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

The arsenal downtown was the Schuylkill Arsenal. Franford Arsenal closed some years ago. I think that the Schuylkill Arsenal is still operating in some capacity. 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