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DNA Matches for My Childrens’ Maternal Warren Side

My children’s maternal side is Polish, English, Irish, and French Canadian. I wrote a Blog on my children’s clusters in 2025, but only looked at their Morrow side.

The Genealogy

Here is my children’s maternal genealogy:

  • Roughly 1/2 Polish – Jarek
  • 1/4 French Canadian (Morrow and Tacy – though those surnames are anglicized)
  • 1/8 Irish (Warren – previously thought to be Cavanaugh)
  • 1/8 English – Gatley

The Clusters

Here are my daughter’s Standard Clusters:

I took a guess on the Maternal Grandmother part and was wrong. See how closely these two are related. These are both Polish Clusters. So perhaps Jarek and Wozniak. It appears that no maternal grandmother clusters are available at this level. Here is one person I recognize from the third cluster:

He is also from Jarek, but a generation back. Here are the ranges for the Standaard Clusters:

Here are Heather’s corrected standard clusters:

Let’s see if my son’s standard clusters are any different:

Here I have filtered for the maternal only clusters. It is basically the same as my daughter’s but my son has more of the recent matches and less of the older matches.

Warren Clusters

I worked on Morrow Clusters in my previous Blog, I’ll look at Warren Clusters now. Here are some of my son JJ’s ThruLines:

The closest match to JJ is a 4th cousin:

However, there is another 4th cousin on the Hazel Sullivan Line with a larger DNA match:

I’ll pick Robin as the focus person for JJ’s clusters. I’ll also add the other four in:

I will choose 20 – 100 cM for the match level:

After going through all that, I get only the people I put into the cluster. I assume that means that that is all there is. This is a case where clusters are not very helpful

Shared Matches

I pay $10 per month for these so let’s look at JJ and Robin’s Shared Matches:

Here are nine matches instead of 4, so this is clearly better than the Clusters.

I also have this Sullivan DNA tree:

It looks like I am missing Cedar. Also, my DNA tree does not match ThruLines. Robin should not be Autumn’s mother. This should be more accurate:

 

Shared Match Jacqueline

Ancestry has her has a grand niece or half niece to Robin. My guess is a grand niece as she shows her grandparents as still being alive in her tree.

Shared Match Michael

Michael shows his mother as a Sullivan:

Sullivan is a pretty common name, but I can add it to my tree as a floating tree and see if it matches up. Michael’s tree does not show his parents married, but I assume that they were. When I add them as married, I find an obituary for Dorothy:

Here is Linwood, New Jersey:

Dorothy’s sister was Elizabeth Fitzpatrick.

This must be the family in 1940:

Dorothy’s mother, Sarah was born in Massachusetts.

This Social Security record for Elizabeth is helpful:

Here is another Social Security record tying Sarah back to Lowell, MA:

James was listed as a musician when he married:

Charles Sullivan and Mary Smith marry in Lowelll in 1893. This brings me back to the tree that I have.

I need to merge this Charles Sullivan with the one in my floating tree:

Now I can add Michael to my children’s Warren DNA Tree:

I can see an error in my existing tree as Francis must have been born much later than 1835. That should be 1865. Civil War Time (or right after).

This shows that Michael and JJ are fourth cousins. Michael and Robin are third cousins. The DNA match between Michael and JJ and the fact that Michael’s mother was a Sulllivan gave me some certaintly that the trees would match up and they did.

The Warren DNA Tree is heavily weighted toward the Sullivan side:

It seems like there should be more DNA matches out there somewhere:

I have that Jeremiah Warren had 7 children, but the matches only show through two of the children: Bridget and John. Also, John Wareen had 5 children, but I have not seen matches between my children’s ancestor John Edward Warren Cavanaugh and any of the other 4 siblings. When I looked into the 4 siblings, it appeared that they all died single except for Thomas. However, Thomas married at age 17 and died less than a year later. That would explain a lack of DNA matching.

JJ and Tricia

JJ and Robin have a shared match named Tricia:

Above is Tricia’s paternal side tree. I could get Tricia into my tree by use of a floating tree, but I will try a lazier way. When I choose Mary Briere from Tricia’s tree and hit the Ancestry search button, I see this:

When I choose shared matches for Tricia and JJ and sort by closest matches to Tricia, I see that Eileen is a fairly close match to Tricia at 720 cM. Here is Eileen’s tree:

Eileen’s mother is Norma Golden, so my guess is that Norma is the sister of Francis Golden born 1930. Looks like I don’t have much information on Blanche Sullivan in my Ancestry Tree:

I can fix that quickly. Here is the marriage record:

The 1930 Census fills in some details for children:

With the 1940 Census for Lowell, we can add in Norma:

I’ll just add Tricia to my Warren DNA Tree:

Tricia is Eileen’s 1st cousin once removed and JJ’s 4th cousin once removed.

Heather’s Warren DNA

 I can follow the same logic for Heather:

Heather has a closer match with Eileen. Clustering with Eileen only produced 4 matches. However, as before, shared matches with Eileen was much more helpful:

This is an interesting list. However, Dany shows as a possible Tessier connection:

I’ll ignore Dany and his small DNA match right now and look at Kevin who has a 21 cM DNA match with Heather:

The pateral side of Kevin’s tree goes back to George D Sullivan. It turns out that I have this George in my Ancestry Tree already:

Kevin’s father Jerrold should be in the 1950 Census:

He must be Jerry.

I already have Kevin on my Warren DNA Tree, so I don’t need to add him. However, his father is in my Tree now.

Heather’s next shared match is Julie. However, her ancestors appear to be from Canada. Heather’s next shared match Chantel has ancestry from Canada and England. JJ had fewer shared matches but fewer confusing ones also. Lexie also has Canadian ancestors. Lisa has a good tree, but again no Irish ancestry shown. Suzanne’s ancestors also have French sounding names. I assume that Eileen’s French Canadian heritage is somehow mixed in to her connection on the Warren side. Heather has some French Canadian ancestry and no apparent Irish ancestry. Michael also has French Canadian ancestry.

Summary and Conclusions

  • I had thought that Clusters would be helpful in identifying Warren relative DNA matches. It turns out that my son’s Shared Matches were more helpful. I had also thought that my daughter’s Shared Matches to a Warren relative would be helpful. However, they resulted in a lot of French Canadian relatives for some reason.
  • In any event, my Ancestry Tree on my children’s maternal side was improved and my Wareen DNA Tree was improved.
  • I found out why there were no further matches on the John Warren/Bridget Welch Line. Apparently there were no further offspring other than from John Warren/Cavanaugh.
  • Jeremiah Warren and Mary Kelly had other children. However, my Warren DNA Tree does not show matches with any of their offspring. Perhaps there were not many offspring or they didn’t have their DNA tested.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Checking a Nicholson Common Ancestor from My Sister

My sister has an interesting possible Nicholson common ancestor with a match at Ancestry. This is how it looks:

Maybe I have looked at this before as it appears I must have Edward Percy Fenn in my Ancestry Tree. However, I do not see this in my Nicholsono DNA Tree:

My DNA Tree only shows descendant from three children of Matthew Nicholson born 1798. Those are Henry, Lydia and William.

