I couldn't resist "digging". It is John Edward Kelly. John E. and Jane/Jenny/Jean/Jennie Henderson had 7 children with 5 surviving according to 1900 Census. You do have many clues! Have you contacted Holy Cross Cemetery? Give them the name and burial date and request the location of the plot, all names interred there and the owner of the plot. I found two death certs for Lizzie, died 16 May 1887, address 280 Otter St., burial New Cathedral and Joseph died 5 June 1885 , same address and cemetery. They may or may not be yours, but the address is Ward 16 where they are found in 1880 Census. (Otter became Wildey, location 2nd st. to Frankford ave. north of Poplar in 1897.) You could contact the Catholic Cemeteries Office and request more information. The children could be buried with their Kelly grandparents. You can view the death certs at www.familsearchlabs.org, get the birth dates and request their Baptismal information. as well as that of Sarah Henderson who is buried at Holy Cross. John and Jenny were living at 976 Delaware Ave. with Mary, age 3 in 1880 Census in Ward 16 along with widowed Sarah Henderson. You could contact PAHRC and request Mary's Baptismal information. I believe that address is Immaculate Conception, Front and Allen Sts. Baptismal information gives you the names of Godparents. If they are John's siblings it will be easier to find him as a child since you know he was born in Philadelphia about Oct. 1854. Happy Hunting! You WILL find his parents. Regards, Mary McCanney Finley ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jo-Ann Bradley" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 2:12 PM Subject: [Phly-Rts] John E. Kelly > Listers, > My great grandfather, John E. Kelly, was born, lived & died in > Philadelphia. I'd really like to go further back with his family but am > having difficulty since he had such a common name. > He was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery on Oct 01, 1921. I assume he died the > latter part of Sept. He lived at 2360 N. Hope St and was a carpet weaver. > His wife Jennie's parents' were Thomas & Sarah Henderson. Thomas was born > in Scotland & Sarah in Ireland. > John & Jennie's children - Mary, John, Katherine, Ella,& Charles. > Does this family link with yours? > Does anyone have easy access to old Philadelphia newspapers to look up > John's date of death? I'd need that to get his death certificate for clues > to his parents. > Thank you. Jo-Ann > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >