death records for all five boroughs, starting from before the Civil War. Seton Hall University Archives has microfilms of all parish baptism and marriage records for northeastern New Jersey (open to the public, but call in advance for an appointment). A work-in-progress website has a free index of many birth, marriage and death records in Ireland for the period approximately 1860 to 1920.

At the moment I seem to have exhausted all sources, tracking each down either to a new piece of information or to a dead end. But each time I have said I have exhausted all sources, something new appears. The next major source that will come available is the 1940 United States census, online in 2012. Meanwhile, this seems like a good time to reorganize the material I already have about my family.

But what is family? When I began this study in earnest in the 1980s and first published the results in 1986, I defined The Family to be all my ancestors in United States, and all their descendants. Surprisingly I was able to compile that complete record. That claim is no longer true. Since that date I have discovered an earlier generation living in United States, but have been unable to trace those new- found branches beyond the second generation. I have lost contact with at least one branch of the previously-known family. In the intervening years an entire generation of The Family has died, and two new generations have been added. The younger members of The Family have moved across the country, scattering from New England to California, from Minnesota to Florida, and on to Alaska and Hawaii. Contacts and the sources of information they provided are stretched, sometimes unfortunately broken as the older generation (which now includes me) dies off. But I hope that my work has inspired other, younger members of The Family to preserve their records and to continue to add to them.

Among the several branches of The Family, the Cavanaghs, later joined by the Finnertys, arrived in 1842, the Kiernans arrived in 1847, the Melvins in 1854, the Reillys about 1860, and the Careys in 1881 and 1882. So they were all here before the Statue of Liberty, and before Ellis Island. The immigration records from Castle Garden, the earlier immigration point in New York, are being computerized and have become a useful source of information.

With one exception, the immigrant generations of The Family came to the area immediately around New York City. That one exception soon moved here. Civil genealogy records in New York City and New Jersey are fairly complete and easily accessible. Unlike in many other states, the birth, marriage and death records in New Jersey are available to the public. So are the records for New York City, although not for the rest of the state. Local parish and cemetery records are also conveniently available, although some prior information is needed to begin searches there. Unfortunately, before about 1870 there was no legal requirement to compile or keep civil records of births, marriages and deaths, and so many earlier records, public and private, are incomplete. As for other sources, the National Archives Centerfor the northeastern United States, previously located in Bayonne NJ, is now in Manhattan. They have the census records for the entire country, on microfilm as well as computer, and naturalization records for the New York and New Jersey area.

When family research moves to Ireland, sources are a much greater problem. Persecution of Catholics in Ireland prior to Emancipation in 1829 discouraged the compiling and retention of baptismal and marriage records before that date. Four Courts, the building in Dublin housing a thousand years of public records, along with all its contents, was destroyed in the Civil War of 1922 in a fire set by defeated republican forces fighting against the Free State. Many original documents had been moved earlier to that site for safe keeping. Government censuses were taken every ten years, but the last of the census records from prior to 1901 were lost in the 1922 fire; the others had previously been pulped for scrap paper. As a result, there survive only two general compilations of names of residents of Ireland for the 19th century, each of them at best a list of heads of households with no other identifying information. Each is essentially a real estate tax record of landlords and their tenants, the Tithe Applotment Book of 1832-1833 and Griffith's Valuation of 1855-1856. Both are available on microfilm in the New York Public Library. Griffith's has recently come available on the Internet. Luckily each of these surveys was compiled a generation before the time of our ancestors emigration, so the names of their parents should, and did, appear in these listings. Griffith's is indexed, also on microfilm and the Internet. The details listed in the Applotment Book vary by county. Individual tenants are listed for Sligo and Longford, not for Mayo. There does not appear to be an index.

And yet another data source was found in NYPL, an index to the birth, marriage and death records of England for the 19th century. As a result I was able to confirm a story that had been told about the Melvin family, that they emigrated to England during the Irish Famine, and then the sons came to United States. In fact, the father and two of his children die within two months, shortly after fleeing the Famine in 1847; a three-year-old boy dies of typhus fever, an effect of starvation; a fifteen-year-old girl dies in the Manchester Workhouse. These are not abstract statistics. These are John and Annie Melvin, the young brother and sister of my great-grandfather. These deaths put names and faces on the Irish Famine, and unite us personally with Darfur, Niger, and numberless other places of famine around the globe today.

One rule about research is that each new item of data found will ask more questions than it answers. Why did Owen and Michael Kiernan, father and son, switch their name to McKiernan after arriving here, and why did Michael's widow switch back to Kiernan? What was Michael McKiernan, usually a resident of New York City, doing in Beaufort SC in September 1864, in the not-quite-middle of the Civil War, when there's no record that he was in the Union Army? Why do the Melvins and the Hunts not show up on passenger immigration lists? What if any connection was there between grandfather and grandmother Carey, who seem to have had earlier relatives in common although they came from opposite ends of Co Mayo?

Family research is not really finished until you have the tree reconstructed all the way back to Adam and Eve. Before achieving that, there's always the possibility of finding one more piece of information, and then another, and another. There is always the chance that something more will show up, that one more visit to an archive, or checking a more imaginative misspelling of a name, will lead to further information. Who would think at first glance that an index listing of Max Kernon really referred to Michael Kiernan? A typical example is the immigration record of the Finan brothers. James was too common a name to pursue, and Robert and Farrell produced no results. But their entry was eventually found, with Finan misspelled, Farrell misspelled, and with a previously-unknown brother Thomas. Another observation to keep in mind is that indices should not always be trusted. Some indices have been compiled by human beings who may not be familiar with family names of various ethnic origins, and so they misrecord a handwritten name that might be obviously recognized by another recorder. Computer-generated indices pose a additional problem. Some are compiled at each search request from the data base which itself was compiled from the original handwritten record. I have at times gotten the response that a name cannot be found, only to be told at another time that the same name, in the same data base, has been found.

In the past twenty-five years, all the last members of The Family from generations earlier than my own have died. These were, with few exceptions, the last members of The Family who personally knew the immigrant generation. Whatever they knew and failed to write down because everybody knows it, whatever stories they failed to tell to the next generation, all that history is now lost forever. Today's older generation, and that includes myself, must record the stories they know, and must encourage, urge, demand that the rest of you readers do the same. I would be glad to hear of any details that my readers may be able to add, any corrections or suggestions, or any anecdotes about family members.

Some examples may show the importance of recording odd bits of apparent trivia. An off-hand comment by Sarah Holbritter was the sole reference that led to seeking and eventually finding the Melvin family in Manchester, England. The remembrance by my aunt Mary Kiernan that her grandfather had visits from his niece who lived in Braddock PA was the only link to the extensive family of Mathew Melvin, and her remark that her father graduated from Stevens Institute, while she concealed other data about him, was the sole clue that eventually led to finding his date of death and his gravesite. My father never knew his father, and believed that he had died ten years or more before the true date. The notes left by my grandmother, which provide the link with the Finnerty branch of the family, were prompted by my father's question How are we related to them? when he was arranging the funeral of Robert Brady. All knowledge of the Edward Kiernan branch of the family was supplied by Helen DeSapio. Helen's mother Lillian Callaghan Crosett was an aunt, his father's half-sister, whom my father never knew about until shortly before her death, and only then met because Helen had been a classmate in high school of my mother's niece Mary Girlie Byrnes. His mother had broken all connection with the Kiernan side of the family over an imagined snub by Helen's mother. (Lillian had arranged for the funeral of her brother Eugene, then separated from my grandmother.) Typical Irish family!

Here's another interesting story told to me by my mother years ago. The story is that my uncle Will Carey had the opportunity for a law scholarship to Harvard, but his mother wouldn’t let him accept a position at a non-Catholic school. There may be some truth to this story. Through the first decades of the 20th century, law was not a college-degree subject in America. An applicant would clerk for three years with an attorney, and then apply for certification by the local professional society. (Entry to public-school teaching was not much different.) Is the story true? Probably. My aunt Mae Carey described her mother as cantankerous, or worse. Are the details accurate? Well, as the Irish say about folklore, All the stories are true, and some of them actually happened.

Now let's preserve another family story. At Easter 1928 my father went with his mother and sister to Canada on a pilgrimage from Our Lady of Grace Church, with fellow parishioners, including Catherine Carey, to visit the Shrine of Saint Joseph then being built in Montreal. At the shrine Brother Andre, the founder of the shrine and now a canonized saint, singled him out and told him he would marry one of the women in the group. Lucky for me he did!

A question has come up: Did any of the immigrant generation speak Irish? It is unlikely that Irish was the first language for those born in 1830s or later, since compulsory schooling in English was introduced for Ireland in 1834. But for the earlier generation Irish may have originally been their first language, possibly their only fluent language. I remember that my aunt Mae Carey vaguely recalled her prayers in Irish, perhaps learned from her mother, and my father occasionally used isolated words and expressions from Irish, perhaps picked up as a child from his grandfather. It's details like this that history is really about.

Part of a family history is recording the origin of various family mementos. I have a copy of the title page from grandfather Eugene Kiernan's thesis at Stevens, which includes his signature. I also have a copy of great-grandfather Michael McKiernan's citizenship papers, which includes his signature. They both had fine script. Michael's citizenship papers also contain the signature of the witness, his father Owen McKiernan, who misspelled his own name. I have a pocket watch dating from at least the 1850's, inscribed with the letter K. But there is no recollection whether it belonged to Michael Kiernan or to Mathew Cavanagh or to whom. I have a small crudely hand-carved crucifix, dated 1819. It is similar to museum examples of crucifixes carved by pilgrims as part of their visit to Lough Dergh, a penitential site in Co Donegal associated with Saint Patrick. Whom did it belong to? I have several books that belonged to my great-grandparents Melvin, including a history of Ireland dating from the 1880s, and a prayer book from the 1860s, in case anyone wants to go back to the Lenten rules of the good old days. There is a mathematics text book inscribed with the initials of Eugene Kiernan, and a music text book with the name of Katherine Kiernan. I have a decorated stoneware bowl that Mary Kiernan said belonged to her grandmother. I saw an identical bowl a few years ago in the Ulster American Folk Park in Omagh, Co Tyrone, which the museum says dates from about 1900 and came from England. I also have a campaign button for the Socialist Party, if anyone wants to claim that. All these and many other items have stories attached to them, stories that were never recorded and so now are lost forever.

Disappointingly, no stories were preserved about life and families in Ireland. On the Kiernan side, all immigrant ancestors left Ireland shortly before or in the wake of the Irish Famine, An Gorta Mor, 1845-1849. Little was written about that period, either in Ireland or America, prior to the recent sesquicentennial commemoration. The survivors regarded it as a bitter and embarrassing time, choosing to forget the measures they endured to survive. One dim recollection may have been my Aunt Mary's refusal to eat turnips, perhaps inherited from her grandparents. Turnips had been regarded as food for the pigs, and were eaten by people only in desperation after the failure of the potato crop. On the Carey side, emigration occurred a generation later, although the early 1880s in Ireland was again a period of economic depression and crop failure as well as of political unrest. (I hope our Careys are not related to the James Carey who was the informer in the Phoenix Park murder of the government Chief Secretary in May 1882.) While the Carey-Hunt-Hyland family came from the Co Mayo area around Knock, no devotion or mention of the reported appearances of the Blessed Virgin at Knock in the summer of 1879 seem to have been present in the family. I have a book, but from the Melvin side of the family, that describes the appearance and the testimony taken at the time. But the popular devotion of the present day seems to date only from the 1930s, when the parish priest at Knock sought a way to attract visitors to his remote area.

Several years ago, a friend of mine, Fr Tom Sheridan SJ, mentioned for the first time in the twenty plus years I’d known him, that he has Kiernan relatives, indeed from Granard, the town where our Michael Kiernan was baptized. Tom's aunt Peggy was married to Larry Kiernan, the brother of Kitty Kiernan (aka Julia Roberts) who was the fiancee of Michael Collins, one of the leaders in the establishment of an independent Ireland in the period 1916-1922, who was assassinated in 1922. Tom's Kiernan family has compiled a genealogy, but only back to the parents of Kitty and Larry. If there is a connection with our family, it would be at least two generations earlier.

I have been to Ireland ten times, each time with a tour group led by Deirdre McKiernan, daughter of the late Irish scholar Dr Eoin McKiernan. She and several family members, both mine and hers, have remarked on a strong family resemblance between Eoin and myself. (His picture appeared for many years with the column he wrote on the last page of each issue of Irish America. Decide for yourselves.) Deirdre has traced her fathers family to Co Longford and Co Cavan, within ten miles of Granard, so maybe we are related.

A few years ago there was a letter in a genealogy column asking for information about a Bernard Shannon who lived in Brooklyn in the 1880s. The letter said that Bernard Shannon's mother was a Kiernan. I wrote to the letter writer, Thomas Barry, since Bernard Shannon is the name of a baptismal sponsor for one of the grandchildren of Mary Kiernan Mullen. Although Barry's Bernard Shannon was living on the same street and in the same parish as the Mullens, we were unable to establish any connection between his Kiernans and ours.

As the immediate branches of The Family become separated, the question arises of the even more distant family branches, those not descendent from my most remote immigrant ancestors. With effort, some of these can be traced into the 1930 census. But where are they today? Surely there are many descendants of Mathew Melvin, the western Pennsylvania cousins, although the Melvin surname seems to have died out. There is also the large family of Hunt cousins from Boston, although they are daughters of daughters, so the Hunt name has disappeared; the Carey and McLaughlin cousins here in Hudson County; the Finan cousins in Manhattan and Long Island; and the Mullen cousins from Brooklyn, later untraceable as Smiths in Manhattan. What became of Michael Kiernan's sister Bridget? I recently chased the name through twenty-five years of records, only to find that it was not recording our Bridget Kiernan. And what became of Bernard Melvin's brother Michael, who may have stayed in England or may have emigrated anywhere in the Irish Diaspora? Judging from names of witnesses at marriages and baptisms, there were other Kiernan, Flood and McTigue cousins in United States, probably in the New York City area, at least in the early generations. Who were they and where are these families now? Are we related to the Philip Kiernan from Co Longford, a resident of Jersey City, who lost two sons on the Titanic?

There were cousins of the Melvins living until recently in Easkey in Ireland, but attempts to get responses from them, either directly or with the help of their parish priest, were unsuccessful. And there are many Kiernans living in Granard. How many of them are close relatives? For the time being at least, I leave these questions for those readers more adept at Internet snooping.

I realize that my brother and I, and his daughters and granddaughters, are the only ones related to all the people reported in this history. But many members of The Family who read this report are related to half of them, or perhaps a quarter of them, and, in turn, have other ancestors who are not mentioned here at all. I hope that this partial information about your family will induce some of you to search out the details of the other branches of your own roots, or at least to write down the facts which you yourself know of your family background. Remember that every blank space in this research represents some forgotten detail that once everybody knows and so nobody recorded for later generations. If you don't do something about it, someday you too may be a blank space!

The broader picture, who we are, where we come from and where we might go, is well described in the Authors Note in the novel Shannon, by Frank Delany:

Much of our power comes from our past. We have always drawn upon the ancient world. ... More narrowly, we also draw upon our own particular ancestries. Why the tradition of family portraits? How often do we tease apart the branches of the family tree and grow more fascinated?

It seems not to matter much if that old family thread of ours is frail or poorly traceable or even if it fades into obscurity. We need the spirit of our past more than we need the facts; we need the pride more than we need the proof. And the more mobile we become, and the farther we travel from our point of origin, the more we seem to want to return. That is, if the Irish example can be judged; to have come from Ireland, no matter how long ago, is to be of Ireland, in some part, forever.

Internationally, genealogical research has become one of the world's growing pastimes. Within our origins we search for our ancestors, our steadiness. And everyone’s journey to the past is different. It might be found in a legend or in the lore of an ancestors courage or an inherited flair. Or it might be found simply by standing on the earth on once owned by the namesake tribe, touching the stone they carved, finding their spoor. In all cases we are drawn to the places whence they came because to grasp who they were may guide what we might become. NOTES

In presenting this report, I have used the following format, as indicated in the Table of Contents: first, individual listings for each of the persons among my ancestors, in the order of their birth, and then reports on each of the families in or related to The Family.

Some remarks on notation and references should be observed. First, all the houses in Hoboken were given new street numbers in 1892. Thus many early residences are reported in both their old designation [OS] and new [NS]. Similarly, buildings on the cross streets in Manhattan above 14th Street were renumbered in 1868. With the possible exception of the Macdougal Street address, all the buildings in New York City that were family residences in the 19th century probably no longer exist. For Hoboken locations, I have mentioned in the text those addresses where the building the family lived in clearly no longer exists. The others seem to survive.

Regarding the Federal Census, all records through 1930 have been computerized and indexed, with variant spellings allowed. Indices are available that allow searches by address. The returns for 1890 were totally lost in a fire many years ago. There are New Jersey and New York State five-year censuses for 1855 to 1925 available on microfilm, although some years and counties are missing, usually the ones that would be most informative. But these are little more than lists of names. Neither the New York nor the New Jersey state censuses are indexed. You need a street address to start the search, so I have recorded the city ward-precinct code for reference.

In the Irish Tithe Applotment Book, parishes [parish is a civil as well as a Church of Ireland district] within a county are denoted by a microfilm reel and a TAB number. Granard is reel 68, TAB 19/6; Easkey is reel 26, TAB 9. For land areas reported in the Applotment Book and in Griffith's, there are 40 perches to a rood, and 4 roods to an acre. An Irish acre in approximately 1.6 English (and US) acres.

Now a geography lesson. Lough Melvin, on the borders of Co Fermanagh, Co Leitrim, and Co Donegal, is recorded in a sixteenth century compilation of earlier texts as named for Melghe Molbhthach [Mel the Praiseworthy], son of Cobhthach Cael Breagh, an Irish king. Melghe was killed in 241BC and when his grave was digging, Loch Melghe burst over the land of Cairbre, so it was named for him. The lake is famed for its natural beauty and its fishing, particularly Gillaroo trout found only in this lake.

IRISH EQUIVALENTS OF FAMILY NAMES

Brady ...... Mac Bradaigh

Callaghan ...... O Ceileachain

Carey ...... O Ciardha

Cavanagh ...... Caomhanach

Curry...... O Comhriadhe

Egan ...... Mac Aodhagain

Finan ...... O Fionain

Finnerty ...... O Finneachtaigh

Flood ...... O Maoltuile Hunt ...... O Fiachrach

Hyland ...... O hUallachain

Kiernan ...... Mac Tighearnain

McLaughlin ...... Mac Lochlainn

McTigue ...... Mac Taidhg Melvin ...... O Maoilmhin

Mullen ...... O Maolain

Murray...... O Muireadhaigh

Myers ...... O Meidhis

Reilly ...... O Raghailligh Smith ...... Mac an Ghobhann

Flood, Hunt, and Smith are English translations of the Irish names, whose modern forms would be Melton, Ferry, and McGowan. Cavanagh is said to be the only Irish name that does not correctly have O or Mac prefixed. THE ORIGINS OF SOME FAMILY NAMES

Many reference works give histories of various Irish family names. These stories are not always consistent, but nonetheless are interesting history. As the Irish like to say, All of the stories are true, and some of them actually happened. These notes are largely taken from Surnames of Ireland by Edward MacLysaght.

KIERNAN

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The original form of the name is MacTighearnain, derived from the Irish word tighearna, a lord. At some time the t became th and, since aspirated consonants are barely voiced in Irish, the name was pronounced and eventually spelt MacKiernan. In modern Irish the name is spelt MacTiarnain.

MacLysaght says that no fewer than thirtythree MacTiernans are mentioned in The Annals of the Four Masters, a history of Ireland written in the 17th century by Franciscan historians in Co Donegal, practically all of them chiefs of Teallach Dunchadha, modern Tullyhunco in Co Cavan, or their relatives. This is taken as evidence that the sept was of major importance in the period 1250-1550. The family is a branch of the clan O'Rourke. A different MacTiernan sept comes from Co Roscommon and is descended from Tiernan, a grandson of Turlough Mor O Connor, who commissioned the Cross of Cong in the 12th century.

John O'Donovan, a 19th century researcher of Irish history, left extensive reports on the background of place names and some family names. For the Cavan MacTiernans, he records a pedigree of 28 generations back from the last head of the sept before the Elizabethan invasion of Ireland, Fergall Tiernan who died in 1523, to Duach Galach. With this person the family merges with the MacBradys, and is traced back several more generations, merging with the O'Neill and O'Donnell family through a brother, Brian, of Niall of the Nine Hostages. This Niall is regarded as the earliest factual individual in Irish history, dying shortly before the time of Saint Patrick.

O'Donovan reports that the estate of Cuconnaught Mac Thiernain, chief of Teallach Dunchadha, who died in 1412, was located at Cruachain MhicThiernain, now called Croaghan, just north of Killyshandra (Cill a tSean Ratha). This village is on the west bank of Lough Oughter in Co Cavan. O'Donovan also records that the senior branch of the family still lives nearby in 1836. Granard, where our Michael Kiernan was baptized in 1832, is 15 miles south of the site.

MELVIN

The O'Melvins, in Irish O Maoilmhin, seem to be found now mostly in Co Galway and Co Mayo where, through the vagaries of Irish pronunciation, O'Bleahan is also a variant spelling.

Melghe Molbhthach [Mel the Praiseworthy], for whom Lake Melvin is named, was the son of Cobhthach Cael Breagh. Melghe ruled Ireland for seventeen years, according to the Annals of Ireland, 4678 to 4694 AM [Annus Mundi, dating from the Creation]. Some sources translate this as 257 to 241 BC, while others date him around 100 BC. Melghe became king by slaying Labhraidh, his cousin. Melghe in turn was slain in battle by a usurper Modhcorb, who in turn was killed by Labhraidh's son Aengus Ollamh, who was then killed by Melghe's son Irereo. And you thought Irish families today have fights! CAREY

The O'Kearys, now spelt Carey, in Irish O Ciardha, belong to the southern Ui Neill and were lords of Carbury, Co Kildare, prior to the AngloNorman invasion in the 12th century. 1

OWEN KIERNAN (1787-?1864)

The Tithe Applotment Book, listing tenant family heads and compiled for Ireland in 1833, includes Owen Kiernan in Coolcor townland of the barony and parish of Granard. Owen Kiernan holds tenancy number 11, described as 11 acres, 3 roods and 25 perches of first quality land, jointly with Thomas Kiernan.

Owen Kiernan, together with his wife Ellen and his children Mary, Michael, and Biddy, arrived in New York on 21 December 1847, on the Peter Hattrick, from Liverpool. He was listed as age 52, a laborer. Records at the Emigrant Savings Bank establish that this family is from Coolcor, and that the son Michael is indeed the Michael Kiernan of our Family.

Except for Michael, the family has not been found in the census of 1850. On a bank statement in 1855 Michael reported that his mother was already dead, his father living. A New York city directory from 1852-53 has an entry for Owen McKiernan, a baker, at 96 West 16th Street. [House numbers were changed in 1868; this address would be 146 West 16th Street, between Sixth and Seventh Avenues.] A bank entry for his son Michael in August 1852 lists Michael at that address. So both father and son were using the name McKiernan and both were bakers. Owen McKiernan appears as a witness on his son's citizenship papers in October 1855, living at 283 Elizabeth Street. In the 1855 state census, Owen McKiernan age 67 is listed living with his daughter Mary and her husband James Mullen, a baker [ED 21, W 2, #163]. No addresses are listed in this census, nor is there an index. Owen appears, under the name Eugene McKiernan age 75, with his son Michael and daughter Bridget in the 1860 census [NY 814 p125; ED 18, W1]. This entry agrees with the 1860 city directory address for Michael at 219 Avenue A.

No record of death for Owen, either Kiernan or McKiernan, has been located. A bank entry in September 1864 listing the sisters Mary and Bridget as Michael's family seems to suggest that his father was deceased by then, but no entry has been found in the New York City death records through 1870.

Eoghan, pronounced Owen, is the Irish form of Eugene. The name of Michaels father is written Owen in almost all known records except the Irish baptismal records of Owen's children, where Eugene is used, in keeping with British-imposed civil law at the time.

It is interesting to note that as early as the 1850s a Kiernan family was operating a hotel in Granard, a facility that would have included bakers, a hotel and a family that later played a role in the 1916 Easter Rising that led to Irish independence. 2

MARGARET CONNELL McGLYNN CAVANAGH (l790-l867)

According to notes left by Katherine Melvin Kiernan, Margaret Connell McGlynn Cavanagh was her greatgrandmother. Margaret Connell's first husband was named McGlynn (no first name given, and even the Connell name was uncertain), by whom she had two children - Rose, who died in India (no other explanation provided) and Mary Anne. Her second husband was Mathew Cavanagh, by whom she had two children - Ellen, who married John Brady, and Catherine. Mary Anne McGlynn married James Finnerty and was the mother of Margaret Finnerty Melvin, Catherine Finnerty, and Rose Finnerty Eaton.

Matthew and Margaret Cavanagh, both listed as age 40, together with their children Catherine age 19 and Ellen age 17, arrived in New York 19 October 1842 on the Nicholas Biddle. These ages for the parents are unreasonable, considering Margaret's first marriage and grandchildren only five to ten years younger than Catherine and Ellen. Later references suggest that Matthew and Margaret were ten to fifteen years older.

The family has not been located in the 1850 census. The 1855 New York state census lists Matthew and Margaret Cavanagh, both age 60, with children Ellen age 20, Margaret age 18, Catherine age 16, and Rose age 14, [W8, ED7]. All the children are listed as Cavanagh, and they are all reported resident in United States for twelve years. But the Finnerty grandchildren are not mentioned in the 1842 passenger list.

The story as told by Mary Kiernan is that Mary Anne and her husband James Finnerty both died in Ireland at the time of the Famine, and their orphaned children came to America to live with their grandmother. But ship-arrival records for the period do not support this story, and later census and death records give differing years for the arrivals of the three sisters. Persons with the names of the three sisters, but with questionable ages, did arrive separately during the decade, but these entries often contradict the listing of all three Finnerty sisters in the 1855 census.

Mathew Cavanagh is listed in several city directories during the 1850s as a late farmer (presumably meaning former or retired) at 109 Charleton Street, an address consistent with the census listing. (References vary on spelling Cavanagh or Kavanagh, as well as Mathew or Matthew. Mathew is the far more common spelling in Ireland.) City directories list Matthew Cavanagh, a clerk, at 109 Charlton Street in 1861 and 1863. Margaret Cavanagh (or Kavanagh), a tailoress or sewing is listed at 545 Greenwich Street in 1865 and 1866.

Mathew Cavanagh died in New York on 1 January 1864 at 555 Greenwich Street; his age is given as 76; no occupation is listed. Margaret Cavanagh died in New York 30 July 1867 at 109 Charlton Street; her age is listed as 77. They are both buried in Calvary Cemetery [510EE5] with their son-in-law John Brady. They are both listed as age 69 in the 1860 census. The two addresses seem to refer to the same or adjacent corner lots. The entire city block is now occupied by a warehouse.

Existent birth, marriage and death records in Ireland are slowly being indexed and computerized, county by county. So far, no available records in Ireland list the marriage of Margaret and Mathew Cavanagh, nor the birth of her daughter Mary Anne, and no identifiable records list the marriage of James Finnerty and Mary Anne, or the births of their daughters. The search is also complicated by the absence of any memory of the county of origin of the Finnerty and Cavanagh families. The index to family names in Griffith's Valuation shows the two names occurring most commonly together in Co Mayo, although each occurs more frequently elsewhere, Finnerty in Galway and Cavanagh in Dublin. But this listing was 3 compiled in 1856, after the Famine, and the family connection of the two names occurs at least a generation before the Famine which displaced many families from the west of Ireland. Mayo appears as the best guess, but only a guess, for the origin of this branch of The Family. In many districts, individual tenant names for Co Mayo are not listed in the Tithe Applotment Book, so no further information is available. Indeed the more relevant association of names would be Connell-McGlynn-Finnerty, and the doubtful accuracy of the first two names would defeat any search. 4

ELLEN FLOOD KIERNAN (1804-?1849)

Ellen Kiernan, age 41, arrived in New York with her husband Owen and their children on 21 December1847. Her children were Mary, listed on the ship passenger list as age 14, Michael, age 12, and Bridget (Biddy), age 11. The parish records in Granard report that Michael was baptized in May 1832 and Bridget in July 1834.

Records in County Longford report the baptism of Ellen (Eleanor) Flood, daughter of Thomas Flood and Ellen Hagan, 15 January 1804. Her baptismal sponsors are not listed. Surviving records report that she had brothers James, baptized 4 September 1797, and John, baptized 22 June 1806.

In 1855 Ellen was reported by her son as deceased. It is possible that Ellen died in December 1849, when her son Michael purchased the gravesite in Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn [Old Ground L-134 Rear], but Holy Cross Cemetery has no burial record for her around that date. No record of her death has been found in the city archives from 1847 through 1855, but death certificates were not required at that time. New York City had a cholera epidemic in 1849, so death records may not have been complete or accurate..

Ellen's name is given as Helen on the baptismal records of her children, since in Ireland the government required the use of English names, but Ellen appears in all other citations. 5

MICHAEL JOHN KIERNAN (1832-1872)

At the start of this research, Michael Kiernan was known only by the appearance of his name on the marriage certificate of his son Eugene Henry at Our Lady of Grace Church in Hoboken in 1893. That marriage record says Michael was born in Ireland. All the further information found about him shows how one clue can lead to another, and how much information has become available as old records are computerized.

A baptismal record for Michael Kiernan, son of Eugene Kiernan and Helen Flood, was located at Saint Mary Church, Granard, Co Longford, stating he was born and baptized 16 May 1832. He was born in Ballymore, a townland in the parish. His godparents were John Kiernan and Elizabeth Dolan. The Tithe Applotment Book, listing tenant family heads and compiled for Ireland in 1833, lists over thirty Kiernans in Granard parish. The only Owen Kiernan is listed in Coolcor townland of the barony and parish of Granard. The name Kiernan does not appear at all in Ballymore, but the name Matthew Flood does. Coolcor is adjacent to Ballymore, and popular usage was often inaccurate. Both Flood and Dolan names appear in Bonlahy townland of Granard parish. Owen Kiernan holds tenancy number 11, described as 11 acres, 3 roods and 25 perches of first quality land, jointly with Thomas Kiernan. Thady and Daniel Kiernan hold tenancy number 17 in Coolcor, described as 19 acres, 2 roods and 21 perches. Both of these holdings are unusually large compared with others in the area.

Michael arrived in New York with his parents on 21 December 1847 on the Peter Hattrick from Liverpool. His age is given as 12, and this three-year discrepancy in his age persists through most later records.

Michael Kiernan is listed in the 1850 New York City census as one of a dozen or so young bakers working for and boarding with Paul S Brown. Brown, a baker, was born in Sweden, as were several of the workers, apparently Brown's family. Others are Germans or New Yorkers; Michael is the only one of Irish birth. Paul S Brown is listed in a city directory in 1849 as a baker at 366 Bowery, and as baker, confectionary and ice cream at 33 Third Avenue in 1851.

Michael Kiernan, listed as an apprentice baker on Greenwich Street, opened an account #428 at the Emigrant Savings Bank on 4 February 1851. The biographical information records his birth in Coolcor, Co Longford, and his parents' names. He opened a new account #2650 on 27 August 1852, as Michael McKiernan, a baker on West 16th Street, with a reference back to the earlier account. The name McKiernan is used on all subsequent entries for him on bank records and city directories. This address coincides with the 96 West 16th Street address reported for his father, listed as Owen McKiernan, in the 1852-53 city directory. Michael opened another new account #9806 on 21 August 1855, which records the name of the ship on which he arrived in United States, as well as repeating the previous biographical information. He was now living on 29th Street. No two of these bank accounts were open simultaneously. They record a series of deposits and withdrawals, the last account reaching over $200, a significant amount at the time.

Michael McKiernan, a baker, is listed in a city directory at 130 East 29th Street [234 East 29th Street NS] in 1855-56, and at 219 Avenue A in 1860. He is listed in the 1860 census, occupation master baker, with his sister Bridget and his father. Living with them is a boarder Patrick Duffy age 35, also a baker, born in Ireland. No addresses are given in the census, but ED1, ward 18, is consistent with the 1860 directory address. 6 Michael McKiernan, son of Owen, was naturalized a citizen at the Court of Common Pleas (143G, 123) in New York City on 10 October 1855. Both Michael and Owen were living at 283 Elizabeth Street. This is an address listed in the city directory of 1856 for James Mullen, Michael's brother-in-law.

Michael McKiernan opened another new account #42408, five years after closing the previous account, on 3 September 1864. The previous biographical information is repeated, but now he is a baker in Beaufort SC. His two sisters were then living at 313 First Avenue. No explanation for his location in South Carolina has been discovered. There is no record that Michael served in the military during the Civil War.