I was able to find a better Nicholson Chart on my laptop which I emailed to my home computer:

In addition to William Nicholson, this Tree has the Matthew children Henry, John, Sarah and Lydia. This probably explains why I was researching the John Clayton Nicholson Line in the past.

Working on AE’s Genealogy

Here is the paternal part of AE’s tree:

One of AE’s great-grandfathers is listed as Edward Penelope Fenn. I’m not sure the Penelope part is right as I have Percy as a middle name. At this point, I have a two generation gap between AE and Edward Fenn. I would recommend finding out more about Edward Fenn. This is what I have now in my tree:

Death records would be helpful:

As the mother and father information mathces with what I have, I feel like I am on the right track. This seems to be about all I can find easily.

Updating the Nicholson DNA Tree

This is how I see it:

When I check AE and Lori’s shared matches, I don’t see MR but I do see someone who has no tree with the surname of Colton. That shows up a typo on my Nicholson DNA Tree. George Cotton should be George Colton.

Summary and Conclusions

  • AE’s two missing generation of ancestors between him and Edward Fenn made the analysis a little difficult
  • However, I did not have to go back many generations. I already had the genealogy up to Edward Fenn but with not many details.
  • The more branching I have, the more likely the Nicholson DNA Tree is right.
  • The tree is also supported by shared matches.

 

 

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My Brother’s Potential Hathaway Common Ancestor at Ancestry

I like looking at Ancestry’s potential common ancestors at Ancestry. In this case, my brother Jon’s DNA match is with Anita. The part which is less sure is the genealogy. Even if the genealogy is right, there is a chance that the DNA/genealogy connection could be with another ancestor. However, the fact that there is a DNA connection makes it more likely that there is a discernable genealogical connection.

Anita and Jon

Anita and Jon are shown as 6th cousins. This is as far out as these Ancestry connections go.

Shared Matches

Next, I like to check shared matches:

Dawn is a shared match. She also has a Hathaway common ancestor as Harvey Bradford married Wealthy Hathaway. This is what one genetic genealogist called walking back.

Here is the Meribah Hathaway Line from my Hathaway DNA Tree:

Jon’s ThruLines

This gets a little confusing becuase Holly, MM, and Eric are also 2nd cousins on my Hartley side. Even more confusing, if I go back far enough we are again related on the Jenney side.

John Jenney is my 10th great-grandfather and I think that this couple would be another distant pair of common ancestors.

Anita’s Genealogy

Here is Anita’s tree at Ancestry:

According to Ancestry, I should look at the Morse to Shaw Line. I can create a floating tree for Anita and then connect it to my tree assuming the genealogy looks good.

Anita already has found her dad in the 1920 Census:

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Foster L’s father was a farm laborer in 1920 and the family lived in Acushnet. Here is Wing Road, Acushnet, though Wing may have gone further down where Hathaway is now:

It would make sense to find a wedding record to confirm Anna’s maiden name.

The couple get married in Rochester, MA in 1913 even though they live in Marion, MA.

Anna is born in North Carver.

Marion has a record of the marriage also, so perhaps the marriage did take place in Marion:

Annie was born in 1890 in Carver:

 

Annie’s mother was born in Mattapoisett:

Betsey Nye marries in Carver in 1890:

The marriage is said to be the first, but the fact that Betsey’s maiden name is given tells me otherwise:

Here is Betsey’s death record:

This information from findagrave.com seems to clarify thing:

Aged 49 yrs. 9 mos. & 21 d’s

1st married to Manuel Gonsalves on Aug. 23, 1881 in Mattapoisett, MA.
2nd married to Ezra Shaw [son of Samuel Shaw and Fanny Borden] on Sept. 21, 1890 in Middleboro, MA. He died Aug. 15, 1893 in Carver, MA.
3rd married to Francis L. Nye on Sept. 9, 1899 in Mattapoisett, MA.

Here is what I have starting with Anita’s grandmother:

Another confusing point is that I am looking for the Hathaway line and Mary J Nye was a Hathaway. She was the daughter of Betsy Hathaway:

Mary did not name a father on the marriage record in Mattapoisett in 1857. Joseph Nye was listed as a mariner at the time of marriage. This is the page for Hathaway births in Rochester:

I wonder who Betsey’s parents were and what happened to her?

Mary Jane’s death record gives little information:

As far as I know, I am not as closely related to the Mattapoisett Hathaways. My Hathaways lived in Wareham.

Connecting Joseph Nye to Mother Anne Jenney

This would connect my floating tree to my Ancestry Tree. Here is Joseph’s birth:

Here is Anne Jenney from my Tree:

I am pretty sure it is OK to connect the two, but I will look for some more evidence. This 1872 death record for Mattapoisett is enough to convince me:

The Hathaway DNA Tree

Here is my Ancestry Tree in vertical view:

According to this view, Mary Jane has her first child when she was 17:

Technically, Mary Jane was 16 when she married:

Here is part of my Hathaway DNA Tree showing that Anita and I are 6th cousins:

Summary and Conclusions

  • This was an interesting excercise going back to Mattapoisett. A single parent child marries young, has a child young and her husband is a mariner. Hopefully she had otherh family and/or community support
  • Anita and I have quite a bit in common. We both had parents born in 1918.
  • We descend from siblings born a year apart: Meribah Hathaway in 1770 and Joseph in 1771 – both before the Revolutionary War.
  • Both Anita’s family and my family seem to have stayed in SE Massachusetts.
  • These common ancestor excercises are good in that they do not take too long and they improve my understanding of a family line’s genealogy as well as local history.

 

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An Ancestry-Proposed Snell Common Ancestor

I have a lot of fun looking at proposed Ancestry Common Ancestors. Sometimes they are obvioius. Sometimes they bring me through murky genealogical areas. Let’s see where this one brings us:

The match is not close and the common ancestors go back to the 1700’s. This shows that Ed and I are 5th cousins once removed. Here is Ed’s part of my Snell ThruLines at Ancestry:

Ed should be E.G.’s 2nd cousin twice removed. This shows E.G. is as shared match between Ed and me:

That means the DNA supports the theory that Ed should also descend from Anthony Snell. Ed should fit in on the right side of this part of my Snell DNA Tree:

Here is Ed’s Ancestry Tree:

It looks on the surface to be a well researched tree.

