| The Green family |
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May
2004. Until now, the only information I've had on my
mother's family came from whatever papers were
preserved. Now, with searchable Census data
available at Heritage Quest, some other pieces are
falling into place. My mother (Isabel) was born in
1898 in Scranton PA (Lackawanna County). Her
parents were Samuel and Mary Green. |
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1900 Census.
Samuel
and Mary were living in Scranton with seven
children. He was a coal miner. Samuel and Mary were
born in England: Samuel (b 5-1864) and Mary Simpson
(b 10-1863). They were married in England in 1880,
and came to the USA with three children (Joseph,
Elizabeth, Thomas) in 1887. The other children were
born in Scranton.
[The Scranton address on my mother's
birth certificate says 248 Hollister Ave.] |
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When Samuel died, Mary came to New York with at
least some of her
children. Father Samuel and at least two daughters
died of TB, presumably related to the coal mines. I
knew Elizabeth and George, had heard of Jennie and
Edith, but wasn't aware of Thomas and Joseph until
recently.
The only documents I have pertain
to a plot in Cedar Grove Cemetery (Queens NY) that
Mary Green purchased in 1916, when Edith was buried there. Mary Green was the owner of
the gravesite GR 56 Row "G" Cosmopolitan,
also 55? The deed seems to date back to 5/17/16. The
cemetery record indicates that Mary Green was buried
8/28/1929. A signature on the receipt is
Jennie Green. At New York Public Library (NYPL)
I found a little more information, but not much.
Isabel was in touch with nephews
who lived in Detroit: Joseph at 15100 Cruse, and
Clarence at 15732 Hartwell. (They might have
been children of Joseph.) |
| Samuel.
(May 1864-?) |
Mary.
(Oct 1863-1929)
The 1920 Census shows Mary living
with Elizabeth in Elizabeth's boarding house on West 95th
Street NYC. |
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Joseph. Born (England)
12-1882. Census-1900: Driver, coal mine. |
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Elizabeth. Born
(England) 1884. [Her death certificate says 1882,
Census-1900 says 8-1884.]
Census-1920 shows
Elizabeth Barton running a boarding house on West
95th Street NYC. When she died as Elizabeth Barton, she was living on
49th Street in NYC. |
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Thomas. Born (England)
10-1886. Census-1900: Driver. |
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George. Born 9-1890.
[Census-1900 says 1880, but that must be wrong.] George lived in
Brooklyn with his wife Augusta. We saw them
rarely. A 1965 note in Mom's papers shows four
sons: George, John, Howard, Ralph, with lots of kids
and grandkids. 1910 census, Brooklyn: Wife Gustave, +Howard 6, George 5, Ralph 3,
Mildred <1. |
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Edith. Born 9-1892.
Buried at CG: 5-17-16, age 22. |
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Jennie. Born 11-1895. Jennie was apparently alive
in 1929 because her signature is on Mary's interment
papers, but I believe that she died before I was
born in 1934. |
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Isabella. Born
6-2-1898. The 1920 Census shows Ben and Isabel and Walter on 86th Street in Brooklyn.
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| Photos
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Mary Green
Jennie and Edith |
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