The New Jersey State Archives [Q499] contains a marriage record for Mike Kiernan, age 28, and Mary Reily, age 22, both of Jersey City, on 26 October l865, at Williamsburgh, New York by Rev Sylvester Malone. His occupation is baker; his parents names are Owen and Ellen Kiernan. This entry in the State Archives is indexed under Max Kernon. The marriage record in Saints Peter and Paul Church, Williamsburgh, which is now part of Brooklyn, says Michael McKiernan.

Michael's name appears on the baptismal record of his son Eugene Henry at Saint Mary Church in Jersey City in 1866. The entry says Kiernan. The family was living in Englewood NJ early in 1870, but no census entry has been found. The Hoboken city directory for 187273 lists Michael McKiernan, a baker, at Newark and Grand Street.

Michael Kearnan died 29 December l872, age 38, in Hoboken [State Archives AU431]. Michael Kiernan was buried on 31 December 1872 in Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn [Old Ground L134 Rear], in a grave which also contains children who died at 114 Newark Street, Hoboken, a known address for the family. There is no stone at the grave. This grave was purchased by Michael J Kiernan 26 December 1849.

Michael's grave in Holy Cross Cemetery also includes the burial of Mary Kiernan Mullen, Michaels sister. Her death certificate says she was born in County Longford. It was this entry, discovered early in this research, that indicated Michael also came from County Longford, and this assumption led to the location of his baptismal record, a identification confirmed by later discoveries.

No specific address for Michael Kiernan in Hoboken is recorded at any time, only the Newark and Grand Street reference in the Hoboken City Directory in the year he died. The first mention of 114 Newark Street in Hoboken (now 310 Newark Street, the sixth of eight lots on the north side of the street between Willow Avenue and Clinton Street, a site now occupied by a large condominium) occurs at the death of his daughter Mary Ellen in 1876, after his widow had remarried. An 1860 map of Hoboken calls the present Willow Avenue Clinton Avenue and the present Clinton Street Grand Street, so the Newark and Grand Street may well refer to 114 Newark Street.

The family cannot be located in the 1870 census for Hoboken, nor in the census for Englewood, where Michael's third child was born in March of that year. It is possible that the family moved from Englewood to Hoboken in the spring of 1870 and was not counted at either location.

It is interesting that in the records where Michael himself presumably supplied the information, his name is given as McKiernan, a form he consistently used from as early as 1852, as did his father, while the earlier records and those supplied by his widow give the family name as Kiernan. This might suggest sympathy, and perhaps some activity, with the Irish nationalist movement in America at the time. It surely indicates a greater identification with Irish heritage by Michael. But why did his wife/widow not use the name7 7

BERNARD MELVIN (1836-1910)

According to Sarah Holbritter, Bernard Melvin was born in Fortland, Easkey, County Sligo. Sarah knew the site of the house where he was born. On his death certificate, his date of birth is 26 December 1836. He is listed as 33 in the 1870 census, and 72 in the 1910 census. The 1900 census also says he was born December 1836, but the 1905 state census says February 1838. According to his death certificate, Bernard's parents were Bryan Melvin and Catherine Finan. Mary Kiernan said Bernard's name was originally Bryan. [Many references state that Bernard is generally but incorrectly used as the English form for Brian.] Both Bernard's death certificate and the entry in the Tithe Applotment Book in Ireland spell the name Bryan. In the family, Bernard has always been pronounced in the Irish fashion, with the accent on the first syllable.

The Tithe Applotment Book, compiled for Ireland in 1833, lists Bryan Melvin holding tenancy number 5 in Ballybeg townland, Easky parish, on the estate of Robert Jones Esq, jointly with Myles Higgins and Michael Finan, nine acres and 6 perches in area. Thomas Finan and Farrell Finan hold other tenancies on the same estate. [Records in the 19th century generally spell the town name Easky while current references use Easkey and Eskey interchangeably. The name is pronounced EE-ski.]

Sarah Holbritter said when Bernard was young he and his parents moved to Manchester in England; later he came to America. It is this memory that connects us with the Melvin family recorded in Manchester, where Bryan Melvin died in May 1847 and his widow Catherine died in March 1855.

The 1851 census of England lists Bryan Melvin age 14 living with the McDara family on Rory Street, Oldham Below, Oldham Borough, a suburb of Manchester. He was an apprentice chimneysweep. His mother was living with her other children, Michael, Leonor and Mathew, in Ludgate Hill, Manchester.

Mary Kiernan said her grandfather first went to western Pennsylvania with his brother Mathew and worked as a coal miner; then for his health he moved to New York City. Mathew eventually owned and operated a stone quarry, but is listed in the 1870 census as a miner.

Data in the 1910 census [NJ 887 p174B, indexed as Semard Mehm!] indicates that Bernard came to United States about 1850. In the 1900 census it says he came in 1854. His brother Mathew was already living in Allegheny County PA by 1856, where Mathew's marriage is recorded. Very likely they emigrated together and in 1854, since Mathew's citizenship is dated in 1859, and a five-year wait after immigration was required at the time. Their names do not appear on any immigration lists at United States ports for the year (or at any other time). Emigrants from northern England often traveled to Canada, but the immigration records at Quebec for that period were lost in a fire.

Bernard was the baptismal sponsor of Mathew's first child, in July 1857, at Saltsburg PA. The pages for this area in the 1860 census are faded and difficult to read. An entry for Mathew and his family has been located in North Versailles PA, but Bernard was not living in that same household. Sarah Holbritter did not mention Bernard's brother Mathew.

Bernard and Mathew must have maintained contact with the Finan branch of the family, since a Robert Finan, possibly an uncle of Mathew and Bernard, was the witness at Mathews naturalization in 1859. Also, their cousin Robert Finan was a witness at Bernard's marriage in 1866 and Bernard was the baptismal sponsor for Robert's son James in May 1869. 8

It is believed that Bernard moved to New York City shortly after 1860, about the time that his Finan cousins immigrated and settled there. The only address for Bernard Melvin in New York City has been found in the 1866-67 directory, listing him as a printer living at 220 Varick Street. It may be interesting that this address is only two blocks away from the home of his future wife, whose sister Rose was married to Thomas Eaton, a book printer.

There is no record of Bernard serving in the Civil War. Indeed no other mention of him has been located in any records between the baptismal entry in July 1857 and his marriage in April 1866. The naturalization records for western Pennsylvania list the citizenship application of Mathew Melvin in 1856 and his naturalization in 1859, but there is no listing for Bernard. Bernard would not have been old enough for citizenship until at least early 1858. The census of 1870 lists Bernard Melvin as a citizen. The entry is spelled Mellin.

According to Mary Kiernan, her grandfather was a maintenance worker for The New York Times from 1863 until his death. Various censuses and Hoboken directories list his occupation as porter, although the 1910 census says printer. The Times does not have employee records from the period.

Bernard Melvin is listed as holding two accounts at the Emigrant Savings Bank, #110089 and #147769. No details about these accounts survive.

Bernard Melvin and Margaret Finnerty married 11 April 1866 at Saint Joseph Church in Greenwich Village, New York City. Their first child was born in New York City in March 1867. Then they moved to Hoboken, apparently in the spring of 1867 since he is listed in the Hoboken City Directory for l867-68.

The family is listed in the census of 1880, and in the New Jersey state census of 1885 [3309]. According to various city directories, their addresses were:

103 Meadow Street = 219 Park Avenue 1867-69 91 Meadow Street = 207 Park Avenue 1869-78 89 Bloomfield Street = 205 Bloomfield Street 1879 337 Garden Street = 807 Garden Street 1880 census 132 Garden Street = 242 Garden Street 1881-82 123 Willow Avenue = 325 Willow Avenue 1883 391 Garden Street = 933 Garden Street 1891-93

On 28 September 1892 Bernard Melvin bought the home at 633 Bloomfield Street. The family lived there, eventually including all their children and grandchildren, until the house was sold 18 April 1905. The family then moved to a flat in 906 Willow Avenue (1905 census) and then in 918 Willow Avenue. The buildings mentioned prior to 1891 no longer exist, but the others survive..

Bernard Melvin visited Ireland with his daughter Katherine, sometime before her marriage in 1893. Bernard's wife Margaret had refused to make the sea voyage again. Sarah Holbritter, who was still living in Easkey at the time, recalled the visit. The house where Bernard was born was already in ruins. There is a listing for Bernard Melvin and Kate Melvin arriving at Queenstown, now Cobh, on the Teutonic, 2nd class, 7 July 1891, and returning to New York on the Majestic, 2nd class, 2 September 1891. Both entries list her age accurately, a spinster, but give his as 31. 9

Bernard Melvin died 15 August 1910 in Hoboken, at 918 Willow Avenue, and is buried in Holy Name Cemetery [K517/18]. 10

MARGARET FINNERTY MELVIN (1842-l911)

According to notes left by her daughter, Margaret Finnerty's mother's name was Mary Anne McGlynn. Margaret's father's name is given as John on her death certificate, but on her sister Catherine's death certificate, in August l897, the father's name is given as James. James is more likely correct, since in 1897 one of his daughters was still alive to supply the information. The notes do not mention the father at all.

No record or family memory exists of the county of origin of the Finnerty family.

Margaret Finnerty was the granddaughter of Margaret Connell McGlynn Cavanagh by her first husband, whose given name is unknown. The story as told by Mary Kiernan is that Mary Anne and her husband James both died in Ireland at the time of the Famine, and their orphaned children came to America to live with their grandmother. But ship-arrival records for the period do not confirm this story, and later census and death records give differing years for the arrivals of the three sisters. Margaret, age 18, and her two sisters are listed in the 1855 New York state census living with her grandmother Margaret Cavanagh in New York City. A person named Margaret Finnerty, age 20, arrived on the DeWitt Clinton on 19 November 1853, but this age does not agree with any other reference to our Margaret Finnerty.

Margaret's birthday is listed as unknown on her death certificate. Her granddaughter Mary Kiernan had no memory of her birth date. In the 1900 and 1905 censuses her birth date is listed as March 1842, and in the 1870 census her age was listed as 29, so those references agree. The 1860 census gives her age as 20, and says that she came to United States in 1850. The census of 1910 also says that she arrived in 1850, and it gives her age as 68

In the 1860 New York City census, grandmother and the three granddaughters were all living with Margaret Cavanagh's daughter Ellen Cavanagh Brady and her family at 109 Charlton Street. Her occupation is tailoress in the 1860 census. Mary Kiernan said that her grandmother worked as a seamstress in a pants factory before her marriage.

Margaret Finnerty married Bernard Melvin at Saint Joseph Church in Greenwich Village, New York City on 11 April 1866. The witnesses at the wedding were Robert Finan and Frances Brady. Margaret and Bernard had two children, Katherine, born in New York City 11 March 1867, who married Eugene Kiernan, and Ellen, born in Hoboken 29 September 1868, who married John Myers.

Margaret Finnerty Melvin died 4 November 1911 at 918 Willow Avenue, Hoboken, and is buried in Holy Name Cemetery [K517/18]. 11

MARY REILLY KIERNAN CALLAGHAN (1843-1897)

According to the marriage records in the church and in State Archives (1865, 1875), Mary Reilly's parents were John and Elizabeth Reilly. [Eugene and Mary appear on her death certificate, but those entries seem certainly incorrect and were probably guesses based on her children's names.] The marriage license of Mary's son Eugene says she was born in County Cavan, Ireland. Mary's maiden name is most usually spelled Reilly, although Riley, Reily, and O'Reilly appear. Although Mary twice gives her father's name as John, both of her sisters' death certificates give his name as James, and Marys second son as well as her sister Elizabeth's second son, traditionally named for the maternal grandfather, is James William. Nevertheless, John is probably correct, since Mary was the only person providing the information who would personally have known him. Mary was already dead when the other two sisters died.

No record has been found of her immigration. Her death certificate says she had been a resident of New Jersey for 37 years, so arrived about 1860. There is no certain entry for her in the 1860 census for Hudson County, nor in the Williamsburgh section of Brooklyn. The passenger list for the William Tapscott arriving in New York 27 May 1861 lists two Mary Reillys, one age 20, the other age 24. Also aboard the ship are persons named Elizabeth Reilly and Ellen Reilly. Our Mary Reilly would be more likely age 20 than 24 at the time. This is the only immigration entry in the 1860s that could reasonably refer to the three Reilly sisters.

Mary Reilly has been described as having red hair.

Mary Reilly married Michael Kiernan 26 October 1865 at Saints Peter and Paul Church in Williamsburgh (now part of Brooklyn), although the license says both were residents of Jersey City. Her age is given as 22. The church record gives his name as McKiernan. The church location may mean that the Reilly family was living in Williamsburgh, but no identifiable reference has been found in any census records, or city directory for Brooklyn (where women are rarely listed). The witnesses at the wedding were James Flood and Eliza Reynolds. Michael Kiernan died 29 December 1872.

Mary's second husband was John Callaghan. John Callaghan, age 25, son of Connell (or Charles or Carroll) and Helen Callaghan, and Mary Reilly, age 30, daughter of John and Elizabeth Reilly, were married at Saint Michael's Church in West Hoboken (now part of Union City) 15 August 1875. The witnesses were John and Anna Lindonna. The brides name is given as Mary Reilly rather than Mary Kiernan. [It was common but not universal practice in church documents prior to 1917 to record women, even married women, by their baptismal names.]

The 1874-75 city directory lists Mary Kiernan widow of Michael as a baker at 10 Newark Street, Hoboken; the l876-77 directory lists her at 114 Newark Street. The l878-79 directory lists John Callaghan as a baker at 114 Newark Street, Hoboken, as do later directories.

Mary's children were: Eugene Henry Kiernan, born 6 October 1866, in Jersey City; James William Kiernan; no birth or death records have been found; cemetery records state he died 20 August 1869, age one year; Ellen Frances Kiernan, born 31 March 1870 in Englewood NJ; baptized at Saint Cecilia Church in Englewood, godparents George Lake and Anna Reilly; died 8 November 1870 [AQ320, AQ355]; 12

Mary Ellen Kiernan, born 28 July 1871 in Hoboken, baptismal sponsors at Our Lady of Grace Church were Thomas Kiernan and Mary Mullen; died 12 September 1876 at 114 Newark Street [BC445];

Michael John Kiernan, known as John, born 25 May 1873 in Hoboken, baptismal sponsors at Our Lady of Grace Church were John Callaghan and Catherine Conway; died 21 October 1906; Elizabeth Callaghan, known as Lillie, born 30 October 1876 in Hoboken, baptismal sponsors at Our Lady of Grace Church were Edward Kiernan and Kate Callaghan; died 13 August 1940.

The children James, Ellen, and Mary Ellen are buried with their father in Holy Cross Cemetery, Brooklyn [Old Ground L 134 Rear]. James and Ellen were reburied there on the same date, 9 May 1871, having originally been buried in Public Ground.

In the 1880 census Mary Callaghan's age is 34, and John's age is 35. Their address is 114 Newark Street. The family is also listed in the 1885 state census [4320], in a household that included Timothy Galvin, Rose O'Brine, and Catherine Callaghan..

Since John Callaghan appears as the godfather for Michael Kiernan's last (and posthumous) child in 1873, he may have been a partner in the bakery on Newark Street, and may have lived with the family.

On 1 May 1886, John Callaghan bought 105 Clinton Street (now 317 Clinton), a one-family house, and moved the family and the bakery there. The site later became part of Saint Mary Hospital, now called Hoboken University Hospital.

Mary Reilly Kiernan Callaghan died 22 June 1897 at 317 Clinton Street in Hoboken, and is buried in Holy Name Cemetery [G232]. Her age is given as 53 on her death certificate, which is consistent with other references to her age.

Among the baptismal sponsors, Edward Kiernan is presumably the Edward Kiernan husband of Mary's sister Elizabeth. Thomas Kiernan is unidentified. Several persons named Thomas Kiernan are listed in local directories and census records, but no connection has been established with any one of them. The 1870 census lists a George Lake operating a hotel in Englewood. Perhaps Michael Kiernan was an employee of the hotel. Anna Reilly is unidentified.. 13

THOMAS CAREY (1856-1914)

Thomas Carey was born 8 August, the son of William Carey and Bridget Curry. Their names appear on both his marriage and death certificates; the date is from his death certificate. From both his death certificate and the census of 1910 (which gives his age as 51), the year of his birth was 1858. On his marriage license, his age is 30, which indicates 1854. The age of 65 on his tombstone is probably a miswriting of 56. The 1900 census says he was born November 1856 and the 1905 state census says November 1858. It is generally believed that Thomas was an only child.

Mary Carey recalled that her parents' families were from County Mayo. According to her sister Catherine Carey Kiernan, Bridget Curry Carey's mother was an Egan. From an interview with John Egan, the Egan and Curry families are known to have come from Knock, County Mayo. Although the 1856 Griffith's Valuation lists Curry and Egan families at Knock, the only entry for William Carey places him in Lower Glencullin townland of Kilcommon parish, in the far northwest of Co Mayo, some fifty miles from Knock.

The census of 1910 says Thomas Carey arrived in United States in 1882. Immigration records for the port of New York list Thomas Carey, age 24, arriving on the Palmyra on 12 May 1881. His name does not appear in the 1880 census for Hoboken, but Thomas Cairy is listed in the 1885 census [42], with his wife Mary..

There is no record in Hudson County of Thomas Carey being naturalized, but the 1910 census lists him as a citizen. [Prior to 1924, citizenship could be granted by any government city, county, state or federal. While records from federal and state courts have recently been indexed and computerized, local records are scattered and difficult to search.] In the city directories and on his death certificate, Thomas's occupation is given laborer, sometimes bricklayer.

Thomas Carey married Mary Ann Hyland at Our Lady of Grace Church, Hoboken on 29 September 1884. From the time of his first listing in the city directories, in 1883, until about 1895, Thomas Carey lived at the same address as Patrick McLaughlin and Michael Hunt, uncles of Mary Ann Hyland.

Known residences for the family are: 84 Willow Avenue = 202 Willow Avenue 1883-1886 109 Willow Avenue = 307 Willow Avenue 1887-1895 406 Grand Street in 1896 314 Adams Street in 1899,1900 76 Bloomfield Street in 1910 508 Grand Street in 1914

The tenement at 314 Adams Street burned down while the Carey family was living there. It was then acquired as part of the site for the new Keuffel & Esser factory. The buildings at 202 Willow Avenue and 76 Bloomfield Street have been replaced by newer structures.

Thomas Carey died 29 October 1914 at 508 Grand Street, and is buried in Holy Name Cemetery [B200West]. Some recollections in the family suggest that Thomas Carey was involved with the Fenian Movement, either in Ireland or in United States, or both. One story says that he was invited to leave Ireland by 14 Queen Victoria, and Catherine Carey Kiernan recalled that as a child, her brother-in-law Patrick Byrnes said to her, Your father is a Sinn Feiner. On the immigrant ship with Thomas Carey were Thomas Murray and Edward Curry, local lads who may also have been encouraged to leave Ireland. 15 MARY ANN HYLAND CAREY (1857-1926)

Mary Ann Hyland was born 24 June 1857, the daughter of Marcus Hyland and Bridget Hunt. Family memories placed them in Co Mayo. Mary Ann's parents' names are on her marriage certificate, where she is listed as age 27 (so born 1857). The 1900 census says she was born June 1860, the 1905 census says October 1864, while the 1910 census gives her age as 44 (so born 1865). According to the 1900 census, she arrived in United States in 1882. There are two records for a Mary Hyland arriving in 1882, one on the City of Rome, 17 April 1882, and the other on the Germanic, 15 May 1882, both in steerage, both age 24, a spinster. In both cases Mary Hyland came with another person named Hyland, in April with Annie age 22 and in May with James age 25. Neither name appears elsewhere in family records.

According to the death certificate of Sarah Hunt, sister of Mary Ann's mother Bridget Hunt Hyland, their parents were Thomas Hunt and Bridget McTigue. These same names appear on the death certificate of Sarah's brother Michael Hunt. The administration records on the death of Michael Hunt in 1889 state that Bridget Hunt Hyland, widow of Marcus Hyland, of County Mayo, was still alive. The probate records at the death of Sarah Hunt in 1916 mention only Mary Ann Hyland Carey as a niece in the Hyland family, coinciding with the general recollection that Mary Ann was an only child.

According to the 1856 Griffith's Valuation, Mark Hyland held 26 acres in two sites on lease from Viscount Dillon, in the townland of Carrowmore in the parish of Knock, barony Costello, Co Mayo. In the immediate neighborhood the names Patrick Hyland, James McGreal, James, Thomas and Patrick Curry, John, Andrew and Thomas Carney, Thomas Egan, and John Reddington also appear. All these family names appear in our later marriage and baptism records. Mark Hyland, a farmer in Carrowmore, died 10 April 1866, age 74. This is the only Mark Hyland whose name appears in surviving records from Mayo, he would seem to be considerably older than his wife, not an unusual situation in rural Ireland at the time.

The name Thomas Hunt appears 26 times in the neighborhood of Knock parish, but many of these may refer to the same person. Of particular interest is an entry for Thomas Hunt in Bohogerawer townland, Bekan parish (which is just south of Knock), barony Costello, with neighbors Mark, William and Mary Hunt, and Patrick Waldron, again a name that appears in marriage and baptism records.

Mary Ann Hyland married Thomas Carey at Our Lady of Grace Church on 29 September 1884; the witnesses were Thomas Murray and Anne McTigue. Catherine Carey Kiernan recalled an interesting conversation many years earlier with a woman who had attended the wedding. She said how lovely Mary Ann was in her red dress at the wedding. Catherine was horrified at the idea of a bride wearing red, but it seems red was a traditional color for brides in the west of Ireland.

Mary Ann's children, all born in Hoboken, were: Bridget, known as Delia, born 27 June 1885, godparents Andrew Cannon and Catharine McLaughlin; married Patrick Byrnes; died 8 October 1957. William Patrick, born 10 September 1886, godparents James Waldron and Anna McTigue; married Teresa Olivari; died 25 October 1949. John, born 24 June 1888, godparents Patrick Carey and Anne Curry; died 5 April 1891. Mary Frances, born 2 May 1890, godparents John Curry and Anne Reddington; died 27 July 1963. Thomas, born 29 March 1892, godparents Thomas Murray and Margaret Curry; died 19 May 1949. James Aloysius, born 14 December 1893, godparents Patrick Slayan and Mary Hunt; died 11 December 1925. 16

Annie, born 24 May 1896, godparents Edward Carney and Mary Curry; died 11 August 1896. Margaret, born 19 July 1897, godparents Edward Killeen and Rose Seymour; married Ralph Olsen; died 18 May 1987. Catherine, born 17 June 1900, godparents Patrick Carrigan and Elizabeth McTigue; married Melvin Kiernan; died 9 November 1985.

After Thomas Carey died in 1914, the family bought and moved to 207 Tenth Street. That property remained in the family until Mary Frances sold it in 1950.

Mary Ann Hyland Carey died 28 February 1926 in Hoboken, and is buried in Holy Name Cemetery [B200West].

Mary Ann Hyland Carey received no bequest in the extensive will of her aunt Sarah Hunt. This seems to agree with the family traditional story that the Hunts felt that Mary Ann had married beneath her. This impression is supported by the records in Griffith's Valuation. Mark Hyland's tenancy in the more fertile east of Co Mayo was valued at 10, quite high for the time, while the tenancy of Thomas Carey's father was some 700 acres, mostly desolate bogland and valued at less than £5. 17

EUGENE HENRY KIERNAN (1866-1914)

Eugene Henry Kiernan, son of Michael Kiernan and Mary Reilly Kiernan, was born 6 October 1866 and baptized at Saint Mary's Church, Jersey City. Only one godparent is listed, Catherine Morgan, who is otherwise unknown.

Eugene attended Hoboken public schools and Stevens Institute of Technology, graduating with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1887. The 1887 college yearbook The Bolt reports that while a student he was a member of the tennis team, and Business Manager of the newspaper The Stevens Indicator. He also held a scholarship awarded to the top Stevens student who was a graduate of the Hoboken public schools. Upon graduation he was hired as an engineer with Waterman & Co, of Brooklyn.

On 20 April 1891 Eugene Kiernan was appointed vice principal of Hoboken High School, effective that September, at a salary of $1200. At that time the principal and two vice principals were the entire fulltime faculty of the high school. While teaching in the Hoboken schools, he also taught evenings in the school for the foreignborn for an extra $35. He was appointed principal of #5 school, at Second and Clinton Streets, starting 1 September 1893. He resigned the position 6 February 1900.

Records at Stevens Institute report his address as 114 Newark Street while a student. Board of Education records report his address as 105 Clinton Street (later known as 317 Clinton) when he applied for the high school position [Minutes 9 February 1891].

Eugene married Katherine Melvin at Our Lady of Grace Church, Hoboken, on 9 August 1893. They visited the Columbian Exposition at Chicago on their honeymoon, according to their daughter Mary.

The couple first lived at 230 Hudson Street, 1893-1896. On 21 September 1896 they bought 111 Bloomfield Street, where the family is listed in the 1900 census. They lived there until they sold the house 17 July 1902. Katherine and the children then moved in with her parents at 633 Bloomfield Street. Both of these buildings survive.

Meanwhile Eugene is reported in the Stevens Alumni records as living at 322 East 29th Street in New York City in 1905, and as an engineer for Pearson Company on the construction of the East River railroad tunnel in 1909, where he was stricken with the bends and hospitalized. There is no identifiable reference to him in the Manhattan or Brooklyn city directories.

In the 1910 census Eugene is living with his aunt Eleanor Reilly Johnson at 356 East 32nd Street in Manhattan. He was then a clerk in a law office.

Eugene Kiernan died 11 May 1914, at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn. His address is listed as 551 West 45th Street in Manhattan, his occupation given as clerk. He was buried in Weehawken Cemetery by his half-sister Lillie Callaghan [46C334]. There is no stone at the grave. 18

KATHERINE MARGARET MELVIN KIERNAN (1867-1932)

Katherine Margaret Melvin, daughter of Bernard Melvin and Margaret Finnerty, was born 11 March 1867 in New York City and was baptized at Saint Joseph Church in Greenwich Village 24 March 1867. Her parents moved to Hoboken later that same year. The church reports that the name in the entry is spelled Neldin, and that the names of her godparents are illegible. (The entry is the last line on the page, and the edges are frayed.) The records in both Saint Joseph Church and in Our Lady of Grace in Hoboken spell her name Catherine; she always used Kate or Kitty, which may account for the K.

Katherine Melvin was appointed a teacher in the Hoboken elementary schools 1 November 1887, at a salary of $25 per month; she had been on the waiting list since December 1885. She taught at #5 school, at Second and Clinton Streets. At the time, the requirements for a teacher in the primary grades were a high school diploma and a normal school certificate from a city-run two-week summer program. She resigned when she married, which was a system regulation at the time.

Katherine visited Ireland with her father in the summer of 1891. On that occasion she first met Sarah Taylor, later Holbritter. They remained close friends for many years after Sarah came to United States. Katherine again visited Ireland on a tour of Europe with her daughter Mary in the summer of 1931.

Katherine reportedly had a talent for music, perhaps playing piano and violin. The story was told that she taught music to the kindergarten at SS Peter and Paul Church. Several of her music books survive, as does, I was told, her violin. Sarah Holbritter's daughter Ethel said that Katherine had advised her mother when Sarah was buying a piano, an instrument still in the Holbritter farmhouse in the 1980s. Katherine also left a collection of phonograph records, opera and classical music by artists such as Caruso, Kreisler and McCormack, if anyone has a 78-rpm player.

Mostly in the period shortly before her marriage she took up oil painting. At least five canvases and several other items are known to survive.

Katherine Melvin married Eugene Henry Kiernan 9 August 1893 at Our Lady of Grace Church in Hoboken. The witnesses were Thomas J Hatfield and Katherine Brady, not either his brother or her sister.

Their children were: James Melvin, known as Jay, born 18 June 1894, baptismal sponsors Thomas Hatfield and Kate Sweeney; died 8 January 1898; Eugene Henry, born 27 April 1896, baptismal sponsors John Lundgren and Lillian Callaghan; died 26 June 1897; Mary Margaret, born 11 June 1897, baptismal sponsors John Callaghan and Alice Neeland; died 18 November 1986; Francis John, born 29 August 1899, baptismal sponsors John Kiernan and Jennie Callaghan; died 20 February 1961; Bernard Melvin, born 23 August 1901, baptismal sponsors Bernard Melvin and Ellen Myers; died 26 January 1965.

In 1902 Katherine Melvin Kiernan with her children moved back into her parents' home at 633 Bloomfield Street, where she was joined for a time by her sister Ellen and her daughter. In 1905 the entire family moved to a flat on Willow Avenue, first at 906 and then at 918. In the 1910 census she listed herself as a widow (although Eugene was still alive). In 1923, after her son Frank married, 19

Katherine and her daughter Mary briefly moved to 507 Garden Street and later to 1013 Bloomfield Street, in the 1930 census, and then to 109 Thirteenth Street where she died 11 November 1932. She is buried in Holy Name Cemetery [K517/18].

Katherine Kiernan was reappointed a teacher in Hoboken, effective 1 September 1902. She taught first in an annex on the top floor of City Hall, then in #7 School at First Street and Park Avenue in 1906, Grade 3B, and eventually at #9 School at Second and Monroe Streets, Grade 4A, where she remained until she retired in the summer of 1932. Only #9 School, now Thomas Connors School, is still a Public School. The other school buildings, #5 and #7, have been converted to condominiums and offices.

Katherine Melvin Kiernan was a member of the Lady Foresters of America.

Thomas Joseph Hatfield, the witness at the wedding of Katherine and Eugene, was then the Director of the Hoboken Public Library. The Public Library was part of the Public School system. It is not known whether Hatfield was a close friend of Eugene or of Katherine, or whether there was some other connection. He was born in New York in February 1859 or, according to the 1905 census, in September 1865; his parents, Patrick and Mary, were born in Ireland. Interestingly, his mother's name was Mary Reilly. Was he related to Eugene's mother? 20

CATHERINE CAREY KIERNAN (1900-1985)

Catherine Carey, daughter of Thomas Carey and Mary Ann Hyland, was born in Hoboken 17 June 1900, and was baptized at Our Lady of Grace Church. Her godparents were Patrick Carrigan and Elizabeth McTigue. As a young girl she lived for a time with her married sister Bridget Byrnes to care for the Byrnes's young children.

She attended Our Lady of Grace School, Sacred Heart Academy, Class of 1919, and then Newark Normal School, now known as Kean University. She was appointed a teacher in the Hoboken schools in 1921, eventually being assigned to the Boys' Junior High School as a history teacher. One of her pupils was Frank Sinatra. She resigned in 1935.

Catherine Carey married Melvin Kiernan at Our Lady of Grace Church 27 June 1931. The witnesses were Frank Kiernan and Mary Carey. They spent their honeymoon at Lake Bomoseen in Vermont.

In the late 1960s she became a member of the Hoboken Womans Club and held several offices in the club as well as being a trustee of the Mary Bayard Stevens Home, a local children's shelter.

She died at 825 Hudson Street in Hoboken on 9 November 1985, and is buried in Holy Name Cemetery [10B75West]. 21

BERNARD MELVIN KIERNAN (1901-1965)

Bernard Melvin Kiernan, son of Eugene Henry Kiernan and Katherine Melvin, was born in Hoboken 23 August 1901, and was baptized at Our Lady of Grace Church, the sponsors being Bernard Melvin and Ellen Myers.

He attended Our Lady of Grace School and Xavier High School in New York, class of 1920. He received his bachelor's degree from Seton Hall College in 1925 and was in the first seminary class that continued their graduate studies at the new site at Darlington, where he received his master's degree in 1927. While in college he was manager of the basketball team.

He was appointed to teach mathematics in the Boys' Junior High School in September 1929, at $1600, and in September 1942 was assigned to Demarest High School, to teach Latin. He also taught philosophy at John Marshall Law School and at Seton Hall University. He was appointed Vice Principal of David E Rue School, the former Boys' Junior High, in April 1956, and was transferred to Kealey School in September 1962.

He kept his teaching position all through the Depression, when Hoboken teachers were paid in real money, not in scrip as in many surrounding communities. Money from his mother was in a bank that survived when others failed, or was invested in good stocks. That money was available to several needy family members. Also during the 1930s he organized a group of teachers at Rue School to establish the practice of donating a month's supply of altar breads to Saints Peter and Paul Parish, a tradition that remains on a parish-wide scale to this day.

He was active in the Hoboken Council of the Knights of Columbus for 45 years, serving as Grand Knight 1947-1949, and as a member of the Fourth Degree Color Guard. He wrote a monthly column for The Hoboken Knight and feature articles for other K of C publications.

