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Grandma and Aunt Deb at Southside Tavern, and grandma’s dad’s World War I draft card listing his address as 36 Bridge Street. We knew he lived there at least til 1920, when he married grandma’s mom. We did not know until the other day that 36 Bridge Street used to be the Stonycreek Hotel and is now Southside. Grandma, two of my aunts and a bunch of my cousins (and me) were all just there at Christmastime for a trivia night!
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(Almost) dying to see the 1940 census
The 1940 census was released on Monday, and I took the day off just so I could pour through it looking for (cyberstalking!) my grandmother in her first appearance in a United States census at the age of seven and a few of her relatives for my family history project. I managed to get everyone I was looking for except for my grandmother’s sister and aunt Maggie and her family. Of course, I also ended up in the hospital…
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The Adventures of Officer Wilkinson
Grandma’s aunt Mary Quinn didn’t get married until she was almost 40, because she was in love with Bill Wilkinson, a policeman in Turtle Creek near Pittsburgh, and he wasn’t Catholic. Mary knew her parents basically disowned her brother when they disapproved of his marriage, so she decided to bide her time until her parents died. After her mother’s death and just before her father’s, she finally married Bill. As far as I can tell, the couple stayed in the Pittsburgh area and never had any children.
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Missing from history
My great-uncle Henry Quinn Jr. was born in Croyle, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, in June 1889. He appears in the 1900 census - 10 years old with no occupation (his 15 year-old brother is a coal miner, and started working in the mine at 9, so this is somewhat unusual) and four years of school (so he’s probably still in school) - and in the 1910 census - 21, still living at home and a fireman with the railroad. But he doesn’t appear in the 1920 or 1930 censuses. My grandmother recalls that he was killed in a railroad accident and the family apparently got a sizable settlement, but there doesn’t seem to be any record of his death anywhere…
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Adventures in Irish records
I got an early St. Patrick’s Day present yesterday, when I got home and saw that the marriage licenses I’d ordered had come from the county courthouse. I was mainly interested in the license of my great-grandfather, John Thomas Quinn, and my great-grandmother, Marion Kathian Smith. Grandma (their daughter) doesn’t know a whole lot about them, and the records I’ve found so far don’t offer too much information - particularly about where they’re from.
Genealogical research on these surnames: Pozun, Zemljak, Lorditch, Molchany, Lesko, Paserba, Hranycznyj, Quinn, McKenna, etc.
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