For a book I'm researching on my family, I would like to gather anecdotes relating to Irish bricklayers and stonemasons working in NYC from the 1840s to the 1940s. In 1840, my gggrandfather John Fullam emigrated from Dublin to NYC and worked as a bricklayer and stonemason, as did his sons and their sons. One of his sons, my ggrandfather Victor Fullam was killed in 1909 when a steel scaffold collapsed during the construction of the Singer Sewing Machine Building in lower Manhattan. His sons, Andrew, Joseph, Lawrence and Eugene, laid bricks on the Empire State Building and other projects. They also worked civil service jobs in the city's fire, police and parks departments. My father Eugene was a civil engineer who worked below and above ground, supervising construction of foundations and steel erections. Any and all background info or even more specific data relating to these individuals would be greatly appreciated! (I have most of the bmd info on all of them.) Thanks! This is my first post! I've been reading the list for nearly a year, and I really enjoy it. Anne Fullam Goeke