Melvin Kiernan was living at 1013 Bloomfield Street when he married Catherine Carey at Our Lady of Grace Church 27 June 1931. They lived at 1024 Garden Street until 1937, then at 161 Twelfth Street until they bought 825 Hudson Street in the summer of 1941. He died there 26 January 1965 and is buried in Holy Name Cemetery [10B75West]. 22

BURNS - TAYLOR - HOLBRITTER FAMILY

According to several letters written by Sarah Ann Elizabeth Taylor Holbritter, she was born in Easkey, County Sligo, 11 October 1881. Her father was Martin Taylor and her mother was Bridget Burns. The names Burns and Taylor appear in both the Tithe Applotment Book and Griffith's Valuation at Easkey, Thomas Burns (spelled Burnes) and James Taylor of Ballybeg townland, Martin Taylor of Ballymeeney in the Applotment Book, but these lists are a generation or more too early to record Sarah's parents. In both early and present-day usage, the name of the town is spelt both Easky and Easkey. It is pronounced EE-ski.

Bridget Burns had lived in New York for several years, but then returned to Ireland and stayed there. Sarah said her mother was the godmother of Mary Finan in December 1867, but Bridget Burns was only 12 years old at that time, and it unlikely she was in America so early. Perhaps it was one of Robert Finan's later children. The baptismal records after 1875 were lost in a church fire

Bridget Burns's mother was a Finan, which may produce somehow Sarah's relationship with the Melvin family, although Sarah said cousin Finan was related to her father. Robert Finan's mother was Ellen Rafter, and Sarah mentioned Rafter relatives. Sarah was uncertain exactly what the relationship was, but cousin Melvin and cousin Finan, Bernard Melvin, my great-grandfather, and Robert Finan, were her closest family in America. In support of a connection with Sarah's father, Joseph and Anna Taylor were godparents of one of James Finan's children in 1885.

Sarah's parents, Martin Taylor and Bridget Burns, of Kilmacshalgan parish, Kilmacurkan townland, were married 8 February 1879. Martin Taylor died 18 December 1934, age 96, and Bridget Burns Taylor died 21 July 1939, age 84, according to their tombstone in Easkey.

According to Sarah and to Father Thomas Sweeney CSSp, nephew of Sarah's sister-in-law Anne Brennan, Bridget Burns came from Dromore West, County Sligo, the next town to Easkey. Some of the Finan family, who were living in Easky before the Famine, had located to Dromore West. Father Sweeney was stationed in Brooklyn for some time and later returned to Ireland, near Easkey. He mentioned that a Finan family was then living in Dunowla, in the parish of Dromore West. A correspondent from that Finan family knew some of the Taylors, but was unaware of their relation to the Finans.

Sarah said she had two brothers and four sisters. The names she supplied do not quite agree with the baptismal records at Saint James Church in Easkey, which list Sarah as the first in the family baptized in the parish. Sarah said she was the second of the seven children, that the others were Catherine, Beatrice, presumably the Bridget of the baptismal list, Martin, Margaret, Mary, and Patrick. She did not mention the sister Anne who appears on the parish baptismal list. Only Sarah, Catherine, and Beatrice settled permanently in United States. It would seem that Mary was in fact the oldest of the children and may have been baptized in the mother's home parish in Dromore West, and that Anne died sometime before the 1901 census.

The 1901 of Ireland census lists Martin Taylor, a farmer age 56, of Easky parish, Castleton townland, with his wife Bridget age 43 and their children Mary age 21, Kate age 17, Martin age 12, Margaret age 8 and Patrick age 3. The 1911 census lists Martin Taylor, a farmer age 72, in Easky town, Easky West, with his wife Bridget age 61. They were married 32 years. He cannot read or write, she can read but not write. Martin and 23

Bridget had eight children, seven living in 1911. In their household were their children Martin age 22, Maggie age 18, Patrick age 13, their married daughter Mary Jordan age 27, her husband Patrick Jordan age 27, a labourer, married five years, and their children Pat age 4, Lizzie age 3, and Mary Emma age 2. The household also included Martin and Bridget's grandson John Taylor age 8. (There is no indication whose child he is.)

Sarah Taylor, born 11 October 1881, came to United States on the City of Rome, 29 May 1897. The passenger list reports that her cousin Bernard Melvin paid for her passage. She is presumably the Sarah Taylor listed as a servant at 1035 Garden Street in the 1900 Hoboken census. Sarah married Alfred Eugene Holbritter in New York City 23 February 1907, against Bernard Melvin's wishes, she said. Alfred was born 16 October 1871 in Grafton NY of German immigrant parents James and Emma Holbritter, and died 10 September 1939. They had two daughters, Beatrice Ethel, born 3 August 1908 at 221 West 15th Street in New York City and baptized October 1908 at Saint Francis Xavier Church, godparent Catherine Taylor; and Barbara Myrtle, born 18 January 1912 at 255 West 12th Street and baptized 3 March 1912 at Saint Bernard Church, godparents George Dexter and Katherine Kiernan. No entry for the Holbritter family has been found in the New York City directories between 1908 and 1912. In the 1910 census Alfred, Sarah and their daughter Beatrice were living at 219 West 15th Street. By 1916 the Holbritters had moved to a farm at Boyntonville (Johnsonville NY Post Office), between Troy and Bennington, where they are listed in the 1920 and 1930 censuses. Myrtle married Stanton Emory Abbott, a farmer in Pittsfield, on 30 March 1940 at Saint George Church. He was born 6 November 1905 and died January 1986. They had no children. Sarah Holbritter died 30 October 1976 at the age of 95. Ethel Holbritter died 4 December 1991 and Myrtle Holbritter Abbott died June 2003 at the age of 91. They are buried in Warren Cemetery in Boyntonville. The Holbritter farm had been gradually sold off, finally shortly before Ethel died.

Catherine Taylor, born 20 June 1883, came to United States in 1899, according to the 1920 census, although she is listed in the 1901 census of Ireland. She was living in Union (now part of Union City), age 24, when she married George Dexter age 23, a New York City policeman, son of Moses Dexter and Lena Randal, on 27 December 1908 at Saint Augustine Church. The witnesses were John Waters and Sarah Taylor. Their children were George, born 22 July 1910 and died 14 July 1952, and Florence, born 6 April 1916. The family was living at 624 Sixth Avenue in Astoria in the 1920 census and at 50-24 39th Place in Long Island City in 1930. Catherine Taylor Dexter died 17 December 1946 and her husband George Dexter died 21 August 1960. They are buried in Calvary Cemetery [42-10-R-23]. On 5 December 1936 Florence Dexter married Gaston Dunnell, who was born 1 December 1913 in New York City and died 30 April 1999 in Barefoot Bay, Florida. Florence Dexter Dunnell died 15 August 2005. Florence and Gaston had a daughter Carol, who married Thomas Dunston, with sons Chris and Kevin.

Beatrice Taylor, born 22 February 1885, married Gustav StPeter and later William Cassidy. In the 1930 census, Beatrice N Peters, age 41, is living with her sister Sarah Holbritter. The census entry says Beatrice came to United States in 1905. Beatrice Taylor StPeter Cassidy died 24 February 1950 at Troy. She had no children. She is buried in Boyntonville

Martin Taylor, born 9 May 1888, married Anne Brennan. He died 2 November 1972 and she died 12 July 1978, age 77. Sarah said her brother had a business importing cattle from South America to Ireland.

Margaret Taylor, born 25 April 1891, lived in America for a while. She and her husband Owen Maloney arrived on the Cedric 6 June 1921. They came from Castletown in Co Sligo and were coming to Hoboken. Margaret's daughter Margaret Anne (known as Nan) was born in Ireland in 1921, according 24 to the 1930 census (she is not mentioned in the passenger list) which lists the family at 308 134th Street in New York City, with a son Martin age 5 (correctly his name was Eugene) born in New York. Later the family returned to Ireland where Margaret died, after which the others eventually settled in England. Margaret's husband Owen Maloney died in 1982. Their daughter Nan, who married Peter Paul Sweeney, died in England 20 April 1991. Her husband died 21 January 2003, age 77. They are buried in Easkey. Their children live in England. Eugene Maloney died in England in 1995, where his family continues to reside.

Anne Taylor was born 8 December 1894. She is not listed in the 1901 census, and presumably is the child who died, as indicated in the 1911 census.

Patrick Taylor was born 7 June 1897. No other information has been located. He was married, still living in Ireland, when his mother died in 1939

Mary Taylor, probably born in 1880, would seem to be the oldest child of Martin and Bridget Taylor. She married Patrick Jordan. In the 1911 census of Ireland they had been married five years and had three children, Patrick, Elizabeth and Mary Emma. Later children included Mary Kathleen, Agnes, Anne, Bernard, Christopher, Francis, and George. Emma, Agnes and Elizabeth came to United States and lived in the Bronx. A stone in the Easkey cemetery records that Agnes Jordan O'Neill died in New York 22 September 1978, and that three of her brothers died in Easkey, Patrick 4 November 1937, George 23 August 1964, and Francis 13 July 1975. In 1996 the parish priest in Easkey wrote that Mary Kathleen and Bernard Jordan, surviving children of Patrick and Mary Jordan, had returned to Easkey and were living in the old family homestead in Castletown.. Bernard died 20 April 1998, age 80 and his wife Ellen died 1 June 2007, age 80. They had no children. Mary Kathleen died 28 July 2005. Attempts to contact this family had been unsuccessful. Many of these dates were got during a visit to the cemetery in Easkey in 2008.

According to Sarah Holbritter, her mother Bridget Burns Taylor had a brother Michael Burns who died in Easkey 4 May 1938, age 90. His wife Margaret Finan died 10 March 1940, age 88. The 1901 census of Ireland lists Michael Burns, a farmer age 50, in Kilmacshalgan parish, Kilmacurkan townland, with his wife Margaret age 45 and children Patrick age 20, Peter age 16, Michael age 14, Mary age 12, Mathew age 10, and Kate age 8. The 1911 census lists Michael Burns, a farmer age 58, in Kilmacurkan townland of Easky East, with his wife Margaret age 60, married 33 years. She cannot read or write. Michael and Margaret had seven children, all living in 1911 but only three are listed in their household, Peter age 27, Mathew age 20, and Kate age 18.

Of the children of Michael and Margaret Burns, one son, Thomas, died unmarried 20 November 1958, age 78, after returning to Ireland following a stay in United States. He is presumably the oldest of their seven children, the one not listed in the 1901 census. Patrick emigrated to United States, and lived with his two sons in the Bronx. Mary also came to United States and lived in Kingston NY. Her marriage name was Kinghorn. Mathew became a Christian Brother, Brother Stephen. Peter died 27 October 1965, age 82, and his wife Belinda died 3 February 1988, age 92. Two of his daughters came to America. One daughter, Mary, married John Foley and lived for a while in New Jersey, but eventually returned to Ireland and currently lives in Dromore West.. The other daughter, Margaret, a nurse, stayed in United States and lived with her uncle Michael Burns in Peekskill. Sarah said Michael provided Margaret with an apartment house which she rented out. Another daughter became a Passionist sister, living in England. Also buried in the Burns grave in Easkey is a granddaughter Nora, died 15 July 1949, age 7. 25

Michael and Margaret Burns's son Michael, born 1 April 1885, came to America on the Carmania 19 September 1906 with Margaret Taylor, and lived in Peekskill NY. The passenger list gives his age as 17, hers as 22, and says they were residents of Shanagolde. (The 1901 census lists a Margaret Taylor, age 18, daughter of John and Honoria Taylor of Easky.) Michael married Annie Donovan at Assumption Church in Peekskill on 1 September 1915. Michael Burns, an auditor age 44, and his wife Annie, age 48 and born in New York State of Irish parents, are listed in the 1930 census at 209 Fremont Street in Peekskill, along with a niece Anne Donovan age 27 and a cousin Harry Cox age 19. Sarah Holbritter said Michael owned several pieces of property in Peekskill. Michael's wife Anne died 24 March 1932. He then married Kathleen Ryan on 22 October 1933. She died 1 December 1949 and he died 11 September 1983.

Living in the house next to Michael and Margaret Burns in the 1911 census of Ireland was a widow Norah Taylor age 61, with children Christopher age 22, Celia age 20, Nora age 18, and John James age 15. The 1901 census lists a farmer John Taylor age 58, his wife Honoria age 46, and their children Bridget Mary age 21, Margaret age 18, Sarah age 16, Christy age 14, Celia age 11, Honoria age 9, and John James age 5. It would seem that the families of Michael Burns and John Taylor were related, since Bridget Burns Taylor, according to her obituary, had a niece Celia Taylor.

Sarah Holbritter mentioned other relatives, but it is unclear how they were related. She spoke of Mary, who visited America about 1880, and again after her marriage (or she married in United States) and then moved out west. The parish priest in Easkey mentioned that Mary Kathleen Jordan spoke of relatives in Arizona. These may be the family of the Mary who moved out west. Sarah also said she had an uncle Thomas Burns who had a niece living in West Orange NJ.

To illustrate the complexity of family research in a small town, Michael Burns, the brother of Bridget Burns Taylor, (Remember that their mother was a Finan.) married Margaret Finan, whose sister Catherine Finan married James Long Jimmy Taylor. The 1901 Irish census for Cloonagleveragh, Easky East, lists the household of Peter Finan age 73, his son-in-law James Taylor age 49, Jamess wife Catherine age 47, and their children Peter age 20, Catherine age 17, Thomas age 14, James age 10 and Margaret age 3. In the 1911 Irish census, James Taylor, a farmer age 63, and Catherine age 62, married thirty-four years, are listed at Cloonaglearragh, Easky East, with children Kate age 26, Thomas age 24 and Margaret Anne age 13. Three other children had already emigrated to America, Mary in 1898, Peter and James later. Peter went to Boston, Mary and James to New York. Quite by accident, but perhaps with the intercession of a few sainted ancestors, I recently met Lelia Connor, a daughter of Margaret Anne Taylor, living in Bayonne. She had received from her sister in Ireland a copy of a letter I had written to the parish priest in Easkey some ten years ago. That sister had received the letter from a cousin who was clearing out the home of her parents Bernard (Sarah Holbritter's nephew) and Ellen Jordan after Ellen's death. Although she is uncertain of the connection between the two Taylor families, hers and Sarah Taylor Holbritters, or between the two or more Finan families, Lelia knew several of Sarah's relatives in Ireland and America as family. She has helped fill in many details about my Easkey family, and with clarifying Sarah's notes. 26

CALLAGHAN FAMILY

John Callaghan was the second husband of Mary Reilly Kiernan Callaghan. Census entries say he was born in Ireland; in 1880 his age is given as 35 (so born 1845), but most other references say he was born in 1849. He was a baker, and was known to the Kiernans before Michael Kiernan, Mary's first husband, died. According to his marriage record, John's parents' names were Helen and Connell (or Carroll or Charles; the record in Latin says Carolus) Callaghan. The 1900 census says he was born June 1855 and immigrated in 1875, but both of these dates must be wrong.

John Callaghan and Mary Reilly Kiernan were married on 15 August 1875 at Saint Michael Monastery in Union City. His age is then listed as 25. The family continued to live at 114 Newark Street in Hoboken until they bought 317 Clinton Street on 1 May 1886.

The 1880 census lists John Callaghan, a laborer age 35, his wife Mary age 34, and children Eugene age 13, John age 7 and Lillie are 4, all Callahan, at 114 Newark Street, a six-family building. Lodging with them was James Boyd, a baker age 38 born in Scotland. The 1880 census also lists at the 114 Newark Street address another Callaghan family, James, a laborer age 38, born in Ireland; his wife Mary, also 38 and born in Ireland, and their children James age 14, Julia age 10, Eugene age 2, all born in Massachusetts, and Daniel age 1, born in New York. No relationship with the John Callaghan family is indicated. The 1870 census lists James Callahan, a saloon-keeper age 27, his wife Mary age 28, with children James age 3 and Julia age 1 in Boston, Ward 2. This family does not appear in Hoboken city directories before or after the census.

The 1885 state census [4320] lists at the same address as John and Mary Callaghan Timothy Galvin, Rose O'Brien, and Catherine Callaghan. A Catherine Callaghan was the godmother of Elizabeth Callaghan, daughter of John and Mary, in 1876. Someone named Maurice Galvin was a witness at the wedding of Mary's niece Mary Mullen in August 1881.

Mary Reilly Kiernan Callaghan died 22 June 1897. John Callaghan is listed in the 1900 census at 317 Clinton Street, with his daughter Elizabeth and his stepson John Kiernan. The 1900 census also lists a wife named Jennie. The census says Jennie was born in New York in July 1859, that her parents were born in Ireland, and that John and Jennie had been married two years. Her maiden name is unknown. No record of the marriage has been found in New Jersey or in New York City. John Callaghan died 5 October 1900, age 51, at 626 Washington Street in Hoboken. John and Mary are buried in Holy Name Cemetery [G232].

The name Jennie Callaghan appears on the administration papers for John's estate [1356] and in reference to the sale of the Clinton Street property on 3 May 1904. Otherwise there is no memory of what became of her after John Callaghan died. Her name does not appear anywhere in the 1910 census.

By 1909 the Clinton Street house had been replaced by an extension of Saint Mary Hospital.

John Callaghan was the godfather of Michael John Kiernan in 1873, son of Michael and Mary, of Mary Kiernan in 1897, daughter of Eugene and Katherine, and of Joseph Kiernan in 1880, son of Edward and Elizabeth (see Edward Kiernan family). Jennie Callaghan was godmother of Francis Kiernan in 1899, son of Eugene and Katherine. 27

Elizabeth Callaghan Crosetti (Crosett), was born 30 October 1876, daughter of John and Mary Callaghan. The date is from her baptismal record in Our Lady of Grace Church. Her godparents were Edward Kiernan and Catherine Callaghan. She was always known as Lillie. Her death certificate has Lillian.

She graduated from Hoboken High School in June 1897, and from Newark Normal School. She is listed as a teacher in the 1899 city directory. Her obituary says she taught in #3 School. She was living at 317 Clinton Street at the 1900 census, but after the death of her father she lived with her aunt Elizabeth Kiernan (of family 2) at 390 Grove Street in Jersey City.

On 15 January 1907 Lillie married Joseph Crosetti of 613 Park Avenue in Hoboken at Saint Mary Church in Jersey City. The witnesses were John Kiernan, presumably the son of Edward and Elizabeth, and Margaret Kelly. Joseph Crosetti was born in Hoboken, in October 1876 according to the 1905 census, the son of Andrew Crosetti and Rose Rocchi. In July 1909 Joseph and Lillian Crosetti bought 719 Willow Avenue in Hoboken [1042192], where they were living in the 1910 census. They sold the property in June 1929 [1714260]. In the 1930 census they are living at 1014 Washington Street.

Lillian Callaghan Crosett died 13 August 1940 at 627 Washington Street; Joseph Crosett died 25 January 1963. They are buried in the Callaghan grave in Holy Name Cemetery [G232]

Their children were Lillian Marie Carrig, born 21 May 1908, godparents James Sheehan and Lena Crosetti, died 30 September 2003; Helen Rose (Joan) DeSapio, born 19 September 1909, godparents George Thomas and Jennie Lusardi, died 25 September 1996; Francis William, born 29 January 1912, godparents John Dunne and Amelia Crosetti, died 2 July 2007 in Milford MA; and Joseph John, born 8 November 1913, godparents John Kiernan and Genevieve Mahoney, died 16 December 2001.

Attempts to identify Jennie Callaghan with either Jennie Lusardi or Genevieve Mahoney have been unsuccessful. 28

CAREY FAMILY

Griffith's Valuation lists William Carey as a tenant on the estate of John Reilly Esq in Lower Glencullin townland of Kilcommon parish, Co Mayo. He held 13 acres, 1 rood, and 9 perches, consisting of a house, land and office (that is, a farm building), jointly with James Carey and Patrick Carey. William's share was valued at 1 pound 15/. No information exists to tell the relationship between these three persons, but the joint tenancy suggests that they may have been brothers. The three, together with twelve others including Hugh Carey, also held 1224 acres, 1 rood, and 26 perches of mostly bogland with a total value of £7 4/. William's share was worth 16 shillings. This area of County Mayo, then and now, is largely desolate and even today has few paved roads.

Thomas Carey, whose parents were William Carey and Bridget Curry, arrived at New York from Queenstown (now Cobh, Co Cork) aboard the Palmyra on 21 May 1881. Early records have him boarding at the same Hoboken address as Patrick McLaughlin and Michael Hunt, uncles of his future wife.

Thomas Carey married Mary Ann Hyland, daughter of Mark Hyland and Bridget Hunt, on 29 September 1884 at Our Lady of Grace Church in Hoboken.

Thomas Carey and Mary Ann Hyland had nine children.

1) Bridget, known by the traditional Irish equivalent Delia, was born 27 June 1885. Her godparents were Andrew Cannon and Catharine McLaughlin. She was employed as a baker in the 1905 census. She married Patrick Byrnes, a bartender, of 132 Garden Street in Hoboken, son of Patrick Byrnes and Mary Ann McGuire, age 23, on 25 October 1906 at Our Lady of Grace Church, witnesses Peter Morosini and Catherine Bohan. According to the 1900 census he was born in Ireland in September 1883. He immigrated to New York 23 April 1887 aboard the Celtic, age 3, with his mother and two brothers James age 5 and John age 9 months. Delia and Patrick were living at 112 Park Avenue in the 1920 census, where he claimed to have been born in New York. He was a caretaker in the Hoboken Police Station. In the 1930 census and for many years later they lived at 1042 Park Avenue. Patrick Byrnes had some unspecified connection with the McFeely/Hague political machine in Hudson County, and was useful in providing employment for family members. He died 4 November 1940, age 56, at 1032 Hudson Street. Their children are Mary Smith (known as Girlie), Thomas, and Catherine Johnson. Aunt Dee died 8 October 1957, and is buried with her husband in Holy Name Cemetery [B262West].

2) William Patrick was born 10 September 1886. His godparents were James Waldron and Anna McTigue. He is listed as a bookkeeper in the 1905 census and a railroad conductor in the 1910 census. He served in World War I. After the war and until his death he had a position in the Naturalization Office of the County Clerk''s Office. On 2 June 1928 at Sacred Heart Church in Cairo NY he married Teresa Olivari of Hoboken, daughter of John Olivari and Rosa Seraffina. She was born in Camogli, near Genoa, and arrived in United States 3 December 1898 on the Erns, age 23, a tailoress. The census of 1910 lists her as a servant with the Podesta family of 929 Hudson Street. In 1920 she was a clothing examiner living at 317 Grand Street; she had already lost eight years on her age. Each summer until 1947 she operated a boarding house, Villa Genova, in Cairo NY, property which she bought in 1927. Uncle Will died 25 October 1949 at 207 Tenth Street in Hoboken. Tessie died 25 July 1962. Both are buried in Holy Name Cemetery [OO36]. They had no children.

3) John was born 24 July 1888 and died 5 April 1891. His godparents were Patrick Carey and Anne Curry. 29

4) Mary Frances was born 2 May 1890. Her godparents were John Curry and Anne Reddington. The 1910 census says she was a bookkeeper for a drygoods merchant. She worked as a clerk and bookkeeper in several New York City and Hudson County department stores. She kept in touch with friends who had been co-workers in those stores, Macy's, Hearn's and Holthausen's. She was always mindful of the difficulty getting and keeping a job during the Depression, and even after the war regularly sent, rather than carried home, purchases made in New York (There was no delivery charge or sales tax in those days.), because it provided the delivery people with a job. Her last position was in the billing office at Saint Mary Hospital, together with her sister Margaret. Aunt Mae sold the house on Tenth Street after her brothers died, and lived with her sister Catherine at 825 Hudson Street in Hoboken, where she died 27 July 1963.

5) Thomas Joseph was born 29 March 1892. His godparents were Thomas Murray and Margaret Curry. The 1910 census lists him as a machinist in electrical manufacturing. After serving in World War I he was a fireman in Hoboken, in the firehouse at Eighth and Clinton Streets. He died unmarried 19 May 1949 at 207 Tenth Street.

6) James Aloysius was born 14 December 1893. His godparents were Patrick Slayan and Mary Hunt. He served in World War I, in the rank of corporal during the Meuse-Argonne campaign in late 1918, and was awarded the Silver Star with oak leaf cluster. He was invalided in the war by poison gas. In the 1920 census he is listed as a groundskeeper in the city playground. He died unmarried 11 December 1925 at 207 Tenth Street.

7) Anne was born 24 May 1896 and died 11 August 1896. Her godparents were Edward Carney and Anne Curry.

8) Margaret was born 19 July 1897. Her godparents were Edward Killeen and Rose Seymour. She married Ralph Olsen of Jersey City on 22 April 1917 at Our Lady of Grace Church. He was born 15 March 1894, son of Severen Olsen and Louise Wiggins, both born in Norway, who were living at 530 Bloomfield Street in 1905 and in 1910. Margaret and Ralph were living at 1409 Grand Street in the 1930 census, and later at 815 Willow Avenue. They appear to be the first couple in The Family to celebrate a fiftieth wedding anniversary. Their children are Ralph Thomas, who died March 1918, Margaret Mottershead, Robert, Louise Fragano, Marion Hurst, Richard, and Barbara Jaconski. Ralph died 4 April 1972 and Margaret died 18 May 1987. They are buried in Holy Name Cemetery [B-200- West].

9) Catherine was born 17 June 1900. Her godparents were Patrick Carrigan and Elizabeth McTigue. She was a teacher in the Hoboken Public Schools and married Bernard Melvin Kiernan on 27 June 1931 at Our Lady of Grace Church. Their children are Melvin and James. B Melvin died 25 January 1965 and Catherine died 9 November 1985 at 825 Hudson Street.

Thomas and Mary Ann Hyland Carey are buried in Holy Name Cemetery [B200West] together with their children Mary, Thomas, James, and Margaret. The children John and Anne, and Margaret's son Ralph, are buried with William [O036] 30

PATRICK CAREY FAMILY

According to the 1900 census [30395], Patrick Carey was born in Ireland in March 1867 and came to United States in 1885. On the ship arrivals lists, there are at least three Patrick Careys who generally fit that description. Patrick was known by Catherine Carey Kiernan to be a cousin of her father Thomas Carey. Griffith's Valuation lists William Carey and Patrick Carey as jointly holding a tenancy in Lower Glencullin townland of Kilcommon parish, Co Mayo. The exact relationship between the two Carey families, descendants of William and Patrick, is unknown by either family, although it was well known in both families that they were cousins.

City directories list Patrick Carey at 259 Newark Street [OS] in 1890, at 87 Jackson Street in 1893, and at 722 Garden Street in 1904. Other addresses include 141 Adams Street in 1893, 329 Adams Street in 1895, 317 Adams Street in 1896, 119 Grand Street in 1899 and in the 1900 census, 112 Madison Street in the 1905 census, 131 Grand Street in the 1906 directory, and at 623 Willow Avenue in the 1910 census [5611].

Patrick Carey, then living at 300 Madison Street, age 26, married Mary Boyle, age 23, of 1007 Garden Street, daughter of Peter Boyle and Ann Conway, 29 February 1892. [41346 C 148] The witnesses were Thomas Murray and Eliza Boyle. The 1900 census says they had been married 8 years, that she was born in Ireland in November 1867 and came to United States in 1888. Patrick Carey was the godfather of John Carey of our Carey family in 1888.

Patrick Carey died 31 December 1912 at 805 Willow Avenue and is buried in Holy Name Cemetery [F- E-124]. His death certificate says his age was 42, and that his parents were Patrick Carey and Mary McCabe, which names also appear on his marriage certificate. City directories list his widow at 807 Willow Avenue in 1922 and 1925, with her children Patrick, Peter, and Thomas. In the 1930 census Mary Carey, a widow age 55, is living at 1118 Park Avenue with her children Patrick, a Hoboken policeman age 29, Peter age 24 and Thomas age 22. Mary Boyle Carey died in November 1931. She is buried in Holy Name Cemetery with her husband.

The children of Patrick and Mary Carey were Anna Marian, born 21 July 1893; Mary, born 28 June 1895 and died 22 February 1896; William, born 24 December 1896 and died 29 April 1917; Patrick (his birth certificate says Thomas), born 4 May 1899; Mary Agnes, born 20 January 1902 and died 21 May 1906; Peter Joseph (his birth certificate says Patrick), born 13 March 1904; Thomas Francis, born 11 October 1906.

Of these children, Anna Marian married Walter Finkeldie 8 September 1915. Their children were Marian Van Osten Caruth (19161966), Walter (19181921), Regina Brennan (19201995), Rita Ann (19221923), and George. Walter Finkeldie was born in New Jersey in March 1891, according to the 1905 census. The 1930 census lists Walter Finkledie, a Hoboken policeman age 40, born in New Jersey, living at 1118 Park Avenue, the same address as his mother-in-law Mary Carey, with his wife Anne age 35 and their children Marion age 13, Regina age 9 and George age 3. Also at that address are Thomas Murray age 32, a boarder born in Ireland and a laborer for the city of Hoboken. Walter Finkledie died 30 May 1938 and his wife died 30 April 1962. They are buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in North Arlington [2B19].

Thomas Francis (Scoops) was a baseball player with the Saint Louis Browns and Boston Red Sox during the 1930's and 1940's. Most biographies list 1908 as the year of his birth, but 1906 is correct. His wife 31 was Grace Carbone. He died in Rochester NY on 21 February 1970, a resident of Rochester 37 years. William Carey of our Carey family was his godfather.

Peter Joseph married Mary O'Sullivan and lived in Jersey City. They had no children. He died 27 October 1964 and is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery. 32

CURRY FAMILY

According to my mother Catherine Carey Kiernan, her father's mother was Bridget Curry, whose mother was an Egan. She also recalled relatives Anne Curry Ward, John Curry, and Margaret Curry Murray.

John Egan of Brooklyn was a neighbor of Mary Byrnes Smith, daughter of Catherine's sister Bridget. He was born in Knock, County Mayo. His mother was Mary Curry Egan. His mother's brothers and sisters, some of whom he knew as living in Hoboken at one time or another, were Margaret Curry who married Michael Murray, Ann Curry who married Frederick Ward, John Curry, and William Curry. Several conversations established that these were indeed the same people known to Catherine Carey Kiernan.

1) Margaret Curry, daughter of James Curry and Margaret McTigue, born 1860, married Michael Murray, born 1851, son of Patrick Murray and Mary Kilgallen of 98 Grand Street, at Our Lady of Grace Church on 3 October 1889. The witnesses were Luke Kilgallen and Anne Curry. It was his second marriage. Michael Murray first married Mary Ellen Ford, daughter of Patrick Ford and Bridget Tanner, at Our Lady of Grace Church on 14 January 1880. The witnesses were James McLaughlin and Mary Doolan. The 1880 census lists Michael Murray, a police officer age 32, with his wife Mary Ellen age 22, at 60 Willow Avenue [OS], the home of Patrick and Bridget Ford, both born in Ireland, and their daughter Mary age 13, and also at 108 Grand Street [OS]. Mary Ellen Ford Murray, age 25, of 108 Grand Street, died 1 January 1883 and their daughter Mary Delia, age 2 months, died 23 January 1883. They are buried in the Ford grave in Holy Name Cemetery [B-133-C]. The 1900 census [303912] lists Michael Murray, a policeman born May 1855 in Ireland and entered United States 1870, at 227 Clinton Street, with his wife Margaret, born March 1864 in Ireland and entered United States 1881 (the 1920 census says 1874), and their four children. The 1905 census and city directories list him at 324 Park Avenue through 1909, and his widow at that same address in 1915 and 1918, as does the 1910 census, [The family name is indexed as Howry.] and the 1920 census, with her children John and Margaret. This property was bought in 1902 and sold in 1922. Michael Murray died 19 April 1909, age 62, 34 years in New Jersey. Margaret Curry Murray died 22 August 1921. They are buried in Holy Name Cemetery [A 813]. Their children were (1a) James F, a Hudson County policeman, born 30 December 1890, godparents Patrick Murray and Anne Curry. In the 1920 census he is listed at 324 Park Avenue in Hoboken, with his wife Bertha Buschmann, age 27 and born in Germany, and a daughter Bertha F age 2. In the 1930 census the family, with a son James F age 9 added, is living at 1213 Washington Street. James Sr, a police captain, died 3 December 1944 at 108 13th Street in Hoboken. (1b) Michael Joseph, born 31 August 1892, godparents Luke Kilgallen and Catherine Mullins. In the 1920 census he was living at 496 Lincoln Avenue in Brooklyn, a clerk, with his wife Lucy age 28, born in New York with parents born in New York; he is at the same address at the time of his mother's death in 1921. In the 1930 census they are living at 216 243rd Street, Rosedale, Queens. Michael died in March 1969, in Jamaica, Queens. (1c) John Patrick, born at 300 Grand Street 10 July 1894, godparents James McNicholas and Catharine McLaughlin. In the 1920 census he is a teacher, living with his mother. He married Mary Conners 26 June 1922 at Our Lady of Grace Church. In the 1930 census he is a high school principal in Harrison, with children Mary R age 7 (marriage name Crowley) and John P age 1. He died 19 August 1948 at 400 North 4th Street in Harrison. (1d) Margaret Mary, born 18 July 1898, godparents John Curry and Anne Kenny. In the 1920 census she is a stenographer, living with her mother. (1e) Martin, born and died 30 August 1902. 33 Margaret Curry was the godmother of Thomas Carey in 1892 and of Patrick McLaughlin in 1883. Michael Murray was a witness at the marriage of Michael Hunt in 1879 and was godfather of Michael's daughter Catherine in 1880. Referring to Michael and Margaret's children, John Egan particularly mentioned knowing his cousins James and Bertha Murray, and said that Margaret Mary had moved to Florida.

