Month: February 2019

John Duffy (b abt 1881)

John Duffy was the second son and third child born to Francis (Frank) Duffy and Margaret J Duffy. He died as a child.

John appeared in 1892 New York State census. He is 11 years old in that record, which places his birth after the 1880 census. The 1890 U.S. Census was almost entirely destroyed by fire, so this is the first census record available for him. It was taken in Lockport, New York.

John Duffy 1892 NY Census Lockport

The next census was the 1900 U.S. Census. In that census, Margaret Duffy answered that she had given birth to seven children, of whom six were still living.

Margaret J Duffy 1900 census

All of her children except John can be found in the 1900 U.S. Census, indicating that he is the child who died before 1900.  From this we can infer that he died sometime between 1892 and 1900.

Source of screenshots:

Duffy Family in 1892 New York State Census, seen on Ancestry.com on 14 Feb 2019.

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Margaret J Duffy in 1900 US Federal Census, seen on Ancestry.com on 14 Feb 2019.

Year: 1900; Census Place: Lockport Ward 6, Niagara, New York; Roll: T623_1129; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 64; FHL microfilm: 1241129.

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Patrick Duffy (b 1812) + Elizabeth Dillon (b 1818)
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Margaret J Duffy (b 1850)+Francis (Frank) W Duffy (b 1855)
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John Duffy (b abt 1881)

Contents of this site, except where noted, are ©2016-2019 by Jan Burke. While I hope you find this site useful in your family history research, please do not copy material you find here onto your Ancestry trees, etc. without permission.

Information presented here is based on my interpretation of the sources I’ve found. As new sources are found or inaccuracies discovered, the site will be updated.

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Elizabeth J. (Bessie) Duffy (b 1879)

Elizabeth J. (Bessie) Duffy was the third child and oldest daughter of Francis W Duffy and Margaret Duffy. She was born on July 14, 1879 in Fairview, Butler County, Pennsylvania, at a time when her parents had probably followed her uncle W.G. Duffy from Lockport, New York to Pennsylvania’s oilfields. Her family moved to Allentown, New York when she was a young child, then back to Lockport, New York by 1892, where they lived at 474 Hawley Street. By the time of the 1900 U.S. Census, she was working as a clerk.

On November 27, 1905, she married Edward Marvin Cummings (b 1877) in Aurora, Erie County, New York. Edward was the son of a bookkeeper. He graduated from the Buffalo School of Pharmacy on May 4, 1900 and obtained his pharmacist license. For a time he worked for Hosmer Pharmacy in Buffalo. In 1905, with another pharmacist, George H Sprague, he purchased the pharmacy of a deceased pharmacist and established the Sprague & Cummings Pharmacy on East Main Street in East Aurora,

Elizabeth has no employment listed in any census after her marriage.

The couple had no children and lived their lives together near the pharmacy.  Edward died on October 11, 1963. Elizabeth lived almost exactly seven years after his death. She died on October 10, 1970.  They are buried next to each other in the Oakwood Cemetery of East Aurora.

Patrick Duffy (b 1812) + Elizabeth Dillon (b 1818)
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Margaret J Duffy (b 1850)+Francis (Frank) W Duffy (b 1855)
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Elizabeth (Bessie) Duffy (b 1876)

Sources for this post include:

American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record, Volume 47, American Druggist Publishing Company, 1905, p 21. Found online 14 February 2018 at https://books.google.com/books?id=7NEAAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA21&ots=kQepTIyblI&dq=Edward%20M%20Cumming%20pharmacist%20East%20Aurora%20New%20York&pg=PA21#v=onepage&q=Edward%20M%20Cumming%20pharmacist%20East%20Aurora%20New%20York&f=false

 

 

 

Contents of this site, except where noted, are ©2016-2019 by Jan Burke. While I hope you find this site useful in your family history research, please do not copy material you find here onto your Ancestry trees, etc. without permission.

Information presented here is based on my interpretation of the sources I’ve found. As new sources are found or inaccuracies discovered, the site will be updated.

