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| From left, Maggie (Conlon) Doyle, Patrick Doyle and ? |
Margaret (Maggie) (Conlon)
Doyle is my paternal great grandmother. She is someone whom I know little
about. I am now revisiting this family and hope I can find the link between
Edward Conlon and Maggie.
Edward’s daughter, Mary (Mae)
b: abt 1902 was always introduced as my grandmother’s cousin. Mae spent her two
week summer vacations with us in Upstate New York while visiting my grandmother Mary Agnes (Doyle)
Nunn. I’d also met Mae’s brother Lawrence, and knew about George and Edward
Conlon.
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| From left, Mary (Doyle) Nunn and Mae (Conlon) Harrington |
Yesterday I searched the
1905 New York State census and was surprised to find another child in the
family—Anna b: abt 1903. Their parents, Edward Conlon b: abt 1873 and Mary (O’Donnell) Conlon
b: abt 1873 and family lived in Manhattan.
Edward reports in the 1910
Federal Census that he is a widower working as an oiler in a powerhouse. A
brother named Lawrence, age 31, is living with him.
During previous research
I’d found the sons Edward and George Conlon living at the Roman Catholic Orphan
Asylum for Boys in the Bronx District #35 in 1910. The orphan asylum was
located on Sedgewick Avenue and Kingsbridge Road.
Where are Lawrence, Mae and Anna?
What happened to the mother and where is she buried. These questions remain to
be answered.
In 1915 Edward, George,
Lawrence and Mae are boarding with the John and Bridget Conlon family on
Wallace Street, Bronx, New York, and then by 1917 the Conlon children still
minus Anna are living with Patrick and Maggie (Conlon) Doyle at 164 East 97th
Street in Manhattan.
I’ve come up blank on
finding information on Mae’s marriage to John Harrington, his death, and
burial. I have Mae’s funeral card with the date of 11 September 1983, but no
indication of church or funeral home. I know Mae Conlon and John Harrington
were married between the time the census was taken in 1930 and 1935. I’ve
looked through the Reclaim the Records index of New York marriages for the
Bronx, but now wonder if they went to Manhattan to get married in the same
church as my grandparents, St. Lucy’s. That’s my next step.
My challenge is to connect
Maggie b: abt 1865 and Edward b: abt 1873 so I can add this branch to my family
tree.
And then there is Thomas
Conlon living with the Doyles in 1910. Ah, the Irish cousins.