The Murray children James, John Patrick and Martin, but not John Patrick's wife, are buried with their parents in Holy Name Cemetery [A 813].

A Thomas Murray was the witness at the wedding of Thomas Carey and Mary Ann Hyland in 1884, and at the wedding of Patrick Carey and Mary Boyle in 1892. He was godfather of Thomas Carey in 1892. Thomas Murray age 20 arrived on the same ship as did Thomas Carey, the Palmyra, 12 May 1881. An Edward Curry age 22 was also on that ship.

2) Ann Curry, daughter of James Curry and Margaret Mary McTigue, age 36, married Frederick Arthur Ward at Saint Francis Xavier Church in Manhattan on 27 April 1905. The witnesses were Bessie Sweeney and John Sullivan. Ann was then living at 43 West 51st Street. Frederick Ward, age 38, born in England, son of Frederick Ward and Elizabeth Clark, was living at 6 Charles Street in Manhattan. [13182] At the time of her sister's death in 1921, in the 1930 census, and also in the 1933 city directory, Ann Curry Ward was living at 181 West 101st Street in Manhattan where she operated a laundry. The 1920 census lists her as a widow at this address, gives her age as 53, and says she arrived in United States in 1866 [!]. Ann Curry Ward died 31 December 1950 at 156 Sixth Street in Hoboken, and is buried in Holy Name Cemetery [A 813]. No survivors are mentioned either in her obituary or on her death certificate, which says she was about 83 years old. No further information has been located about her husband. Ann Curry was the godmother of John Carey in 1888 and of Anne Carey in 1896.

3) John Curry, son of James Curry and Margaret McTigue, died 6 July 1925 and is buried in Holy Name Cemetery [A 813]. He was a carpenter, unmarried, living at 309 Willow Avenue. His death certificate says he was about 75. His obituary mentions only his sister Ann Curry Ward of Manhattan. He had been living with his sister Margaret Curry Murray until the house on Park Avenue was sold after her death in 1921. The 1920 census gives his age as 70, and says he arrived in United States in 1870. John Curry was the godfather of Mary Carey in 1890.

4) Mary Curry, daughter of James Curry and Margaret McTigue, married Michael Egan at Saint John the Baptist Church in Knock, Co Mayo, on 18 February 1883. Their children were 4a) Patrick, born 13 December 1884 4b) Margaret, born 15 March 1886. She married James O'Brien 10 November 1928 at Knock. 4c) John, born 29 May 1888. 4d) Julia, born 3 March 1890. 4e) Mary Anne, born 4 July 1892. She married Patrick Jennings in October 1920 at Knock. 4f) Michael, born 18 April 1895. 4g) James, born 9 January 1899.

Michael Egan, age 45, and Mary Egan, age 43, are listed in the 1901 Irish census at Knock parish, Cregganbrack townland, along with their seven children. In the 1911 Irish census, Michael Egan, a farmer age 60, and his wife Mary, age 59, were living in Cregganbrack townland of Knock South, with three children, John, a carpenter age 23, Mary Anne age 18, and James age 12. Their son Michael had died in 1901. Everyone in the household spoke both English and Irish. According to John Egan, his brother Patrick emigrated to Canada, eventually settling in Regina. 34

John Egan arrived on the Cedric 22 March 1914. John Egan and Nora Nolan, age 29, born 9 January 1887 in Co Tipperary, daughter of William Nolan and Mary StJohn, were married 7 January 1919 [M1140] at Holy Name of Jesus Church in Manhattan. The witnesses were Joseph Curry and Julia Egan. In the 1920 census they were living at 4018 Sixth Avenue in Brooklyn, and in the 1930 census at 457 43rd Street, Brooklyn, with children John James age 10 and William age 4. John Egan was a foreman at the Bush Terminal. Nora Nolan Egan died in September 1973 and John Egan died 1 March 1981 in Brooklyn.

5) In the 1885 census, a William Curry was living in the McLaughlin household in Hoboken, along with the Hunts and Careys [42]. William Curry was the godfather of Patrick McLaughlin in 1883. In America no later census or directory reference to William Curry has been found, but a William Curry was baptismal sponsor for Margaret Egan in Knock in 1886.

There is no certain information as to how this Curry family is related to Bridget Curry Carey (who never left Ireland), the wife of William Carey and mother of Thomas Carey. By age she could be the sister of James Curry and the aunt of Mary Egan, Margaret Murray, Anne Ward, John and William. In Griffith's Valuation William Carey is reported living a considerable distance from Knock, where James Curry, several Egans, and other names occur. The name Thomas McTigue also appears, living in Cregganbrack townland of Knock parish. References to ages are so vague as to be almost useless. Also, in America Michael Murray appears as a marriage witness and baptismal sponsor in the Hunt family as early as 1879, ten years before his marriage to Margaret Curry, and a James McLaughlin was a witness at Michael's first marriage in 1880..

Except for Carey, all these family names are found in the same small area in County Mayo, and it is quite possible that there were already several cousin relationships in place from previous generations before the marriages recorded in America. The McTigue name occurs, as Margaret McTigue Curry, the mother of the Curry family. She apparently was related to Bridget Curry Carey, my mother's father's mother, but my mother's mother's mother was Bridget Hunt Hyland, whose mother was Bridget McTigue Hunt. It is also true that there was a large migration away from western Mayo in the decade before Griffith's Valuation, as a result of the Famine, so possibly the Currys, and others, originated in western Mayo and moved eastward to the area of Knock, while the Careys remained in the western part of the county.

It is interesting to note that among those who testified about apparitions of the Blessed Virgin at Knock in August 1879 were John Curry (age about 6), Catherine Murray (age about 8 or 9) who was a granddaughter of Margaret Beirne, and Mary McLaughlin. Each of these family names appears here or in the McLaughlin family. Although most of The Family members from the area around Knock were still in Ireland in the summer of 1879, there was no family tradition regarding the apparitions or related devotions. 35

FINAN FAMILY

According to Mary Kiernan, brothers Robert and Farrell Finan were cousins of her mother, whose father's mother was Catherine Finan Melvin. She did not mention any other brothers, but it would seem that there were four Finan brothers who emigrated to United States, Thomas, Robert, James and Farrell.

Sarah Holbritter wrote that cousin Finan (Robert) was related to her grandmother Burns, whose maiden name was Finan. She also said her mother, while visiting America, was godmother of Robert's daughter Mary in 1867. [These dates do not seem to fit together well.] According to Sarah Holbritter, the Finans came from Dunowla in the parish of Dromore West, County Sligo. There are Finan families still living there.

It is not known for certain how the Finans are related to the Melvins. Bernard Melvin's mother was Catherine Finan. By age she could be the sister Farrell Finan, the father of Thomas, Robert, James, and Farrell. In the Tithe Applotment Book, Farrell Finan is a tenant with seventeen acres on the estate of Robert Jones Esq, in the townland of Ballybeg in Easky parish. This holding was adjacent to nine acres held by Thomas Finan and nine acres held jointly by Bryan Melvin, Myles Higgins and Michael Finan. Another tenancy on the same estate was held jointly by Patrick, Peter, and James Rafter.

The story of this family is further complicated by the presence in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania as early as 1850 of persons named Robert and Farrell Finan. On 6 November 1850, this Robert Finan filed papers of intent of citizenship in the Court of Common Pleas, Allegheny County. Farrell similarly filed on 22 September 1853. Citizenship was granted to both on 2 October1856, so each was then at least age 21. There is no indication of their ages, old or young. Robert was witness for Farrell and Robert's witness was John Downing, who is listed in the 1850 census, age 25, a clothier born in Pennsylvania, son of Dawson and Sarah Downing, living in the Fourth Ward of Pittsburgh. Robert was also witness on the citizenship papers for Mathew Melvin on 11 October 1859, so this Robert and Farrell have some connection with the Finan-Melvin family. Further, someone named Catherine Finan appears as godmother at the baptism of Mathew's daughter Catherine in July 1857.

Griffith's Valuation in the mid 1850s lists Ellen Finan holding a tenancy of 135 acres in Lugnamackans, Ballysadare, Co Sligo, several miles east of Easkey, jointly with five others including Margaret Finan, on the estate of Harloe Phibbs. Ellen's share is valued at 6. Also, several Finan families are also listed in Dunowla Patrick, James, Michael and Peter but no Robert or Farrell. There is no listing for Easkey.

Farrell Finan and Ellen Rafter had four sons who came to United States, Thomas, Robert, James, and Farrell. Ellen Finan, age 50, with her sons Farrell age 11, James age 15, and Thomas age 18, a slater, arrived in United States 2 January 1861 on the Emerald Isle. (The name is spelled Finnan.) Ellen is listed as a widow. There is also a record of Robert Finane age 16 arriving in United States 1 June 1860 on the Harvey Birch.

Assuming that this entry refers to Ellen's son Robert, there are many questions. It would seem that Mathew and Bernard Melvin, arriving in 1854, knew of the presence of the Finans in western Pennsylvania. Is the Farrell Finan in Pennsylvania Ellen's husband? It would not be unheard of, shortly after the Famine, for the husband to emigrate first, find employment and later send for his family. And note that there appear to be no children born to Farrell and Ellen Finan after 1849. Did the younger Robert Finan come to United States in 1860 to meet his father, or upon hearing of his father's death? 36

The older Finans do not appear in the 1850 census, and the 1860 census for much of eastern Allegheny County is illegible. Public death records in Pennsylvania do not exist for the period.

James and Farrell Finan, of 105 First Avenue, were naturalized on 22 October 1867 at the Superior Court of New York County [vol 174, #246 and 257]. They were each other's witness. Each must have been at least age 21 on this date, so their true ages at immigration must have been two to four years older than those reported on the passenger list and more consistent with ages listed on later censuses. Robert Finan, of 688 Third Avenue (near 42nd Street) was naturalized 10 October 1867 at the same court [vol 170, #20], witness James Canavan. James, a bookkeeper age 27, and Farrell, a butcher age 25, are listed with their mother age 72 in the 1870 census [14th District, 17th Ward], living in an eight-family building. This agrees with the 137 First Avenue address found in city directories until 1878.

Ellen Rafter Finan, daughter of Michael and Mary Rafter, died 25 December 1884, age 88, at 309 East 39th Street, New York [513532]. She is buried with Robert''s family in Calvary Cemetery [727W4/6]. The tombstone, erected in 1902, says she was a native of County Sligo, but gives 1886 as the year of her death and 84 as her age. In the 1870 census her age is given as 72, and the 1880 census her age is 82. All of these ages conflict with her age on the ship passenger list, which is the only age consistent with the ages of her sons.

Robert's wife was Catherine Feeney, daughter of Patrick Feeney, born in Ireland May 1846. In the 1870 census Robert age 28 and Kate age 26 Fanin, with children Mary age 3 and James age 1, are listed in Manhattan [1st District, 2nd Ward] an area now near the tower of the Brooklyn Bridge, and including the notorious Five Points area. The family is listed in the 1880 census (indexed as Finnan) and in the 1900 census (indexed as Furan) in Long Island City, at 59 Seventh Street (now 47th Road), a six-family building. The 1880 census includes in the household Alice Jones, a servant, and John Feeney age 20, Michael Feeney age 38 (Catherine's brothers?), and James Carney age 33, boarders. The 1900 census, which says Robert was born in Ireland in June 1841 and arrived in United States in 1862, also says they had been married 33 years and had ten children, eight living, and that Catherine Feeney Finan came to United States in 1863. She died 8 February 1902 [Queens 270].

Robert Finan died 12 February 1909 at 59 Seventh Street, Long Island City. His death certificate [Queens 432] gives his age as 67. He is buried in Calvary Cemetery [727W4/6]. He had been a resident of United States 50 years, which agrees approximately with the information listed for his immigration. His occupation, reported as early as the 1880 census, is given as mineral water manufacturer, which agrees with Mary Kiernan's statement that he had a soda bottling company in the Rockaways. Robert Finan was a witness at the wedding of Bernard Melvin and Margaret Finnerty in 1866.

According to information from The Wave, a local newspaper in the Rockaways, Finan's soda company, which manufactured mainly ginger ale and cream soda, was located at 5759 West Seventh Street in Long Island City in 1896, with a bottling plant at 121 Boulevard, at Beach 106th Street, in Seaside, Rockaway Beach, in 1901. The company symbol was an Irish Harp.

The children of Robert and Kate Finan were: (1) Mary, born 28 December 1867. Her baptismal record has not been found. She married Peter Rafferty at Saint Mary Church, Long Island City, 4 September 1907, witnesses William McGuinness and Anne O'Connor. The 1920 census (indexed as Roffertz) lists them at 25 North Beach 86th Street in Queens. It says he was age 58, born in Ireland, arrived in 1868, and became a citizen in 1882, and that she was age 48, born in New York. In the 1930 census they are living at 148 88th Avenue in Jamaica, which they owned; he is age 70, she age 55. He died 1 June 1944, age 84 [Q4470]. She died 11 May 37

1951 at 43 88th Avenue, Jamaica [Q4411], and is buried in Calvary Cemetery [124G12]. Mamie Finan Rafferty was known to Mary Kiernan and was often visited by her at her Jamaica home. (2) James Joseph, born 6 May 1869, baptized at Saint Peter Church in Manhattan, godparents Bernard Melvin and Ellen Feenan [Feeney? Finan?], died unmarried 20 January 1900 at 59 Seventh Street, Long Island City [Q146]. (3) Robert, born 21 December 1871, baptized at Saint Andrew Church in Manhattan, godparents Farrell Finan and Anne Judge. He died unmarried 29 November 1924 [Q5107] at 570 Academy Street. (4) Thomas, born 4 May 1873, baptized at Saint Andrew Church, godparents James Cavanagh and Bridget O'H... (the certificate gives his name as James). He died 11 May 1888. (5) Anna, born 16 January 1875, baptized at Saint Andrew Church, godparents Thomas Finan and Ann Furey. At Saint Mary Church in Long Island City on 10 May 1909 she married Bernard Starkey, a New York City policeman born in Ireland, witnesses Ellen Finan and John Starkey [Q472]. They were both later associated with her father's soda company. In the 1910 census they are living at 37 Foxall Street, Queens. His age is 32. In the 1930 census they are living at 184 Beach 108th Street, with children Ellen age 18, James age 15, Anna age 14 and Mary age 10. Bernard Starkey, a retired police lieutenant, died 20 April 1940 at 162 Beach 180th Street, Belle Harbor. There is an obituary article in the New York Times. Anna Finan Starkey died 13 January 1950. They are buried in Saint John Cemetery, Queens [14- N-15-2/4] (6) Catherine Cecelia, born 27 April 1877 and listed as a librarian in the 1900 census. She married Eugene Joseph Dennen at Saint Mary Church in spring 1905, witnesses George O'Connor and Ellen Finan. [The exact date is illegible in the parish records.] In the 1910 census they were living at 160 Eleventh Street, Long Island City. In 1920 Eugene Dennen age 48, a court clerk, and Catherine Dennen age 40 were living at 157 Eleventh Street, Long Island City. He died 7 April 1935 and she died 17 April 1949. They are buried in Calvary Cemetery [36-8M-10] and were survived by a son Eugene. The son was not listed in the 1920 census, but he may be the Eugene Dennen born 11 November 1913 and died July 1980 in Florida. (7) Ellen Therese, born 27 July 1879 and listed as a bookkeeper in the 1900 census. She died unmarried 30 August 1951 at 4222 Ketcham Street, Elmhurst and is buried in Calvary Cemetery [4-3-D-17]. She was a witness at the marriages of Anna, Catherine and Frank. (8) Frank (his birth certificate says Farrell), born 4 March 1882. He is listed as an electrician in the 1900 census. On 30 September 1908 at Saint Mary Church he married Margaret Sweeney, born 10 September 1883, daughter of James Sweeney and Ellen Rall, witnesses William Sweeney and Ellen Finan [Q1154]. They are listed at 163 Twelfth Street in Long Island City in the 1920 census with children Robert 10, Helen 8, and Frank 3. Margaret Sweeney Finan died 28 March 1923 [Q1630] and is buried in Calvary Cemetery [15-26-H-1]. In 1930 Frank Finan is a widower living at 21-45 46th Avenue, with a fourth child Andrew age 8. He died 20 March 1967. (9) John Thomas, born 12 January 1884, and died 26 March 1915 [Q1279] at 157 Eleventh Street, Long Island City. His death certificate gives his name as James Aloysius, although all other particulars agree. (10) Margaret, born 7 July 1885 and died 4 June 1908 at 59 Seventh Street [Q1513].

All of Robert's living children except Mary were at his residence in the 1900 census. In the 1910 census the children Robert, a teamster, John, a truckman, and Ellen were living at 1412 Fifth Street, Long Island City.

Robert's wife Catherine, and their children James Joseph, Robert, John Thomas, and Margaret are buried with Robert in Calvary Cemetery [7-27-W-4/6].

No children's baptisms are recorded at Saint Andrew Church after 1875, presumably the time the family moved to Long Island City. Saint Mary Church in Long Island City lost its records in a fire in 1893. 38

James Finan, an undertaker, son of Farrell Finan and Ellen Rafter, was born in Sligo 24 May 1843. He died 7 February 1907 [M4796], a widower, age 63, living at 1005 Park Avenue, Manhattan, and 40 years in United States. He is buried in Calvary Cemetery [1629014/15]. James Finan was the godfather of Ellen Melvin in 1868. City directories from 1878 to 1883 list him at 418 Third Avenue, Manhattan, as does the 1880 census, which says he was born in Ireland and age 35. The 1900 census says he was born May 1843 in Ireland.

James Finan's wife Ann Elizabeth Larkin, daughter of James Larkin and Mary McGregor, was born 1 March 1858 in New York. (The 1900 census says 1853, but 1858 agrees with her age on her marriage certificate.) They were married 18 January 1877 at Nativity Church in Manhattan, witnesses James Butler and Elizabeth Doyle. [0316] The 1900 census says they were living at 1005 Park Avenue, Manhattan, had been married 24 years and had 17 children, 8 of them living. Ann died 4 April 1901 [10736] and is buried in Calvary Cemetery with her husband.

The children of James and Ann Finan were: (1) Mary, born 2 November 1877 and died 11 November 1877. (2) Jane, born 5 October 1878 [242982] and died the same day [302306], buried in Calvary Cemetery [ISP924]. (3) Mary, born 29 March 1880, godparents Redmond Keating and Mary Thompson at Saint Stephen Church on East 29th Street. She died 7 February 1885 and buried in Calvary with her sister Jane. (4) Joseph B, born 18 October 1881 [322658], godparents Farrell Finan and Elizabeth Farrell, at Saint Stephen Church. Joseph is listed in the 1910 census at 1049 Park Avenue in Manhattan, married three years to Maud, age 28, with a son Joseph, age 1 year and 10 months. In 1913 they were living at 1267 Lexington Avenue. In 1916 he is listed as an undertaker at 116 East 86th Street in Manhattan. In the 1920 census Joseph and his wife Maud are listed at 110 East 86th Street in Manhattan, with children Joseph age 12, Anna age 7, George age 6, and Gertrude age1, and Mary Drumgoole, age 63, his mother- in-law, and Mary's daughter Mary, age 33. In the 1930 census, Joseph age 48 and Maud age 47 are living at 1229 Madison Avenue with their children Joseph age 21, Anne age 17, George age 16 and Gertrude age 12, and Maud's sister Mary Drumgoole age 43. Joseph died 19 December 1963. (5) Ellen, born 31 August 1883 [375596], godparents Daniel Kelly and Margaret Larkin at Saint Stephen Church. She was a Carmelite nun, died 29 September 1962 and buried with her parents in Calvary Cemetery. (6) James, born 7 November 1885, godparents Joseph and Anna Taylor, at Saint Stephen Church. The 1920 census lists James' age 35 at 622 West 136th Street, Manhattan, with his wife Helen age 26 and their son Herbert age 9. He died 24 May 1976. (7) Margaret, born 10 December 1886 and died 11 August 1887. (8) Vincent, born 5 January 1888 [2656] and stated as their eighth child, godparents John and Margaret Kiernan (!) at Saint Jean Baptiste Church on Park Avenue. He died 22 February 1980. (910) twins Anne Elizabeth and Virginia, born 1 September 1889 [25326,27], godparents Ronald McMaher and Mrs J Larkin at Saint Jean Baptiste Church. Both died 17 September 1889 [30073,74] and are buried with Jane in Calvary Cemetery. (11) Margaret Mary Agnes, born 1 June 1891 [19332], godparents William Moore and Mary F Kiernan at Saint Jean Baptiste Church. She died 8 October 1891 [34558] and is buried with Jane in Calvary Cemetery. (12) Alphonsus Anthony, born 13 June 1892 [26680], godparents Joseph Quigley and Maryann Kiernan, at Saint Jean Baptiste Church. He died 28 August 1952. (13) Francis Jerome, born 29 September 1893 [38545], godparents John T Keirett and Nellie Coffee at Saint Jean Baptiste Church. He died 13 June 1952. (14) unidentified, and died shortly afterward. 39

(15) Loretta Agnes, born 5 October 1896 [43261], godparents Joseph and Annie Finan, at Saint Jean Baptiste Church. She died 20 July 1991. (16) Ignatia Rose, born 14 February 1898 [6955], godparents Cornelius J Kane and Ellen Elizabeth Finan, at Saint Ignatius Church on Lexington Avenue. She died 2 July 1976. It is not clear whether Ignatia's birth certificate means that she was their sixteenth child or that there were sixteen previous children, and whether she is to be counted in the eight living. The 1900 census says there were a total of 17 children.

A letter from the family reported that, of these children, (4) Joseph had four children, born in New York; (6) James had a son James who had four children born in New York, one born in Connecticut, and one adopted; (8) Vincent had one child in New York and two in Connecticut; (13) Francis had three children in New York; (16) Ignatia had one child in Connecticut, who had four children in Connecticut and a step-daughter. Otherwise, several attempts to contact members of the Finan family now living in Long Island City and the Rockaways have gone unanswered.

The 1877 directory gives James Finan's business address as 350 East 9th Street, with a residence in Long Island City. Subsequent addresses include 418 Third Avenue, between 28th and 29th Streets (1878 directory, 1880 census, births through 1885), 1507 First Avenue, at 77th Street (births 1888 to 1893), 1081 Lexington Avenue, at 77th Street (births 1896 and 1898), 1005 Park Avenue, at 85th Street (1900 census, deaths of Ann and James, directories 1903 to 1906).

In the 1900 census, Joseph, Ellen, James, Alphonsus, Francis, Loretta, and Ignatia were living with their parents, but eight children are reported living. The household also included Rose Fahey, an Irish-born servant age 30.

Farrell Finan married Catherine O'Leary age 25, born in Ireland, at Saint Agnes Church in Manhattan on 9 October 1877 [5213]. The witnesses were James Butler and Anne O'Leary. City directories during the 1870s and 1880s list Farrell Finan as a produce dealer with shop at 119 East 42nd Street from 1876 to 1883, and residence at 137 First Avenue from 1870 to 1873, at 561 Second Avenue at 31st Street in 1876 and 1877, and at 209 East 39th Street in 1878. The family address is given as 150 East 41st Street in Manhattan in the 1880 census, which lists him age 32, city directories for 1879 and 1881, and at the births of their first two children. Other addresses include 228 East 40th Street in the 1882 and 1883 directories and at the birth of Joseph in 1882, at 428 West 48th Street at the birth of Kate in 1887 and in the 1903 directory, but at 415 West 50th Street in the 1900 census, which lists him as a butcher and says he was born May 1860, but that is closer to the date he came to United States. In the 1910 census, Farrell and Kate Finan were living at 271 West 140th Street.

Farrell Finan died 13 September 1916 at 207 West 142 Street in Manhattan [M26758] and is buried in Calvary Cemetery [403L16]. There is no stone. His age at death is given as 70, and he was 50 years in United States. Catherine Finan died 5 March 1935 and is buried in Calvary Cemetery with her husband.

The children of Farrell and Catherine Finan were: (1) Robert, born 10 November 1878 [246170], godparents James Butler and Annie O'Leary, at Saint Agnes Church on East 43rd Street. He was their first child. He died 22 June 1881 and is buried in Calvary Cemetery [ISP924] with James's family. (2) Anna Marie, born 11 June 1880 [286817], godparents John J Power and Ann Wilson, at Saint Agnes. She is listed as a milliner in 1900. 40

(3) Joseph Aloysius, born 11 June 1882 [341254] and died unmarried 16 September 1909 at 2262 Seventh Avenue in Manhattan. His occupation is given as bookkeeper. He is buried in Calvary Cemetery with his parents [403L16]. (4) William, born July 1885. (5) Catherine E, born 22 August 1887 [502564], godparents James Finan and Mary Finan, at Sacred Heart Church in Manhattan. Catherine, then living at 2262 Seventh Avenue, married Thomas P Browne, age 28, son of Thomas Browne and Ellen McQuaid, at Saint Aloysius Church on 7 September 1909. In the 1930 census they are living at 617 West 115th Street, with children Evelyn age 20, Eleanor age 18, Annette age 12, and Catherine age 2. (6) Ellen, born 21 September 1889, godparents Robert Finan and Ann Finan, at Sacred Heart Church. (7) Walter, born January 1892. (8) Agnes, born 21 January 1894, godparents John Kearns and Annie Kearns, at Sacred Heart Church.

The dates from William and Walter are from the 1900 census. The name James appears in a city birth certificate which is assumed to refer to Joseph, who is listed in the 1900 census as born in January 1883. The 1900 census says there were a total of ten children, seven of them then living. No reference has been found for the other two, nor for the baptismal records of William and Walter. The censuses of 1920 and 1930 list a Walter Finan of appropriate age as a patient in a state hospital. It would appear he was disabled..

All the living children of Farrell and Catherine were living with the parents in 1900. The household then also included Annie Kearns, born December 1877 in New Jersey (no record has been located), a niece, probably the godmother of Agnes in 1894.. In 1880 the household included Farrell's mother Nellie Rafter Finan, and his mother-in-law Ann Wilson, age 59. In the 1910 census, Farrell and Kate Finan were living at 271 West 140th Street, with their children Anna, William, Ellen, Walter and Agnes.

No information has been found about Thomas, the fourth and presumably oldest son of Farrell and Ellen Finan. No identifiable entry appears in the 1870 or 1880 census. He may be the Thomas Finan who appears at the baptism of Robert's daughter Anna in January 1875.

The name Farrell is an Anglicized version of the pre-Christian Irish name Fergal, a name which also appears in Latin records as Vergil or Virgil. Saint Fergal/Vergil was an early eighth century Irish missionary who was Bishop of Salzburg in Austria. The Roman poet Vergil was born in Mantua, in the Celtic province of Cisalpine Gaul. 41

FINNERTY - CAVANAGH - BRADY FAMILY

It is difficult to reconcile the conflicting information about this family. The notes by Katherine Melvin Kiernan were dictated at least thirty years after the events, which may account for much of the confusion over the details of this family.

There were three Finnerty sisters, Margaret, Catherine, and Rose. According to those notes, Katherine Melvin Kiernan's mother Margaret Finnerty Melvin was the daughter of Mary Anne McGlynn and John Finnerty. But Catherine Finnerty's death certificate lists her father's name as James Finnerty, as does Rose Finnerty's marriage certificate. So James is most likely correct, since these sisters would have known their father's name.

Katherine Melvin Kiernan's notes also report that Mary Anne McGlynn's mother was Margaret Connell McGlynn Cavanagh; she was not certain of the Connell and did not know the father's given name. Margaret's second husband was Matthew Cavanagh; Ellen Cavanagh Brady was their daughter. Mary Kiernan said the Finnerty sisters came to America as orphaned children and lived with their aunt Ellen Cavanagh Brady, Mary Anne McGlynn Finnerty's half-sister and daughter of Margaret and Matthew Cavanagh.

Matthew and Margaret Cavanagh, both listed as age 40, together with their children Catherine age 19 and Ellen age 17, arrived in New York 19 October 1842 on the Nicholas Biddle, a date which agrees with the 1855 census entry and with Margaret's death certificate. These ages for the parents are unreasonable, considering Margaret's first marriage and grandchildren only five to ten years younger than Catherine and Ellen. Later references suggest Matthew and Margaret were ten to fifteen years older.

The family has not been located in the 1850 census. The 1855 New York state census lists Matthew and Margaret Cavanagh, both age 60, with children Ellen age 20, Margaret age 18, Catherine age 16, and Rose age 14, [W8, ED7, #84, a three-family brick building]. They are all reported as resident in United States for twelve years, and all the children are listed as Cavanagh. (Correctly, Margaret, Catherine and Rose are the Finnerty grandchildren.) No occupations are listed for any of these six persons. In the same household are John Brady age 22, a carpenter, Michael Brady age 60, also a carpenter, and Frances Brady age 20. John is resident in United States for eight years and a citizen, Michael and Frances for one year. No relationship is recorded among the Bradys; John is listed first, and the entry seems to read boarder. Matthew Cavanagh is listed in several city directories during the 1850 as a late farmer (presumably meaning former or retired) at 109 Charleton Street, an address consistent with the census listing. (References vary on spelling Cavanagh or Kavanagh, as well as Mathew or Matthew.)

Census and other records give a scattering of dates for the arrival of the children Margaret, Catherine and Rose, often inconsistent with their appearance in the 1855 census. Although Mary Kiernan spoke of the Finnerty sisters arriving together, there is no entry in the ship arrivals lists at New York from 1846 onward for the three names together. All three names, but with questionable ages, do appear during the 1850s. Separate arrivals suggest that their parents or other family were still alive in Ireland, at least prior to the last emigration. Strangely, there is an entry for the arrival in New York of Matthew and Margaret Kavanagh, with Catherine Kavanagh age 9 on the Conqueror, 24 September 1852. Did Margaret and Matthew return to Ireland, perhaps to bring her grandchildren back to America? If so, why is only one child listed? 42

Matthew Cavanagh died at 555 Greenwich Street on 1 January 1864, and Margaret died at 109 Charlton Street on 30 July 1867. The two addresses seem to refer to the same or adjacent corner lots. They are both buried in Calvary Cemetery [510EE5]. Catherine Finnerty, sister of Margaret Finnerty Melvin, is listed in the 1860 census as age 18, born in Ireland. She was living with the John and Ellen Brady, her aunt, at 109 Charlton Street in Manhattan. Her name is given as Cavanagh. The 1870 census lists Catherine Finnerty age 24, a sewing-machine operator, living with Frances Brady age 29 and Marion Smith age 22, tailoresses, [16ED, 8W]. Catherine moved to her sister Margaret's home in Hoboken some time after their sister Rose died in 1878. Catherine has not been located in the 1880 census. Kate Finnerty is listed in the 1885 New Jersey state census with Margaret [ward 2, 309]. Catherine died 2 August 1897 at 633 Bloomfield Street in Hoboken, at the home of her sister Margaret. She is buried in GreenWood Cemetery [Lot 22463, Sec 148, her sister Rose's family plot]. Her death certificate says she was then 48, which indicates a birth in 1849, and that she had been a resident of New Jersey for 40 years, since 1857; both of these dates must be inaccurate, given the 1855 census entry.

