This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zQB.2ACE/1759.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Pat, William J. Me Dede was one of the New Brunswick undertakers in business around the turn of the century, located at 25 Easton Avenue, New Brunswick. The building is still there, an odd building now, it consists of a bagel shop, a tarot card reader(!) and a carribean take out resturant, along with some smaller offices inside the 1st floor. What you can't see from the street is that the property goes VERY far back, on an angle. The garage is huge. It could be an interesting funeral home except there is no parking. Anyhoo...Mc Dede sold it to James H. Maher in 1914, Undertaker Maher had a brother and a son, both funeral directors, His brother was coroner and lived until the 1940s, quite elderly for that time, and Mr. Maher was practicing until his death in 1961, unfortunately his son, dropped dead of a heart attack when he was about 48 less than a year after his dad. The last funeral director was a man named Leo J. Mc Closkey, from Princeton, NJ. The next of kin sold the buildin! g to the first offer that came by, incidentally, from the corner tavern owners next door. I'm not sure anyone maintained those records after Mr. Maher, but we can try to feel around for some answers. I believe the decendants moved out of NJ, but don't quote me. <Would there be additional info that would not be on a death certificate?> There very well could be. It depends who has them and if the undertaker at the time was detail oriented. I found records, not much mind you, from the present incarnation of W. H. Quackenboss and Son, also in New Brunswick. Bobby was very nice and I do appreciate his work. Anyhow, as I said to Joann, if it is all you have to go on, bits of detail are worthwhile. Kindest regards, Christopher