Ed’s Floating Tree

The proper way to evaluate Ed is to create a floating tree for him in my tree and then connect him when I see that the connection is appropriate. Based on the shared DNA, it seems likely that he would be connected. According to Ed’s tree, his father was born in New Jersey and died in Germany:

I don’t see Ed listed in the obituary. Is he the same as Derek? Edward T was listed as Edward W in the 1950 Census:

At this point, we need to follow wife Marie’s line going back. Marie’s obituary gives me a head start:

I highlighted the most interesting part to me for the purposes of this Blog.

Here is Marie in 1930:

Marie’s father worked at an iron foundry. Notice that Marie’s Uncle Chester Snell lived with them. He was an attendant at a service station.

Here is an odd marriage article from 1920 that highlights the pastor instead of the bride:

Ruby was a newborn in 1905. Her father was a farm laborer.

Ruby remarries in 1951 and gives her parents’ names:

I see her father as Percy E Snell, but it is transcribed as Percy Ednell.

Here is the 1900 Census for Landis, New Jersey:

Unfortunately, it straddles a page. Percy’s father was a farmer.

This shows as E. Landis Ave., but I think it is the right vicinity:

Here I have built out Ed’s tree to Charles Snell:

That is the floating tree. I have to connect this to my tree:

Just to make sure, here is Charles’ marriage record from 1860 in West Roxbury when he was an iron monger:

I successfully merged the two Charles Snell.

Updating the Snell DNA Tree

Summary and Conclusions

  • It is interesting to see how different Snell lines diverged
  • It looks like I am missing a line under the Anthony Snell 1802 line. This is due to my computer and laptop not being synced.

  • My only question in the connectiion is between Ed and his father. However, I do not usually question these relationships as I assume that people know who their father is.
  • A shared match between Ed and EG made it highly likely that this connection was correct even before checking the genealogy.
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Reviewing a Potential Parker Common Ancestor at Ancestry

Not too long ago, I found a potential Parker common ancestor at Ancestry. In order to find this match, I search for Parker in the surname list, then filter by common ancestor and finally sort by newest match:

Audrey does not have a large match with me, but the relatioship is quite distant. As I look at the common matches between Audrey and me, I see three matches with possible common ancestors:

James shows as Audrey’s uncle.

I couldn’t find my Parker DNA Tree on my laptop, but I found this from a previous Blog in 2024:

Another confusing thing is that Audrey’s Ancestry tree does not gree with this one. James’ tree follows Audrey’s tree but takes the Parker line further back.

Caitlyn is a cousin or half Aunt of Audrey and her tree follows James’ and Audrey’s. Finally, another match in common with Audrey and me is David:

David’s tree only goes back to Robert on that side. As these 4 people match each other quite closely, it stands to reason that they all do or do not descend from Isaac Parker.

Looking at James’ Genealogy

As James is a generation earlier than Audrey, I will look at his tree. I will start a floating tree for James and then connect him if it works out.  James shows his father David was born in Marion, MA. This is interesting as that is where I live now.

James has this as where David was in 1940:

I am assuming that George, Robert, John and Winnifred were David’s siblings. I think that this is the family in 1930 in South Wareham:

I think that this is the William Herbert Parker I have in my tree:

However, I don’t have enough information in my tree yet to link the two:

Here is some more information on William from findagrave.com:

Here we are back to William Henry Parker Junior, though it certainly seems to be the person in the 1930 Census. I think I need to get his middle name back to Henry.

Here is my improved version of William Henry Parker Junior:

Note that I do not have David. However, I think I have enough information to meld my two trees.

Here is an intersting twist:

According to this obituary, William Parker’s wife was born Grace Parker. I assume that means that William was married twice because I also see this marriage in Brockton in 1905:

Here I have connected the trees:

I think that Wiliam Henry Jr. should have about 10 children, so I am missing some.

Here is an interesting fact. I found this marriage record at findagrave.com:

This states that William Henry was marrying for the first time, yet I have a marriage record for him im Brockton in 1905. No wonder I am having trouble with the genealogy.

Fixing the Parker DNA Tree

This part of the tree seems off:

This is from my 2024 Blog:

Let’s see where my ThruLines are now:

My ThruLines show a William Henry Parker where James and his relatives are. Then I have William H. Parker who I suppose to be the same as William Henry Parker.

A New Problem

Notice the image from my 2024 Blog. This had James as 2nd cousin to Barbara and TD. Now the ThruLines as having a separated William Henry Parker and William H Parker. These leaves a few possibilities:

  1. The TD Branch connects to Isaiah Parker and the James Branch does not
  2. The James Branch connects to Isaiah Parker and the TD Branch doese not
  3. Neither branch connects to Isaiah Parker
  4. Both branches connect to Isaiah Parker – I feel that this is least likely as the two branches do not seem to match each other by DNA.

It occurs to me that there is even another solution. That is that Grace May Parker may descend from Isaiah Parker or another related Parker line.

If #1 is true, then I have messed up that connection by showing that James goes back to Isaiah Parker in my Ancestry Tree.

More Genealogy Needed

Let’s look at William Henry Parker born 1886. His parents were William H. and Elizabeth V Bumpus. The 1883 Wareham wedding record for William H Parker and Elizabeth Parker shows that William H was born in Fairhaven and gives these sets of Parents:

That means that my 2023 Blog was correct in not connecting the James Branch to the Parker Line. So, how do I fix this?

Here is the point where my tree is now wrong:

I need to take out this Wililam H Parker and put in the right one. I can try by deleting his parental relationship:

While I’m at it, I’ll add in his correct parents so there will not be later confusion.

One confusing thing happens in 1889. William Henry’s son is named William Herbert Parker:

This is an important detail and a crucial link between TD’s tree and mine.

So Where Does James Fit in?

This is where I use my shared matches between James and me. Here are two hints:

JH and EG are our shared matches and they suggest common ancestors down different colonial Massachusetts lines of Bradford, Hathaway, Snell and Luther.

Above, the boxes show where the DNA suggests and the arrows show where a wrong interpretation of the genealogy suggests.

Summary and Conclusions

  • In my enthusiasm to add the James Line to my Parker DNA Tree, I made a mistake on the James Line genealogy
  • It turns out that their genealogy was correct. I tend to give more credit to others’ genealogy, but for some reason this time I didn’t. One lesson.
  • Also I didn’t look into my previous Blog. This perhaps would have told me that I was going down the wrong path in the James Line genealogy.
  • Finally, shared matches were helpful in showing that the TD line going back to Isaiah Parker did not match the James Lines. Geneaolgy and DNA do work together.

