THE "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.

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?

AHA ! 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.]

AHA - A SULLIVAN LINK!

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.

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.  

I also followed the Reynolds son Patrick & his wife Margaret through 1930; they had 4 children. Still more checking to do on that family.

All in all...a great find!

AND MORE YET!

Found in the online NYC marriage index at the Italian Genealogy website:

Surname/ Given Name/ Month/ Day/ Year of Marriage/ County / Certificate #/ Soundex

    Doolin Mary Aug 8 1869 Manhattan 5786 D450
    Raynolds Edward Aug 8 1869 Manhattan 5786 R543

Lo and behold, familysearch.org has an extract of the marriage record:

New York Marriages, 1686-1980 for Mary Doolin

Groom's Name: Edward Raynolds
Groom's Birth Date:
Groom's Birthplace:
Groom's Age:
Bride's Name: Mary Doolin
Bride's Birth Date:
Bride's Birthplace:
Bride's Age:
Marriage Date: 08 Aug 1869
Marriage Place:                     Mount Vernon, New York, NY
Groom's Father's Name:       John Raynolds
Groom's Mother's Name:      Anne Kelly
Bride's Father's Name:          Patrick Doolin
Bride's Mother's Name:        Mary Mulhall
Groom's Race:
Groom's Marital Status:
Groom's Previous Wife's Name:
Bride's Race:
Bride's Marital Status:
Bride's Previous Husband's Name:
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: M00160-7
System Origin: New_York-ODM
Source Film Number: 1544270
Reference Number:

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.

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?

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". :-)