tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25373703459807579822024-03-14T01:00:50.717-07:00REYNOLDS MYSTERY - NY 1800'SMary Reynolds, born NY 25 April 1873, married my great-grandfather, Kristian Danielsen about 1898, either Westchester or Bronx County, NY. Her father was thought to be a John Reynolds, born "Ireland Free State", mother's name unknown, born New York. Where is Mary Reynolds and her family in the federal censuses? [Ongoing genealogy research on this family...]K. Danielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08706053393073357950noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537370345980757982.post-19303521564457341102019-04-20T23:35:00.001-07:002019-04-20T23:35:43.573-07:00THE "ESTATE' QUESTION - RESOLVEED?Per my contact via 23 and Me with a Reynolds descendant, Kristian Danielsen's wife Mary Reynolds probably worked with her mother, who ran a boarding house for the workers on an estate in the Bronx [or Westchester?] area. I'll have to review our emails, but I believe Mary's father was a foreman on the estate. With family history saying Kristian and Mary met and/or both worked on an estate, it isn't a huge leap to see Kristian working and/or boarding at this place, putting a lot more truth to that item of family history. <br />
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On Kristian's naturalization papers he said he resided Westchester, and his occupation was a waiter. In later years, after marriage, he was a butcher. I wonder if the estate was where he learned his trade?K. Danielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08706053393073357950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537370345980757982.post-77644281865835434952018-11-29T16:36:00.002-07:002018-11-29T16:36:33.639-07:00AHA ! THE SULLIVAN LINK IS REAL!I recently met online a Reynolds relative. She descends from my great-grandmother's sister, Anne Reynolds Sullivan! Not only that, she has shone the light once again on a family story which, it turns out, has some truth to it! [See my Danielsen blog for further details.]K. Danielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08706053393073357950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537370345980757982.post-73882348811769112652014-11-20T23:29:00.001-07:002018-11-29T16:43:03.356-07:00AHA - A SULLIVAN LINK!<div style="text-align: justify;">
More news on the Reynolds family. Familysearch has marriage records for the children of Edward & Mary [Dolan] Reynolds. Lo and behold, I found an entry for a previously-unknown daughter, Anna M. Reynolds who married a William Sullivan!! She was born about 1885, thus did not show up in the 1880 census. I also found Edward & Mary Reynolds in the 1900 census - living at home was the "new" daughter Anna, plus a son James who appears to have the same year of birth as son Joseph from the 1880 census. [Don't know yet if the 2 boys are one and the same.] However, the 1900 census also indicated Edward & Mary had had 8 children, only 4 still living. How sad! Still living were daughter Mary [married to Kristian Danielsen]; the 2 children still at home [Anna & James]; and one more. Looking at the childrens' marriage records, son Edward married in 1895; Patrick married 1904; and Anna married 1906. Thus son Edward must have died between 1895 when he married, and 1900 when the federal census was taken.</div>
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I did follow Anna [Reynolds] & William Sullivan through the 1930 census; they had a son William [b. about 1910] and a daughter Mary [b. about 1908]. My father was born 1922, so these cousins [actually niece/nephew of his paternal grandmother] were 12 and 14 yrs older than he. </div>
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I also followed the Reynolds son Patrick & his wife Margaret through 1930; they had 4 children. Still more checking to do on that family.</div>
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K. Danielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08706053393073357950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537370345980757982.post-87189149802367689912011-08-30T08:20:00.003-07:002011-09-22T08:52:58.143-07:00AND MORE YET!Found in the online NYC marriage index at the Italian Genealogy website:<br />
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<em> Doolin Mary Aug 8 1869 Manhattan 5786 D450 </em><br />
<em> Raynolds Edward Aug 8 1869 Manhattan 5786 R543 </em><br />
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Lo and behold, familysearch.org has an extract of the marriage record:<br />
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New York Marriages, 1686-1980 for Mary Doolin<br />
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<em>Groom's Name: Edward Raynolds </em><br />
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<em>Bride's Name: Mary Doolin </em><br />
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<em>Marriage Date: 08 Aug 1869 </em><br />
<em>Marriage Place: Mount Vernon, New York, NY</em><br />
<em><strong>Groom's Father's Name: John Raynolds </strong></em><br />
<em><strong>Groom's Mother's Name: Anne Kelly </strong></em><br />
<em><strong>Bride's Father's Name: Patrick Doolin </strong></em><br />
<em><strong>Bride's Mother's Name: Mary Mulhall </strong></em><br />
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<em>Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00160-7 </em><br />
