Arsenal: probably the Frankford Arsenal, although there was an arsenal downtown at one time.. My father worked in an ice house when he was young. There were many occupations in an ice house. However, you state a "newspaper article": What year, what type of article? You state a census: what year? He could have changed jobs. Gene Stackhouse A 2006 study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink an average of 22 gallons of beer a year. That means, on average, Americans get about 41 miles per gallon. Not Bad >From: EileenCrook@aol.com >Reply-To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com >To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [Phly-Rts] Meanings of occupations >Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 10:31:02 EDT > >Dear readers > >Amongst other Donnelly's, I am searching at the moment for Michael and a >sister Mary. So far the following census return seems to be the closest I >have >found so far but I have my doubts as the sister in question here is >unmarried >whereas my Mary's surname should have been Doyle. There are 2 questions >that I would like to ask if you will all bear with me. > >1910 census > >143 - 24th street, Philadelphia > >Michael Donnelly head white male born Sept 1854 - 45 years single - >brickmaker b1855 Pennsylvania >Mary Donnelly sister white female born Aug 1857 - 52 years (age out of >sync >here) - single - arsenal b 1848 Pennsylvania > >The first question - my Michael, according to a newspaper article, worked >for the Knickerbocker Ice Company - could his occupation shown on the >census of >'brickmaker' belong to this industry. > > >Secondly - Mary states for her occupation 'Arsenal' - would anyone know to >what this referred. > > > > >Eileen > > > > > > > >********* >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 >PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message