Hi Diane: The Irish were everywhere! From "Where We Live . . ." Mo. Hist. Society - 1995 "Irish immigrants first settled in Carondelet in the late 1840s. After 1870, many of them found employment at the Vulcan Iron Works in southeast Carondelet and took up residence nearby. In time, this Irish enclave became known as "the Patch." It covered an area roughly bordered by the Mississippi on the east, and South Broadway on the west, with Davis and Catalan on the north & south. The large Irish population led to the founding of St. Columkille's Church in 1872. The church, which closed in 1952, served as the neighborhood social center and the meeting place for many organizations, ranging from altar societies to benevolent orders and dramatic clubs. When Vulcan closed at the turn of the century, the Patch experienced a slow decline as an Irish neighborhood. Today the name lives on at the Patch Neighborhood Center, 7925 Minnesota Ave., which offers services for youth and senior citizens as well as a variety of self-help programs." Further info might be found with "Carondelet, The Ethnic Heritage of an Urban Neighborhood" by Carolyn Toft, Washington Univ., St. Louis School of Social Science Institute Ethnic Heritage Studies, 1975 Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 3:41 PM Subject: [MO-STLOUIS-METRO] Notes from Diane > I get requests to do lookups now and then, and I have noticed a trend in > the requests lately. It brings up a trap I fell into quite some time ago. > The 1860 census of St. Louis (and the rest of the US) is not fully indexed > in Ancestry or in Heritage Quest either. I am not sure that it is fully > indexed on any on-line data base. I notice that there are folks who are > assuming that their rellie was not in St. Louis because they did not find > them in the on line index. That's not true! > > If you don't find your rellie in the on line index to the 1860 census of > St. Louis, call the libraries and ask for a lookup in the 1860 census > index. It is a hard copy book that is alphabetized, so lookups are fairly > easy. > > St. Louis Public Library: (314) 241-2288 > St. Louis Co. Library (314) 994-3300 > > _______________________________________________ > I was at the St. Louis Genealogical Society Fair last Saturday and while > there, I heard a reference to an Irish area called "The Patch" that was > located in Carondelet. It was not called the the Kerry Patch. It was > merely called "The Patch". If anyone knows anything about this area - > history, location, etc. I would be very interested. > > Thanks! > _____________________________________________________ > I hope that folks are keeping an eye on Dave Lossos' web site. One of our > list members - Gloria Detleff - is still transcribing records from St. > Joseph's Church -Shrine and they are posted on Dave's excellent web site. > Thanks, Gloria for your hard work transcribing and translating the church > records. > > http://genealogyinstlouis.accessgenealogy.com/ > > > > ________________________________________________________ > Bob Doerr won't toot his own horn so I will! > > Have a look at the Mo. State Genealogical Association for which he is the > editor of their journal. > > http://mosga.missouri.org/journal.html > > Table of Contents to the journals is here: > http://www.rollanet.org/~bdoerr/contents.htm > > There is a searchable surname database on the Mo. State Genealogical > Assoc. website. Thanks, Bob for all you do! > > ____________________________________________________________________________ > > I saw Dennis Northcutt at the St. Louis Genealogical Society Fair and he > reminded me that their website has updated the guides to the Mo. > Historical Society Library collection. > > There is an interesting guide to Steamboats and River History there. > > http://www.mohistory.org/content/LibraryAndResearch/Archives.aspx > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > Many ethnic groups immigrated to the US through the port at New Orleans: > Here is a good web site for researching it. > > http://www.nutrias.org/~nopl/spec/speclist.htm > > Also try New Orleans hospital records on line. > http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/la/orleans/charity.htm > > Researchers of Germans who landed in New Orleans should try: > http://www.deutscheshaus.org/ > > and New Orleans German Church Records are here: > > http://freepages.religions.rootsweb.com/~neworleans/ > _____________________________________________________ > For those who are researching Irish in Canada, the 1901 census is on line > here: > > http://automatedgenealogy.com/census/cache/NationalSummary.jsp > > This is a good resource because it lists the names of everyone in the > household - therefore you can find older rellies who are living with their > children. It also lists women by their maiden names - a wonderful tool > for those of us who are researching maternal lines. > > _____________________________________________________ > > Diane Shaw > Hillsboro > > > > > > > > > > > ==== MO-STLOUIS-METRO Mailing List ==== > If you haven't visited Dave Lossos' "Genealogy in St. Louis" website > (http://genealogyinstlouis.accessgenealogy.com/) you might want to take a > look. > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.10.4 - Release Date: 4/27/2005 >