 

 

 

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Investigating a New Frazer Theory at Ancestry

Recently, while looking for another match, I saw that my sister Sharon had a potential Frazer common ancestry with a DNA match:

My job is to evaluate the connection to see if it is likely or not.

The Philip Frazer line is important to me as I believe that I descend from Philip Frazer. I can’t prove it, but by naming patterns and process of elimination, I have come to believe that as the best Frazer genealogical theory.

I have built a Philip Frazer DNA tree:

It looks like I cut a bit off of the tree:

Basically, there were two Frazer brothers from County Roscommon. They were Archibald and James. The lived in the 1700’s. I descend from the elder brother Archibald. Actually I descend from both, but more directly from the Archibald Line. Archibald is believed to have had four sons: John, Philip, Richard, and Archibald. As mentioned, I think I descend from Philip.

I see that my sister Sharon’s DNA match David supposedly descends from Philip and George James Frazer. I am asked to evaluate George James. That means that even though he is on my DNA tree, he must not be in the Ancestry Tree. This is what my tree shows:

I also am missing a birth and death date for Philip Frazer son of Philip Frazer. One problem is this document:

This shows one Philip being married twice or perhaps two Philips marrying. I assume that the first Philip is the elder Philip marrying for a second time and the second marriage is for the son Philip marrying. Assuming that to be the case, I should change my tree. Of course the younger Philip could have married Jane Johnston first and the elder could have married Mary Taylor second. I see from my tree above, that the younger Philip’s first daughter appears to be Jane Frazer and she could have been named for her mother Jane Johnston. However, the first daughter should have been named for the mother’s mother which I do not think is known. I’ll just switch my tree to have the younger Philip married to Mary Taylor.

Now I have this situation:

Assuming the elder Philip was still alive, and that the younger Philip was either not very young when he married or was older than I think, I’ll say the elder Philip married Jane Johnston as his second wife and had Jane Frazer as a daughter.

Now I need to put Philip Frazer and Mary Taylor as being born around 1800.

Now it would make sense if Philip had a son named George James as his two brothers had those names (assuming my tree is right). I see that I have a Blog that mentions George James Frazer from 2020. 

In that Blog, Sharon had a match with LS. I see that LS also appears as a shared match between Sharon and David. I think that if I can validate David’s tree back to George James Frazer, I should be all set. Here is David’s tree:

Here is the photo David has of George James Frazer:

If my Frazer DNA tree is correct, he should be the first cousin of George William Frazer, my 2nd great-grandfather.

Of course, I am not very sure how much I look like my first cousins. At least his tie looks the same! My relative in Ireland said someone scribbled on my 2nd great-grandfather’s face. So that doesn’t help either.

My 2nd great-grandfather George William Frazer was born about 1838 and his first cousin George James Frazer was born in 1841. They both appear to be named for their Uncle George Frazer who died in 1831.

Evaluating David’s Tree

I like the chances of David linking up, so I will put him into my tree as a floating tree. That means not connected to my major tree. If I agree with Ancestry’s proposed common ancestor for us, then I will connect the two trees.  I also find it encouraging that David’s tree has George James Frazer born in Sligo, Ireland:

David’s father should be easy to find as he was born in 1929 in the US. Here is the 1940 Census with David’s father and grandfather:

David’s grandfather was an accountant with an insurance business.

James Alexander Fraser, Sr.

Here is William in the 1881 Census for Woodstock, Ontario:

Unfortunately, the father’s initials only are given. They should be G.J. for George James but are transcribed as G.B. In 1891, the father is more clearly G.J.:

G.J. works at the inland home? office:

 

According to AI:

Common occupations and roles from that era containing “inland” include:
    • Inland Revenue Officer: Government officials responsible for collecting excise duties, inspecting distilleries, and regulating weights and measures.

William’s birth record gives better information about his parents:

This gets me as far as David’s tree:

Philip Fraser in green above has a proposed birth date of 1815. That does not fit in well assuming that Philip married in 1822.

George’s birth date is given on a civil service list:

I believe that George was baptized in the Kilmactranny Parish in Sligo as that church is missing about a 10 year period of records from 1842 going back about 10 years. The 1881 Census shows that Philip was likely the first son of George James. By tradition, this could mean that George’s father was also Philip.

Here is George in 1861:

The fact that the name George is passed down seems to support this family structure:

However, I do not know where my 2nd great-grandfather got his middle name William from. Was there another brother named William or was this name from the mother’s side? There was supposedly a William who was the son of John Frazer (the elder Philip’s brother) who went to the US.

Connecting George James Frazer to My Ancestry Tree

I put George James’ father as Philip Frazer born about 1800. This also shows in my sister Sharon’s ThruLines now:

It looks like I have not attached Ann to Philip in my tree, so I need to do that also.

Updating My Frazer DNA Tree

It looks like I just need to add David:

One interesting thing about David is that he is a generation up from my other matches on the Philip Line. That means that he is my fourth cousin once removed rather than a 5th cousin.

Clustering Sharon and David

I created a custom cluster between Sharon and David and looked for mathes between 20 and 100 cM.

The first cluster had only three DNA matches:

Geraldine has no tree at Ancestry. Based on shared matches, Geraldine is LS’ half sister or Aunt.

Here is the next Cluster:

We already know about Geraldine, LS, and David. I am interested in YK. YK”s maternal side goes to Ramsey or Ramsay from Canada:

Just looking at the Cluster above, I see that LS and David are from the Philip . However, MY at the bottom of the cluster is also and probably Geraldine and YK at the top.

From memory, MY is actually Richard or Barry. But where is Jeanette? Perhaps she was a match to someone else, or matches at less than the 20 cM required to be in the cluster.

I was hoping that the Cluster would mirror what I have on my Philip Line DNA Tree:

Where:

  • Green is Philip to Philip
  • Yellow is Philip to James (and Violet Frazer) to Richard Frazer
  • Periwincle is Philip to James and Violet Frazer to James Archibald Frazer (my second great-grandfather)

However, in the second cluster above, I don’t see anyone from the yellow group. Perhaps I will make a guess why later.

It is interesting that Keith is in the Cluster as he is related on the McMaster side:

However, Fanny’s mother was also a Frazer from a different line. So it gets complicated. This could be the reason that the Richard Frazer Line is not included in the cluster. Or it could be that that the elder Philip married a McMaster which would put more McMasters in the Cluster to match. I’m not sure.

So in the Cluster above, I have accounted for two lines but not the Richard Frazer line. Also there are some that I do not know for sure how they fit in:

  • Shelly
  • Diane
  • Charles, and
  • Tim

The Final Cluster

This cluster is similar to the previous one with a large defineable James Archibald Frazer cluster. It seems like more could be done with these clusters as far as trying to track down the genealogy of the matches, but I am done for now.