Always happy to hear from cousins.

 

George Francis Duffy (b 1876)

George Francis Duffy was the eldest child of Frank W Duffy and Margaret J Duffy. He was born in Lockport, New York on February 22, 1876.  He was about four years old when the family moved to Fairview, Pennsylvania, where he appears in the 1880 U.S. Census.  He moved with the family back to the state of New York by 1886, and to Lockport by 1892, where the family appears in the 1892 state census.

At some point around 1900, he moved to Elizabeth, New Jersey, where he worked in steel manufacturing. He met an Irish immigrant, Ellen Tully, who had arrived in the U.S. in 1893. They married in 1903. Ellen was also known as Nellie or Mollie.

The Duffys moved into a home at 59 Orchard Street in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where they would reside for the rest of their lives. They had four children:

Margaret Elizabeth Duffy (1903 – 1967)
Francis M Duffy (1906 – 1961)
Mary L Duffy (1908 – ?)
Eleanor P Duffy (1911 – 1958)

In 1930, a nephew, Joseph Donelon, lived with the family. He had immigrated from the Irish Free State. He was probably related through Ellen’s family.

George worked as molder and core maker for the Moore Brothers Foundry at 27 Bond Street in Elizabeth, a company founded in 1891. In the 1940 census, he listed his employer as the railroad. The occupation is listed as “boatman.” This was a little confusing to me until I found the railroad’s name in the 1947 Elizabeth directory — he was still working for the Central Railroad (CRR) of New Jersey  in 1947. As I learned from the New Jersey Transportation Chronology on this site, the CRR operated ferry boats between New Jersey and New York.

George died on April 15, 1948 and is buried in St Gertrude’s Catholic Cemetery in Colonia, New Jersey.   Nellie died on July 27, 1949.

Patrick Duffy (b 1812) + Elizabeth Dillon (b 1818)
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Margaret J Duffy (b 1850)+Francis (Frank) W Duffy (b 1855)
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George Francis Duffy (b 1876)

Sources for this post include:

“United States Census, 1880,” database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MWXD-CJS : 15 July 2017), George F Duffy in entry for Francis W Duffy, 1880; citing enumeration district ED 40, sheet 227A, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d), roll 1109; FHL microfilm 1,255,109. Accessed 12 Feb 2019

“New Jersey State Census, 1905,” database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KMHK-7HY : 12 March 2018), George Duffy, , Union, New Jersey, United States; citing p. 19, line 33, Department of State, Trenton; FHL microfilm 1,688,625. Accessed 12 Feb 2019

“United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZJ6-H4S : 13 March 2018), George Francis Duffy, 1917-1918; citing Elizabeth City no 3, New Jersey, United States, NARA microfilm publication M1509 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,712,099. Accessed 12 Feb 2019

“United States Census, 1920,” database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4YG-N34 : accessed 13 February 2019), George L Duffy, Elizabeth City Ward 11, Union, New Jersey, United States; citing ED 102, sheet 11B, line 84, family 215, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 1070; FHL microfilm 1,821,070. Accessed 12 Feb 2019

“United States Census, 1930,” database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X4NM-FZF : accessed 13 February 2019), George F Duffy, Elizabeth, Union, New Jersey, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 69, sheet 4B, line 65, family 101, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 1387; FHL microfilm 2,341,122. Accessed 12 Feb 2019

“United States Census, 1940,” database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4YR-B9X : 15 March 2018), George F Duffy, Ward 11, Elizabeth, Elizabeth City, Union, New Jersey, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 23-97, sheet 2B, line 44, family 162, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 – 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 2400.

Contents of this site, except where noted, are ©2016-2019 by Jan Burke. While I hope you find this site useful in your family history research, please do not copy material you find here onto your Ancestry trees, etc. without permission.

Information presented here is based on my interpretation of the sources I’ve found. As new sources are found or inaccuracies discovered, the site will be updated.

Always happy to hear from cousins.