Rose Finnerty Eaton, sister of Margaret Finnerty Melvin, is listed in the 1860 census as age 16, born in Ireland. Her death certificate says age 30, indicating birth in 1848; the certificate also says she was born in New York, which is certainly incorrect. Her marriage certificate says she was age 25, indicating 1851 as her birth year. In 1860 Rose was living with the Brady family at 109 Charlton Street in Manhattan. Her name is given as Cavanagh in the 1860 census. Rose Finnerty was the godmother of Ellen Melvin in 1868. Rose Cavanagh was the godmother of Robert Brady, son of Ellen and John, in 1856. Rose Finnerty married Thomas Henry Eaton, a widower, son of John and Margaret, on 23 August 1876 at Transfiguration Church in New York [5097]. The witnesses were Catherine Finnerty and Catherine Brady. Thomas H Eaton, a bookbinder, is listed residing at 574 Third Avenue in city directories from 1864 to 1869, with a business, Thomas H Eaton & Co, listed at 11 Spruce Street from 1865 to 1877. From 1870 onward, the New York directory says he was a resident of Brooklyn. The 1870 census lists Thomas Eaton, age 46, and his first wife Mary, age 49, in Brooklyn [947-4-341]. No children are listed. No entry for him has been found in the Brooklyn directories. Thomas Eaton died 13 April 1877 [261954] at 292 Third Avenue, Manhattan, which was also his address at his marriage. The death certificate says he was born 20 December 1827, and that both his parents were born in New York. The 1878 New York City directory lists Rose Eaton widow of Thomas at 292 Third Avenue. She died 4 June 1878 at 54 Macdougal Street, the home of her aunt Ellen Brady. She is buried with her husband in GreenWood Cemetery [Lot 22463, Sec 148]. Since Margaret Finnerty Melvin was later declared Rose's heir, there apparently were no Eaton children. The Eaton grave in GreenWood also lists Edith Gaunt, born 29 April, died 21 July 1878, first child of Samuel Gaunt and Ada Eaton

Ellen Cavanagh Brady, daughter of Margaret and Matthew Cavanagh, is listed in the 1860 census [ED4, W8, p117] as age 24, her occupation was tailoress, living in a four-family building. Ellen's husband was John Brady, a master cabinetmaker. No record of their marriage has been found. John Brady is listed in the 1860 census as age 35 (so born 1825), with property worth $1000, a considerable amount at the time. An insurance certificate says he had a furniture shop at 108 Leroy Street NYC in 1860, a business address which also appears in several city directories from 1855 to 1864. John Brady owned property in Unionport, Westchester County, later described as being on Eighth Street between Avenues C and D in The Bronx, from 1854 until it was sold by his son Robert in 1903. This is the block now bounded by Blackrock [8th], Watson [9th], Hill [C] and Olmstead [D] Avenues.

The Bradys are listed as residing at 109 Charlton Street at the birth of their child in 1860, in the 1861 to 1864 city directories, and at John's death in 1866. John Brady died 13 May 1866 at 109 Charlton Street, Manhattan, age 39 (so born 1827), resident in United States 20 years (so arrived 1846). He is buried in 43

Calvary Cemetery [510EE5]. The ages given in 1860 and 1866 are not consistent with the age listed in 1855.

The 1900 census says Ellen Brady had four children. Two have been identified, her daughter Catherine and her son Robert. Catherine's death certificate gives 9 July 1863 as the date of her birth, but the records at Saint Joseph Church list her birth as 9 April 1859, godparents Mathew and Catherine Cavanagh. The 1900 census gives April 1875 for her birth, eight years after her mother's death! That census says she was a music teacher, as does the 1880 census, which gives her age as 19. The Bradys' son Robert's death certificate says he was born in 1859, but Saint Joseph Church lists 30 January 1856. Rose Cavanagh is his only reported godparent. In the 1860 census, Robert is listed as age 4, Kate as age 1. Robert is listed in the 1880 census as age 22, a clerk in a butcher shop. The city archives have no identifiable record of either birth, but do record a female child born to John and Ellen Brady of 109 Charlton Street on 26 May 1860 [vol16, p32]. This child was not living at the 1860 census. There is also a death certificate for Eliza Brady who died 4 October 1862 at 109 Charlton Street, age 9 months. Her death certificate says she was buried in Calvary Cemetery, but the cemetery has no record. Records for infant burials were often not kept. The grave of John Brady had not yet been bought. Saint Joseph Church has no record of a baptism in 1860, but reports the baptism of Elizabeth, daughter of Patrick and Jane Brady. Curiously, a female child is recorded born to Patrick and Jane Brady of 109 Carlton Street on 27 December 1861 [vol 8, p37]. The 1860 census list Patrick Brady, age 50, living in the next building to John and Ellen Brady, with several children including Jane, age 19, and a one-month old child, Mary Ann, but no wife (unless Jane is his wife).

City directories list Ellen Brady widow of John living at 109 Charlton Street until 1876, and at 54 Macdougal Street in 1878 until 1881. She is listed at this address, age 47, in the 1880 census [NY 0872 181D] with her children Robert and Kate. By 1889 she is living alone at 146 West 10th Street. Ellen Brady is listed in the 1890 Manhattan census as age 54 (so born 1836). The 1900 census [Bronx 18610516] says she was born December 1834, living at the Bronx property with her daughter Catherine. The 1900 census says Ellen Brady had only one living child. The 1903 directory also lists her at the Bronx address, while the 1905 directory gives 148 West 10th Street, as does the 1905 and 1915 state census. In 1905, Ellen is age 72, Robert, a clerk in Customs House, is age 32, and Catherine is age 28. Ellen Brady died 3 February 1907 [M 4344] at 148 West 10th Street. Her death certificate lists her age as 75 (thus born 1831 or 1832), and resident in United States 55 years (so arrived about 1851 or 1852). This may be an arithmetic mistake for 65 years since 1842 was her correct year of arrival, or a recollection of the year of arrival of the Finnerty sisters. Ellen Cavanagh Brady is buried in GreenWood Cemetery [22463148]. The 1910 census lists Robert J Brady age 39, a printing clerk, and Catherine age 35, at the West 10th Street address. In 1915, Robert, a bookkeeper, is age 41 and Catherine is age 31. [Actually, she was 56]. Catherine died 13 July 1928, and Robert died 7 March 1932. Both Catherine and Robert died at 148 West 10th Street and are buried in GreenWood Cemetery with their mother. There are no living descendants of this family

Ellen Cavanagh Bradys death certificate says her mother was Mary McGinn. Probably whoever supplied the entry gave Margaret Finnerty Melvin's mother's name, forgetting or not knowing the correct name. Records are further confused by the wide ranges of age claimed by Ellen, Margaret, Catherine and Rose, and the census records that give Cavanagh rather than Finnerty as the sister's name. It is probable that Ellen's survivors had largely forgotten the details of her family, all of whom died forty years before Ellen's death in 1907. There also seems to be no way to resolve the McGinn/McGlynn problem, since the only sources of either spelling are reports from persons who might not have known the correct name. But McGlynn is a more likely Irish name than McGinn. No relative by either name is reported in America. 44

No reference to the county of origin in Ireland for any of these persons has been found. Griffith's Valuation reports that the names Cavanagh and Finnerty appear together most commonly in Co Mayo, although they are each found throughout Ireland. The name James Finnerty appears once each in Ballynadrumny, Co Kildare and Kilcolumb, Co Kilkenny, and nowhere else. Both of these counties are close to Co Dublin, where Cavanagh alone is most common. No surviving records in Ireland list the marriage of Margaret and Matthew Cavanagh. There are appearances of the names Margaret, Catherine, and Rose Finnerty (Feanathy) born in Co Galway during the 1840s, as well as marriage records of a James Finnerty, but the only appearance of Rose does not coincide with mentions of Margaret or Catherine. The 1840s were a chaotic period in Ireland, and few births and even fewer deaths were officially recorded.

The notes of Katherine Melvin Kiernan indicate two other children of Margaret Cavanagh: a daughter Rose by her husband McGlynn, and a daughter Catherine by her husband Cavanagh. Rose is reported to have died in India, with no other details. Catherine Cavanagh is reported to have settled in California where she married someone named Gonzalez, and was still alive about 1905 with at least one son, named Joseph. No indication of dates for either of these women was supplied. Catherine, but not Rose, arrived in New York with their parents in 1842, but she was not living with them in 1855. The Gonzalez family cannot be identified in the 1880 or 1900 census of California. No family by that name includes a woman named Catherine born in Ireland. It may be that the story is correct but the name Gonzalez is wrong, simply a guess or mis-remembrance, since, at the time the notes were written, Gonzales was the name of a Hoboken family known to Katherine and Mary Kiernan. On the other hand, there is a 1880 census entry for Joseph Gonzalez, a cigar merchant age 36, born in Spain, and his wife Catherine, age 39, born in Ireland, living at 205 Elm (now Elk) Street, Manhattan. This couple can be traced in city directories from 1876 to 1886. They cannot be identified with any other of several Joseph/Jose Gonzalez in directories or censuses, although the name and occupation persist past 1900.

The godparents of Catherine, daughter of John and Ellen Brady, in 1859 were Matthew and Catherine Cavanagh. There is no way to tell whether Catherine Cavanagh refers to the Catherine Cavanagh, Ellen Brady's sister, or to Catherine Finnerty (the Finnerty sisters appear in the 1860 census with the name Cavanagh). Similarly, Robert Brady's godmother in 1856 was Rose Cavanagh. This is probably Rose Finnerty, since Rose McGlynn who went to India did not come to America with her mother.

Frances Brady was a witness at the marriage of Margaret Finnerty and Bernard Melvin in 1866. This could be the Frances Brady listed in the 1855 census, probably the sister of John Brady. She was not living with the Brady household in 1860. She may be the Frances Brady listed in the 1870 census living with Catherine Finnerty. 45

HUNT FAMILY

Sarah Hunt and Catharine Hunt McLaughlin, children of Thomas Hunt and Bridget McTigue, were known by Catherine Carey Kiernan to be aunts of her mother, Mary Ann Hyland Carey.

From various sources, it is believed that the Hunt family, as well and the Hylands, came from the vicinity of Knock, Co Mayo. In Griffith's Valuation, the name Thomas Hunt appears 26 times in the neighborhood of Knock parish, but many of these may refer to the same person. Of particular interest are several entries for Thomas Hunt in Bohogerawer and Bracklaghboy townlands, Bekan parish (which is just south of Knock), barony Costello, tenant of Philip Taaffe. These lands, amounting to 33 acres, 3 roods and 7 perches, are held jointly with Mark Hunt, occasionally also with William Hunt, Mary Hunt, and Patrick Waldron, a name that appears in marriage and baptism records of the Carey family in America. Mary Hunt, a widow, would seem to be the mother of Thomas, Mark and William. The name Andrew McGreal appears nearby. Another entry lists Mark Hyland holding 26 acres, 1 rood and 13 perches in two sites on lease from Viscount Dillon, in the townland of Carrowmore in the parish of Knock, barony Costello. In the immediate neighborhood the names Patrick Hyland, James McGreal, James, Thomas and Patrick Curry, John, Andrew and Thomas Carney, Thomas Egan, and John Reddington also appear. All these family names also appear in later marriage and baptism records. The McLaughlin and McTigue names occur in several nearby townlands.

The parish records of Saint John the Baptist Church in Knock were lost in a fire in 1865. Since civil records were not required before 1868, little information survives on births and marriages in this family.

According to the will of Sarah Hunt and the administration papers of Michael Hunt, Thomas Hunt and Bridget McTigue had five children.

1) Bridget Hunt Hyland was reported still alive in Ireland in 1889, widow of Marcus Hyland. The only child mentioned from this marriage was Mary Ann Hyland Carey. My mother Catherine Carey Kiernan vaguely recalled being told that her grandmother had married twice, her other husband, presumably her first, being named McGreal, with a son Patrick. But if there was a son from this first marriage, why is Mary Ann the only listed family of Bridget Hyland in Sarah Hunt's will? There is no record known of Bridget's age, but if her daughter was born in 1857 then Bridget must have been the oldest of these Hunt children. There are at least five widows named Bridget Hyland who died in the vicinity of Knock in the two decades after 1889. No Bridget Hyland of reasonable age is listed in the 1901 census of Ireland.

2) Catharine Hunt McLaughlin, according to the 1900 census [30347], was born in Ireland in 1845 and arrived in United States in 1859. There is an immigration record for a Catherine Hunt, age 18, arriving aboard the Universe on 10 May 1858, along with Bridget McLaughlin, age 20, Mary McLaughlin, age 23, Anne McLaughlin, age 22, and Anne Infant, age 16. The 1880 census [125014] gives Catharine's age as 40, so born about 1840. The 1905 census gives her age as 59. The 1910 census says she arrived in United States in 1870. Her tombstone says she was born in 1839. Catharine, age 25, married Patrick McLaughlin 5 January 1873 at Saint Mary Church, Jersey City. Patrick McLaughlin died 1 February 1916 [will 9910]; his wife Catharine died 8 March 1923. They are buried in Holy Name Cemetery [A944]

3) Sarah Hunt died at 307 Willow Avenue in Hoboken 29 May 1916, unmarried, age 75 (so born 1841). She is buried with the McLaughlin family in Holy Name Cemetery [A944]. The 1880 census lists Sarah Hunt, age 40, a servant in the home of Michael and Sarah Banta, 287 Sixth Street, Jersey City. Also in 1889 she was living on Sixth Street in Jersey City. She has not been located in the 1900 census. In the 46

1905 and 1910 censuses she was living with her sister Catharine McLaughlin at 307 Willow Avenue, where she is reported to have come to United States in 1861. Her tombstone says she was born 1836. Sarah was a witness at the marriage of her sister Catharine in January 1873.

4) Michael Hunt is listed in the 1880 census as born in Ireland, age 32 (so born 1848), a liquor dealer, living at 84 Third Street in Hoboken with his wife Mary. His age at death in 1889 is given as 43 (so born 1846), a resident of New Jersey 19 years, indicating he arrived in 1870. There is an immigration record for a Michael Hunt, age 26, arriving aboard the City of Antwerp on 2 July 1872. This Michael Hunt was accompanied by a John Hunt, also age 26, but Michael's brother John was already in Boston at his marriage in April of that year. Yet John's wife's maiden name was also Hunt, so this John Hunt may have been a member of either family. On 14 October 1879 Michael married Mary Ann Leyden, daughter of Andrew and Ellen Leyden, at Our Lady of Grace Church. The witnesses were Michael Murray and Catherine Flannigan. Her age in the 1880 census was 29, born in Ireland. Mary Ann and Michael had two children, Catherine, born 17 July 1880, godparents Michael Murray and Kate Flannigan, died 15 October 1881, and Andrew, born and died 2 September 1881. Mary Ann died 5 September 1881, age 30, at 84 Third Street [OS] having lived seven years in New Jersey, and is buried in Holy Name Cemetery [BG4] with her two children.

Michael's second wife was Bridget Noonan, daughter of John Noonan and Bridget Byrne, of 491 Eighth Avenue in Manhattan. She was born in Ballyhaurin, County Mayo in April 1851. This date is on her death certificate, and the place is reported in an obituary of her brother in 1906. Michael and Bridget were married 16 September 1888 at Holy Innocents Church on West 37th Street in New York, witnesses Edward Carney and Margaret Byrne; his age is 42, hers 36. Strangely, both civil and church records give her name as Bridget Infant, a family name that also appears among the companions of Catherine Hunt at her immigration.

Michael Hunt is usually listed in the Hoboken city directories from 1874 on, with his address coinciding either with his sister Catharine Hunt McLaughlin and her husband Patrick (as in the 1885 census) or with his future wife Bridget's sister Catherine Noonan McLaughlin, whose husband was also named Patrick McLaughlin. Michael's other addresses include 108 Willow Avenue (1874-1878 directories), 84 Third Street (1880 census), 92 Willow Avenue (1882-1884 directories) where he operated a liquor store as late as 1887.

Michael Hunt was the godfather of Thomas McLaughlin in 1876.

Michael Hunt died in Hoboken at 109 Willow Avenue [OS] on 18 November 1889 and is buried in Holy Name Cemetery [H61A]. He was originally buried in PQ16/17 and moved here April 1891; the first site was sold back to the Cemetery; there had been no other burials.

Delia Hunt, a widow, is listed in the 1900 census [303410] at 261 4th Street. Bridget's second husband, whom she married 25 January 1905 at Our Lady of Grace Church was Michael B Holmes, witnesses John Kearny (Carney?) and Anne Noonan. He was born September 1840 in Ireland and died 14 December 1907, a wholesale grocer of 195 Montgomery Street in Jersey City. This was his third marriage. Michael Holmes was survived by three of the eight children of his first marriage. Bridget was quoted as saying she married her first husband for love and her second husband for money.

The 1910 census says that Bridget Noonan Hunt Holmes arrived in United States in 1881. She was living then at 712 Bloomfield Street, which she owned, with her niece Marguerite McLaughlin. That census reports that Bridget had one child, deceased. No child is known from either of her marriages 47 unless a conclusion is to be drawn from the name used at her marriage to Michael Hunt. No birth, death, or burial record for a child has been found. City directories in 1918 and 1922 list her at 812 Washington Street, as does the 1920 census, which says she arrived in 1868, and gives her age as 70. In the 1930 census Delia Holmes, age 76, was living at 1032 Garden Street, a building she owned, with her niece Marguerite McLaughlin and her grandniece Winifred Nicolson, age 26. Bridget Noonan Hunt Holmes died 19 January 1952 at age 100, at 1032 Garden Street and is buried in Holy Name Cemetery [H61A].

5) John Hunt is listed as living at 23 Vinton Street in Boston in the 1880 census, in 1889, in the 1900 census, and in 1908, a house which he owned. He is identified at this address in the will of his sister Sarah and the administration papers of his brother Michael. The 1880 census says he was age 42, a brickmason. The 1900 census says he was born in Ireland October 1840, and entered United States in 1860. His death certificate says he was born 26 November 1836.

John Hunt married Elizabeth Hunt, daughter of Philip and Catherine Hunt, at Saint Augustine Church in Boston on 29 April 1872; the witnesses were Michael Fitzmaurice and Catherine Hunt. His age is given as 32, and hers as 23. Elizabeth was born November 1850 in Ireland (the 1880 census says she was age 32), and entered United States in 1867.

The 1900 census says they had eight children, one of them deceased: (1) Catharine B, born 21 May 1873, godparents Martin Cunniff and Catherine Hunt; died 30 October 1931. (2) Thomas William, born 26 August 1874, godparents Thomas Cunniff and Margaret Cunniff; died 8 March 1933. (3) Margaret Ann, born 3 May 1876, godparents Martin Cunniff and Anne Danehy; died 4 February 1946. (4) Mary E, born 25 March 1881, godparents James Cunniff and Mary Hunt. (5) Sarah Jane, born 27 December 1882, godparents Thomas Freely and Catherine Hunt; died 24 September 1929. (6) Elizabeth V, born 25 August 1884, godparents Patrick Cunniff and Catherine Hunt; died 31 January 1926. (7) Grace Gertrude, born 13 May 1886, godparents Thomas Hunt and Catherine Hunt. The ages of the first three children agree with the 1880 census entries. No information has been found about the deceased child.

John Hunt died 9 November 1917 and his wife died 11 March 1919. They are buried in New Calvary Cemetery, Roslindale MA, along with their children Thomas, Catharine, Elizabeth, Margaret, and Sarah.

At the death of John Hunt in 1917, his widow and five unmarried daughters were living at 23 Vinton Street; the son Thomas was in the Navy, on the USS Doris at Newport News VA. In the 1920 census, the daughters Katherine B, Margaret A, Elizabeth V, Grace G, and Sarah M, were living at 2 West Street in Milton, Massachusetts. In 1930, Catherine, Margaret and Grace were still at that address.

Mary Elizabeth Hunt married Eugene A Moore at Saint Augustine Church in Boston on 24 April 1907; the witnesses were Edward J Mahoney and Elizabeth V Hunt. In the 1910 census Mary and Eugene, a photography salesman age 29, with their daughter Elizabeth age 10 months, were living at 34 Norton Street in Boston; his father was born in Ireland, his mother in Canada. In the 1920 census Mary and Eugene A Moore, with their daughter Elizabeth, were living at 137 Blue Hill Parkway in Milton, which was also their address at the death of Mary's father in 1917. In 1930 Mary and Eugene were still at that address. Mary Elizabeth died 25 June 1945 and Eugene died 17 September 1957. They are buried in Milton Cemetery [3566 Circle Avenue].

Their daughter Elizabeth Hunt Moore was born 21 June 1909 at 20 Margaret Street in Boston, baptized at Saint Peter Church in Dorchester; the sponsors were John Doherty and Elizabeth Hunt. She married William J Polaski at Sacred Heart Church in Roslindale on 7 June 1929. He was born in Massachusetts, 48 his parents born in Poland. In the 1930 census they are living at 837 Oakland Street/Commonwealth Highway in Boston, with a daughter Jean 8 months old. William and Elizabeth Polaski had three daughters, Jean Madden, Joan Blake and Elizabeth Alfano. William Polaski died 17 December 1947 and Elizabeth died 18 March 1986. They are buried with her parents in Milton Cemetery.

It is not known whether the Boston and Hoboken Hunts emigrated separately, or came to America together (to which place?) and then separated. Few of the names in this family appear in the immigration records at either port. No New York immigration records for any of the Hyland and Hunt families have been found, except for the two entries for a Mary Hyland. Since one of her Hunt uncles lived in Boston, it is possible that the family entered through that port. In immigration records at Boston neither the Hyland nor the Hunt family name appears with any given name and reasonable date.

In the Hoboken city directories from 1867 to 1870 there are entries for a James Hunt at 57 Newark Street [OS], listed as a brakeman or baggagemaster. The 1883 directory lists a James Hunt living with the McLaughlin family. The name Mary Hunt appears as godmother for James Carey in 1893. She is otherwise unknown, but John Egan mentioned a relative Mary Hunt Costello.

There were McTigue relatives living in New Jersey, possibly in Newark, in the 1890s. Several McTigue families are listed in the 1900 census and no certain identification can be made. Elizabeth McTigue was the godmother of Catherine Carey Kiernan in 1900, and Anna McTigue was godmother of William Carey in 1886.

Bridget McTigue Hunt was still living in Ireland in March 1865, since the McLaughlin family preserves a receipt for a money order sent to her from New York, presumably by Patrick McLaughlin. The family remembers it as being passage money for some family member.

As often happens in immigrant communities of any nationality, it would appear that Patrick McLaughlin was a coordinator, and perhaps a matchmaker too, for individuals and families who came to Hoboken from the area of Knock. The Careys, the Hunts, the Byrnes, the Carneys, the Murrays, and the Currys all seem to have temporarily lived in the tenement he owned. Whether or not they were close relatives has not been determined, but they were all part of an extended family. 49

KIERNAN FAMILY

Owen Kiernan, together with his wife Ellen Flood and his children Mary, Michael, and Bridget Biddy, arrived in New York on 21 December 1847, on the Peter Hattrick, from Liverpool. He was listed as age 52, a laborer. Records at the Emigrant Savings Bank establish that this family is from Coolcor, a townland in Granard parish, and that the son Michael is indeed the Michael Kiernan of our Family. Michael Kiernan died 29 December 1872. Burials in the grave of Michael Kiernan in Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn [Old Ground L-134 Rear], which Michael purchased in December 1849, include his sister Mary Kiernan Mullen, and several children. Mary's death certificate says she was born in Co Longford, Ireland, which led to the original search for this family in Ireland, in Co Longford, and in Granard.

On the passenger list of the Peter Hattrick, Mary is reported as age 15, Michael age 12 and Biddy age 11. In the parish church of Saint Mary at Granard in County Longford there is a record that Michael Kiernan, son of Eugene Kiernan and Helen Flood, was born and baptized on 16 May 1832, sponsors John Kiernan and Elizabeth Dolan. There is also a record of baptism on 29 July 1834 for Bridget Kiernan of Coolcor, sponsors John Dolan and Catherine Kiernan, but no record for Mary. Other records indicate that Mary was about two years older than Michael. This discrepancy in age for Michael, between the baptismal record and the passenger list, persists in all later records. At the time of the Irish Famine, assistance for emigrants regarded sixteen-year-olds as adults, not eligible for departure with their parents. Perhaps Mary was given an age under the limit, and the other children's ages were similarly reduced.

The Tithe Applotment Book, listing tenant family heads and compiled for Ireland in 1833, lists over thirty Kiernans in Granard parish. The name does not seem to appear elsewhere in Co Longford, but does appear occasionally in neighboring Co Cavan. The only Owen Kiernan is listed in Coolcor townland of the barony and parish of Granard (Longford, reel 19,TAB 6). The name Matthew Flood appears in adjacent Ballymore townland. Owen Kiernan holds tenancy number 11, described as 11 acres, 3 roods and 25 perches of first quality land, jointly with Thomas Kiernan. Thady and Daniel Kiernan hold tenancy number 17 in Coolcor, described as 19 acres, 2 roods and 21 perches. Both of these holdings are unusually large compared with others in the area. The Longford Heritage Centre reported that no records seem to exist for determining the relationship between these four Kiernans, but that it is very likely that Owen and Thomas, and possibly Thady and Daniel as well, were brothers.

But the Heritage Centre found records that list in Coolcor townland, in addition to the family of Owen and Ellen, 1) Mary, born 9 September 1821, Margaret, born 16 January 1825, and James, born 29 April 1833, children of Thomas Kiernan and Ellen Cox; 2) Patrick, born 14 September 1817, Mary, born 16 April 1823, James, born 25 April 1825, Anna, born 3 September 1826, Catherine, born 25 October 1825, Ann, born 27 December 1830, Thomas, born 11 January 1833, and John, born 22 May 1834, children of Thadeus Kiernan and Mary Blessington; 3) Ellen, born 23 November 1823, Anna, born 26 August 1826, Brigid, born 18 February 1829, Catherine, born 13 February 1831, Patrick, born 4 January 1833, children of Daniel Kiernan and Mary Flood. There is also a listing of Daniel, born 2 June 1818, son of Daniel Kiernan and Ann Martin, perhaps a child of an earlier marriage.

The Longford Heritage Centre also found records from Granard for three children of Thomas Flood and Eleanor Hagan: James, born 4 September 1797, Eleanor, born 15 January 1804, and John, born 22 June 1806. The child Eleanor seems to correspond with the Ellen Flood who married Owen Kiernan. 50

The child Daniel, son of Daniel and Mary (or Ann), seems to correspond with the Daniel Kiernan of the Daniel Kiernan Family.

A parish census at Saint Mary Church in Granard, dated 1834, does not indicate ages or relationships among the persons named, but lists in Coolcor townland these same families: 1) Thomas and Ellen Kiernan, with James, Polly (a version of Margaret), John and Thomas; 2) Thady and Mary Kiernan, with Catherine, Bridget, Rose, Mary, Ann, Catherine, Margaret and John; 3) Daniel and Mary Kiernan, with Mary, Ellen, Ann, Rose and Daniel. 4) Owen and Helen Kiernan, with Michael, Mary, Bridget and John.

These lists are not necessarily complete. They represent the records that have survived and have been cataloged. The names listed with each couple in the parish census do not necessarily represent children, although all the children whose baptismal records were found were young enough to be living with their parents in 1834. Some with baptismal records may have died. (Notice the two Annes with Thadeus Kiernan.) The census may include bachelor uncles and spinster aunts. (Notice the two Catherines listed with Thady Kiernan.) Also, children may have used or been known by second names rather than their first baptismal names.

The John listed with Owen and Helen is unidentified. If he is their son, then he must be older than Michael, since his name does not appear in the parish baptismal register. Since the baptism of Owen's daughter is also not listed in the Granard parish, the parish priest there suggested that the family may have attended a nearby parish in Co Cavan, where Ellen Flood Kiernan was from. The Granard parish census list was compiled the year Bridget was born. If John is their son, he may have died before the family emigrated, or he may have chosen to remain in Ireland.

The name Thady, an anglicization of the Irish name Taghd (pronounced Tod) and sometimes found as Tod or Teigh, is used as the equivalent of Timothy.

Beyond the families of Owen, Edward and Daniel Kiernan listed in separate articles, there is no certain evidence regarding any other relatives named Kiernan or Flood in United States. Several individuals appear as baptismal sponsors, Thomas Kiernan for Michael's daughter Mary Ellen in 1871, as well as Margaret Flood for Mary Kiernan Mullens' daughter Ellen Frances in 1868, and James Flood as witness at Michael's wedding in 1865. This suggests that there may have been other close relatives in the New York area with whom contact was maintained for an extended time, but they are difficult to identify. There are 18 persons names James Flood in Manhattan in the 1870 census. The recurrence of the Flood name and the presence of a Thomas Kiernan support a possible connection with the Daniel Kiernan family. The Edward Kiernan family is related through the Reillys. Whether they are also related through the Kiernans has not been determined, although the name Edward does not appear among the Granard Kiernan families.

Mary Kiernan Mullen's family is described separately. In addition to those with separate biographies, the immediate Kiernan family certainly includes:

Bridget Kiernan was living with her father and her brother at the time of the 1860 census, but is not mentioned with her father in the 1855 state census. Bridget Kiernan, described as the daughter of Owen Kiernan and Helen Flood, opened account #43991 at Emigrant Savings Bank 6 December 1864. She was living at 313 First Avenue in New York, a seamstress. She is also listed with her sister Mary at that address on the account opened by Michael in September of that year. Bridget Kiernan was a witness at 51 her sister Mary's marriage in 1852, and was a baptismal sponsor for Mary's son James in 1854. The name Bridget Kiernan also appears as the baptismal sponsor for Mary Kiernan Mullen's granddaughter Mary Smith in 1888. If this is Michael's sister, there is no way to tell if she was married, given the general practice of listing women by their baptismal names in parish records. No marriage or death record for Bridget has been found in New York City. A Bridget Kiernan age 30 is listed in the 1870 census living on East 31st Street at First Avenue, together with someone named Margaret age 9, for whom no last name or relationship is stated.

John Kiernan was born 25 May 1873, the posthumous son of Michael Kiernan and Mary Reilly. He was baptized, as Michael John, in Our Lady of Grace Church, Hoboken; the godparents were John Callaghan and Catherine Conway. In the 1900 census he was living at 317 Clinton Street, the home of his stepfather John Callaghan. He was listed as a baker by occupation. The 1895 city directory says he was a bartender. He died at 1 Mercer Place (Sheldon and Ashmead) in Philadelphia on 21 October 1906 and is buried in the Callaghan grave in Holy Name Cemetery in Jersey City [G232]. He is listed as invalid on the death certificate. The death certificate also says he was married. There is no record of the marriage in New Jersey between 1900 and 1906; the records in Pennsylvania are not public. His wife's name is unknown, nor is it known whether there were any children. There is no entry for a Kiernan in the 1910 Philadelphia census index who might reasonably be his widow. No will or administration papers were filed for his estate.

Francis John Kiernan was born 29 August 1899, the son of Eugene Henry Kiernan and Katherine Melvin. His godparents were John Kiernan, presumably his uncle, and Jennie Callaghan. He attended Our Lady of Grace School, Xavier High School in New York, and Newark Normal School (now Kean University). He later received a bachelor's degree from Seton Hall University. He taught science in the Junior and Senior High Schools in Hoboken. He also directed the Junior High School Glee Club, and dropped Frank Sinatra because he couldn't sing. On 23 June 1923 he married Lucie Lang, born 30 November 1899, daughter of John Lang and Mary Flynn, at Saint Joseph Church in Newark. The witnesses were Melvin Kiernan and Loretta Lang. Their children are John, Frank, Paul, and Marylou. They lived at one time at 510 Garden Street in Hoboken, but otherwise at the Lang family home at 93 North Third Street in Newark. They were at the Newark address for the 1930 census [NJ 1341 p10A], where his occupation is listed as professor. Lucie died 19 December 1935, and Uncle Frank died 20 February 1961. He is buried with his wife in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, East Orange {P-248-6].

Mary Kiernan was born in Hoboken 11 June 1897, daughter of Eugene Henry Kiernan and Katherine Melvin. Her godparents were John Callaghan and Alice Neeland. She attended Sacred Heart Academy in Hoboken and Montclair Normal School (now Montclair University), and then taught mathematics in the Hoboken schools from 1916 to her retirement in 1964. She received her bachelor's degree from Fordham University in 1927, and her master's in 1938. It was her admission to Montclair in 1913, after extended protests by her mother in Trenton and Washington, that opened the New Jersey state Normal Schools to the handicapped; she had polio since the age of two. She lived with her mother until 1932, then at 730 Hudson Street until 1937 when she came to live with her brother Melvin. Aunt Mary visited Ireland on a tour of Europe with her mother in 1931. She also traveled to Europe for the Lourdes centennial in 1958. She was active for many years in the Alumnae Association of the Academy of the Sacred Heart and in the Catholic Teachers Sodality of Northern New Jersey. After her retirement from teaching, she transcribed texts in Braille and gave classes in Braille typing. She died 18 November 1986 and is buried with her mother and grandparents in Holy Name Cemetery [K517/18]. 52

EDWARD KIERNAN FAMILY

The 1880 census for Jersey City lists Edward Kiernan, born in Ireland, age 35 (so born 1845), occupation freight handler, living at 200 Wayne Street. The 1900 census says he was born June 1850 in Ireland, and arrived in United States in 1865. He died 3 April 1914 and is buried in Holy Name Cemetery [B45A]. His death certificate says he was born 20 March 1847, that his father's name was Patrick but his mother's name was unknown. [administration 34152].