More on Sharon’s Philip Frazer DNA

Sharon seems to be my only sibling tested at Ancestry who has a good match showing common ancestors with Philip Frazer of the 1700’s. Here is Sharon’s DNA Painter Profile:

Sharon has matches with Barry on the right side of her Chromosomes 14 and 15.

Here is Sharon’s DNA mapped out for Chromosome 14 mapped out with all her siblings:

Jim has all Chromosome 14 as Frazer, but he did not test at Ancestry. Sharon’s match numbers are here:

They are roughly 79-96 million. It looks like Lori should have Frazer DNA up to 96 also. So I wonder why Lori does not show as a match to David at Ancestry.

Here is Chromosome 15:

Here Sharon has a full dose of paternal Frazer DNA. Jim has nearly a full dose of Frazer DNA on his paternal side.

Sharon at Gedmatch

Barry is at Gedmatch and Raymond is a shared match between Sharon and Barry:

I will map that onto Sharon’s map. Here is Raymond:

Raymond also identifies part of Sharon X Chromosome:

The blue paternal first match is from Raymond’s sister. The second one is from Raymond. I have identified this DNA as from Margaret Mcmaster due to the way the X Chromosome is inherited.

Sharon got an X Chromosome from her dad. He got it from his Frazer Grandmother. She got her X Chromosome from her father James Archibald Frazer and he got one X Chromosome from his mother Margaret McMaster.

Summary and Conclusions

  • David was a good match who appears to connect with my 1700’s ancestor Philip Frazer
  • I looked at clusters between my sister Sharon and David
  • Those clusters showed a small Philip Line cluster and a cluster from my 2nd great-grandfather’s line.
  • I was a little surprised there was not more of a cluster from the Richard Frazer line. He was the brother of my 2nd great-grandfather George William Frazer.
  • More work could be done with working on the geneaolgies of some of the unidentified matches in the David/Sharon Cluster.
  • I made some guesses why there was not a Richard Frazer Cluster.My ancestor George married Margaret McMcaster. Someone in David’s Philip line may have married a McMaster. In addition, Margaret’s mother was Fanny McMaster. Fanny’s mother was a Frazer. This could account for the George Cluster and lack of a Richard Cluster.
  • I was also able to improve my FrazerTree at Ancestry.
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Where Did My Frazer Cluster Go at Ancestry?

I sort of know the answer but would like to tease it out. Ancestry has a standard Cluster that you can run. This is mine:

My impression is that the standard clusters are meant to show you your DNA matches from your four grandparents sides.

Those sides are:

  1. Hartley
  2. Frazer
  3. Rathfelder
  4. Lentz

Hartley Cluster – Orange

I can tell by the match names that the orange cluster represents Hartley matches in the range of 2nd cousins. It makes sense that there are a lot of matches because my great-grandfather James Hartley had 18 children. However,

  • The second child Herbert died before age 1
  • My grandfather was the fourth born
  • The 6th child did not marry -Aunt Nellie
  • 8th born Henry married but had no children
  • 9th born William died as an infant.

That means that 14 of the children had offspring leaving me a lot of relatives.

Two Maternal Clusters

Cluster 2 – Rathfelder and Nicholson

Some of these matches are on the level of 1st cousin, so they would technically be both Rathfelder and Nicholson. Of the last three matches, two are Rathfelder only and one match is Nicholson only.

My mother’s father was one of 10 Rathfelder Children. However, he was born in Latvia and the DNA testing for Latvians tends to be more with MyHeritage. Carolyn who is from Nicholson and not Lentz has no Rathfelder connection but has connection with those in my first cousin range, so she is added in that Cluster.

Cluster 3 – Nicholson/Lentz

Carolyn from Cluster 2 descends from Nicholson. The other matches in Cluster 3 appear to all descend from Lentz and Nicholso

This is from my Nicholson DNA tree where Carolyn is on the right hand side. My Lentz grandmother was one of only four Lentz children:

I should in a photo of Agnes as I recall her visiting the house. Here is an old photo with a lot of the family:

Stanley is top left. Agnes is in the middle and Emma, my grandmother is on the right. It looks like my mom right below Emma. My mom was born in December 1921, so you can judge the photo as being around 1927 or so. Perhaps Gladys, my mom is 5 0r 6 in the photo.

The Missing Frazer Cluster

I have already established that my Hartley grandfather was one of 14 children who had offspring. My Rathfelder grandfather was one of 10. However, I do not know where all the children ended up (maybe a research project). I know of at least one family that stayed in Latvia and one that moved to England. The Latvian relatives tend to test their DNA at MyHeritage.

My grandmother was one of only two children:

Marion had two children and George had two children. I guess that it never occured to me that George William Frazer was named for James A Frazer’s father.

My point is to say that as far as second cousins go, the Frazer side was not very prolific. I think that I may find some Frazer clusters in my four siblings who tested at Ancestry.

Before I leave George Frazer, it seems strange that I don’t have a photo of him other than a child photo:

Also, he had two daughter, Jeanne and Shirley. Yet his 1960 obituary only mentions his step-children:

Some More on George Frazer

I don’t remember my grandmother ever saying anything about her brother. Perhaps that was partially due to the fact that he died when I was 4 years old. I do recall my grandmother mentioning Cousin Jeaane and Cousin Shirley. Of course, they weren’t her cousins but my father’s cousins.

George married Helena Victoria Marcell in North Carolina though both of them say they were from Norfolk, Virginia. I see now that Elizabeth City, where they married, was not far from Norfolk:

Did they elope?

In 1934, the couple are shown living in Quincy, Massachusetts:

They were also living there in 1930:

The couple apparently marry as George is married to a Margaret Edginton in 1940:

They are at 17 Wendover Street in Boston:

Here is Margaret’s obituary from the Boston Globe on February 14, 1999:

Again, Jeanne and Shirley are left out.

Cousin Jeanne and Shirley

 

It looks like Jeanne married later in life at age 56. Here is a photo of Jeanne’s husband:

I also see that someone posted this yearbook picture under Jeanne Frazer:

As this is better thana the nothing I have, it will have to do. I cannot verify it. So  my bio on ‘Cousin’ Jeanne is a little sketchy. It is unclear how she met her husband as he lived quite far away.

I see that I have even less on ‘Cousin’ Shirley:

I assume that she has passed away. I don’t know if she ever married.

Heidi’s Standard Clusters

 

The point I wanted to make above is that should be a correlation between clusters and DNA testing descendants.

