Hi Sharon, from you knowledge and experience the second item below list is very thought provoking - it looks more like an entry from a census return. The entry about the prostitutes residence is unusual. I can't even speculate on why it is in the book, and the very young children who died - was there a cholera outbreak or other epidemic raging in N.Y.C at the time? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Carberry" <sm8carberry@comcast.net> To: <irl-clare@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:33 AM Subject: [IRL-CLARE] Daniel O'Neil, b.c. 1828 Kilkishen, d. 1886 NYC > Old Calvary Cemetery, p. 83 [of the book, see below] > Headstone #1111 > O'Neil > [by] Margaret [for] husband Daniel d. 20 Mar 1886 age 58 > native of Kilkishen, Clare > his granddaughter Catherine Mullane age 6 mo. > > > 1870 NY New York Co. [Manhattan], 4th Ward > O'Neil > Daniel 40 Ire longshoreman > Margareth 37 Ire > Mary 18 Ire bookfolder > Bartholomew 14 NY appr bookbinder > Paul 11 > Dennis 8 > Daniel 5 > James 2 > > 4 housing units away from a "house of ill fame" > Anna Quirk 28 Ire as head > 4 prostitutes, ages 19 to 23, three of whom b. Ire >
The cemeterly listing is posted immediately after the heading referring to the Old Calvary Cemetery book. I then left a space and followed the family in the U.S. censuses. I always go forward and backward a page or two when I view an online census page, in order to pick up more Clare-born. In this instance I instead saw the brothel listed, which may well have been in the same building as the family. As to children dying young, some U.S. families were fortunate in having their children survive the many diseases which were prevalent before the advent of penicillin. I have a set of ggrandparents who lived on an upstate farm (Kingston NY), both resident in this country for over 20 years at the time of their early 1880s marriage, were healthy (I visited this ggmother until her death in 1957) and adept in childraising, yet they lost the middle three babies of their 9 children due to various illnesses. Sharon C. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pádraig Mór Ó Gealagain" <padraigogealagain@rogers.com> To: <irl-clare@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 8:16 AM Subject: Re: [IRL-CLARE] Daniel O'Neil, b.c. 1828 Kilkishen, d. 1886 NYC > Hi Sharon, from you knowledge and experience the second item below list is > very thought provoking - it looks more like an entry from a census return. > The entry about the prostitutes residence is unusual. I can't even speculate > on why it is in the book, and the very young children who died - was there a > cholera outbreak or other epidemic raging in N.Y.C at the time? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sharon Carberry" <sm8carberry@comcast.net> > To: <irl-clare@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 7:33 AM > Subject: [IRL-CLARE] Daniel O'Neil, b.c. 1828 Kilkishen, d. 1886 NYC > > > > Old Calvary Cemetery, p. 83 [of the book, see below] > > Headstone #1111 > > O'Neil > > [by] Margaret [for] husband Daniel d. 20 Mar 1886 age 58 > > native of Kilkishen, Clare > > his granddaughter Catherine Mullane age 6 mo. > > > > > > 1870 NY New York Co. [Manhattan], 4th Ward > > O'Neil > > Daniel 40 Ire longshoreman > > Margareth 37 Ire > > Mary 18 Ire bookfolder > > Bartholomew 14 NY appr bookbinder > > Paul 11 > > Dennis 8 > > Daniel 5 > > James 2 > > > > 4 housing units away from a "house of ill fame" > > Anna Quirk 28 Ire as head > > 4 prostitutes, ages 19 to 23, three of whom b. Ire > >