I think soemone offered t do UK census lookups on a previous digest, could whoever that was repost your email so I can send you some information? Also, would 1881 census information actually be info from 1880, or is the census actually taken in the year stated? Thanks. ----- Original Message ----- From: <PALACKAW-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: <PALACKAW-D@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 7:16 PM Subject: PALACKAW-D Digest V01 #194

I'll second that. Iva also looked up an obit for me and found it. She's definitely got my vote! Glen Jenkins Wales --- Mahb126@aol.com wrote: > Iva, > This has nothing to do with me, but I am very > impressed that you would go out > of your way like this to help someone. It amazes me > how kind and thoughtful > and generous people are, and you appear on the top > of that list. > > MargeB > > > ==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== > Search the Lackawanna pages: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/search.html > To unsubscribe: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList > ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie

Anne, Many thanks for ur efforts. Ur newsy notes have been very helpful and enlightening. I am sure many of our fellow listers find them informative and interesting. Thanks again for ur great job. By the way I will get back to u on the GORMAN line. I have been waiting the results of vital records search on my gggrandmother Mary GORMAN GERRITY HAMMILL Thanks again Walt

Diane, Searching also for Snyders--but mine is the male side and I have no info before William Snyder (1840-1920). I do not know how the list works and I do not know if you get the latest info I sent to Richard M. Reese. Let me know if you do not have my Snyder info and I will sent it to you. Thanks. Pat M. ----- Original Message ----- From: unicornd <unicornd@msn.com> To: <PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 5:05 PM Subject: [PA-LAC] SNYDER/MASTERS/MADISON > I'm just beginning research on a new line - SNYDER. I am looking for > information on: > > Cornelia SNYDER b c 1806/07 PA? (re pension info she gave, and the 1880 > Mortality Schedule). She was first married to Otis MADISON d 1828 Dundaff, > Susque. Co., and they had 3 children: > George > Mary m Martin HOUGHTALING > Matilda m Elisha D. WIGHTMAN. > > Cornelia's second marriage May 1829 in Clifford Corners, Susque. Co. by > Charles Miller, was to Stephen MASTERS b 1788 NY d 1865 PA. > They had 6 children: > Charles A. m Phoebe LaFrance > Henry m Mary Boorem > Joseph Bloomfield m Sally Forrest > Maria m Joseph LaFrance > James m Sarah Hinds > Willard - died age 5. > > Cornelia died November 1879 in Wayne Co., PA. In a bio on her son Charles, > it was said that Cornelia's father was from Germany and that he was in the > Revol. War. > > Does anyone have information on any of these names that may lead to more > info on the SNYDER line?? > > Many thanks for any help - > > Diane > > ~ ********** ~ ********** ~ ********** ~ ********** ~ > CHECK OUR QUERY GENEALOGY FAMILY PAGE - > www.familytreemaker.com/users/a/n/d/Sharon-D-Andreasen/ > > > > > ==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== > Have you visited the Lackawanna County page lately? http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/ > To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList > >

In a message dated 06/15/2001 7:57:40 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bhealey@msn.com writes: > > Where were your HAGGERTYs from? My ggrandmother was Mary HAGERTY from the > Crossmolina parish in Mayo. Her three daughters, Mary, Agnes and Catherine > came over some time after the turn of the century and settled in Scranton. > They were GILROYs. Mary HAGERTY married Patrick GILROY in Mayo. > > Catherine was my grandmother, married William HEALEY, they had William > HEALEY (my dad), who had William HEALEY (me). > I don't know where the Haggertys were from, but I'm making up a story based on your message. I'll be interested to know what you think of it. It's about the Crossmolina connection. The obituary of my gggm, Jane Flynn, (1810-1893) gives her place of birth as Crossmolina, Ireland. In the 1860 census, she--widowed in Ireland--is listed with her five teenage and young adult children, her stepson John Flynn, and two young men who I have assumed were boarders: a James Healey and Edward Hagerty, who is 23 years old. Soon afterwards, Jane's daughter Hannah marries an Edward Haggerty (I assume the same fellow). I do not have a marriage record, but have 1870 census information detailing four daughters born to the couple, including my grandmother Kate, in 1868. Soon afterwards, Hannah appears to be living with her brother's family and is listed under her own name. Sometime in the early 1870s , she remarries. So, what if Edward Haggerty is not just a boarder, but a friend from Ireland? Family lore reports Jane being from Falcarragh, Co. Donegal, but that might have been the home of her second husband James Flynn, and not necessarily where she lived her life. It may also be connected with her trip from Ireland to America. I have been unable to find Edward's name is late 1860s mine accidents; I do not know how or exactly when he died. I am assuming he died young because divorce would have been close to unthinkable for this Irish Catholic clan. The Luzerne Co. Cthse. has early death records only back to 1893. Can you make anything of all this? I'm getting a little confused writing it, so I can imagine what reading it is like--thanks for your message, Anne