Edward's wife was Elizabeth Reilly Kiernan. The 1880 census says she was born in Ireland and was age 29 (so born 1851). The 1900 census says she was born June 1851 and arrived in United States 1861. That date agrees with the reported date of arrival of Mary Reilly Kiernan Callaghan. The Reilly sisters may have arrived aboard the William Tapscott on 27 May 1861. In the 1920 census she gave her age as 60 and said she arrived in United States in 1856 [Do the arithmetic!]. Elizabeth's maiden name Reilly appears on the baptismal certificates of her children at Saint Bridget Church in Jersey City. She died 13 February 1934 and is buried with her husband in Holy Name Cemetery. Her death certificate says her parents names were unknown, and gives her age as 70. (If this were true, she would have been eight years old when her first child was born.) Elizabeth outlived all her children.

Elizabeth's will [188150] calls Lillie Callaghan her niece. Helen DeSapio remembered her as Aunt Elizabeth. That Elizabeth is the sister of Mary Reilly Kiernan Callaghan is confirmed by the 1910 census entry that lists Eleanor Reilly Johnson living with Mary's son Eugene Henry Kiernan, referred to as her nephew, and Elizabeth's grandson Charles Sandstrom, referred to as her grandnephew.

Edward Kiernan was the godfather of Lillie Callaghan in 1876, and Lillie's father John Callaghan was the godfather of Edward and Elizabeth's son Joseph in 1880. Elizabeth's sister Mary Kiernan was the godmother of Elizabeth's son James in 1874.

Edward's relationship to any other Kiernan family is uncertain. No record found so far suggests a connection with Michael Kiernan. There is an Edward Kiernan listed in the 1867 and 1868 city directories at 20 Morris Street in Jersey City, which is occasionally the address of other Kiernan families.

Edward and Elizabeth are is listed in the 1885 state census [8136]. Addresses from the city directories, all in Jersey City, include: 243 Wayne Street 1873, 1874 159 Wayne Street 1876 200 Wayne Street 1878 to 1896, and 1880 census 184 Sixth Street 1897, 1898 and 1900 census 390 Grove Street 1902 to 1911. Thereafter the family lived at 307 Claremont Avenue, where both Edward and Elizabeth died.

New Jersey has no record of the marriage of Elizabeth and Edward. It is uncertain where the Reillys lived. The civil marriage records in New York and Brooklyn are incomplete, and no entry has been found. Neither has any record been found among the parishes in or near Jersey City. Without an address for the Reillys, other parish records cannot be searched. The 1900 census says Edward and Elizabeth had been married 28 years (so they were married in 1871 or 1872), and had seven children, four of them still living. Only six children are known: 53

(1) John C, listed as age 8 in 1880. He was a trolleycar conductor (listed in city directories as early as 1894). He was witness at the wedding of Lillie Callaghan and Joseph Crosetti in 1907 and was godfather for their son Joseph John in 1913. He died unmarried on 28 October 1931 at 307 Claremont Avenue, when his age is given as 59.

(2) James William, born 26 January 1874, baptismal sponsors Patrick McCormick and Mary Kiernan. He died 31 May 1877 [BC 481]. His name in the cemetery records is given as Edward.

(3) Mary, born 1 September 1875, baptismal sponsors Richard Whalen and Mary Jane Donnelly. She married Frank Sandstrom of New York City 5 February 1905 at Saint Mary Church in Jersey City. He was age 27, born in Sweden. Mary died 9 March 1908 at 334 East 29th Street in New York City [8260]. They had one child, Carl, who was disabled. He was born in October 1906 and baptized at Our Lady of the Scapular Church in New York City, sponsors John Kiernan and R O'Brien. After his mother's death, he and his father were living with Elizabeth's sister Eleanor in New York City at the time of the 1910 census. Later he was staying with his grandmother Elizabeth, and is listed with her (as Carl Kiernan) and his uncle John in the 1920 census. The Claremont Street address is not listed at all in the 1930 census. After his grandmother's death he lived with Lillian Callaghan Crosett. Helen DeSapio did not know what became of Carl after her mother died. He is not mentioned in the obituary notices of either Elizabeth or Lillian. According to the 1920 census, Frank Sandstrom, born 18 March 1877 (according to his 1917 Draft Board registration) in Sweden, a factory worker, arrived in United States in 1886 and was living at 273 West 146th Street in Manhattan with his father Carl, a tailor. No other references to Frank Sandstrom have been found.

(4) Edward, born 6 March 1878, baptismal sponsors James Greene and Jane Carroll. He died unmarried in Cleveland 20 April 1932. His whereabouts were unknown to the family at the time of his brother's death in 1931, and also at his mother's death in 1934. He was not listed in Jersey City in the 1920 census, or in the 1930 Ohio census.

(5) Joseph, born 17 November 1880, baptismal sponsors John Callaghan and Mary McNamara. He is listed as a clerk in the 1906 city directory. He died unmarried 11 January 1910.

(6) Rosetta, born 25 September 1883, sponsors Philip Kiernan and Margaret Leland. She died 16 October 1888.

No baptismal record for the first child has been found in any Jersey City parish. The others were baptized in Saint Bridget Church. No record has been found for the seventh child. So far as is known, there are no living descendants of this family.

The Philip Kiernan who was Rosetta's godfather is unidentified.

Buried in the Holy Name Cemetery grave with Edward and Elizabeth [B45A] are all their children except Edward. Also buried there are: (1) Elizabeth's sister Eleanor Reilly Johnson, died 9 March 1917. (2) John Ward, born 22 October 1874 and died July 1879. He was the son of Michael and Mary Ward, who lived at 94 Steuben Street in Jersey City. Michael, a worker in a drug mill, was born in Ireland in 1840 and Mary in England in 1840, of Irish parents. This family is otherwise unknown and appears only in the 1880 census, with a boarder Frank McIntyre, and in the 1885 state census [12101], living next door to a Patrick and Ann McKiernan. There is no birth record for John Ward in 187475, nor any baptismal record in Saint Peter Parish, or in any local parish. No children are listed in either census entry. Holy Name Cemetery lists Michael Ward as the owner of this grave, but the first Kiernan burial 54 occurs before the burial of John Ward. (3) John Kiernan, buried March 1918, age 55. He is otherwise unidentified. No death record has been found in New Jersey or in New York City. In the cemetery records, his name is spelled Kearnan.

It is unclear whether the R O'Brien who was the baptismal sponsor for Carl Sandstrom in 1906 is the Rose O'Brien who was a boarder with the Callaghan family in 1885. 55

DANIEL KIERNAN FAMILY

Daniel Kiernan died 26 May 1891 at 105 Clinton Street [OS], later numbered 317, the home of John Callaghan and Mary Reilly Kiernan Callaghan. Since this was a one-family house, it is reasonable to assume there is some family connection.

The parish in Granard, home of our Owen Kiernan and his family, records in 1834 the family of Daniel and Mary Flood Kiernan, with children Mary, Ellen, Ann, Rose, and Daniel, living in Coolcor townland. The Tithe Applotment Book records Daniel Kiernan holding a tenancy adjacent to that of Owen and Thomas Kiernan. The will of Daniel Kiernan of Hoboken mentions his sister Ann.

The younger Daniel Kiernan may be the Daniel Kiernan, age 24, who arrived in New York on the Eliza Caroline, 11 May 1848.

Daniel Kiernan married Ann Kiernan at Our Lady of Loreto Church in Cold Spring NY on 13 June 1852. The witnesses were Peter ... (The last name is illegible; someone named Peter Kiernan who died 4 November 1868 is buried with the Daniel Kiernan family.) and Catherine Kiernan.

The 1860 census lists Daniel Kearnan, age 35 (and indexed as Karnen) and his wife and children John and Thomas in Cold Spring [page 68, Philliptown, Putnam County]. The household also included Thomas Kearnan, age 38, Letty Kearnan, age 38, and Eliza Kearnan, age 40, all born in Ireland. No relationships are reported in the census. The 1855 state census for Putnam County is missing.

On 15 September 1863 Daniel bought the property forming the eastern triangle at the intersection of Newark and Ferry Streets in Hoboken [lot 1, block 2; recorded 106726], known as 167 and 169 Newark Street [OS]; the deed says he was from Ulster County. This property was sold 1 May 1883. The family appears in the 1880 census [5079], with both Daniel and Ann listed as age 50. According to the city directories, Daniel continued to live at the Newark Street address for a few years, then at 8 Jackson Street; by 1890 he is living with the Callaghans. In early entries, his occupation is given as laborer, later as coal dealer. Daniel bought property including 408 Madison Street on 12 May 1887 [438221]. Part of this property was sold by Daniel's son Michael 9 May 1906 [936546], the rest was inherited from Michael by Thomas's son Daniel 2 April 1930. The family appears in the 1870 census, spelled Carron. Daniel's age is 48, his wife's 47, both of which agree with other records except the 1880 census. Also listed in 1870 are John age 15, Thomas age 12, and Michael age 8, all born in New York, and Charles age 6 and Patrick age 4, both born in New Jersey. No relationships are listed in the 1870 census. These last two children are not listed in the 1880 census, they are not buried in the family grave, nor were they baptized in Our Lady of Grace Church.

Ann Kiernan died 20 February 1882. Daniel died 26 May 1891 and is buried with his wife in Saint Peter Cemetery in Jersey City [38 North E]. (This plot was originally bought by a John Garvey, 28 November 1862, for the burial of a child, Rose Garvey, daughter of John and Catherine Garvey. The cemetery keeps no records of changes of ownership.) Daniel's death certificate gives his age as 70, resident in New Jersey 28 years, and born in Ireland, occupation coal dealer, parents' names John and Mary. Daniel's will [28232] lists a sister Ann Kiernan, a niece Anne Love of San Francisco, and his three sons. The family of Mary Reilly Kiernan Callaghan is not mentioned. Daniel owned several pieces of property in Hoboken, Jersey City, and Bayonne. The 1900 census lists Anne Love at 158R Clara Street in San Francisco, born September 1855 in Ireland. A widow who arrived in United States in 1862, she had seven children, none of them living. 56

The children of Daniel and Ann Kiernan, all baptized at Our Lady of Loreto in Cold Spring, were:

1) John J, born 12 June 1855, baptismal sponsors Thomas Kiernan and Mary Kiernan. He is listed as a clerk and a bookkeeper in city directories. In the 1900 census he is living at 504 Grand Street. In the 1910 census he is listed as an employee living at Saint Mary Hospital. He died unmarried 14 February 1922, and is buried in Saint Peter Cemetery [38 North E].

2) Thomas F, born 15 November 1858, baptismal sponsors Thomas Joyce and Anne Kiernan. He had a blacksmith shop, at Third and Madison Streets in the 1885 directory, at 83 Madison [OS] in 1886, at 166 Madison [OS, 408 Madison NS] in 1888, and at 401 Madison Street in the 1900 census. He lived at 408 Madison from the mid 1880 and his widow still lived at that address in 1920. On 16 June 1884 Thomas married Margaret Kelly at Our Lady of Grace Church. She was born in Haverstraw NY, the daughter of Lawrence Kelly and Catherine Moran, both born in Nyack NY. The 1900 census says she was born December 1864; her death certificate says 14 November 1865. They had a child, Daniel, born 24 February 1887 at 174 15th Street in Jersey City and baptized at Saint Michael Church in Jersey City, sponsors Daniel Kiernan and Catherine Kelly. He is listed as their second child, the first already dead. Thomas died 17 July 1918, and is buried in Saint Peter Cemetery with his parents. His wife Margaret Kelly Kiernan died at 409 Palisade Avenue in Union City on 28 February 1933 and is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in North Arlington [11B220].

Daniel Michael Kiernan, son of Thomas and Margaret, married Anna Farber of Hoboken 17 February 1917 at Saint Joseph Church in Hoboken. He was living at 408 Madison Street in 1920. He died 30 December 1949 at 2013 Palisade Avenue in Union City [will 291116]. His wife Anna Farber died 5 November 1949. They are buried in Holy Cross Cemetery [11B220]. Their children were (1) Ann, born 3 March 1918 and baptized at Saint Joseph Church in Hoboken, sponsors Thomas Kiernan and Margaret Kiernan. She married Herbert J Michau at Saint Michael Church in Union City 14 November 1942. He was born in Germany in 1918 and immigrated to United States in 1929. He died 20 January 1995 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. (2) Thomas, born 22 September 1919 and baptized at Saint Joseph Church, sponsors H Farber and B Hennessy. He died 21 April 1933. (3) Catherine, born 17 July 1929 and baptized at Saint Joseph Church, sponsors William Farber and Kathleen McGrath. She married John Flynn at Saint Michael Church in Union City 7 July 1951. At the time of Daniel's death, Ann and Herbert Michau had children Daniel and JoAnn; eventually they had three sons and two daughters. The grave in Holy Cross Cemetery records the burial of a baby, Herbert Michau, 31 August 1946, infant son of Herbert and Ann Michau, born prematurely and died because Saint Mary Hospital at the time had only one incubator and it was already occupied, and the burial of William Farber, died 29 October 1963, uncle of Ann Michau and Catherine Flynn.

3) Michael J, born 14 January 1862, baptismal sponsors Thomas Flood and Lizzie Cahil. He is listed as a bookkeeper in city directories and on his death certificate. He died unmarried 21 September 1929 at 408 Madison Street [will 162353], and is buried in Saint Peter Cemetery with his parents. Michael Kiernan's will in 1929 lists his nephew Daniel of 408 Madison Street, his sister-in-law Margaret, cousins Rose Mitchell of 560 56th Street in Brooklyn and Rose Larkin of 83 Saint Nicholas Avenue in New York City, and Daniel's children Ann and Thomas. It may be only a coincidence that James Finan's wife was Ann Elizabeth Larkin, and several of their children's baptismal sponsors were Kiernans. Except for the listing in the 1900 California census, no other reference to the Ann Kiernan and Ann Love mentioned in the will of Daniel Kiernan, or to the Rose Mitchell and Rose Larkin mentioned in the will of Michael Kiernan, have been found. 57

Except for the address at Daniel Kiernan's death and the reappearance of the Flood name, no cross references in either direction have been found to connect this family with ours. 58

McLAUGHLIN FAMILY

Catharine Hunt McLaughlin was the daughter of Thomas Hunt and Bridget McTigue. According to the 1900 census, Catharine was born in Ireland in 1845 and arrived in United States in 1859. There is an immigration record for a Catherine Hunt, age 18, arriving aboard the Universe on 10 May 1858, along with Bridget McLaughlin, age 20, Mary McLaughlin, age 23, Anne McLaughlin, age 22, and Anne Infant, age 16. The 1880 census gives Catharine's age as 40, so born about 1840. The 1905 census gives her age as 59. The 1910 census says she arrived in United States in 1870. Her tombstone says she was born in 1839.

Catharine age 25 married Patrick McLaughlin age 31, son of James McLaughlin and Mary Burke, at Saint Mary Church in Jersey City, 5 January 1873. The witnesses were Thomas Burke and Sarah Hunt.

According to the 1900 census, Patrick McLaughlin was born in Ireland March 1840 and arrived in United States in 1859. The 1880 census also indicates his birth in 1840, but the 1905 census gives his age as 60. His tombstone says 1838. Patrick McLaughlin became a citizen at the Court of Common Pleas, City and County of New York, 26 March 1872; the family still has the naturalization certificate. At that time, Patrick lived at 90 Baxter Street in Manhattan; his sponsor was William J Gorman of 216 Canal Street.

Patrick McLaughlin is listed in the Hoboken city directories as living at 108 Willow Avenue [OS] from 1874 to 1879, at 84 Willow Avenue [OS] from 1881 to 1885 and also in the 1880 census (where his name is given as Peter but his age, wife, and children's names all agree). Patrick McLaughlin bought 307 Willow Avenue [NS, 109 Willow OS] on 14 May 1885 [405197]. The family is listed in the 1900 census [30347] with children John and Margaret. Thomas and his wife are a separate household at the same address. Interestingly the census lists each of these persons as a year older than their true age.

In the 1885 census [42], the McLaughlin household included Thomas and Mary Carey, William Curry, William Byrne, and Michael Hunt. No addresses are listed in this census. The 1878 city directory lists Michael Murray, a policeman, at the McLaughlin address; he later married Margaret Curry.

The children of Catharine and Patrick McLaughlin were: (1) James Joseph, born 15 July 1875, godparents Patrick McLaughlin and Mary McLaughlin. He died 23 April 1878 at 108 Willow Avenue [OS] [BE405].

(2) Thomas F, born 24 December 1876, godparents Michael Hunt and Bridget McTigue. He was still living at 307 Willow Avenue in 1906, but in 1908 was at 532 Garden Street with his wife Elizabeth Dorman, daughter of William Dorman and Ellen Riley, whom he married 31 January 1899 at Saint Joseph's Church in Hoboken. She was born in 1876 at Franklin Furnace NJ and died 24 December 1952. In September 1922 they sold 532 Garden Street and bought 718 Hudson Street, where Thomas died 10 November 1938. Their children were 2a) Patrick, born 1 December 1900, died 30 March 1924. 2b) Ellen Maria, born 7 August 1902, died 29 November 1991. 2c) Thomas, born 30 November 1904, died 17 December 1936. 2d) Margaret, born 16 June 1906, died 24 February 1913. 2e) Catherine, born 2 April 1909, died 12 September 1987, and 2f) Virginia, born 2 April 1909, died 25 September 1970. 2g) Joseph, born 7 June 1910, died 7 July 1983 in Bloomfield NJ. 59

2h) Elizabeth Gaven Golden, born 8 March 1912, died 22 August 1977. Elizabeth married Joseph M Gaven, who died 3 August 1949; they had children Janet Orr, born 3 December 1938, and Richard J, born 18 June 1940. On 24 August 1957 Elizabeth married Bertram M Golden, who died 29 October 1973 in Margate FL.

(3) John E, born 30 January 1878, godparents Michael Cannon and Margaret Callaghan. He was still living at 307 Willow Avenue in 1916 with his wife Mary Frances Groesch whom he married 30 October 1901 at Our Lady of Grace Church; the witnesses were James McLaughlin and Grace Groesch. Mary Frances was born in New Jersey, her father in Germany, her mother in Ireland. John died 24 October 1942 at 912 Hudson Street [adm 191103], and Mary Frances died 2 November 1958 at 56 Kensington Avenue in Jersey City. They are buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in North Arlington. Their children were 3a) John Erwin, born 17 July 1902, died 12 November 1956 at 12 Ballard Avenue, Valley Stream NY; his wife Mildred died October 1990, and their only child John died July 1930, age 6 months. All three are buried with his parents in Holy Cross Cemetery, North Arlington. 3b) Catherine, born 13 April 1905, died 29 December 1912. 3c) George Alan, born 19 November 1906, died 19 December 1970 at Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island. 3d) Leo Aloysius, born 12 August 1912, died 16 May 1993. He married Margaret Roessler. Their children are Maureen, who married John Wendelken, and Dennis, married to Cris, with children Dennis and Kevin, and grandchild Lara Margaret. 3e) Rita Jordan, born 8 October 1914, died 8 September 1973. She married William Jordan and is buried in Holy Name Cemetery [G-4-7,8]. Their children are Paul, who married Patricia Brennan, William, and Rita.

(4) Margaret, born 3 May 1882, godparents John Callaghan and Julia Kyne; died 9 April 1906.

(5) Patrick, born 22 October 1883, godparents William Curry and Margaret Curry; died 26 September 1885.

The 1910 census says Catherine and Patrick had six children, two of them then living; no reference has been located for the sixth child.

Patrick McLaughlin died 1 February 1916 [will 9910]; his wife Catharine died 8 March 1923. They are buried in Holy Name Cemetery [A944], as are their children James, Thomas, Margaret, and Patrick, Thomas's wife Elizabeth and their children Margaret, Patrick and Thomas, John's daughter Catherine and John's grandson John. Thomas's children Ellen, Catherine, Virginia, Joseph and Elizabeth are buried in Immaculate Conception Cemetery in Montclair [73 W 17,19].

Catharine McLaughlin sold 307 Willow Avenue in November 1916 to the undertaker James McLaughlin (no known relation) who was already operating at 311 Willow Avenue as early as 1903, and who eventually sold the property and business to Bosworth Funeral Home. The present day undertaker James McLaughlin of Jersey City writes that he is not related either to Patrick or to the earlier James, although he started as an employee of that McLaughlin and then of Bosworth.

According to city directories, Patrick was operating a saloon at 300 Grand Street in 1892. In November 1892 he and Thomas Byrne leased 601 Willow Avenue [NS, 213 Willow OS] to operate a liquor store. They continued to lease and operate this saloon jointly until May 1901, when Patrick withdrew. Thomas Byrne was still operating the saloon until 1909, but Patrick had a saloon at 309 Willow Avenue as early 60 as 1903. Patrick sold the business (not the property) at 309 Willow to P Ballantine and Sons on 9 May 1905. The lease on 601 Willow Avenue expired in 1909.

Thomas Byrne is listed in the 1900 census at 601 Willow Avenue [303310] which records he was born June 1860 in Ireland. Thomas Byrne of 57 Willow Avenue [OS], age 30, son of Dominic Byrne and Kate Cairns, married Sarah Carney of 8 Elysian Place, born in United States and age 23, daughter of Edward Carney and Ellen Devine (or Dunn), on 1 February 1888 at Saint Mary Hospital; the witnesses were William Beirne of 109 Willow and Mary McTigue of 297 Washington Street [37146 B72]. The 1900 census says Sarah was born September 1865 in New Jersey. The recurrence of the Willow Avenue address and the McTigue name suggest that one or both of them may have been related to the HuntMcLaughlin family. Thomas and Sarah Byrne had at least ten children, only three of whom survived infancy: Mary Ellen, born 24 February 1889 at 109 Willow Avenue [OS] and died 7 November 1949; Maurice, born 18 March 1892 at 307 Willow Avenue [NS] and died 2 August 1926 at 933 Willow Avenue; George, born 28 October 1894 at 601 Willow Avenue. Only Mary Ellen (their second child), Maurice (their fifth), and George (their seventh) are listed in the 1900 census. Sarah Byrne, a widow, is listed in the 1910 census at 623 Willow Avenue with her three living children. It may be merely a coincidence that the Patrick Carey family was then living in the same building. Nellie Byrne of 601 Willow Avenue is mentioned in the will of Sarah Hunt, sister of Catharine Hunt McLaughlin (written in 1908). Helen Byrne, with a brother George, is mentioned in the will of Bridget Noonan Hunt Holmes (whose mother's name was Byrne), written in 1948, but no address is mentioned. Thomas Byrne died 21 March 1910 at 623 Willow Avenue and Sarah died 27 September 1921. They are buried in Holy Name Cemetery [M89] with three of their children and Rose Carney, who was born in Ireland, daughter of Thomas and Mary Carney, and died 28 March 1898 at 601 Willow Avenue, age 65, resident in United States 45 years. The other children (Dominic, born 1 February 1888, died 18 July 1890; Thomas, died 12 July 1890; James, died 25 June 1891; John, born 12 June 1893; Michael, born 14 December 1895, died 6 August 1896; Thomas, died 30 June 1897, age five months; Catherine, born 20 May 1898) are also buried in Holy Name Cemetery [YK113,114]

The Edward Carney who appears as a baptism sponsor of Anne Carey in 1896, and as witness of the marriage of Michael Hunt and Bridget Noonan in 1888, was not Sarah Carney Byrne's father. The younger Edward Carney, of 109 Willow Avenue, age 33, born in Ireland, arrived in United States in 1887, son of Maurice Carney and Anna Regan, married Anne Waldron of 84 Third Street, age 31, born in Ireland, arrived in United States in 1880, daughter of Mathew Waldron and Mary McLaughlin, on 15 December 1888 at Our Lady of Grace Church; the witnesses were James McLaughlin and Margaret Curry. Their children include Maurice, born and died 27 January 1890, Mary, born 30 May 1892, and Nora, born 26 March 1896, all born at 84 Third Street (302 Third Street NS). The family was living at 225 Willow Avenue ithe 1905 census. The site at 84/302 Third Street is now part of Hoboken University Hospital. The recurrence of the 109 Willow Avenue address for Edward Carney and for James McLaughlin, and the appearance of Margaret Curry, all suggest some connection with our McLaughlin family. 61 MELVIN FAMILY

The death certificate for Bernard Melvin gives his parents names as Bryan Melvin and Catherine Finan. Sarah Holbritter, whose grandmother was a Finan and who was sponsored by Bernard Melvin when she immigrated to United States in 1897, said that, when Bernard was young, he and his parents moved to Manchester in England. It is assumed that this was a result of the Famine in Ireland.

The Tithe Applotment Book, compiled for Ireland in 1833, lists Bryan Melvin holding tenancy number 5 in Ballybeg townland, Easky parish, on the estate of Robert Jones Esq, jointly with Myles Higgins and Michael Finan, nine acres and 6 perches in area [Sligo, reel 26 TAB 9]. Thomas Finan and Farrell Finan hold other tenancies on the same estate. [Records in the 19th century generally spell the town name Easky while current references use Easkey and Easky interchangeably.]

In Manchester, there is a record for the death of Bryan Melvin, age 43, a laborer, on 21 May 1847. He was living at Under 56 Hanover Street. At the same address, John Melvin, age 3, son of Bryan Melvin, deceased, died on 9 June 1847; he died of typhus fever, a common result of famine. Both these deaths were reported by Michael Melvin. At Bryan's death Michael was living at the Hanover Street address, at John's death at Dyche Street and Angel Street. Also, Ann Melvin, age 15, daughter of Bryan Melvin, died of fever at the Workhouse on New Bridge Street in Manchester on 12 April 1847.

The 1851 British census lists Catherine Melvin, widow, age 46, and her children Michael age 26, Leonor age 22, and Mathew age 19, at Ludgate Hill in Manchester. The children are described as fruit sellers. The son Bernard, listed as Bryan age 14, is apprenticed as a chimneysweep, living with a McDade family on Rory Street in Oldham Borough.

Catherine Melvin, age 55, widow of Bryan Melvin, a bricksetter laborer, died in Manchester 13 March 1855. She was living at 27 New Mount Street. Again the death was reported by Michael Melvin of that same address.

Michael Melvin, age 26, son of Bernard Melvin, deceased, married Mary Clarke, age 24, daughter of Michael Clarke, on 8 December 1852, at Saint Chad RC Chapel on York Street, Cheetham. Michael's address was 36 Ludgate Hill, Rochdale Road, Manchester. His occupation was hawker. The witnesses were George Richmond and Mary Wallwork.

It would seem that Michael Melvin was Bryan and Catherine's oldest son. In the 1861 census, Michael Melvin age 32, a scavenger, and his wife Mary were living at 33 Andrew Street, Great Bolton, Lancashire, with children Thomas age 5, and Catherine age 1. At this point the records become complicated, if not contradictory. Birth records say Thomas Melvin, son of Michael and Mary, was born 23 June 1855 at Platt Street, Hyde, Stockport, Cheshire, and Catherine, daughter of Michael and Mary, was born at 19 Back Andrew Street, Bolton, Lancashire. Stockport is directly across the River Mersey from Manchester, and Bolton is a northeast suburb of Manchester, so the locations are not surprising for a family who may have moved every time the rent was due. But Catherine's birth certificate says her mother's maiden name was Mary McAndrew, supplied by herself, while Thomas's birth certificate says his mother's maiden name was Mary Stephens, supplied by a neighbor. Further, the only marriage record for a Mary McAndrew does not match with a husband named Melvin. 62 No certain information has yet been found to indicate whether or not Michael came to United States, but the passenger list for the Bridgewater, arriving at New York 20 May 1863, includes Michael Melvin, age 36, and Mary Melvin, age 35. No children are listed with them, but passenger lists do not always include young children. These ages agree with those on the marriage record in Manchester.

Considering the reported or implied birth years of Bryan's children, Michael in 1826, Leonor in 1829, Ann in 1831, Mathew in 1832, Bernard in 1837, and John in 1844, it would seem that there may have been other children, children who died before the family moved to England or children who remained in Ireland. There seems no practical way to research either possibility.

No other reference to Leonor (Ellen? Nora?) has been found in death or emigration records. The only reference to an Eleanor/Leonor Melvin in British marriage records is clearly a different person.

Mathew Melvin, son of Bryan and Catherine, emigrated to western Pennsylvania, where he was living in Saltsburg by the summer of 1856, age 24. His brother Bernard was in Pennsylvania by the following summer. Very likely they emigrated together. This would place their emigration sometime between mid 1851 and early 1855. Indeed, Mathew filed an application for citizenship in October 1856, and it was granted in October 1859. Given the five-year wait in effect at the time, this would place his immigration in 1854 or earlier. One census record for Bernard says he arrived in United States in 1854. Their names do not appear on any immigration lists at United States ports for that period (or at any other time). Emigrants from northern England often traveled initially to Canada, but the records at Quebec for that period were lost in a fire.

The name Bernard is usually but incorrectly used as the English translation of Brian. All the records cited here use the spelling Bryan, when they do not use Bernard. The earliest, and for a long time only, discovered appearance of the name was on Bernard Melvin's death certificate, where his father's name is given as Bryan Melvin. It was at first thought that this spelling was taken from the then current political figure William Jennings Bryan. Incidently, the Irish spelling of the name is Brian, and rhymes with green or agreein. The family has always pronounced Bernard in the Irish fashion, with the accent on the first syllable.

Early in my research, my aunt Mary Kiernan mentioned that her grandfather Bernard Melvin had a brother, whose daughter Catherine Cassidy was living in Braddock PA about 1910. It was this recollection that enabled the identification of this branch of the family.

Mathew Melvin is listed in the 1851 British census, living with his widowed mother Catherine and two siblings, Michael and Leonor, in Manchester, England. His brother Bernard, listed as Bryan, was apprenticed to another family. No record of Mathew's immigration to United States has been found, but it probably occurred in 1854.

Mathew Melvin applied for citizenship in the United States Circuit Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania 1 October 1856. Citizenship was granted 11 October 1859. On his citizenship papers, witnessed by a Robert Finan, Mathew Melvin signed his name, spelling Mathew with one t, the usual Irish spelling.

Mathew Melvin is listed in Versailles Township PA in the census of 1860 [McKeesport PO, Allegheny County, p71, family 479; the entry is barely legible.], in North Versailles, village of Port Perry, in the census of 1870 and in 1880. In 1860, his age is given as 28. In 1870 his age is 39, born in Ireland. His name is given as Nathaniel, but this is probably a mistake of Nat for Matt. In 1880 his age is 46. Mathew is listed as a day laborer in 1860, a miner in 1870. 63

Mathew Melvin married Sarah Hammill on 24 August 1856, witnesses Martin Neelan and Anne Toll. His age is 24, born in Easkey, Ireland. Sarah was 17, born in Glasgow, Scotland, daughter of Patrick Hammill and Catherine Carl. The marriage, and the baptisms of their first two children, are recorded in Saint Peter Church, McKeesport, which then served Saltsburg, 20 miles east, and Versailles, 10 miles south. [The diocesan archivist cautioned that the parish priest was German and not very good at spelling names correctly. I have corrected the known names, but Carl (Carroll?) and Toll (Towle? Doyle?) are as recorded.] The 1900 census says Sarah Hammill Melvin was born January 1840 in Scotland of Irish parents. All other census references to her age agree with this entry. The 1910 census says she arrived in United States in 1852 and had four children, three still living, but either five or six names of children appear on census lists.

Mathew Melvin died 23 February 1889 and is buried in Braddock Catholic Cemetery [C13]. According to his will, at his death he owned property in North Versailles, bought in April 1861, and property in North Braddock, bought in November 1888. He appears to have owned and operated a stone quarry at the time.

In 1900, Sarah was living alone in North Versailles, no address given. In 1910 she was living in North Versailles with her widowed daughter Annie. Sarah died 11 December 1923 at 230 Lobinger Avenue, North Braddock, which she owned. She is buried with her husband in Braddock Catholic Cemetery.

The children of Mathew and Sarah were:

1) Catherine, born 27 July 1857 at Saltsburg, Indiana County PA, baptismal sponsors Bernard Melvin and Catherine Finan. Catherine married Edward Francis Cassidy, born in Pennsylvania, son of Patrick and Bridget Cassidy, both born in Ireland, of Wilkes Township PA. In the 1880 census she is listed both with her husband and with her parents. In 1900 Catherine and Edward were living at 717 Jones Avenue in North Braddock, and in 1910 at 713 Jones Avenue. In 1910 they had been married 32 years and had ten children, all living. Edward Cassidy died 28 January 1919, age 64 or 65. In 1920 Catherine is listed as living at 1021 Jones Avenue with her son John W, a stationary engineer at a steel mill, his wife Anne M age 21, Catherine's daughter Sarah, and grandchildren Catherine Blotzer (indexed Bloker) age 15 and Charles Wolf age 9 (Their identity is uncertain.). The 1930 census lists a household at 1021 Jones Avenue headed by Catherine Cassidy, including her son-in-law John L Gross, age 38, and John's children Elmer, age 15, and John, age 14, and Patrick Cassidy (Catherine's brother-in-law), age 70. Catherine died 3 March 1943 at 1008 Jones Avenue in North Braddock. Catherine and Edward are buried in Braddock Catholic Cemetery [A71B 1/6].

