Colleen Pasquale's Posts - Genealogy Wise2024-03-29T06:51:27ZColleen Pasqualehttp://www.genealogywise.com/profile/ColleenPasqualehttp://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2207137470?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1http://www.genealogywise.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=3e5dcuolh0a7x&xn_auth=noThe Coyle Sisters in the 1940 US Censustag:www.genealogywise.com,2012-07-07:3463583:BlogPost:4540592012-07-07T00:20:42.000ZColleen Pasqualehttp://www.genealogywise.com/profile/ColleenPasquale
<p>Mary Josephine (Mullane) Coyle died in 1927. After her death her unmarried daughters lived together. In the 1930 US Census the sisters were living at 2109 Walton Avenue in the Bronx. Marion, 28 [actually 30], was an operator in the telephone company. Marguerite, 25 [actually 28], was a supervisor in the telephone company. Lillian, 18, was a book keeper for a shoe company. Kathleen, 12 [actually 14], was still in school. They paid $40 a month for the rent on their apartment.</p>
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<p>Mary Josephine (Mullane) Coyle died in 1927. After her death her unmarried daughters lived together. In the 1930 US Census the sisters were living at 2109 Walton Avenue in the Bronx. Marion, 28 [actually 30], was an operator in the telephone company. Marguerite, 25 [actually 28], was a supervisor in the telephone company. Lillian, 18, was a book keeper for a shoe company. Kathleen, 12 [actually 14], was still in school. They paid $40 a month for the rent on their apartment.</p>
<p>With the exception of Marion, who married James McCall on 5 April 1931, I expected to see them still living together in 1940. I was correct.</p>
<p>In 1940 US Census the Coyle sisters were living at 3E Burns Street in Queens. Marguerite, 30 [actually 38], was surprisingly unemployed. Therefore, younger sister, Lillian was head of the family. She worked as a “comptometer” for 35 hours a week earning an income of $1,200. Youngest sister, Kathleen, worked 35 hours a week as a clerk for the telephone company earning an income of $1,200. Rent for their apartment was $62 a month.</p>
<p>[Note: My grand aunts often altered their ages! Ha!]</p>
<p>This a reassuring report, verifying family stories. Details of their jobs and incomes in 1940 are interesting. With the exception of a brief marriage for Marguerite these sisters would live together for the rest of their lives, in New York City, Long Island, Florida and Arizona. They are buried together in Sun City, Arizona.</p>1940 Census The Gardnerstag:www.genealogywise.com,2012-06-25:3463583:BlogPost:4525262012-06-25T12:08:57.000ZColleen Pasqualehttp://www.genealogywise.com/profile/ColleenPasquale
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<p>Many of us are stepping into the 1940’s by way of the US Census. Our family has been busy with weddings this spring; our son’s and our nephew’s. Now that they are behind us and those young men have happily begun married life I have had an opportunity to begin my search.</p>
<p>I was happy to discover that New York State has been indexed. The first people I wanted to find were my mother and her parents, the Nathaniel Gardner family in New York City. Thanks to ancestry.com I found them…</p>
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<p>Many of us are stepping into the 1940’s by way of the US Census. Our family has been busy with weddings this spring; our son’s and our nephew’s. Now that they are behind us and those young men have happily begun married life I have had an opportunity to begin my search.</p>
<p>I was happy to discover that New York State has been indexed. The first people I wanted to find were my mother and her parents, the Nathaniel Gardner family in New York City. Thanks to ancestry.com I found them quickly.</p>
<p>The Gardners were living at 2856 East 197<sup>th</sup> Street in the Bronx. I had this address from letters and other family documents. They rented their apartment for $37.00 a month. Nathan was 57 and a telegrapher for the Western Union Telegraph Company. [He had worked for them since he was a young delivery boy.] He worked 46 hours a week. [He had asthma and his doctor wanted him to work less hours. He finally decided to retire when WWII began and he was needed to work more hours.] His income was $1,200.</p>
<p>His wife, Helen, was 42. Their daughter, Joy, was 11 years old. All of them were born in New York City.</p>
