I finally received some death certificates from the archives that were a long time coming and now find we need help reading two of them. I can’t understand the name of the streets they each lived on, can’t read the secondary cause of death for one (two died a month apart of phthisis (TB) but one had a secondary cause of ?asthamia??) and don’t understand an area of one that’s written over. If anyone is good at handwriting I’d love to have you take a look! This all brings up questions. Hannah McLoughlin was born est. 1861 in Ireland, apparently came to the US in 1874 (age approx. 13 at that time), married John McDermott and had at least one child named Mary McDermott born in the summer of 1887. When Hannah died at age 27 as a widow in August of 1888 Mary went to live at St. Joseph’s asylum. I don’t know when John died and have not found any other info about either Hannah or John. I have not found Mary in the birth index for NY but her death certificate says she was born in NY. I can’t guarantee that they arrived in NY or that Hannah and John were married in NY. The family does have a connection to Philadelphia. Would anyone have any suggestions? Kathy

Kathy, I looked at 1874 passenger arrivals on Ancestry, found no Hannah McLoughlin (non-exact) but several Anns. See this link -- Ann was a nickname or synonym for Hannah. < http://content.bandzoogle.com/users/dennisahogan/files/GivenNameAlternatives.pdf > PJ