  • Hartley grandfather – one of 14 child bearing siblings
  • Rathfelder grandfather – one of 10 siblings
  • Lentz grandmother – one of 4 siblings
  • Frazer grandmother – one of 2 children of my Frazer great-grandfather

However, I wll also look at my sister Heidi’s standart clusters at Ancestry. Her standard cluster has expired, so I will refresh it:

Heidi’s standard clusters seem more detailed than mine. I had 3 clusters and Heidi has 6.

Clusters one and two are on my Hartley side. I can only assume that as my grandfather’s parents were Hartley and Snell, one cluster is for Hartley and one for Snell. I see at least one match in the first cluster that I know is related on the Snell side and not the Hartley side:

 

The other four clusters are maternal clusters. I had written a Blog on Ancestry’s Standard Clusters in August of last year.

Lori’s Clusters

I’ll skip to Lori’s clusters as she was the only place where I found Frazer Clusters in the standard Ancestry Cluster last year:

The first person in the last cluster is Aimee. She is my first cousing once removed. Another reason perhaps, that there are so few standard Frazer clusters. My Frazer grandmother had only two children: my father and my Aunt. Aimee is my Aunt’s granddaughter.

Summary and Conclusions

  • I had recently looked at my standard Clusters at Ancestry and was reminded that I had no Frazer Cluster.
  • My assumption was that had to do with the fact that there were fewer Frazer descendants on that side to test from
  • I looked at the descendants and found that as the case. My Frazer grandmother was one of two and she only had two children
  • Along the way, I looked into my Frazer grandmother’s brother as I do not know a lot about him. I also tried to find out more about his two daughters: Shirley and Jeanne.

 

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Death of My Wife’s Ancestor Ellen Donovan Found

I have to again thank my wife’s niece Tina for her hard work. She found the elusive death record for Ellen Donovan Crowley Sullivan. When I go to Ancestry I see that I looked at her found record four days ago, but the name of her father threw me off:

I was thinking that her father’s name was Timothy (or maybe that was Florence’s father).

Here is the Ancestry hint for Ellen’s parents:

Here we are in Boston in 1883:

Here is Warren Street:

This is in Roxbury on a major Street.

In 1880, Ellen was living at 26 Joiner Street in Charlestown with her children William, Margaret and Julia. Tina tells me that Ellen was living with her son William on Warren Street. That means Tina must have found him in the Boston Directory.

OK, forget what I said about Roxbury. This is the problem with using Google maps. I had already found William in the 1883 Boston Directory, but he was at Warrent Street in Charlestown:

Here Chrsn. is the abbreviation in the Boston Directory for Charlestown. Here is the right map:

The move from Joiner Street would not have been very far at all:

This is where the old maps come in handy. The first arrow is where 43 Warren Street would have been in Charlestown and second arrow is where 26 Joiner Street was It is almost the same Street. Here are the Streets showing more area of Charlestown:

Assuming those parents are right, this Ancestry hint makes sense:

I would be wiilling to accept this hint based on Ellen’s death record. We see agreement with both parents and her correct approximate age at death.

However, I am inclined to use more traditional spellings for the names as I don’t think the person who took down the information in Cork was the best at spelling.

Where is Kilmain?

There is a Barony called Kilmaine but that is in County Mayo. There is also a Kilmeen Townland in Cork:

This is taxing my knowledge of County Cork, Ireland. Here is the reference for Ellen’s baptismal record:

Here is Drimoleague:

Kilmeen seems to be in the right area.

I’ll say the place is Kilmeen.

But to check, I will look at some other places on the Baptismal Register.

Lahanaght:

Angrum is perhaps Angram:

Leitry:

Tina Finds a Legal Notice for Ellen Sullivan

This is what I found based on looking for what Tina found:

For some reason, I could not find this under Ellen Sullivan’s name. Here is the one Tina found:

These notices appeared on several days. Perhaps there are records in the Boston Probate Court.

Here are some cases with Ellen Sullivan/Sullivant. I found these at American Ancestors:

It is possible that Case 69299 could be hers as she apparently had no will. Here is that case:

Now, how do I find Volume and Page? I found this record at FamilySearch. At the bottom of the index for cases, I see Volume and Page:

This was actually worth it:

This gives all of Ellen’s living children.

This says that Margaret is executrix and that no one objected. A $300 bond is set for Margaret and she is supposed to provide and inventory of the estate. I think that the inventory would be interesting if we could find it.

Volume 549, Page 151:

We are only up to May 10, 1883 and Margaret has three months to come up with an inventory. I wonder if it was ever done?

According to Google:

So I guess we are out of luck there.

Summary and Conclusions

  • Tina does a good job at tracking down information.
  • This death record lead to a likely baptismal record in County Cork for Ellen Donovan
  • With a death date, it made it easier to search for other probate court records
  • This gives me an idea to look into other death records for family.

 

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The Butler/Crowley Connection Part 2

In my previous Blog, I tracked the life of Timothy Crowley born in St. John, New Brunswick. He was the oldest brother of Mary E Crowley Butler. She was my wife’s 2nd great-grandfather. His life was quite sad, marked with loss of all his children and his wife. Plus he never seemed to work or have an occupation. Yet, he often seemed surrounded by his younger brother William John and some of his sisters in the Boston area. That was a long Blog, but in tracking Timothy, I aslo looked at some of his siblings as they often lived together or in close proximity.

Mother Ellen Crowley and Other Family Members

Ellen and Some Children in 1880

Here they are at #26 in Boston:

In 1880 Ellen was widowed a second time. The one in the third column is for widowed/divorced. The #26 is Joiner Street in Charlestown. My wife’s niece Tina had figured this out. I had found Joiner Street in a previous Blog:

My wife’s 2nd great-grandfather, Edward Butler, who was a Mariner lived at 35 Joiner Street in 1883.

I could not find Edward in the Directory for 1881 and 1882. Perhaps he was living in the house of his mother-in-law Ellen at 26 Joiner Street?

More About 1880

Mary E Crowley marries Edward Butler in St. John, New Brunswick in 1855. In the next few years, Mary has 2 children in St. John, but then the family moves to Cininnati for over 10 years. Sometime between 1870 and 1880, it is believed the family moves to the Chicago area where the two sons are believed to have been born: George and Edward Henry Butler. That means that Ellen Crowley has not seen her oldest child Mary for about 18 years and gets to meet her two grandsons.

Also Mary lives on Friend Street in 1880 which is close to her other brother Timothy (see last Blog). Then she moves to Charlestown where I assume her mother, brother and two sisters are living. Family reunion time!

Son Michael is listed as a machinist. This is interestng as he has the same profession in 1920 working for a razor manufacturer.