Edward and Catherine Cassidy's children were (1a) Mary Stella, born February 1879. She married Warner F Doran, an electrician born in 1877 in Pennsylvania of Pennsylvania parents. In 1910 they had been married ten years and had two living children, Marian Louella, born 19 July 1901, godparents Catherine Cassidy and Patrick Matthew Cassidy, and Katherine, born 3 January 1904, godparents Edward and Sarah Cassidy, and two deceased children. In 1920 the family is living at 346 Maple Avenue in East Pittsburgh. Warren is a railroad engineer. Marion Louella is called Mary L, and a third child Marion, age 9, is added. In 1930, Warner, age 54, and Stella, age 51, are at that same address, with children Catherine, age 26, and Marion E, age 19. (1b) Matthew, born 22 June 1880, godparents Edward McNally and Mary Ellen McNally. The 1910 census lists Matthew Cassidy, age 29, a druggist, at 18 Centre Street in North Braddock, married seven years to Mary, age 27, born in Maryland, with children Helen, Mary, and Matthew. In the 1920 census, 64

Helen is age 15 and Mary is age 13. In the 1930 census, Matthew T Cassidy is listed at 1117 Jones Street in Wilkinsburg PA, with his wife Mary, age 47, and children Matthew, age 21, Charlotte, age 19, Frank L, age 18, Mary A, age 10, and Robert F, age 9. (1c) Edward Francis, born 15 May 1883, godparents Matthew Melvin and Ann Farrell. The 1910 census lists Edward Cassidy, age 26, of 203 Margaret Street in Greensburg, a railroad brakeman, married six years to Lida A, age 23, born in Pennsylvania, whose parents were born in Sweden, and with children Kenneth, age 3, and Edna, age 1. In the 1920 census they are living at 717 Jones Avenue, North Braddock, with added children Ward, age 9, and Edward, age 2. At his mother's death in 1943 Edward was living at 612 Hawkins Avenue in North Braddock. Edward died 22 July 1944. His wife Lida died 11 February 1974. (1d) Robert Emmet, born 19 August 1885, godparents John McNally and Ann Farrell. The 1910 census lists Emmet Cassidy, age 24, of 715 Jones Avenue in North Braddock, an electrician, married five years to Lottie, age 21, born in Austria, with one child, Edward. In 1920 Emmet is married to Hanna, with step-children Ethel, age 19, and George Dunsmith, age 18. Emmet was buried with his parents 27 August 1924. (1e) Sarah Ellen, born 29 September 1887, godparents Carl McGreevey and Sarah Petty. (1f) Alice Frances, born 21 July 1889, godparents John Hetherington and Bridget Cassidy. In 1920 she is married to John L Gross, age 27, living at 1048 Cliff Street in North Braddock, with children Elmer 5 and John 4. He was born in Pennsylvania of German parents. In 1930 John Gross and the two children are living with his mother-in-law Catherine Cassidy. (1g) William Ambrose, born 1 February 1891, godparents William McGinty and Elizabeth Petty. In 1920 he is living next door to his mother, at 1023 Jones Avenue, with his wife Leona (called Grace in 1920), age 21, and their children Winnifred, age 5, and Mary Ellen, age 3 months. In 1930 they are living at 23 Bryn Mawr Road, Forest Hills PA, with a third child Grace E, age 8. (1h) Anna Isabelle, born 23 February 1893, godparents Jacob O'Hara and Sarah Petty. (1i) John Warren, born 5 March 1896, godparents Joseph and Sarah Dowling. In 1920 he and his wife are living with his mother. In 1930 he is listed at 1019 Jones Avenue with his wife Anna May, age 31, and children Robert, age 10, John, age 8, Marion, age 6, who died in 1947, and Anna May, age 4. John Warren Cassidy died 15 October 1973 and his wife Anna May died in May 1982. Their daughter Anna May married John Cronin, born 6 August 1922 and died 6 September 1994. She died 18 July 1984. Both are buried in SS Peter and Paul Cemetery, Marple Township PA. (1j) Bernard Melvin, born 7 April 1899, godparents Albert and Mary Petty.

The baptismal records are from Saint Thomas Church and Saint Michael Church in Braddock. In 1910, William, Anne, John, and Bernard were living with their parents.

2) Anne B, born 3 January 1859 at Saltsburg, baptismal sponsors Helen and Peter Hammill. Anne married John Farrell, and is listed in the 1910 census as a widow with no children. She has not been located in the 1900 or 1920 censuses. She died 11 September 1934 at 327 Reeves Way, North Braddock, which was also the home of Mrs Elizabeth Donovan, her nephew Sylvester's widow, and with whom she was living in the 1930 census. Anne is buried with her parents. Her husband John's death and burial are unknown.

3) Bernard, listed as age 9 in the 1870 census. He does not appear in the family entry in the 1880 census and no other reference has been found.

4) Ellen, also called Stella, Ella, and Maria Ellen, born 19 March 1863. She married Jeremiah Sylvester 65

Donovan, born in Harpers Ferry WV, on 23 November 1880 at Saint Paul Cathedral in Pittsburgh, witnesses Patrick Tobin and Teresa Purcell. In the 1900 census, Ella Donovan, widow of Jeremiah Sylvester Donovan with five children, is living next door to Sarah Melvin in North Braddock. In 1910 Ella Donovan, a dressmaker, is living in North Braddock. In 1920 Ellen Donovan is living at 1113 Trenton Avenue, Wilkinsburg, with her daughters Lillian and Mabel. The same three are also listed at 380 South Wineriddle Street in Pittsburgh.

Ellen and Sylvester Donovan's children were (4a) Bernard Sylvester, born 26 April 1881, godparents Catherine Melvin and Edward Cassidy. In 1910 Sylvester Donovan is living next door to his grandmother Sarah Melvin. He is married eight years to Elizabeth, age 28, born in England of Irish parents and arrived 1884, with children Edward, age 5, Mabel, age 3, Mary, age 2 months, and one other, deceased. In the 1930 census, Elizabeth C Donovan, age 48, a widow born in England, is living at 326 Lobinger Avenue in North Braddock with children Edward M, age 25, James H, age 16, John V, age 14, Thomas J, age 11, and Marion L, age 9. Bernard Sylvester died a suicide 30 May 1931 and Elizabeth died in 1949. (4b) Lillian, born May 1883. In 1910 and in 1920 she is a teacher living with her mother. She died unmarried 18 June 1969. (4c) Robert Carl (or Karl), born 16 May 1886, godparents Jeremiah Dowling and Sarah Petty. He has not been located in the 1910 census, but is listed in 1920 at 1328 Singer Place, Wilkinsburg, with his wife Marie, age 26, and their children Robert K, age 6 and Lillie M, age 2. In 1930 he is a machinist living at 564 Oakwood Street, Pittsburgh, age 42, with his wife Marie E, age 36, and children Robert 16, Lillian 14, Alice 5, and Rosemary 3. He died in April 1964. (4d) Maurice Vincent, later known as James, also born 16 May 1886, godparents Hugo Head and Marianne Dowling. In 1910 he was a machinist in a steel mill, living with his mother. In 1920 M James Donovan is living at 60 Bellevue Avenue, Bradford PA, with his wife Mary and daughter Helen Marie, age 3. In 1930 he is living on Elm Street in Edgewood PA, age 41, with his wife Stella, age 39, and daughter Mary L, age 9. He died in March 1973. (4e) Mabel Alice, born January 1889, godparents John McNulty and Elizabeth Petty. In 1910 and in 1920 she was a bookkeeper living with her mother. She married George Schwartz 28 August 1942 at Immaculate Conception Church in Pittsburgh. She died 8 October 1969.

Sylvester, the twins, and Mabel were baptized at Saint Thomas Church in Braddock; no record of baptism was located for Lillian. Ellen Melvin Donovan died 28 January 1949 at 115 McCann Place in Mount Lebanon, and is buried with her parents in Braddock Catholic Cemetery [C13], as are her children Sylvester, Lillian, and Mabel. Her husband Jeremiah's death and burial are unknown.

5) Susan, listed as age 5 in 1870. No other reference has been found.

6) John, listed as age 14 in 1880. He does not appear in the 1870 census, and no other reference is known.

It seems possible that, through a transcription error, the 1870 listing of Susan and the 1880 listing of John refer to the same child. If this be the case, it is more likely that the second one is correct.

The records in the parishes in Braddock, now combined as Good Shepherd Church, begin in 1880. Pennsylvania has few civil records prior to 1906. Braddock Catholic Cemetery reports that its records are incomplete prior to 1912. A search by the diocesan archivist in Pittsburgh reports no other surviving records of this family. 66

It is unknown what became of Mathew and Sarah's sons John and Bernard. Mathew's burial in 1889 is the first recorded in the family plot. Did the sons die as teenagers, or did they leave the area, perhaps to settle in the western United States? No identifiable entries anywhere in the country have been found for these names in later censuses.

Among the names which appear as godparents in various places in the family, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Mary Petty are children of George and Kate Petty, who lived next door to the Melvins. They also had children Anne and James. Kate Petty was also born in Scotland of Irish parents. According to the 1870 census [Wilkes Township, White Oak PO, page 4546], Edward Cassidy was the brother of John age 13, Patrick age 11, Matthew age 9, Ellen age 8, and Bridget age 6. The most curious entry is the Catherine Finan who was the godmother of Mathew and Sarah's first child in 1857. Catherine Finan was the name of Mathew's mother, but her death in England in 1854 was almost certainly known. The name appears in no census records. Was she related to the Robert Finan who was the witness on Mathew's citizenship papers?

The will of Sarah Melvin mentions her three living daughters, Catherine Cassidy, Anne Farrell, and Ellen Donovan, and Ellen's sons Sylvester, Maurice, and Robert. No other family is mentioned.

Catherine Melvin Cassidy was remembered by my aunt Mary Kiernan. Catherine occasionally visited her uncle and godfather Bernard Melvin, Mary's grandfather, in Hoboken. All contact with this family was lost after Bernard and Margaret Melvin died. A recent exchange of letters with a grandson of Sylvester and Elizabeth Donovan indicated that there is little contact between the members of this extensive family. 67

MULLEN - SMITH FAMILY

In the grave with Michael Kiernan in Holy Cross Cemetery in Brooklyn [Old Ground L-134 Rear] are several individuals named Mullen and several named Smith: Mary Mullen, her husband James, their daughter Ellen Frances, their son-in-law Edward Smith, and his children Anne, Mary and Edward.

Mary Kiernan, daughter of Owen Kiernan and Ellen Flood, married James Mullen at Saint Francis Xavier Church on 31 October 1852. The witnesses were William Healy, Bridget Kiernan and Mary Wallace (presumably since Bridget was underage). Saint Francis Xavier Church is consistent with her father's address at the time on West 16th Street.

James Mullen, a baker age 23, and his wife Mary, with a child James age 8 months, is listed in the 1855 New York state census [ED 21, W 2, #163], with his father-in-law Owen McKiernan, in a brick seven- family building. The entry says James is a citizen. There is a record of James Mullen naturalized at the City Court in Brooklyn, 8 October 1852. The child James Henry Mullen was born 13 September 1854 at 475 Second Avenue (near 27th Street), an address consistent with the census location, and baptized at Saint Stephen Church, sponsors Hugh Newman and Bridget Kiernan. In the 1860 census, James Mullin age 28 and his wife Mary age 29 are listed [ED 4, W 6], with Patrick Mullin age 25. No child is listed. No death or burial record for the child James Henry has been located.

City directories list James Mullen, a baker, at 123 First Avenue in 1852, at 62 Willett Street in 1854, and at 281 Elizabeth Street in 1856. On 12 October 1857 James Mullen, a baker living on East 16th Street, opened account #15610 at the Emigrant Savings Bank. Bank records say he was born in Ireland and immigrated in 1837, but provide no other information. A bank entry for Michael Kiernan in September 1864 says his sisters Mary and Bridget were living at 313 First Avenue (at 19th Street). The 1866-67 city directory lists James Mullen, baker, at 210 East 19th Street, at the corner of First Avenue [402 East 19th Street NS].

The 1870 census for Brooklyn [W 9-226 p107] lists James Mullen, age 40, a baker, his wife Mary, age 38, both born in Ireland, and their children Mary age 12, Maggie age 7, and Ellen age 2, all born in New York, a five-family building. Records at Immaculate Conception Church in Manhattan report the baptism of Margaret Mullen, daughter of James and Mary, born 6 February 1865, godparents Michael Banks and Kate Mullen. The 1880 census for Brooklyn lists James Mullen, a baker, age 40, born Ireland, at 483 Hicks Street, with wife Mary, age 40, born Ireland, and children Mary age 19 and Margaret age 15, both born in New York (State). The two children were employed as corsetmakers. Their child Ellen Frances was born 17 September 1868 at 761 Pacific Street in Brooklyn [3594], baptized at Saint Joseph Church in Brooklyn, godparents Edward Thomon and Margaret Flood, and died 21 October 1876 at 65 President Street in Brooklyn [10101]. No record of the baptism of their daughter Mary has been located.

During the period from 1867 to 1885, James Mullen, under various spellings, appears in the Brooklyn city directories as a baker living at 761 Pacific Street (18671871), 867 Pacific Street (18711875), 957 Pacific Street (18751877), 87 DeGraw Street (1880), 483 Hicks Street (1882), 155 DeGraw Street (1883), and 259 Smith Street (18831885). No directory reference after 1885 has been found.

Mary Mullen died 14 September 1883 at 155 DeGraw Street in Brooklyn, age 51. Her death certificate [B 10295] says she was born in County Longford, Ireland, and had been living in United States 35 years. According to her daughter's birth record, her maiden name was Kiernan. Mary Mullen was the godmother of Mary Ellen, daughter of Michael and Mary Kiernan, at Our Lady of Grace Church in 68

1871. Mary's husband James H Mullen, son of James and Margaret Mullen, died 5 April 1897 at Edgewater on Staten Island, age 60 [5692}.

Mary Mullen age 20, of 483 Hicks Street in Brooklyn, daughter of James Mullen and Mary Kiernan, married Edward F Smith, of 134 Union Street in Brooklyn, age 22 and born in New York, son of William Smith and Ann Frasier, at Saint Peter Church in Brooklyn 21 August 1881, witnesses Mary Martin and Maurice Galvin [2268]. Edward died 24 October 1896 at 438 West 49th Street in Manhattan [M 35817]. His death record says he was a painter age 38, born in United States. His parents' names were listed as unknown but they were born in Ireland.

Brooklyn and New York city directories list Edward Smith, a painter, in 1882 at 74 DeGraw Street and in 1884 at 416 DeGraw Street in Brooklyn, in 1894 at 309 West 118th Street and in 1895 at 268 West 117th Street in Manhattan, and Mary widow of Edward Smith in 1897 at 423 West 49th Street. The 1900 census [120551536] lists Mary M Smith, born January 1865 in New York, a corsetmaker, living at 48 Leroy Street in Manhattan, a fourteen-family building, with her children William A, Helen, and James. Later directories list Mary Smith, widow of Edward, at 48 Bedford Street in 1903, at 274 Ninth Avenue in 1907, and at 309 West 24th Street in 1912 and 1913. The 1910 census lists Mary M Smith, a corsetmaker age 42, living at 30 Barrow Street with her children William A age 24 and James E age 17.

The 1900 census entry says Mary and Edward Smith had five children, three of them still living, although six names appear in the cumulative record: (l) Helen, born December 1882, as listed in the 1900 census. (2) William Anthony, born 4 December 1884 and baptized at Saint Agnes Church in Brooklyn. His birth certificate gives is name as Edward [11535]. His godparents were Joseph Nolan and Mary Smith. On 6 July 1913 he married Mary A McBournie May, a widow, at Saint Columba Church in Manhattan [16754]. His address then was 309 West 24th Street in Manhattan. He was an electrical inspector. She was born in Portland Maine, daughter of Anthony McBonnie [sic] and Martha Mooney. They were living in California as early as 1939, when William applied for a Social Security number. William died 24 August 1969 in San Diego CA and was buried in Cypress View Mausoleum. No survivors are recorded. (3) Anne, born 27 August 1886 and baptized at Saint Agnes Church. Her godparents were Edward J Stanton and Bridget Reilly. She died 3 May 1888 at 432 Nevin Street in Brooklyn [6087]. (4) Mary, born 20 February 1888 and baptized at Saint Agnes Church, godparents Bernard Shannon and Bridget Kiernan. She died 27 June 1888 at 145 Nelson Street in Brooklyn [8532]. (5) James, born March 1892 according to the 1900 census. (6) Edward, born 4 November 1894 and baptized at Saint Thomas Church in Manhattan, godparents David McCormick and Ann Reilly. He died 23 August 1895 at 268 West 117th Street in New York City [M 29908]

Nothing further is known of this family. No identifiable census or directory entries after 1913 have been found. Mary Mullen Smith is not buried in the Holy Cross Cemetery grave, and there is no information as to when or where she died. Neither is anything further known of Mary Kiernan Mullens other daughter, Margaret. On the other hand, the Mullen and Smith families must have been known to Mary Reilly Kiernan Callaghan, since burials in Holy Cross Cemetery of a Kiernan child and a Mullen child occur only one month apart in 1876. Helen DeSapio recalled relatives named Smith who were related to the Kiernans. 69

MYERS - CLUTTERBUCK FAMILY

Ellen Melvin, daughter of Bernard Melvin and Margaret Finnerty, was born in Hoboken 29 September 1868 and baptized at Our Lady of Grace Church, godparents James Finan and Rose Finnerty. She married John Myers of Hoboken, son of Jeremiah Myers and Elizabeth Curley, on 14 November 1887 in Our Lady of Grace Church. The witnesses were her parents. Strangely, the civil record gives a later date of 14 January 1888. John Myers was born in New York 3 September 1867; his parents were born in Ireland. He is listed, age 13, with his parents Jeremiah age 37, a longshoreman, and Lizzie age 30, together with James age 8 and Lizzie age 5, all born in New York, in the 1870 census. He was a policeman. City directories list him at 121 Hudson Street in 1892, at 80 River Street in 1901, and at 633 Bloomfield Street in 1904. John Myers died 10 October 1904.

Ellen Melvin Myers and her daughter Mary, but not her husband, were living with her parents at 633 Bloomfield Street in the 1900 census, and stayed with them when they moved to 906 Willow Avenue and then to 918 Willow Avenue, at least through the 1910 census. She may be the Ellen Myers listed in the 1920 census as a patient in Metropolitan Hospital on Blackwell Island (now Roosevelt Island) in New York City. Ellen died 29 September 1927 in a trolleycar accident in Leonia NJ. At the time she was living at 16 Judge Street in Elmhurst NY. Both she and her husband are buried in Holy Name Cemetery [FFa94]. Ellen is the only member of The Family whose death has been reported in The New York Times.

Their daughter Mary Elizabeth, known among the Kiernans as Tottie, was born 30 January 1892. Her godparents were Charles Bischoff and Catherine Melvin. The 1910 census lists her as an inspector of films for movies. She married Herbert Clutterbuck of Yonkers, son of Frank Clutterbuck and Emma Mott, on 10 October 1915 at Immaculate Conception Church in Yonkers. The witnesses were Thomas Herald and Minnie Bagot. Their children are Herberta Heydt and Mildred Deptula.

In the 1900 census, John Myers is living alone at 80 River Street in Hoboken [292218]; again the entry says he was born September 1867. There is no reference there to Ellen or Mary Elizabeth, but living with Ellen's parents are daughters Nellie born September 1876 and Mary born October 1878, both named Melvin and both unmarried.

In 1920 Herbert and Mary Clutterbuck, both age 25, were living with their daughter Herberta on Palisade Avenue in Palisade Park NJ, in the house with his mother Emma age 53 and her sons Lester age 22 and Howard age 13. Herbert and Lester were moving picture operators. In 1930 Herbert age 36 and Mary age 37 were living at 2046 Main Street in Fort Lee NJ with their daughters Herberta age 12 and Mildred age 8, and Herbert's brother Howard age 25.

Mary Myers Clutterbuck died 9 February 1951 in Bogota NJ and is buried with her parents in Holy Name Cemetery [F-Fa-94]. Herbert Clutterbuck died 10 April 1974 in New Milford NJ and is buried in George Washington Memorial Park, Paramus NJ. (At one time he had been told that he could not be buried in Holy Name Cemetery since he was not a Catholic.) 70

REILLY FAMILY

In the 1910 census, Eleanor Johnson is reported living at 356 East 32nd Street in Manhattan, with her nephew Eugene H Kiernan and her grandnephew Charles Sandstrom. Eugene is the son of Mary Reilly Kiernan Callaghan, and Charles is the grandson of Elizabeth Reilly Kiernan, wife of Edward Kiernan. This establishes that Mary, Elizabeth and Eleanor are sisters. Mary is known to have been born in Co Cavan, daughter of John and Elizabeth Reilly. Eleanor is unlikely as an Irish name, so it is reasonable to assume that Eleanor was originally named Ellen. Although Mary twice gives her fathers name as John, her sister Eleanor's death certificates give his name as James, and Mary's second son and Elizabeth's second son, traditionally named for the maternal grandfather, is James. Nevertheless, John is probably correct, since Mary was the only person providing the information who would personally have known him, whereas the data on the death certificate was provided by persons who would not have known the earlier generation.

Little consistent information is known about the ages of the three sisters, but they were probably born in the late 1830s or the 1840s, and arrived in United States in the early 1860s. No certain reference has been found to other siblings, nor is it known whether their parents emigrated. Neither is it known where the Reilly lived in New York, if indeed that is where they lived. Mary, the only sister whose marriage record has been found, was married in Williamsburgh, part of Brooklyn, but the record says she was living in Jersey City at the time.

There are interesting entries on the passenger list for the William Tapscott arriving in New York 27 May 1861. Among the passengers are Edward Reilly age 20, Elizabeth Reilly age 17, Ellen Reilly age 7, and two Mary Reillys, ages 20 and 24. No two of these names appear together on the list, but since they are not parents with children they may not have been kept together in the steerage cabin. The date fits the only known mention of the arrival of Mary and Elizabeth. While there are several pages of Mary Reilly in the immigration index for the 1860s, no other reasonable entry for Elizabeth or Ellen appears. No family record mentions a brother Edward. Elizabeth had a son named Edward, but her husband's name was Edward. Our Mary Reilly was more likely age 20 than 24 in 1861. No consistent data on the ages of Elizabeth or Ellen appear in later records, but these entries are believable. As a further curiosity, there is a marriage record for Edward Reilly age 30, son of John Reilly and Elizabeth Gearty, and Catherine Duffy, born in Co Meath, daughter of James Duffy and Mary Quillan, on 28 June 1866 in Manhattan [M978], witnesses John Reilly and Julia Corrigan. There's always something more to research.

Eleanor Reilly Johnson died 9 March 1917 at 468 West 44th Street in Manhattan [M 8748], and is buried in the Holy Name Cemetery with her sister Elizabeth's family [B-45-A]. Her death certificate says her parents were James and Elizabeth Reilly, and gives her age as 70. This certificate is overwritten, indicating that, at first, Eleanor had no known family or survivors. The 1910 census lists Eleanor Johnson, age 70, born in Ireland, at 356 East 32nd Street in New York, together with Frank and Charles Sandstrom, Eugene Kiernan, and a boarder Luke Flynn. No other certain reference has been found for Eleanor (or Ellen) Johnson in city directories or earlier censuses. The 1915 city directory lists an Eleanor Johnson, widow of Nels P, at 549 West 45th Street, next door to the address where her nephew Eugene Kiernan died the previous year, but she does not appear in the 1915 state census at this address, nor at the address where she died. [The five-year state censuses can be searched only by address, not by name.] 71

The 1900 census for New York has an entry for Ellen Johnson, born in County Cavan on 10 April 1845, arrived in United States in 1866, living at 1942 Lexington Avenue, with children Harriet M, born 10 December 1877 in Brooklyn and James F, born 15 April 1885 in New York. There is no record of these births on these dates. The 1900 census also reports two deceased children. Other city directory entries for an Ellen Johnson say she was the widow of Thomas Johnson. The 1880 census [331292814] lists Thomas and Ellen Johnson with children Harriet, age 3, and Alfred, age 10 at 468 Grand Street in Brooklyn. Ellen is listed as age 34, which would make her about 70 in 1917, and Thomas, a painter, as age 40, but a 1869 Brooklyn marriage record lists Thomas Johnson's wife as Ellen Smith. The daughter Harriet Johnson, at the Lexington Avenue address and elsewhere, appears annually in city directories at least until 1920, making it unlikely that her mother had no known family.

Without any clear information about the name of Eleanor's husband, or where the Reillys lived before their marriages, further search is difficult. REGISTER

of

MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, AND DEATHS

in

THE KIERNAN FAMILY

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THE CAREY FAMILY

MARRIAGES IN THE KIERNAN FAMILY

1 Michael Kiernan ...... Mary Reilly ...... 26 Oct 2 Bernard Melvin ...... Margaret Finnerty ...... 11 Apr 3 Mary Reilly Kiernan ...... John Callaghan ...... 15 Aug

4 Ellen Melvin ...... John Myers ...... 14 Nov 5 Katherine Melvin ...... Eugene Kiernan ...... 9 Aug 6 Michael John Kiernan ...... ? 7 Lillian Callaghan ...... Joseph Crosetti ...... 15 Jan

8 Mary Myers ...... Herbert Clutterbuck ...... 10 Oct 9 Francis Kiernan ...... Lucie Lang ...... 23 Jun 10 Melvin Kiernan ...... Catherine Carey ...... 27 Jun

11 Herberta Clutterbuck ...... Werner Heydt ...... 10 Sep 12 Mildred Clutterbuck ...... Edward Deptula ...... 27 Apr 13 John Kiernan ...... Dorothy Ann Killeen ...... 10 Sep 14 Frank Kiernan...... Janet Ann Weller ...... 9 Sep 15 Paul Kiernan ...... Beverly Kelly ...... 29 Jul 16 James Kiernan ...... Kathleen Maria DeBuske ...... 3 Jul

17 Lois Heydt ...... Kenneth Edward Rankin ...... 12 Sep 18 Jane Heydt ...... Richard Morris ...... 6 Jun 19 Maryann Kiernan ...... Karl Lombardo ...... 11 May 20 Gail Deptula ...... Ronald George Fink ...... 15 Aug 21 Kathleen Kiernan ...... John Frederic Kron ...... 14 Aug 22 Donna Deptula ...... Gregory Bell ...... 15 Aug 23 Barbara Kiernan ...... James Paul Meisel ...... 14 Jan 24 Loraine Kiernan...... Robert Cordes ...... 18 Apr 25 John Lang Kiernan ...... Juana Casanova ...... 1 Oct 26 Susan Kiernan ...... Alexander Szymanowski ...... 18 Oct 27 Kevin Kiernan ...... Timothy Lukaszewski ...... 13 Mar 28 Matthew Kiernan ...... Dorothy White ...... 13 May 29 Thomas Kiernan ...... Jacqueline Mary Gray...... 7 Jul 30 Donna Deptula ...... Christopher Love ...... 28 Sep 31 Jeanne Kiernan ...... Robert Bach...... 17 Nov 32 Karin Kiernan ...... Brad Lee Strande ...... 31 Aug 33 Patricia Kiernan ...... Steven Parisi ...... 23 Sep 34 Frank Kiernan III ...... Sally Ann Kent ...... 27 Sep 35 Maryann Kiernan Lombardo ...... Kim Desmond Gray ...... 24 Jan 36 Paul Kiernan ...... Lisa Ann Manento ...... 7 Nov 37 Ellen Kiernan ...... Jeffrey Douglas Nantz ...... 15 May 38 Ruth Kiernan ...... William Varson Pickering ...... 8 Oct 39 Barbara Kiernan ...... Charles William Lacerte ...... 11 Mar 40 Thomas Kiernan ...... Brenda Gay Hudson ...... 7 Jun 42 Steven Kiernan ...... Daria Sambuco ...... 4 Apr 43 Lucy Kiernan ...... Lewis Joseph Blood ...... 22 May 46 Paul Kiernan ...... Karen DeAngelis ...... 5 Aug 47 Thomas Kiernan ...... Paula Rand ...... Apr

49 Frank Kiernan III ...... Shirley Anne Morris ...... 29 Nov 1997 51 Maryann Kiernan Gray ...... Daniel Lanni ...... 10 Apr 1999 52 Ryan Kiernan...... Stacy Ann Lobach ...... 11 Jun 1999 53 Elaine Kiernan ...... Lloyd Howard Gold ...... 31 Oct 1999

60 Patricia Kiernan ...... Michael Christopher Johnson ...... 9 Dec 2006 64 John Lang Kiernan ...... Patricia Canale ...... 22 Oct 2010

44 Danielle Lombardo ...... Sean Michael Lee...... 30 Dec 1995 45 Kelly Lombardo ...... Timothy James Pickering ...... 14 Sep 1996 48 David Morris ...... Dawn McGee ...... 19 Apr 1997 50 Jennifer Rankin...... James Jackson Colihan ...... 15 Aug 1998 54 Donelle Fink ...... Scott Richard Held ...... 18 May 2002 55 Danielle Lombardo ...... John William Pickering ...... 19 May 2002 56 Jeremy Kron ...... Andrea Marie Piltz ...... 18 May 2003 57 Daniel Lukaszewski ...... Elizabeth Jean Mackelprang ...... 30 Jul 2003 58 Kent Rankin...... Jennifer Geherin ...... 25 Sep 2004 59 Devon Fink ...... Anthony Julian ...... 8 Oct 2005 61 Erin Kron...... Jeffrey Calvin Warnecke ...... 22 Jun 2008 62 Veronica Manento ...... Michael Brown ...... 24 Jul 2008

MARRIAGES IN THE CAREY FAMILY

1 Thomas Carey ...... Mary Ann Hyland ...... 29 Sep 1884 2 Delia Carey ...... Patrick Byrnes ...... 25 Oct 1906 3 Margaret Carey ...... Ralph Olsen ...... 22 Apr 1917 4 William Carey ...... Teresa Olivari ...... 2 Jun 1928 5 Catherine Carey ...... Bernard Melvin Kiernan ...... 27 Jun 1931

6 Catherine Byrnes ...... Frederick Joseph Johnson ...... 2 Oct 1934 7 Mary Byrnes ...... Edward Aloysius Smith ...... 18 Sep 1937 8 Margaret Olsen ...... Edward Mottershead ...... 22 Nov 1941 9 Robert Olsen ...... Madeline Barbszis ...... 23 Oct 1943 10 Marion Olsen ...... Thomas Hurst ...... 13 Dec 1947 11 Thomas Byrnes ...... Mary Jane Klapper ...... 7 Apr 1948 12 Louise Olsen ...... Joseph Fragano ...... 14 Jan 1950 13 Richard Olsen ...... Anne Bocco ...... 13 Oct 1957 14 Barbara Olsen ...... Anthony Jaconski ...... 30 Jun 1962 16 James Kiernan ...... Kathleen Maria DeBuske ...... 3 Jul 1965 19 Thomas Byrnes ...... Henrietta (Kay) Cortopassi ...... Mar 1970