<p>I even found my mother’s good friend, Jimmy Ryan, who lived next door. His father, Michael, was a subway motorman.</p>
<p>There were no big surprises in the report. Instead it is reassuring to see what I expected to find. My mother and her parents were in their apartment in New York City where they would live for a few more months. In November they would move to a little country house in Columbia County. </p>Cunningham Family in Co Cavan, Irelandtag:www.genealogywise.com,2012-06-15:3463583:BlogPost:4511872012-06-15T13:22:25.000ZColleen Pasqualehttp://www.genealogywise.com/profile/ColleenPasquale
<p><b>Mary Cunningham</b> married Michael Coyle (b c 1820) in Ireland c. 1838. They were my third great grandparents in my mother’s family tree. For the longest time that is all I knew about Mary Cunningham.</p>
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<p>This spring I found Mary's death record. Knowing that Michael and Mary lived in County Cavan, Ireland I browsed through the list of available microfilm records through <a href="https://familysearch.org/">Family Search</a>. I looked for County Cavan in…</p>
<p><b>Mary Cunningham</b> married Michael Coyle (b c 1820) in Ireland c. 1838. They were my third great grandparents in my mother’s family tree. For the longest time that is all I knew about Mary Cunningham.</p>
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<p>This spring I found Mary's death record. Knowing that Michael and Mary lived in County Cavan, Ireland I browsed through the list of available microfilm records through <a href="https://familysearch.org/">Family Search</a>. I looked for County Cavan in general and the townland of Moat/Moate specifically. The list was not long. I saw & ordered:</p>
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<p>Microfilm #1279229: Parochial Registers of Drumlumman South and Ballymachugh, 1837 - 1935. (County Cavan), Item 7: Diocese of Ardagh & Clonmacnois, Carrick Finea Parishmicrofilm #1279229, Parochial Registers of Drumlumman South and Ballymachugh, 1837 - 1935. (County Cavan), Item 7: Diocese of Ardagh & Clonmacnois, Carrick Finea Parish</p>
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<p>When it arrived at my local Family History Center near Albany, NY I spent a quiet morning, slowly looking through the images on the film. I found long lists of Coyle & Brady death records. Although both these names relate to my family I could not tie any of the specific people to my family lines. However, I carefully copied them into my bright pink spiral notebook for future reference. After copying out five pages of names without specific connections I was becoming disheartened. Then I came across, on page 16, <b>Maria Cunningham</b>! I had not, specifically, been looking for her but there she was. Maria Cunningham of Moat who died 25 January 1848. I wanted to jump out of my chair and shout, but unwilling to disturb the quiet atmosphere, I just smiled to myself and copied her onto the page, highlighting her name in bright yellow!</p>
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<p>My next Cunningham discovery came during my trip to Ireland in April. Before my visit I had commissioned a genealogist at Cavan Genealogy, Johnston Central Library, Cavan to search for my Coyle family in their records. When my daughter and I arrived in Cavan we met with Concepta McGovern and she went over her findings with me.</p>
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<p>You may know that 1901 & 1911 Irish census records can be very helpful. There is also an 1821 census. This census has only limited sections that survive. Undaunted, Concepta searched the 1821 census and found the Cunningham family in Drumlummon, Co Cavan. The Cunninghams & the Coyles were living near each other.</p>
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<p><b>James Cunningham</b> was a 50 year old farmer, married to Bile (?), aged 45. Six children were listed: Laurance 15; Anne 13; <b>Mary</b> 11; Catherine 8; Bridget 4; Rose 1.</p>
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<p>It would be marvelous to find a note in the census records saying, yes, this is your family. However Concepta and I believe this is the same Mary Cunningham who later marries Michael Coyle, has four children and continues to live in Co Cavan for the rest of her rather short (about 38 years) life.</p>
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<p>What else can I discover about these Cunninghams?</p>
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