Let’s see how long Ellen Sullivan was living at Joiner Street. Unfortunately, I am sure there were a lot of Ellen Sullivans in Boston. Here are the widows Ellen Sullivan in the 1883 Directory:

I looked up Chan. in the Directory under abbreviations and this means Charlestown. 157 Chelsea is a possibility as Joiner intersetcts with Chelsea. Putnam Street was close also. I do not know where Everett Court was. Or, perhaps Ellen was living with the Butlers this year at 33 Joiner Street?

William F Crowley

I will take a look at William. I am looking at his Naturalization papers:

The Census records gave different times for his immigration, but this gives a more specific date. This also gives a date for his birth.

Some Ancestry Hints

Ancestry gives some easy hints. Here is one for 1883:

Here we see Timothy and William on the same page. Here is 43 Warren Street on Google Maps:

Look how close 15 Putnam Street is:

This appears to be William’s Obituary from 22 August 1937:

I don’t think that I had this daughter before. Perhaps as a nun, she had a different name? Interesting that William had at least 6 children but only the nun is mentioned and the wife that had died 40 years previous.

Here is a child who died young:

I think this is the right 294 Fourth Street:

Here are some Crowleys listed in the Boston Directory in 1911:

Here is some specific information on William’s son who died in Texas in 1963:

The St. John, New Brunswick/Boston, Massachusetts Connection

Perhaps a chronology of St. John events would be helpful. There is a lot of imissing information, but much can be implied where records are missing:

17 April 1838, Mary Crowley is baptized at St. John, New Brunswick

Notice that Timothy is crossed out before Elen Donovan. Could this be a hint that she is the daughter of Timothy Donovan (or that Florence is the son of TImothy Crowley)?

In that same Register, I see this marriage:

I wonder if Mary Donovan was the sister of Ellen Donovan Crowley as Ellen Crowley is a witness at this wedding.

1 Nov 1840 – Julia Ann Crowley is baptized in St. John:

About Nov 1846 – Timothy Crowley is born in St. John

2 Feb 1850 – James F Crowley born in St. John

About 17 Nov 1851 – Margaret Crowley born in St. John

About 29 Nov 1854 – William F. Crowley born in St. John

31 May 1855 – A young Mary E Crowley marries Edward Butler in St. John

14 Apr 1857 – Julia Ann Butler born to Edward and Mary Butler in St. John

About 1859 – Ellen Butler born to Edward and Mary Butler in St. John. The family moves to Cincinnati from St. John shortly after this time.

1863 – This is the latest day given on the Census for Timothy Crowley’s arrival to the US. Other dates are 1855 and 1861. Timothy was 9 in 1855, so that is a more unlikely date.

1871 Census – I was not able to find any of this Crowley family so far in the 1871 Census.

About 1871 – Anna Eliza Butler Smith, sister of Edward Butler has a child Henry Smith so of George Smith born in St. John.

Here is a George Smith and Mary Smith in St. John in 1871:

I know that George is supposed to be married to Anne Eliza. However, there was a George and Mary Smith who had a Henry Smith in the 1880 Census of Watertown, MA:

It seems too coincidental that an English George Smith would be married to an Irish born woman with a son named Henry born in New Brunswick in 1871. My assumption is that they could have married in St. John, New Brunswick.

7 Nov 1878 – Marurpy Ann Butler marries Thomas Murphy in St. John. Mary A is the daughter of George Butler. George moved from Ireland to Cincinnati and is the oldest brother of Anna Eliza and Henry Butler:

It is unclear whether Mary Ann and Anna Eliza’s time in St. John overlapped.

1881 – Mary Elizabeth born to Mary Ann Butler Murphy in St. John

1885 – George Edward Murphy born to Mary Ann Butler Murphy in St. John

1886 – Mary Ann Murphy born to Mary Ann Butler Murphy in St. John

1888 – Joseph Bernard Murphy born to Mary Ann Butler Murphy in St. John

1890 – Katherine Isobel Murphy born to Mary Ann Butler Murphy in St. John

1891 – Irish Immigrant ancestor Edward Butler dies in Boston. The obituary says to copy St. John.

1895 – Thomas John Murphy born to Mary Ann Butler Murphy in St. John

28 Aug 1917 – Anna E Smth Wharton (nee Butler) dies. Obituary says to copy St. John, Newspapers.

This was my attempt to put together some events in St. John, Nova Scotia. It is unclear why Mary Ann moved from Cincinnati to St. John. It was her father’s brother’s Aunt Mary Crowley Butler who was from there. Perhaps there were also other Butlers living there? However, at her wedding, I see no Butler names. There was a Minnie O’Brien. However, I do not see any easy connection between Minnie and the Butler family.

DNA Clues?

When I look for people with Crowley ancestry who match my wife’s Aunt Lorraine, I find this interesting match. Kara has Butler and Crowley ancestry:

Some of these ancestors were also in St. John, New Brunswick.

Summary and Concusions

  • In some cases, when families moved from one country to another, the whole families would move. This  makes it easier in those cases to track people
  • Each new discovery or each correction of a previous mistake in research leads to a fuller picture of the story of our ancestors.
  • This Blog also points out some gaps in the research. Some records in St. John are only available if one goes to a FamilySearch center or affiliated library.

 

 

 

 

 

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The Butler/Crowley Connection

In my previous Blog, I was looking at a newly found sister of Edward Butler, my wife’s immigrant second great-grandfather. The sister’s name was Anna Eliza Butler. She had a son born in St John, New Brunswick where Edward Butler married Mary E Crowley.

My wife’s niece has been doing a great job of genealogy also. She had mentioned how the Crowleys had lived closely to the Butlers in the Boston area. I questioned her about that and she wrote back:

For the Crowley connection living near Edward and Mary – I have her brother Timothy living on Lancaster Street in the 1880 Census, which is two from Friend Street. 

Her mother, brother William, and sisters Margaret and Julia are living in Charlestown at that time…

We further figured that that they were living on Joiner Street in Charlestown which I had previously located as a place where immigrant Edward Butler lived.

Timothy Crowley

This is what I have at my Crowley web page:

I already have Timothy in my Ancestry Tree in the 1880 Census, but I didn’t make a connection on where he lived:

It looks like Timothy is listed as a hostler, but had been unemployed for 12 months. I am sure life must have been difficult with no income. According to the online Dictionary of Old Occupations:

Hostelier: kept or owned an inn.

Hosteller: manager or owner of an inn.

Hostler: the original and more commonly meaning is the person who tended horses at an inn. This definition dates back to the 12th century. Occasionally Ostler / Hostler means the innkeeper himself. The word Ostler is still in use today, referring to a stable groom who cares for horses.

