Sie ist verheiratet mit Patrick Cahill.
Sie haben geheiratet am 12. Juli 1874 in Newark, Essex, New Jersey, USA, sie war 22 Jahre alt.Quelle 10
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Mary Nolan Story Posted 24 Dec 2017 by Michael Cahill Said by dad's cousin Eileen Kane to have the middle name Ellen. I placed her birth in Carlow based on an unsourced marriage listing in familysearch.org, which had the same first and last names for both of her parents that she put on her own marriage record later in life. Several years after finding the familysearch entry, the actual marriage record for that marriage was copied and became available on ancestry.com. It is attached. Now that I had the actual record, I became sure I had the right location for Mary's origin. Later, my dad's dna test showed he had ancestry in the Carlow area, thus bearing out this research. When County Carlow records finally became available online with the Irsh Family History Foundation, I found the actual batism entry for Mary, born to this same couple, as well as the entries for her siblings, all baptised in the same church in Carlow town. I believe that this family lived in Carlow town, and they probably moved there from the surrounding rural townlands at the time of the famine of the late 1840's. I don't know when Mary came to the US because there are so many immigration records for Mary Nolans, but she probably came as a young adult, as most them did, sometime between her 18th birthday in 1870 and her marriage in 1874. If she came as a child, it would obviously have been with her family, and I know they were still in Carlow in 1863 because her youngest brother David was born there that year. She died at 45 of interstitial nephritis, a kidney disease. She lost three children in infancy. This would be a good place to talk about this place all these people settled in: Newark, New Jersey. During the period of Mary's life, Newark ranged from thirteenth to seventeenth largest in the nation. According to "Class, Culture and Ethnicity in Nineteenth Century Newark", by Charles Stephenson, Newark was perhaps the worst in the nation as far as health standards and housing. In 1890, the Census bureau labeled Newark the "Nation's Unhealthiest City". It was the worst for infant mortality, deaths of children under five, and scarlet fever. It ranked near the top in typhoid fever, malaria, tuberculosis, and diphtheria. Crowding and incredible squalor were commonplace. Septic tanks overflowed into basements. The low area between the Passaic River and the salt marshes then known as Down Neck (later Ironbound) was particularly bad for malaria, for which there was then no cure. Tuberculosis found an easy host in lungs already inflamed by indutrial soot, dust and chemicals. All as per the Stephenson book mentioned above. And this was considered an improvement from where they had come in Ireland, or they would have gone back. In 1914, the Down Neck section had 122 saloons, 25 dance halls, and 3 gambling houses (all considered bad influences by William Price in his 1914 book "The Ironbound District"), but only four churches, 2 movie theaters, 1 library, and 1 "settlement house" (considered good influences). According to this book, the men would gulp down a meal after work at their squalid home and then go right to the saloon to converse and play cards (presumably leaving their wife at home with their many children. the author seems to really look down on and criticize the lower class in Ironbound, so let's hope he was over-generalizing in that. But I doubt it. That is like a bar on every corner, and then some more. The book even has attendance figures. They were very well attended. Even as late as 1914, the saloons were segregated by ethnicity. He says the German saloons were the cleanest. According to Stephenson, census figures showed many immigrant families did not stay in the same house long, and the husbands floated from crap job to crap job. Evidence the Valentin Horrer family in this tree. Conditions in Newark in the late 1800's for immigrant workers were unhealthy and unsafe, but again, an improvement from what they faced in their homeland. Your living and working conditions really were terrible. About all you had was your family and your friends. And your saloon, apparently. The husband, Patrick, had the good fortune, or personal qualities, to hold a steady job for his whole life in Newark, at a Zinc and Iron foundry. He was actually able to retire and they had a live-in housekeeper (even middle class people would often have one in those days). This was before unions, OSHA, and most governmental agencies, so this company couldn't have been all that bad. From what i have been able to gather about this Cahill family, they were pretty solid. I would guess (hope) that Patrick didn't spend all his free time at the saloon, dance hall, or gambling house.
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