I really have to get organized here. With this new Ancestory membership to be honest with you I am almost at the point of too much information-especially since at the same time I am trying to catalogue it in as well as working on several family lines of inquiry at the same time.
Going back to my family print out no I do not have the marriage information between Mary A and Francis . I was still working on the Daniel Doyle aspect on Sunday -discovering that his wife seems to have died and he raised his daughter alone for a period with his -what looks like -his unmarried sisters Josephine and Julia. That takes me to the 1930 Census.
Then I got sidetracked back to the Maroneys (the ironic thing is when I told my husband that Helen F. Maroney had worked in the Motor Vehicle registry-it jogged a memory that he had indeed met her when he was trying to get a driving recornd "adjusted" because of youthful missteps and he remembers her saying to him "Curtin? I knew a Curtin once". Considering that she was his grandfather's cousin -I think that makes her what a second cousin-I get confused how that goes-to him. I am getting the impression that the Maroneys and the Curtins could have lived in two separate worlds in the same town of Worcester. Even his grandmother was a Doyle on her mother's side talked about the "Doyles"-almost like a second race of humans. They seem to be disconnected family branches. I honestly don't remember meeting either Maroneys or Hoys or Doyles at any family funerals. They might have been there but I never met them. I know I had none on my wedding list.) and the Alden branch-my husband's mother side of the family which more or less takes me out of Worcester and into CT, NY and NJ.
I know Mary Doyle was born in Nashua and while it seems strange that I have not gotten her birth certificate being so close to Nashua I guess I don't see the urgency of it. First of all by 1870 it appears the Doyles had moved to Worcester-Mary appears to have been working in a shoe establishment of some sort. Her Worcester death certificate tells me that her parents were both born in Ireland-of course no date and her mother's maiden name was Falvey. Census tells me that they immigrated-well at least he did around 1860. I probably should try and see if they had married in Nashua but I guess I just have not traveled in that direction yet.
Someone did amazing work on rootsweb on the Bolacks mainly on the Carpentier line which would have been Francis known as Frank Bolack and that entire line is on the LSD site. I guess the gentleman who did the research is a member of the LSD church. I also have another line in his mother's family-the Porters-that goes back to the early Dutch settlers, including a member of the crew of Henry Hudson's ship-back to Holland, Germany and France. That incredible work was done by a gentleman named Robert Fisher who I am corresponding with in hopes of solving the Alden New Haven mystery as well as another Alden member in California. Mr. Fisher lives in Utah and has an incredible stamina in genealogical research. I discovered another line of my mother-in-law's -the New Jersey Millers has had an incredible amount of work done by someone but I really didn't investigate further-I find you have to cut it off somewhere.
I have tried -with the Curtin line-every avenue available to me-available without taxing my limited financial budget for this "hobby". One of the sources whereever I turn I am directed to is Margaret Curtain's family site. Margaret is from New Zealand and has traveled to Ireland and spent enormous time transcribing Irish information. She is very helpful but the problem is my line of Curtins have her baffled. So much in fact whenever I communicate with her possiblilities of directions-well let's just say I have found her less than encouraging. She more or less has said I probably will never find out anything concerning the Curtins in Ireland. But I am of the opinion they just did not spontaneously generate. They had to come from somewhere-something is out there. I just have not found it yet. Part of the problem is the size of the Curtin family American immigration. Michael seems to have come alone. He brought his mother and brother here-to Boston and they never came to Worcester-not his father so it appears John must have died pre 1885. His mother died by 1900, his brother, John, by 1911 never have married. They seem to have lived again in some kind of vaccuum. Family whispered rumor was the reason was Margaret Maroney but who knows the truth.
Bet you never expected this long novel Cheryl! As far as the Doyles go. I don't know what happened to Annie. I would assume she married but have not found that line as yet. Daniel appears to have only one child Mary A and she never married. Her obituary gives little information because I believe she was the last of the Doyle line-I have it somewhere and will check it out again. When I got the obituaries for Margaret and Michael Curtin I also asked for one of her brothers, Jeremiah who died in 1955 (and I also sent a letter of inquiry to the funeral home which interred him and never got a response)and the Telegraph could not find one. And no I don't have the marriage information of Frank and Mary? Do you have access to that? I would appreciate it if you do.
Just one quick last( I promise) remark. I am amazed how few of the Maroneys (still working on the Hoys but so far them as well), Doyles and early Curtins married.I guess I find that surprising for some reason.