The third definition seems to fit best what I see as Timothy’s occupation on the 1880 Census.2

Lancaster Street is short but it is close to Friend Street where Edward Butler and Mary Crowley lived in 1880:

Here is Friend Street where Timothy’s sister Mary lived in 1880:

This shows that Timothy was born in New Brunswick:

Timothy in 1900

Here is Timothy Crowley in 1900 when there was a lot more information on the Census:

Sadly the three oldest living at 72 Dorchester Street were widowed.

One column that is interesting to me is the year of immigration. Timothy and Julia Ann came to the US in 1863 (during the Civil War) and William came in 1872. The other interesting thing is that Timothy and William both show that they were naturalized.

Here is 72 Dorchester Street where they were living in South Boston:

Timothy in 1910

Here the family is still in the same neighborhood:

Now Timothy says he immigrated in 1855:

I don’t think that is right as he would have been quite young. It seems like I’ve gone over these Census Enumerations before, but I don’t have them recorded in my Ancestry Tree for Timothy.

Timothy Crowley in 1920

Unfortunately, the family name is transcribed as Rowley which could be a fair assumption. Timothy is still going for an early immigration to the US at 1861. That would have made him about 15. I don’t think you can be naturalized at that age unless you lied about your age.

Brother William works at a Razor Factory as a machinist. My guess is Gillette.

Here is 425 Sixth Street in Boston – not far from Dorchester Street:

#425 is on the right.

A Brief Sketch of Timothy Crowley

About 1846, in St. John, New Brunswick, Timothy is born. He is also the eldest known son. He is the fourth of eight children.

Timothy probably arrives in the US around 1863 at the age of 19.

Timothy marries Mary Clinton in Boston in 1866. Timothy is still quite young, depending on which birthdate we choose, he could between 19 and 21.

11 Feb 1867 Son William Florence Crowley born in Boston

11 June 1868 – Daughter Mary Ellen Crowley is born at  Boston at Gouch? Street.

Here is Timothy in the 1868 Boston Directory at 10 Gouch Street:

I cannot find a Gouch Street on Google Maps. This is from the 1868 Boston Directory:

This is from the 1867 Sanborn Map of Boston. It appears that Timothy lived in this area for quite a while.

15 Feb 1870 – Daughter Julia Ann Crowley born in Boston

1870 Census – It would be great to find Timothy in the 1870 Census. Both his first two children should be alive for that Census. Roman Catholic records give us some more information about Timothy’s first son:

Here is William and family in the 1870 Census:

Timothy’s wife is listed at the top, so apparently the head of household. I think that Timothy had some mental illness that kept him from working. This is my recollection from previous research, but I may be off. Still, it appears that some disability keeps him from working as his occupation is listed as “No Business”. I wonder how the family survived if this was the case.

3 Jan 1871 – Daughter Mary Ellen dies of pneumonia at 1 Chapel Street, Boston

28 Jan 1871 – Son William F. Crowley dies from bronchitis. The family was living at 1 Chapel Place as below.

15 Feb 1871 – Julia Ann dies at Chapel Place, Boston. Cause of death: “Hydrocephalus”.

I don’t see Timothy at 1  Chapel Place in the 1871 Boston Directory, but I do see a Mary Crowley, widow:

Along with four other Mary Crowley widows in Boston. Could it be that Mary was Mary Clinton and mistakenly recorded as a widow?

There were also many Timothy Crowleys in Boston:

I will try the 1872 Directory.

So I don’t see Timothy at Chapel Place.

31 Jan 1872 – Son William John Crowley born. The family is still at 1 Chapel Place. In the 1872 Directory, I see this note:

That means that there were two Chapel Places apparently. And one is near Friend Street where Timothy’s older sister was living as Mary E Butler in 1880. Here is 167 Friend Street:

Here is a faint Chapel Place and above there is a small street named Crescent. That name has come up before in Newton, but just a coincidence. Here is a more detailed look at Chapel Place from an 1867 Sanborn Map:

A lot has happened to this family. Timothy does not work and their three children died in a span of less than a month and a half in 1871.

1879 – Edward Butler, Mariner, is found in the Boston Directory at Battery St. I assume that he brought his family with him at that time. His wife was Mary E Crowley Butler who was Timothy’s older sister. The family is found in 1880 on Friend Street in Timothy’s neighborhood. Perhaps Mary even persuaded to move to Boston where many in her family were living.

1880 Census – Timothy is living with his wife Mary and Son William John on Lancaster Street which was between Gouch Street and Chapel Place.

15 Dec 1885 – Timothy’s wife, Mary Clinton Crowley, dies of consumption while living at 26 Lancaster Street. She is listed as 42 years old. This leaves Timothy to take care of his son William John who is now 13.

I am not so sure why Timothy’s mother would die in Andover. This may not be right.

1895 – Timothy is living at the same address as his sister Margaret Crowley at the time of her death.

1900 Census – Timothy is head of household at 72 Dorchester Street. No occupation listed.

I don’t see Timothy’s son listed either in the 1900 Census or the 1910 Census as living with his father.

1913 – Timothy’s son, William John dies:

His address is given as 74 Dorchester St., but as I mentioned, he wasn’t seen there in 1900 or 1910. He is shown as being 37, but I have him as 41 years old.

It is interresting that her brother Timothy is not mentioned in the obituary.

In 1917, Timothy was living at Sixth Street. That is also where he is living with William in 1920. In 1910, William was a fireman. In 1920, William is a machinist at a razor manufacturer. I have not found any record of Timothy working. I am not sure when Timothy died.

Mother Ellen Crowley and Other Family Members

Ellen and Some Children in 1880

Here they are at #26 in Boston:

In 1880 Ellen was widowed a second time. The one in the third column is for widowed/divorced.

I am trying to fix my Ancestry Tree for Ellen Donovan Crowley:

I had that the Margaret Crowley born 1855 was born the daughter of Timothy Sullivan in Nova Scotia. I think that must be wrong and that she is probably the same as Margaret E Crowley. Unfortunately the Census lists the children being from N.S. instead of N.B. Sadly, Ellen could not read or write, so she must have depended on others for that.

I will continue with the Crowleys in a subsequent Blog.

Summary and Conclusions

  • I was able to find quite a bit of information about Timothy Crowley
  • He certainly had a life with a lot of sad events.
  • I suspect that he was handicapped in some way physically, mentally or emotionally as I could not find a record of him had worked – at least in the 4 census enumerartions he was listed in.
  • I like how othe Crowley family stuck together – though I wonder what happened to Timothy’s son William John. Perhaps he was institutionalized?
  • It is interesting to think about what life was like for this Crowley family. Irish and Canadian, they move to the Boston area.