15 Patricia Johnson ...... William Berg ...... 12 Aug 1961 17 Deborah Byrnes ...... Timothy Hall ...... 1966 18 Frederick Johnson ...... Inez Ganley ...... 19 Aug 1967 20 Edward Smith...... Jean Bowlin ...... 20 Mar 1971 21 Edward Mottershead ...... Deborah Patricia Doherty ...... 27 Jun 1971 22 James Mottershead ...... Juliana Clifford Heintz ...... 20 Nov 1971 23 Carol Fragano ...... Eugene Parsons...... 7 Oct 1972 24 Robert Johnson...... Deirdra McLaughlin ...... 30 Dec 1972 25 Robert Olsen ...... Elizabeth Jane Fox...... 27 Jan 1973 26 John Byrnes...... Susan Carol Stich ...... 13 Sep 1977 27 Richard Olsen ...... Maureen O'Reilly ...... Aug 1979 28 Deborah Byrnes Hall ...... Eugene Joel Beardsley ...... 15 Sep 1979 29 Laura Hurst ...... Kevin Michael Carrick ...... 2 May 1980 30 Tami Hurst ...... Thomas Larsen ...... 23 Oct 1982 31 Rosemarie Olsen ...... William Thomas Markle ...... 30 Apr 1983 32 Joseph Fragano...... Mary Grace Gorman ...... 25 Nov 1983 33 Richard Olsen ...... Geraldine Giordano ...... 18 Aug 1984 34 Marion Hurst ...... Neil Anthony Sherron ...... 29 Dec 1984 35 Dennis Jaconski ...... Nancy Alicia Caltagirone ...... 14 Sep 1991 36 Patricia Johnson Berg ...... Charles Netzow ...... 7 Dec 1991 37 .John Byrnes...... Debra Jean Patric ...... 1993 38 Kenneth Jaconski ...... Lisa Annitti ...... 16 Oct 1993 40 Michele Jaconski ...... David Andrew DeSanto ...... 24 Nov 1995 41 Deborah Byrnes Beardsley ...... James Littlepage ...... 20 Sep 1997 43 Elaine Kiernan ...... Lloyd Howard Gold ...... 31 Oct 1999 48 Scott Jaconski ...... Stacey Ellen Milazzo ...... 7 Jul 2001 55 Kenneth Jaconski ...... Michelle Ann Wilson ...... 20 Jun 2003 59 Patricia Kiernan ...... Michael Christopher Johnson ...... 9 Dec 2006

39 42 Kerry Johnson . John Wallace Piaza 8 Oct 1994 Amy Beardsley Graham Smith ...... 16 Oct 1999

44 Colleen Johnson ...... James Anthony Fisher ...... 20 May 2000 45 Kevin Smith ...... Joann Charkowick ...... 25 Aug 2000

47 Jena Berg ...... Matthew Martin ...... 24 Mar 2001 51 Erin Mottershead ...... Robert Francis O'Brien ...... 28 Jun 2002 52 Timothy Mottershead ...... Jessica Lynn Frandsen ...... 6 Sep 2002 53 Keith Parsons ...... Heather Lynn Morris ...... 7 Dec 2002 54 Andrea Olsen ...... Alexander Farrell Mozingo ...... 14 Jun 2003 Brian Johnson ...... Kyoko Wakamatsu ...... 31 Jul 2004 Rebecca Beardsley ...... David Babcock ...... 2006 Amy Beardsley Smith ...... Keith Bruni ...... 2006 60 Richard Olsen ...... Kattia C Kouretas ...... 26 May 2007 61 Michael Mottershead ...... Marisa J Ventola ...... 7 Jul 2007 63 Emily Byrnes ...... Mark Colwell ...... 64 Kevin Mottershead ...... Cristina Veronica Spina ...... 24 Jan 2009 65 Matthew Beardsley ...... Sara Marie Lockwood ...... 12 Feb 2010

BIRTHS IN THE KIERNAN FAMILY

the number indicates the parents' entry on the marriage list

May 1832 Michael Kiernan ...... Co Longford 26 Dec Bernard Melvin ...... Co Sligo 1836 Margaret Finnerty ...... Mar 1842 Mary Reilly ...... Co Cavan 1843 Eugene Henry Kiernan ...... Jersey CityNJ . 1 6 Oct 1866 Katherine Margaret Melvin ...... New York NY ...... 2 11 James William Kiernan ...... 1 29 Mar1867Sep 1868 Ellen Melvin ...... Hoboken ...... 2 31 Mar l870 Ellen Frances Kiernan ...... Englewood NJ ...... 1 28 Jul 1871 Mary Ellen Kiernan ...... Hoboken ...... 1 25 May 1873 Michael John Kiernan ...... Hoboken ...... 1 30 Oct 1876 Elizabeth (Lillian) Callaghan .. Hoboken ...... 3

30 Jan 1892 Mary Elizabeth Myers ...... Hoboken ...... 4 18 Jun 1894 James Melvin Kiernan ...... Hoboken ...... 5 27 Apr 1896 Eugene Henry Kiernan ...... Hoboken ...... 5 11 Jun 1897 Mary Margaret Kiernan ...... Hoboken ...... 5 29 Aug Francis John Kiernan ...... Hoboken ...... 5 1899 Bernard Melvin Kiernan ...... Hoboken ...... 5 23 Aug 1901 Margaret Herberta Clutterbuck Union City NJ ...... 8 11 Sep 1917 Mildred Clutterbuck ...... Palisade Park NJ ...... 8 27 Jun 1920 John Melvin Kiernan ...... Newark NJ ...... 9 14 Sep 1924 Frank John Kiernan ...... Newark NJ ...... 9 4 Apr 1929 Paul Joseph Kiernan ...... Newark NJ ...... 9 18 Jul 1933 Mary Lucie Kiernan ...... Hoboken ...... 9 6 Dec 1935 Bernard Melvin Kiernan ...... Hoboken ...... 10 12 Apr 1936 James Melvin Kiernan ...... Hoboken ...... 10 6 Jan 1939 Lois Mary Heydt ...... Ridgefield Park NJ ...... 11 14 Jan 1942 Jane Heydt...... Hackensack NJ ...... 11 4 Oct 1945 Gail Mary Deptula ...... Bogota NJ ...... 12 15 Dec 1948 Donna Deptula ...... River Edge NJ ...... 12 27 Feb 1950 Kathleen Mary Kiernan ...... Newark NJ ...... 13 14 Mar 1950 Maryann Kiernan ...... East Orange NJ ...... 14 5 Jul 1951 Ellen Kiernan ...... East Orange NJ ...... 14 10 Jun 1952 Patricia Ann Kiernan ...... Newark NJ ...... 13 1 Mar 1953 John Lang Kiernan ...... East Orange NJ ...... 14 13 Oct 1953 Thomas Brian Kiernan ...... East Orange NJ ...... 14 28 Jan 1955 Barbara Jeanne Kiernan ...... Newark NJ ...... 13 6 Oct 1955 Loraine Kiernan ...... East Orange NJ ...... 14 30 Mar 1957 Susan Kiernan ...... Middletown NJ ...... 14 26 Nov Matthew Paul Kiernan ...... Paterson NJ ...... 15 1958 Kevin Elizabeth Kiernan ...... Denver CO ...... 13 30 Dec 1960 Lucy Kiernan ...... Paterson NJ ...... 15 12 Dec 1961 18 May 1962

16 Jun 1962 Frank John Kiernan ...... Tarrytown NY ...... 14 1 Nov 1963 Jeanne Kiernan ...... Ringwood NJ ...... 15 4 Dec 1963 Steven Joseph Kiernan ...... Rochester NY 14 20 Dec 1963 Karin Jay Kiernan ...... Denver CO ...... 13 30 Oct 1964 Ruth Ann Kiernan ...... Ringwood NJ ...... 15 12 Jun 1967 Paul Francis Kiernan ...... Ringwood NJ ...... 15 27 May Elaine Kathleen Kiernan ...... Hackensack NJ ...... 16 1971 Ryan Douglas Kiernan ...... Ringwood NJ ...... 15 2 Mar 1973 Patricia Claire Kiernan ...... Dumont NJ ...... 16 17 Oct 1977 24 Jan 1967 David Morris ...... Ramsey NJ ...... 18 3 Nov 1968 Jennifer Lee Rankin ...... Fort Lee NJ ...... 17 16 Apr 1969 Teri Morris ...... Ramsey NJ ...... 18 Karl Lombardo ...... Norwalk CT ...... 19 12 Dec 1969 11 Sep l971 Kent Patrick Rankin ...... Silver Spring MD ...... 17 Kelly Ann Lombardo...... Norwalk CT ...... 19 12 1971 Jul Sarah Elizabeth Kron ...... Denver CO ...... 21 20 Jan 1975 Donnelle Fink ...... Medford Lake NJ ...... 20 4 Apr 1975 Danielle Lombardo ...... Norwalk CT ...... 19 14 Dec 1975 Lindsay Ann Fink ...... Medford Lake NJ ...... 20 14 Apr 1977 Kristen Killeen Kron ...... AuroraCO ...... 21 1 7 Apr 1977 Jeremy Christopher Kron ...... Aurora CO ...... 21 13 Jan 1980 Ryan Michael Meisel ...... Denver CO ...... 23 20 Dec 1980 Devon Leigh Fink ...... Fayetteville NY ...... 20 21 Jun 1982 Kathleen Marie Kiernan ...... New York NY ...... 25 17 Dec 1982 Benjamin Jay Lukaszewski .... Phoenix AZ ...... 27 6 Apr 1983 Erin Kathleen Kron ...... Aurora CO ...... 21 4 May 1983 Daniel Francis Lukaszewski ... Phoenix AZ ...... 27 4 Jul 1984 Daniel Francis Love ...... Wyckoff NJ ...... 30 30 Mar 1985 Stephen Roy Bach ...... East Norwalk CT ...... 31 1 Apr 1985 Eric Michael Parisi ...... Mahopac NY ...... 33 4 Mar 1986 Robert Paul Bach ...... East Norwalk CT ...... 31 4 Aug 1986 Veronica Manento ...... Orefield PA ...... 36 21 Aug 1986 Kevin Christopher Love ...... Wyckoff NJ ...... 30 24 Mar 1987 Alexander John Szymanowski Stratford CT ...... 26 11 Aug 1987 Kevin Robert Kiernan ...... New York NY ...... 25 7 Nov 1987 Kim Desmond Gray ...... Norwalk CT ...... 35 14 Nov 1987 Amy Hudson ...... 40 1988 Kelly Kiernan ...... Orefield PA ...... 36 23 Aug 1988 Katherine Ann Cordes ...... Stratford CT ...... 24 William Varson Pickering ...... New Canaan CT ...... 38 27 Nov 1989 3 Mar 1990 Rachel Anne Lacerte ...... Flagstaff AZ ...... 39 3 May 1990 Wyatt Dylan Nantz ...... Black Rock CT ...... 37 Brandon Kyle Kiernan ...... Memphis TN ...... 40 12 Jun 1990 27 Feb 1991 John Michael Cordes ...... Stratford CT ...... 24 30 Aug 1991 Keith Edward Pickering ...... New Canaan CT ...... 38 Harrison Weller Nantz ...... Tempe AZ ...... 37 31 Dec 1991 23 Sep 1992 Hannah Jeanne Lacerte ...... Flagstaff AZ ...... 39 Luke Spencer Morris ...... Stamford CT ...... 49 22 Mar 1993 24 Mar 1993 Erik Eugene Blood ...... Lincoln Park NJ ...... 43 Jay Nicholas Parisi ...... Mahopac NY ...... 33 17 Jun 1993 Jul 1994

15 Oct 1994 Amanda Lynn Blood ...... 43 26 Nov 1995 Owen Matthew Bach ...... Allentown PA ...... 31 28 Mar Shannon Marie Strande ...... Broomfield CO ...... 32 1996 Michael Ryan Pickering ...... New Canaan CT ...... 38 17 Apr 1996 Jackson Karl Kiernan ...... Stamford CT ...... 49 21 Feb 1997 Allison Kiernan ...... Blandon PA ...... 46 Oct 1997 Jake Ryan Strande ...... Broomfield CO ...... 32 7 Mar Sean Michael Kiernan ...... Stamford CT ...... 49 1998 Elizabeth Anne Pickering . Raleigh NC ...... 38 21 Mar 1999 Michael James Kiernan ...... Stratford CT ...... 49 6 Dec 1999 Kayla Marie Kiernan ...... Allentown PA ...... 52 30 Jan 2001 James Walter Kiernan ...... Stratford CT ...... 49 16 Apr 2001 Neva Juliet Gold ...... Hoboken ...... 53 4 Dec 2002 Evangeline Claire Johnson Lawrenceville NJ ...... 60 27 Dec 2009 5 Dec 2010 Andrew Anthony Zamfino Middletown NY ...... 41 Alexandra Donna Morris .. Middletown NY ...... 48 8 Nov 1993 Evelyn Ann Pickering ...... New Canaan CT ...... 45 29 Jun 1999 Paige Victoria Colihan ...... Columbia MD ...... 50 30 Oct Ford Richard Held ...... La Jolla CA ...... 54 2001 Christian James Colihan ... Columbia MD ...... 50 26 Jan 2002 Dillon James Lukaszewski Phoenix AZ ...... 57 21 Sep 2003 Alyssa Lorraine Rankin ...... Cape Coral FL ...... 58 26 Dec 2004 Emily Kathleen Warnecke Loveland CO ...... 61 6 Jun Alexis Mae Kron ...... Westminster CO...... 56 2005 Ivy Leigh Julian ...... Burleigh Heads QLD 59 11 May 2006 Tavielle Corin Held ...... La Jolla CA ...... 54 2 Feb 2007 Tylee Elon Held ...... La Jolla CA ...... 54 1 May 2007 Capri Ann Brown ...... Woodbridge VA...... 62 11 Oct 2007 Christopher Henry Kron ... Westminster CO...... 56 14 May 2008 Wyatt Michael Parisi ...... Fort Collins CO ...... 63 14 May 2008 Maren Brie Julian ...... Tequesta FL ...... 59 2 Feb 2009 Michelle Callie Warnecke . Littleton CO ...... 61 15 Jun 2009 4 Dec 2009 13 May 2010 7 Apr 2011

BIRTHS IN THE CAREY FAMILY

the number indicates the parents' entry on the marriage list

8 Aug 1856 Thomas Carey ...... Co Mayo 24 Jun 1857 Mary Ann Hyland ...... Co Mayo

27 Jun 1885 Bridget (Delia) Carey ...... Hoboken 10 Sep 1886 William Patrick Carey ...... Hoboken 24 Jun 1888 John Carey ...... Hoboken 2 May 1890 Mary Frances Carey ...... Hoboken 29 Mar 1892 Thomas Carey ...... Hoboken 14 Dec 1893 James Aloysius Carey ...... Hoboken 24 May Anne Carey ...... Hoboken 1896 Margaret Louise Carey ...... Hoboken 19 Jul 1897 Catherine Angela Carey ...... Hoboken 17 Jun 1900 2 27 Jun 1909 Mary Genevieve Byrnes ...... Hoboken ...... 2 17 Nov 1910 Thomas Patrick Byrnes ...... Hoboken ...... 2 28 Jan 1915 Catherine Patricia Byrnes ...... Hoboken ...... 3 26 Oct 1917 Ralph Thomas Olsen ...... Jersey City NJ 3 11 Mar 1919 Margaret Olsen ...... Hoboken ...... 3 7 Jun 1920 Robert Matthew Olsen ...... Hoboken ...... 3 25 Aug 1924 Louise Olsen ...... Union City NJ 3 18 Feb 1927 Marion Olsen ...... Hoboken ...... 3 23 Jan 1935 Richard Frederick Olsen ...... Hoboken ...... 5 12 Apr 1936 Bernard Melvin Kiernan ...... Hoboken ...... 3 5 Jun 1938 Barbara Ann Olsen ...... Hoboken ...... 5 6 Jan 1939 James Melvin Kiernan ...... Hoboken ......

24 Sep 1934 Patricia Joan Johnson ...... Jersey City NJ ...... 6 26 Apr 1938 Frederick Joseph Johnson ... Jersey City NJ ...... 6 4 Sep 1942 Edward Aloysius Smith ...... Brooklyn NY ...... 7 27 Dec 1946 Edward Joseph Mottershead Hoboken ...... 8 Mar 1948 Robert Matthew Olsen ...... West New York NJ ...... 9 10 Apr 1948 Robert Patrick Johnson ...... Jersey City NJ ...... 6 9 Apr 1949 James John Mottershead ...... Hoboken ...... 8 4 Jun 1950 Deborah Byrnes ...... Dayton OH ...... 11 5 Jun 1950 Patricia Olsen ...... Carlstadt NJ ...... 9 25 May John William Byrnes ...... Dayton OH ...... 11 1951 Carol Fragano ...... Jersey City NJ ...... 12 20 Dec 1951 Joseph Fragano ...... Jersey City NJ ...... 12 4 Oct 1954 Laura Marie Hurst ...... Hoboken ...... 10 14 Aug 1956 Marion Grace Hurst ...... Carlstadt NJ ...... 10 7 Dec 1957 Richard Olsen ...... Hoboken ...... 13 2 Oct 1958 Rose Marie Olsen ...... Hoboken ...... 13 19 Oct 1960 Tami Lee Hurst ...... Carlstadt NJ ...... 10 12 Feb 1961 Kenneth Jaconski ...... Carlstadt NJ ...... 14 8 Jun 1964 Dennis Jaconski ...... Carlstadt NJ ...... 14 24 Sep 1966 Michele Jaconski ...... Carlstadt NJ ...... 14 15 Jun Elaine Kathleen Kiernan ...... Hackensack NJ ...... 16 1968 27 May 1971

17 Dec 1974 Christopher Jaconski ...... Carlstadt NJ ...... 14 17 Dec 1974 Scott Jaconski ...... Carlstadt NJ ...... 14 17 Oct 1977 Patricia Claire Kiernan ...... Dumont NJ ...... 16

13 Aug 1969 Kerry Lynn Johnson ...... Deal NJ ...... 18 29 Apr 1970 Jena Catherine Berg ...... Madison WI ...... 15 12 May 1972 Colleen Catherine Johnson ...... Deal NJ ...... 18 30 Aug 1972 Kevin Edward Smith ...... Brooklyn NY ...... 20 1 Apr 1974 Erin Patricia Mottershead ...... Carlstadt NJ ...... 21 14 Aug 1975 Michael Edward Mottershed ...... Carlstadt NJ ...... 21 11 Oct 1975 Keith Parsons ...... East Rutherford NJ ...... 23 10 Jul 1976 Amanda (Amy) Beardsley ...... Oakland CA ...... 28 4 Sep 1976 Timothy Mottershead...... Harrington Park NJ ...... 22 6 May 1977 Robert Matthew Olsen...... Newark DE ...... 25 8 Nov 1977 Melissa Ann Smith ...... Islip NY ...... 20 8 Jan 1979 Richard Olsen ...... Hoboken ...... 27 5 Mar 1979 Kevin Heintz Mottershead ...... Harrington Park NJ ...... 22 29 Jul 1979 Laura Ann Olsen ...... Tiffin OH ...... 25 24 Dec 1980 Matthew Beardsley ...... Alameda CA ...... 28 30 Mar 1981 Brian McLaughlin Johnson ...... Arlington VA ...... 24 8 Jul 1981 Valerie Olsen ...... Hoboken ...... 27 28 Aug 1981 Andrea Lynn Olsen ...... Tiffin OH ...... 25 2 Sep 1981 Emily Caroline Byrnes ...... San Leandro CA ...... 26 Dec 1982 Sarah Beardsley ...... Alameda CA ...... 28 22 Dec 1983 Thomas Larsen ...... Lodi NJ ...... 30 21 Sep 1984 Rebecca Anne Beardsley ...... Alameda CA ...... 28 10 Mar 1986 Melissa Larsen ...... Lodi NJ ...... 30 31 Aug 1986 Dominic Olsen ...... Hoboken ...... 33 24 Apr 1987 Derek Anthony Sherron ...... Dayton NJ ...... 34 22 May 1987 Alicia Markle ...... Hoboken ...... 31 25 Mar 1988 Patrick Connor McLaughlin Johnson Herndon VA ...... 24 10 Aug 1988 Ian Thomas Carrick ...... Park Ridge NJ ...... 29 28 May 1990 Michael Olsen ...... Hoboken ...... 33 21 Apr 1991 Zachary William Markle ...... Hoboken ...... 31 25 Jul 1991 Scott Thomas Sherron ...... Dayton NJ ...... 34 16 Mar 1992 Tabitha Marion Larsen ...... Ramsey NJ ...... 30 29 Mar 1993 Jordan Carrick ...... Park Ridge NJ ...... 29 26 Aug 1996 Nicole Ashley Jaconski ...... Howell NJ ...... 35 25 Apr 1998 Julianne Elizabeth DeSanto ...... East Rutherford NJ .... 40 26 Mar 2002 Jessica Hope DeSanto ...... Washington NJ ...... 40 4 Nov 2003 Ryan Michael Jaconski ...... Lyndhurst NJ ...... 48 31 Jan 2004 Matthew Jaconski ...... Howell NJ ...... 35 15 Aug 2005 Tyler Christian Jaconski ...... Somerville, NJ ...... 48 18 Apr 2008 Jacob Anthony Jaconski ...... Millington NJ ...... 53 19 Dec 2008 Hailey Jaynes Jaconski ...... Somerville NJ ...... 48 27 Dec 2009 Neva Juliet Gold ...... Hoboken ...... 43 5 Dec 2010 Evangeline Claire Johnson ...... Lawrenceville NJ ...... 59

26 Apr 2000 Catherine Elizabeth Piaza ...... Interlaken NJ ...... 39 18 Jan 2002 Gianna Rose LaManna ...... Kenilworth NJ ...... 46 12 Jun 2002 Jack Frederick Fisher ...... Oakhurst NJ ...... 44

3 Jul 2002 Connor Michael Cusic .. El Dorado CA ...... 49 Feb 2003 Aidan Michael Doyle ... Walnut Creek CA ...... 50 30 Jul 2003 Robert Francis O'Brien Lyndhurst NJ ...... 51 2003 John Frederick Piaza ...... Interlaken NJ...... 39 5 Dec 2003 Colin Mottershead ...... Barnegat NJ ...... 52 5 Dec 2003 Braeden Mottershead ...... Barnegat NJ ...... 52

Sugar Loaf NY ...... 53 18 Sep 2004 Evan Harris Parsons ...... Central Islip NY ...... 45 23 Oct 2004 Kevin Ryan Smith ...... Rochester MN ...... 47 1 Feb 2005 Ruby Xiuhuan Miller ...... Kenilworth NJ ...... 46 12 Sep 2005 Anthony Stewart LaManna ...... Lyndhurst NJ ...... 51 23 Jan 2006 Sean Edward O'Brien ...... Oakhurst NJ ...... 44 1 Feb 2006 Megan Rose Fisher ...... Florence SC ...... 54 9 Aug 2006 Jackson Mozingo ...... East Islip NY ...... 45 13 Oct 2006 Lauren Riley Smith ...... Rochester MN ...... 47 10 Feb 2007 Lia Wauping Miller ...... Sugar Loaf NY ...... 53 5 Jun 2007 Caidyn Noelle Parsons ...... Lyndhurst NJ ...... 51 7 Dec 2007 Dylan Thomas O'Brien ...... Kenilworth NJ ...... 46 28 Feb 2008 Sophia LaManna ...... Kenilworth NJ ...... 46 28 Feb 2008 Santino LaManna ...... El Dorado CA ...... 57 2008 Caitlyn Babcock ...... Hillsdale NJ ...... 61 10 Jul 2009 Ian Michael Mottershead ...... El Dorado CA ...... 62 17 Oct 2009 Devin Fischer ...... El Dorado CA ...... 65 5 Apr 2010 Alaina Marygail Beardsley ...... Lyndhurst NJ ...... 51 26 Apr 2010 Liam O'Brien ...... Sugar Loaf NY ...... 53 28 Sep 2010 Jillian Meghan Parsons ......

DEATHS IN THE KIERNAN FAMILY

20 Aug 1869 James Kiernan ...... --- ...... 1 8 Nov 1870 Ellen Kiernan ...... Hoboken...... 0 29 Dec 1872 Michael Kiernan ...... Hoboken...... 40 12 Sep 1876 Mary Ellen Kiernan ...... Hoboken...... 5 22 Jun 1897 Mary Reilly Kiernan Callaghan Hoboken...... 54 26 Jun 1897 Eugene Henry Kiernan ...... Hoboken...... 1 8 Jan 1898 James Kiernan ...... Hoboken...... 3 5 Oct 1900 John Callaghan ...... Hoboken...... 55 10 Oct 1904 John Myers ...... Hoboken...... 37 21 Oct 1906 Michael John Kiernan ...... Philadelphia PA ...... 33 15 Aug 1910 Bernard Melvin ...... Hoboken...... 74 4 Nov 1911 Margaret Finnerty Melvin ...... Hoboken...... 69 11 May 1914 Eugene Henry Kiernan ...... New York NY ...... 48 29 Sep 1927 Ellen Melvin Myers ...... Leonia NJ ...... 60 11 Nov 1932 Katherine Melvin Kiernan ...... Hoboken...... 66 19 Dec 1935 Lucie Lang Kiernan ...... Hoboken...... 35 16 Aug 1940 Lillian Callaghan Crosett ...... Hoboken...... 64 9 Feb 1951 Mary Myers Clutterbuck ...... Bogota NJ ...... 59 20 Feb 1961 Francis Kiernan ...... Newark NJ ...... 62 25 Jan 1963 Joseph Crosett ...... Hoboken...... 85 26 Jan 1965 Melvin Kiernan ...... Hoboken...... 63 15 May 1968 Edward Deptula ...... River Edge NJ ...... 48 10 Apr 1974 Herbert Clutterbuck ...... New Milford NJ ...... 79 19 Apr 1984 Mildred Clutterbuck Deptula ... Maywood NJ ...... 63 9 Nov 1985 Catherine Carey Kiernan ...... Hoboken...... 85 18 Nov 1986 Mary Kiernan ...... Hoboken...... 89 20 Jan 1989 Frank Kiernan ...... New Canaan CT ...... 59 9 Feb 1991 Werner Heydt ...... Maywood NJ ...... 74 2 Nov 1991 Karl Lombardo ...... Norwalk CT ...... 21 15 Dec 1992 Herberta Clutterbuck Heydt ...... Maywood NJ ...... 75 4 Aug 1998 Steven Parisi ...... Mahopac NY ...... 45 31 Jul 2002 Dorothy Killeen Kiernan ...... Fort Collins CO ...... 76 22 Oct 2007 John (Jay) Kiernan ...... Fort Collins CO ...... 83 11 Jan 2009 Jennifer Geherin Rankin ...... Cape Coral FL ...... 39

DEATHS IN THE CAREY FAMILY

5 Apr 1891 John Carey ...... Hoboken ...... 2 11 Aug 1896 Anne Carey ...... Hoboken ...... 0 29 Oct 1914 Thomas Carey ...... Hoboken ...... 58 14 Mar 1918 Ralph Thomas Olsen ...... Hoboken ...... 0 11 Dec 1925 James Carey ...... Hoboken ...... 31 28 Feb 1926 Mary Ann Hyland Carey ...... Hoboken ...... 68 4 Nov 1940 Patrick Byrnes ...... Hoboken ...... 57 19 May 1949 Thomas Carey ...... Hoboken ...... 57 25 Oct 1949 William Carey ...... Hoboken ...... 63 8 Oct 1957 Delia Carey Byrnes ...... West Allenhurst NJ .... 72 25 Jul 1962 Teresa Olivari Carey ...... Hoboken ...... 87 27 Jul 1963 Mary Carey ...... Hoboken ...... 73 26 Jan 1965 Melvin Kiernan ...... Hoboken ...... 63 4 Apr 1972 Ralph Olsen ...... Hoboken ...... 78 20 Feb 1980 Edward Smith ...... Brooklyn NY ...... 75 5 Apr 1983 Mary Klapper Byrnes ...... Oakland CA ...... 64 9 Nov 1985 Catherine Carey Kiernan ...... Hoboken ...... 85 1 Jan 1986 Madeline Barbszis Olsen...... Toms River NJ ...... 65 21 Dec 1986 Mary Byrnes Smith ...... Brooklyn NY ...... 77 18 May l987 Margaret Carey Olsen ...... Carlstadt NJ ...... 89 24 Mar 1988 Henrietta Cortopassi Byrnes ...... San Leandro CA ...... 67 27 Jun 1989 Thomas Hurst ...... Carlstadt NJ ...... 64 10 Sep 1989 Frederick Johnson ...... North Port FL ...... 78 9 Jan 1990 Thomas Byrnes ...... San Leandro CA ...... 79 23 Mar 1994 Anne Bocco Olsen ...... Hoboken ...... 59 29 May 1997 Edward Mottershead ...... Hasbrouck Heights NJ 50 31 Jul 2001 Edward Mottershead ...... Hoboken ...... 82 26 May 2002 Frederick Johnson ...... Oakhurst NJ ...... 64 23 Dec 2003 Catherine Byrnes Johnson ...... Asbury Park NJ ...... 88 15 Feb 2007 Robert Olsen ...... Toms River NJ ...... 86 17 Apr 2009 Margaret Olsen Mottershead ...... Toms River NJ ...... 90 22 Feb 2010 Anthony Jaconski ...... Lopatcong NJ ...... 73

CALLAGHAN FAMILY REGISTER

MARRIAGES

1 Mary Reilly Kiernan ...... John Callaghan ...... 15 Aug 1875

2 John Callaghan ...... Jennie --- ...... ---

3 Lillian Callaghan ...... Joseph Crosetti ...... 15 Jan 1907

4 Lillian Crosett ...... William Joseph Carrig ...... 5 Mar 1928 5 Helen Crosett ...... James DeSapio ...... 18 Mar 1938 6 Joseph Crosett ...... Ruth Patton ...... 21 Sep 1945 7 Francis Crosett ...... Frances Hooghkirk ...... 6 Sep 1947

8 Margaret Carrig ...... Alfred Isnardi ...... 12 May 1956 9 Carol DeSapio ...... Harold Kelley ...... 10 Aug 1963 10 James DeSapio ...... Adrienne Gianlaspro...... 17 Sep 1966 11 John Crosett ...... Judy Greene ...... 9 Sep 1967 12 Linda Crosett ...... Robert Peist ...... 24 May 1975 13 Joanne Crosett ...... Howard Kalet ...... 19 Jul 1975 14 Claire Carrig...... Charles Merz ...... 1 Apr 1986 15 Michael Crosett ...... Linda Unterkofler ...... 10 Oct 1987

BIRTHS

1843 Mary Reilly ...... Co Cavan 1845 John Callaghan ...... Jul 1859 Jennie ...... New York NY

30 Oct 1876 Elizabeth (Lillian) Callaghan Hoboken ...... 1 Hoboken ...... 3 21 May 1908 Lillian Marie Crosetti ...... Hoboken ...... 3 19 Sep 1909 Helen Rose (Joan) Crosetti .... Hoboken ...... 3 29 Jan 1912 Francis William Crosetti ...... Hoboken ...... 3 8 Nov 1913 Joseph John Crosetti ...... Hoboken ...... 4 19 Nov 1929 Margaret Carrig ...... Hoboken ...... 4 14 Apr 1933 Claire Carrig ...... Hoboken ...... 5 5 Jun 1938 Carol DeSapio ...... Hoboken ...... 5 16 Sep 1939 Virginia DeSapio ...... Hoboken ...... 5 21 Nov 1941 James DeSapio ...... Hoboken ...... 6 29 Apr 1946 John Crosett...... Hoboken ...... 7 3 Sep 1948 Linda Crosett ...... Hoboken ...... 7 11 Feb 1953 Joanne Crosett ...... Bangor ME ...... 6 8 Dec 1958 Michael Crosett ...... Totowa NJ ...... 8 19 Oct 1958 Alfred Isnardi ...... Totowa NJ ...... 8 11 Mar 1960 Robert Isnardi...... Los Angeles CA ...... 9 16 Aug 1964 Troy Kelley ......

21 Feb 1967 Gregory Kelley ... Los Angeles CA ...... 9 15 Aug 1969 Kimberly Crosett Montvale NJ ...... 11 7 Nov 1972 Stephen Crosett .. Montvale NJ ...... 11

21 Nov 1977 Samuel Kalet ...... Scotch Plains NJ ...... 1 26 Jan 1980 Gregory DeSapio ...... Waldwick NJ ...... 3 10 Jun 1980 Brian Kalet ...... Webster TX ...... 1 23 Dec 1980 Suzanne Peist ...... Cranford NJ ...... 0 12 Feb 1983 David Peist ...... Cranford NJ ...... 1 30 Sep 1984 Andrew Kalet ...... Baton Rouge LA ...... 3 1 DEATHS 2 1 22 Jun 1897 Mary Reilly Kiernan Callaghan ...... Hoboken ...... 542 5 Oct 1900 John Callaghan ...... Hoboken ...... 551 --- Jennie Callaghan ...... --- 3 16 Aug 1940 Lillian Callaghan Crosett ...... Hoboken ...... 64 25 Jan 1963 Joseph Crosett ...... Hoboken ...... 82 13 Jan 1979 Ruth Patton Crosett ...... West New York NJ ...... 55 27 Jul 1982 James DeSapio ...... Hoboken ...... 82 18 Apr 1992 James DeSapio ...... Oakland NJ ...... 50 25 Sep 1996 Helen Crosett DeSapio ...... Hoboken ...... 87 16 Dec 2001 Joseph Crosett ...... Pensacola FL ...... 88 30 Sep 2003 Lillian Crosett Carrig ...... Hoboken ...... 95 2 Jul 2007 Francis Crosett ...... Milford MA...... 95