Tag: Massachusetts

Augusta (Lucy) Stinson, Jamaica Plain, MA

In July 1913 Mr William A Lucy of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, received a postcard that his daughter sent from Cleveland, Ohio. Can we find out a little bit more about Mr Lucy and his daughter?

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Edwin O'Connor of Woonsocket, Rhode Island–A Brief Ancestry

Some years ago I researched a friend's Irish ancestry. She was from Galway and it turned out that she was distantly related to John Ford the American movie director. That got me thinking about the Irish experience in the United States and about American movies in general, which eventually brought me around to reading, not watching, The Last Hurrah.

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Patrick Lanagan of Sligo and Waltham

Every human being is unique and no doubt that was true of Patrick Lanagan as well. But what makes him special to me is this: he is the only person whom I have found who is recorded in Griffith's Valuation of Ireland and then emigrated to America.

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Mary E Keane, Nahant, Massachusetts

About March 1943, Miss Mary Keane of 93 Fox Hill Road, Nahant, Massachusetts, received a letter from Gaillimh (Galway) Ireland. Can this postmark tell us anything about her family's Irish origins?

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Mary Orton of Fall River, Massachusetts

In September 1911, Miss Lottie Orton, of Hastings, Nebraska, received a postcard from her cousin Mary Orton, postmarked Sakonnet, Rhode Island. The message read:

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Mary Frances Dolan, Cambridgeport, Massachusetts

On November 26, 1904, Miss Fannie Dolan of 16 Watson Street, Cambridgeport, Massachusetts, received a postcard. It had been mailed 11 days earlier from Castlewellan, County Down, Ireland, and carried the message

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Patrick J Slowey of Syracuse, New York, and Holyoke, Massachusetts

I came across P.J. Slowey while looking through some postal covers at the Jim Forte Postal History site. In 1939 he received a letter from Ballyjamesduff, Ireland. As a genealogist I wondered if that was his place of birth.

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Anastasia (Lawton) Hankard—of Cork and East Boston, Massachusetts

In the first article in this series, we identified John Aloysius Hankard's paternal grandparents as John Hankard and Anastasia Lawton, both born in Ireland. On her marriage record, Anastasia said her father's name was John. Could we find Anastasia's Irish county of origin?

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James Carrigan of County Meath, Ireland, and Salem, Massachusetts

Earlier this week I received a photocopy of the naturalization papers for a James Carrigan, naturalized in Manchester Police Court, Manchester, New Hampshire, on March 13, 1866. He wasn’t our James Carrigan, my wife’s great, great grandfather, as I had hoped. But he was someone’s James Carrigan, so rather than let the work go to waste, I thought I would put it here.

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John Aloysius Hankard, East Boston, Massachusetts

On November 22, 1902 in Boston, Massachusetts, my wife's great aunt, Abigail Ellen "Abbie" (Page) Heise married John Aloysius Hankard. John's parents were recorded as John Hankard and Hannah Keegan. I recognized Keegan as an Irish name, assumed Hankard was also, and decided to see if I could trace either family back to at least the county of origin in Ireland.

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John Hankard of East Boston, Massachusetts

Having found John Hankard's father's name (Thomas) and a range of years for his birth (1820-1830), I started to look for his county of origin in Ireland. The first thing I did was to try the Irish Times surname search page for "Hankard". The results said ...

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Other Hankards in Eastern Massachusetts in the 1860s

Another way to find a Irish townland of origin is to trace the brothers and sisters of the person you are interested in, in this case the John Hankard who married Anastasia Lawton. His siblings' records might have the information we are looking for. There were a few other Hankards in the Boston area at the same time as John. Were they related?

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Peter and Mary Ann (McMahon) Keegan of Boston, Massachusetts

In the first article in this series, we established that John Aloysius Hankard's parents were John Hankard and Hannah Keegan. Hannah's death record, May 15, 1899, said that she was born in East Boston and her parents were Peter Keegan and Mary A McMann, both born in Ireland.

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Peter Curran of Galway and Norwood

A friend of mine asked me to see if I could find the Irish origins of her mother's Curran family who settled in Norwood, Massachusetts. As I soon found out, there were a lot of Currans in Norwood, but my friend supplied me with enough specifics to get going.

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Samuel Crim of Pedricktown, New Jersey

According to Kurtz - Sittler Genealogy Lines database at rootsweb.com, Aaron Crim and Lydia Harrow of Pedricktown,Salem County, New Jersey, had four children ...

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Was Charles Jenkins Really Samuel Crimm?

That question will only make sense to you if you let me explain the mystery we are facing: It begins with Margaret Louise Jenkins, who was born in East Boston, MA, on March 27, 1889 ...

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