<em>System Origin: New_York-ODM </em><br />
<em>Source Film Number: 1544270 </em><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">So, Edward and Mary Reynolds named their firstborn child, John [who died young] after his paternal grandfather. Second child, Mary, named for her mother and/or maternal grandmother; next child, Edward, named for his father; son Patrick named after his maternal grandfather; last son, Joseph--don't know. Perhaps after one of his parents' grandparents.</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Mount Vernon, New York...my father grew up there. Seems the family resided in Westchester County from the 1850's, beginning with Patrick Dolan /Doolin and his family. I'll have to look into the history of the county - what was the draw there?</div><br />
<div style="text-align: justify;">Ancestry has free access to immigration records this week, through Labor Day; perhaps I'll find the immigration record for Patrick Dolan /Doolin or Edward "Raynolds". :-)</div>K. Danielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08706053393073357950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537370345980757982.post-34275450233862067132011-08-25T02:10:00.006-07:002014-11-20T20:07:22.803-07:00BREAKTHROUGH !<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thanks to familysearch.org, I have an extract of the marriage certificate of Kristian Danielsen and Mary E. Reynolds, listing her parents' names. [The marriage date does match the index entry I'd found online some time ago: 30 Oct 1898, Bronx NY.] Mary's father was NOT John Reynolds [per her death certificate] - it was Edward Reynolds. Her mother's name was Mary Dolan [or Dulan], daughter of Patrick and Mary Dolan [Dulan]. Thus Mary Reynolds Danielsen named her second son, Edward, for her father.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've found a few census entries for these families. Patrick Dolan emigrated from Ireland between 1840-1845, and resided Westchester, New York from at least 1850 through 1870. He and his wife Mary had 3 daughters, the older two born Ireland, the youngest, Mary Dolan, born New York. His occupation was always listed as "laborer" in the federal censuses, but he also showed assets of $1000 to $1500. He died probably between 1870-1880. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Patrick's daughter Mary Dolan married Edward Reynolds about 1868-1870; they lived with her father [who was probably widowed] in Westchester as of the 1870 census. Edward Reynolds was born in Ireland; nothing has been found on his family or immigration as of yet. At 1880 he and Mary had 3 sons [another son having died young] and a daughter, Mary Reynolds who would grow up to marry Kristian Danielsen. Cannot locate Edward Reynolds or his wife Mary in the 1900 census; they may have been deceased by then. [I have found possible entries for two of their sons in 1900.]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This also answers the question as to where Mary Reynolds and Kristian Danielsen met: he worked in Westchester as a waiter as of the early 1890's, and she was born and raised in Westchester. Their 1898 marriage took place in the Bronx although a 1903 City directory showed their residence still in Westchester. It's possible the nearest courthouse was in the Bronx.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Again - thank you familysearch.org !</span><br />
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K. Danielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08706053393073357950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537370345980757982.post-13794732483970235572011-06-03T12:57:00.001-07:002011-10-05T10:19:15.096-07:00One other unrelated Sullivan family...<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">According to Raymond Danielsen [son of Christian Jr. / grandson of Kristian Sr. and Mary [Reynolds] Danielsen], he had Sullivan cousins on his mother's side of the family. It's possible my father met these Sullivan cousins through his uncle Christian [Jr.]'s family, but they would not have been blood relatives. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Nothing but dead ends so far trying to connect Sullivan to Reynolds!</span>K. Danielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08706053393073357950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537370345980757982.post-36069223094369242092010-12-02T13:10:00.005-07:002011-10-05T10:19:57.057-07:00IT IS RARE...<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">...that I have absolutely no info on an ancestor--yet this is the case with Mary Reynolds. Family history did pass down her maiden name. The censuses indicate both she and her mother were born in New York. Her father's place of birth [per censuses] is shown as "Ireland" and "Irish Free State". She is also named on her son Edward's marriage certificate: <i>Mary Reynolds</i>. She died the year before her husband at the age of 79 years; he was the informant, and he named her father but not her mother ["<i>unknown</i>"]. From this I would guess - but it's only a guess! - that Mary's father outlived her mother by enough years that Christian Danielsen could not remember her name--if he ever knew it.</span></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Finding the marriage certificate of Christian Danielsen and Mary Reynolds would probably solve the mystery of her mother's name - but of course I have been unable to locate it thus far. Probably married 1897-1899 in either the Bronx, NY or Westchester, NY [probably the same place in those years]. Their first son was born in the Bronx September, 1899.