Mary Anne Monahan (abt. 1848 - abt. 1880)

Born about 1848 in Ireland

Wife of Robert John Swenburn — married 30 Sep 1871 (to about 1878) in Brooklyn, New York

Descendants

Died about 1880 at about age 32 in New York

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Biography

Mary Anne Monahan is born around 1847-48 in Ireland, the daughter of Patrick Monahan and Anne McVey.

The earliest record available, the 1865 census, indicates Mary and her family were all born in Ireland. In her marriage record and later censuses, her birthplace is recorded as Massachusetts.

Patrick Monahan, 47 (b. 1818), born in Ireland, a tailor, his wife Ann, 48 (b. 1817), and children Mary A, 18 (b. 1847), Margaret, 21 (b. 1844), both tailoresses, and Michael, 14 (b. 1851), all born in Ireland, appear in an 1865 census of Boston, MA, Ward 1, taken 1 May.^[1]

Patrick Monahan, 53 (b. 1817), a tailor, his wife Ann, 50 (b. 1820), and their children Michael, 19 (b. 1851), a shoemaker, and Mary A., 21 (b. 1848), a "tailoress" appear in the federal census of 1870, living in Boston's 2nd Ward.^[2]

Mary Anne marries Robert John Swinburne, an English seaman, on 30 September 1871 in Kings County (Brooklyn), New York. Mary Anne is 24 (b. 1847) and lives in Brooklyn. Both the record of her marriage and the 1875 state census indicate she was born in Massachusetts.^[3]

In the 1875 state census of New York, taken 26 June 1875 in Kings County, Robert Swinbern, a 29 year old (b. 1846) Sea Man, born in England and a naturalized citizen of the US, lives with his wife, Mary, 27 (b. 1848), born in Massachusetts ("Mass"), and their daughters Anne, 4 (b. 1871), and Hestor, 2 (b. 1873), both born in Kings County. Their home is worth $800. ^[4]

In 1875, Robert and his family live in the First Enumeration District of the 17th Ward, in Kings County. The description of that area is:

(margins ripped hard to read)

Commerical

Box ?

Union Pl

Clay

Dupont

Oakland Ave^[5]

Commercial St, Clay St, and Dupont St still exist, all close to one another near the East River, in Greenpoint west of the Pulaski Bridge into Queens.

An 1880 Brooklyn map is available to import into Google Earth (the KML file) from the NY Public Library website and shows you exactly where those old streets are: Commercial runs parallel to the northwest shore. The short blocks are Ash St, Box St, Clay St, Dupont St, Eagle St... Oakland Ave is where McGuinness Blvd is now, which runs north south and at the north end, becomes the Pulaski Bridge. The only thing I didn't find was Union Place.^[6]

According to a 2001 letter to Michelle Cascio from Warren Fandrey accompanying his family histories, Esther Swinburne, his mother's mother, was placed in an orphanage in 1878 and did not know anything about her parents.

No further records of Mary or Robert have been found. They are presumed to have died by 1880.

In the 1880 census, "Hester Swinebarn," age four (b. 1876), and a girl who is presumably her sister, Mary, age 8 (b. 1872), both live in a convent in Babylon, on Long Island. The girls were both born in New York.^[7]

Esther marries Emil Bonin 13 November 1899 in Brooklyn.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts State Census, 1865," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-D419-5VM?cc=1410399&wc=M6PX-QMS%3A27785801%2C27785802 : 1 April 2016), Suffolk > Boston, Ward 01 > image 28 of 242; State Archives, Boston.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-63L9-QDG?cc=1438024&wc=92KB-GPD%3A518657101%2C519510801%2C519527501 : 22 May 2014), Massachusetts > Suffolk > image 449 of 625; citing NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
3. ↑ Certificate No. 1747; New York City Department of Records and Information Services, Municipal Archives. Received by USPS 17 March 2017.
4. ↑ "New York State Census, 1875," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11579-75966-19?cc=1918735 : accessed 2 April 2016), Kings > Brooklyn, Ward 17, E.D. 01 > image 26 of 35; State Library, Albany.
5. ↑ 1875 State Census, Enumeration Districts by Wards. http://bklyn-genealogy-info.stevemorse.org/Ward/1875.ed.html Accessed 17 March 2017.
6. ↑ NYPL Map Warper, Index Map of Brooklyn; http://maps.nypl.org/warper/maps/11818#Preview_Rectified_Map_tab Accessed 17 March 2017.
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZF1-JY4 : accessed 26 March 2016), Hester Swinebarn in household of William Mullen, Babylon, Suffolk, New York, United States; citing enumeration district ED 312, sheet 50C, NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 0934; FHL microfilm 1,254,934.
8. ↑ Certificate no. 6653. NYC Grooms Record Index available online and accessed 26 March 2016.