Patrick J. O'Neill (abt. 1853 - 1916)

Born about Mar 1853 in Valentia Island, County Kerry, Ireland

Husband of Mary Lehan — married 23 May 1876 in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales

Died 22 Apr 1916 at about age 63 in New London, Connecticut, United States

Biography

According to the 1900 census, Patrick was born in ireland in 1856. According to the 1910 census, he was born in 1852.

In the 1910 census, he is widowed. No idea where Mary Lehan died, or from what. The family moved to New London, CT from Southold, NY sometime between 1900 and 1910 and lived at 17 Amity Street in 1910.

Margaret and Katherine (Katie), were born in Dowlais, Wales. Helen (listed as "Ellen," a name Nell supposedly didn't care for), Thomas, Daniel and Agnes were all born in New York. Patrick Jr and Julia were born in Wales, but died at or near childbirth. Mary Ann O'Neill was born in Greenport and died as an infant.

According to the 1900 census, Patrick emigrated in 1886; Mary and Katherine emigrated in 1887. Patrick was listed as naturalized in the 1900 census, but Mary is not. Patrick was also listed as not being able to read or write English in the 1900 census, but is able to read and write English by the 1910 census.

In 1900, he is listed as a day laborer who had been unemployed for 6 of the preceding 12 months. In 1910 he was a full-time coal shoveler in New London.

Daniel Fisher, a researcher in Southhold, Long Island sent the following information:

"On June 18, 1900, a Patrick Oniel (sic) was listed in the NY Suffolk County Census Roll 1166, Book 2, Page 218A for the Township of Southold. From his neighbors and the info from the census I expect he lived and worked at the old Sage brickyard in Arshamomoque, midway between the village of Greenport and the hamlet of Southold. Many fine local families of Irish extraction started out working for the colorful Charles Sage before moving on to other employment.

"The brickyard closed in the early part of the 20th century and the ever-resourceful Sage moved the cottages to the shore of the bay and rented them as Summer bungalows for years. They still stand but have passed from Sage ownership to cooperative ownership but are still only seasonal residences of a rustic manner.

"As a child, I knew some oldsters who grew up at the brickyard and would have been contemporaries of your grandmother. Southold Town does not have death records for those years; your best bet would be to write to the parish offices to see who has the cemetery records."

The closest emigration match I can find so far on the New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 is a July 15, 1887 arrival at New York from Liverpool of the "City of Rome." Also on board besides a Patrick, Mary and Catherine O'Neill were a Denis and Ann Murphy.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ Entered by James Condon.

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