John J May (1857 - 1915)

Born 7 Nov 1857 in Banada, County Sligo, Ireland

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Died 17 Nov 1915 at age 58 in Youngstown, Trumbull, Ohio, USA

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Biography

John May migrated from Ireland to England between 1860 and 1862.

John May migrated from England to the USA in 1880.

Ireland and England

John was born in Banada, County Sligo, Ireland on November 7, 1857 to Bryan May and Bridget McGinty. John was baptized in Kilmactigue Parish in the diocese of Achonry on November 10, 1857 with godparents Michael McHugh and Ellen Gintty. Very shortly after his birth, the family moved out of Ireland to 108 Ingham Road, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, England where the May siblings would live until around 1880 when they set out to the United States of America.

Life in the US

In 1880, he met Mary McFadden and they married in Ohio in 1891 and had two children whom they lived with at 715 Burke St, Youngstown, Ohio in the 1900 US Census. He supported his family through masonry.

15 years later, on November 17, 1915, John died of acute cardiac dilation. His obituary from The Sunday Vindicator, while mostly accurate gives some unconfirmed/false details including his age at death and place of birth which are mentioned as 55 and Youngstown or a surrounding town, respectively. These should have been 58 and Banada, Ireland, respectively, though the age is a reasonable gap between concept and reality in this case so it makes sense and his father appears to have been a founding member of Youngstown so his own family or a reporter may, in the moment, have forgotten that he was not a natural born American. Besides those two details, everything else winds up nicely what could be discovered about his life in documents.

Sources

1. Baptismal Record: National Library of Ireland, "Catholic Parish Registers at the NLI", database, National Library of Ireland (http://registers.nli.ie), Kilmactigue; County of Sligo; Archdiocese of Achonry. Baptisms, 05 Jan. 1857 to 18 June 1864, Microfilm 04226 / 08, Page 15, Baptism of John Maye, 10 November 1857, accessed 8 July 2015.

2. "England and Wales Census, 1871," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/KZGJ-DXC : accessed 17 Aug 2014), John May in household of Bryan May, Dewsbury, Yorkshire (West Riding), England; citing "1871 England, Scotland and Wales census," index and images, findmypast.co.uk (www.findmypast.co.uk : Brightsolid, n.d.); PRO RG 10, folio 129, p. 27; Dewsbury registration district, Dewsbury subdistrict, ED 11, household 108, The National Archives of the UK, Kew, Surrey; FHL microfilm 848394.

3. 1880 US Arrival records: need to find

4. John May and Mary McFadden Marriage record 1891: Need to locate

5. 1900 US Census: "United States Census, 1900," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11868-8563-41?cc=1325221 : accessed 17 Aug 2014), Ohio > Mahoning > ED 75 Youngstown Township, Precinct C Youngstown city Ward 6 > image 11 of 32; citing NARA microfilm publication T623.

6. 1910 US Census: "United States Census, 1910," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MLXD-8FT : accessed 29 December 2014), John J May, Youngstown Ward 6, Mahoning, Ohio, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 141, sheet 14A, family 270, NARA microfilm publication T624, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.; FHL microfilm 1,375,224.

7. 1915 Death Record: "Ohio, Deaths, 1908-1953," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-21273-103438-11?cc=1307272 : accessed 17 Aug 2014), 1915 > 60751-63250 > image 1286 of 2854.

8. Obituary: P 10 of 12 of The Sunday Vindicator's Evening Edition on November 18, 1915 as found in Google Newspaper Archives. It is titled "DROPS DEAD. John J. May Expires at Home Unexpectedly on Wednesday Evening" https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=kFzFP8IdBVAC&dat=19151118&printsec=frontpage&hl=en

Footnotes

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Michael Hruska for creating] May-2821 on 15 Dec 13.