</span></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The only other info I ever heard about this family was from my father before his death. He recalled getting together and playing with some cousins by the name of <i><b>Sullivan</b></i>, probably between the ages of 10-15, or during the 1930s. In trying to determine who those cousins might be:</span></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<ul><li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">My father's maternal aunt, Elizabeth Anderson, married Marty <i>Regan;</i> I know these children [all boys] were playmates, but their surname would have been <i>Regan</i>. One of Elizabeth's sons married a Sullivan, somewhere around the mid to late 1940s. Kay Sullivan was born in NY City around 1920 or later; it's possible she had siblings and that they knew the Danielsens. <i>[Will take a quick look at federal censuses for this family.]</i></span></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">His mother had 2 other sisters: Lillie died unmarried the year my father was born, while the oldest sister, Mary [or "Minnie"] married an <i>Adams</i>.</span></div></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">His mother had 2 brothers; neither married a Sullivan.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">His father had one brother and one sister; neither married a Sullivan.</span></li>
<li><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The other possibility was that the Sullivans were related to Mary Reynolds, my father's grandmother. Mary was born 1873; if she had a sister born even about 1880 who later married a Sullivan [say the early 1900s], the resulting progeny would be too old to be playing with my father in the 1930s. So I guess this is the worst possible guess of all. :-))</span></div></li>
</ul>K. Danielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08706053393073357950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537370345980757982.post-47173883223328958632010-11-28T22:06:00.000-07:002010-11-28T22:25:04.525-07:00ANOTHER PHOTO...<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kristian & Mary [Reynolds] Danielsen & nephew Olaf Olsen, ca. 1920s</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mary Reynolds Danielsen [2nd from left] <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now how am I going to look up certificate #505 dated Oct. 30 1898? I guess an option is a Family History Library marriage film for NY...</div>K. Danielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08706053393073357950noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2537370345980757982.post-49900111386822767612008-09-09T15:50:00.001-07:002010-11-19T15:10:10.069-07:00WHAT'S THE MYSTERY?<div align="justify">I cannot find the family of John Reynolds that contains "my" Mary Reynolds! <em>[He is named in dau. Mary's Death Certificate; and her maiden name is shown on son Edward's marriage certificate.]</em> I have checked federal censuses - naturally there are quite a few John Reynolds born Ireland residing NY City. Most, however, had wives also born Ireland; in fact, there is only one family that has a wife born New York - but they resided upstate New York [Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County].</div><br />
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<div align="justify">It is a possibility...because family legend has it that Mary met her future husband, Kristian Danielsen, while both worked for a millionaire, either upstate NY or Long Island, NY. However, Kristian's naturalization papers include (a) his 1894 application showing he resided Mount Vernon City, Westchester County, NY; (b) the final naturalization document dated 1897 stating Kristian resided Westchester, NY; and (c) the statement by a man who resided "Westchester, NY City" who'd known Kristian since 1891. [The implication to me being that Kristian had resided Westchester since 1891.] </div><br />
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<div align="justify">So how does the "upstate NY" Reynolds family mesh with Kristian residing Mount Vernon, Westchester, NY; with his marriage around 1898 [not located in NY City records so far], and the birth of his children in the Bronx, NY, beginning with their first child b. 1899? Did Mary's family move to the city? Did Kristian and Mary meet while employed upstate NY, then move to NY City together?</div><div align="justify"></div><div align="justify">Note: Kristian and his family resided in the Bronx all of his married life; he had a butcher shop there and both he and his wife died in the Bronx.</div><div align="justify"></div><br />
<div align="justify">Note: part of the Bronx started out as part of Westchester County. It is possible he always resided NY City, in which case I would think it likely Mary Reynolds did as well.</div><br />
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<div align="justify">I will post census extracts and some family photos in the hope that (a) someone can either identify the right family or eliminate one from my search; and (b) that someone might recognize someone in the photos.</div>K. Danielsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08706053393073357950noreply@blogger.com0