However it happened, it must have been a tragedy. Reading these old papers, the mining and railway accidents alone are appalling, not to mention the high child mortality and premature deaths of young adults from diseases we can now fix with a prescription of antibiotics. The item certainly gives you specificity about her death. Anne

Hi Mary--that James Flynn obit certainly caught my eye, too. Don't know that there's a connection since, according to my data from you, I have gggm Jane Flynn's stepson John with a DOD of July 19, 1892 (he's the one who died unexpectedly while visiting in Ireland). Then I have James Flynn, d. Dec. 27, 1901, a son of Jane's, and the older brother of Enos Flynn. So I cannot place this James Flynn, but there were, I believe seven of them (old enough to be listed in the city dir. or census--I forget which) in Scranton around 1890-1900, so confusion is inevitable. I guess it's helpful to know who he isn't, even if we don't know who he is! I'll be interested in any followup that helps clarify. Anne

I can think of two reliable and easy to check resources - each yearly newspaper almanac, and each Scranton City Directory listed the city and county officials. In addition the newspaper almanacs published election vote totals [which included the loosing candidates as well as the winners]. The alamancs are held at the Lackwanna Historical Society, Catlin House, 232 Monroe Ave., Scranton, and span from the mid 1880's to 1938. The city directories exist in a few places around the US such as the National Archives in Washington, The PA State Library in Harrisburg (1861-1935), Scranton Public (of course), the NEPaGRS and Albany, NY. For many years Scranton council was divided into two chambers, select and common. Many early minutes of Scranton city council meetings are held on microfilm at the PA State Archives in Harrisburg and were often published in newspapers such as the Tribune or Republican in the years before 1910. -----Original Message----- From: Gtbaar@aol.com <Gtbaar@aol.com> To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com <PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, June 15, 2001 7:20 PM Subject: [PA-LAC] George W. MACKIE and Scranton Politics >I appeal to my friends on the list to help me find a source to verify my >great great uncle's involvement in Scranton politics. I remember being told >by my grandmother that one of her uncles--I think George--served as a >Scranton councilman. What source could verify this piece of information? > > >Gayle Thorpe Baar >Irving, Texas > >Researching: Backus, Baker, Bridge, Culver, Davies, Davis, Easton, Evans, >Fairbanks, Fisher, Gay, Gibbons, Hall, Harris, Hughes, Hutton, Ignew, Jones, >Ladburner, Lee, Mackie, Miller, Morrell, Payne, Pettebone, Read, Starkey, >Stephens, Swetland, Thorpe, Tiffany, Whitaker, Williams, Woodruff > > >==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== >Search the Lackawanna pages: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/search.html >To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList >

Dear Marge, Thank you for your kind words. I have been "digging" for facts about my family for almost ten years now and I know how wonderful it is to actually find something. I had promised myself a long time ago that, if I could help someone else who was doing some "digging," I would. Since I live only 15 miles from Scranton, I am happy to help out if I can. Good luck in your search. Iva

Iva, This has nothing to do with me, but I am very impressed that you would go out of your way like this to help someone. It amazes me how kind and thoughtful and generous people are, and you appear on the top of that list. MargeB

Anne, I've appreciated your posts and saved them in case I get connections to those lines later. Where were your HAGGERTYs from? My ggrandmother was Mary HAGERTY from the Crossmolina parish in Mayo. Her three daughters, Mary, Agnes and Catherine came over some time after the turn of the century and settled in Scranton. They were GILROYs. Mary HAGERTY married Patrick GILROY in Mayo. Catherine was my grandmother, married William HEALEY, they had William HEALEY (my dad), who had William HEALEY (me). Good luck. ----- Original Message ----- From: <AnneTullar@aol.com> To: <PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 9:32 PM Subject: [PA-LAC] The Providence Register > To Susan Pieroth and interested listers, > > I've posted all that I have--hope to order films of what I have not yet > reviewed, and when I do, I will have some more to send along to you, but that > will not be for awhile. If anybody wants to join the party, the films are > available from the State Library of Pennsylvania--ILL will get them to you if > you are at a distance. > > Thank you, Susan, for what you do to make this possible, and thanks to all > who have contacted me. It has been a real pleasure to hear from you. You > are a most appreciative group. > > Not only have I enjoyed your messages, I have had the good fortune of > receiving useful newspaper clippings from Mary Casey, who also researchs a > Flynn family. > > Anne Tullar > > >From North Carolina, I am researching McMullan, Grady, Murray, Rowland > (paternal) and McDade, Haggerty, Gorman, and Flynn(maternal). All but the > McDades clustered in Scranton for 100 years after getting off the boat, and > the McDades were, conveniently,in Dunmore. > > > ==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== > Subscribers -- Off topic postings (particularly political, advertising, or just plain rude) > AND responses on the list are grounds for being Unsubscribed > Please forward any offending email to <mailto:pieroth@ix.netcom.com> > To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList > >

I appeal to my friends on the list to help me find a source to verify my great great uncle's involvement in Scranton politics. I remember being told by my grandmother that one of her uncles--I think George--served as a Scranton councilman. What source could verify this piece of information? Gayle Thorpe Baar Irving, Texas Researching: Backus, Baker, Bridge, Culver, Davies, Davis, Easton, Evans, Fairbanks, Fisher, Gay, Gibbons, Hall, Harris, Hughes, Hutton, Ignew, Jones, Ladburner, Lee, Mackie, Miller, Morrell, Payne, Pettebone, Read, Starkey, Stephens, Swetland, Thorpe, Tiffany, Whitaker, Williams, Woodruff

I'm just beginning research on a new line - SNYDER. I am looking for information on: Cornelia SNYDER b c 1806/07 PA? (re pension info she gave, and the 1880 Mortality Schedule). She was first married to Otis MADISON d 1828 Dundaff, Susque. Co., and they had 3 children: George Mary m Martin HOUGHTALING Matilda m Elisha D. WIGHTMAN. Cornelia's second marriage May 1829 in Clifford Corners, Susque. Co. by Charles Miller, was to Stephen MASTERS b 1788 NY d 1865 PA. They had 6 children: Charles A. m Phoebe LaFrance Henry m Mary Boorem Joseph Bloomfield m Sally Forrest Maria m Joseph LaFrance James m Sarah Hinds Willard - died age 5. Cornelia died November 1879 in Wayne Co., PA. In a bio on her son Charles, it was said that Cornelia's father was from Germany and that he was in the Revol. War. Does anyone have information on any of these names that may lead to more info on the SNYDER line?? Many thanks for any help - Diane ~ ********** ~ ********** ~ ********** ~ ********** ~ CHECK OUR QUERY GENEALOGY FAMILY PAGE - www.familytreemaker.com/users/a/n/d/Sharon-D-Andreasen/ >

Dear Robyn, I took a ride to Scranton today and, while there, I looked for your James (Jacobum) Golden. I am sorry to report that I could find nothing. Then it occurred to me that Avoca, where he lived, is in Luzerne County, not Lackawanna. So I came down to our library here in Wilkes-Barre and searched the Times-Leader from May 18, 1928 to May 25, 1928. Unfortunately, no luck! We had another newspaper in town in those days, called the Wilkes-Barre Morning Record. When I get a chance, I will go back to the library to see if the Record has anything at all about his death. It may be a couple of weeks, though, as I am off for Baltimore on Sunday to visit my daughter and her family. I will get back to you, I promise. I hope that you had a wonderful time in Ireland! Iva

I obtained the certificate number and Naturalization date for my gg grandfather in Scranton. I then sent to Philadelphia INS for the record. They say that although it exists they cannot find it. I just found that the Naturalization date was listed on the Ellis Island original manifest and it matched the date they gave me in Scranton. Would anyone know if this record is anywhere in Scranton? Robert Gay certificate # 2951181 Volume 8 September 27, 1912 Thank you for any help. Karen Aten Hillman

Hi Mary: I too was intriqued with this entry on James Flynn. I checked my software, but had only one James Flynn, born about 1926, so it could not be he. If you get any more data, I would appreciate it. Glad the information Luke Gilmartin was on target. Someday, perhaps you could give me a run down. You realize that the Gilmartin's figure in with the Judge's and Walsh's, so we are both interested, as well as with the Flynn's. Happy hunting. Bob. MCasey863@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 6/14/01 9:37:21 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > AnneTullar@aol.com writes: > > << James Flynn, of 217 Oak street, was highly honored recently by being > promoted > to the foremanship of the Delaware and Hudson foundry. Mr. Flynn has been > employed by the Delaware and Hudson company, in this city, for the past > thirty years. This vacancy was caused by the death of William Widmayer, of > Ross Avenue. >> > > Hi Anne, > > Do you know anything else about this gentleman? I don't see his name > associated with Enos in the obits I have. Enos' relative, James, died > earlier in 1892, I believe. Thank you. Mary > > ==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== > Have you visited some of the surrounding counties? http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/#Surrounding_Counties > To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList

wondered is anyone knows of a Fred Blue who was married to a Dippre? Lenora from Wisconsin

Does anyone know where Petersburg Catholic Cem. is. I have a Dippre that died in 1903 and is buried there. He died in Scranton. Lenora from Wisconsin

Need some information on this Construction Company, I have no dates but was supposidly located in Scranton. I just know the name of the construction company was R. D. RICHARDSON CONSTRUCTION COMPANY. (the first name was Rexford) Any help would greatly be appreciated, Email me privaely if you have any information on this company or even if you can give me some clues as to where I could find out about it. Thanks to all, Carol

Noticed a message from a Kathy Johnson that related to informatin I have. Attempted to answer but e-mail address has "fatal flaw: according to AOL. If you could post this she may be able to send correct address. Ed Walker