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| 1880 US Census 10th Ave. Manhattan |
This past Friday, June 1st, I went to New York City to visit both the Municipal Archives and the National Archives, NY center. The Municipal Archives close at 1pm on Fridays in the summer and because I was showing up at 1:45pm, that meant I couldn't do any ancestry searches. I was very disappointed, to say the least! I left and hailed a cab to go to the National Archives and spent a few hours there and was helped by a few very friendly volunteers. Unfortunately, even with the help of a senior genealogist on Ireland, we came up with nothing. All the avenues they suggested I had already been down. I am hoping that the Death Certificate for Edward that I've sent off for (and that I could have picked up at the Municipal Archives had they been opened!) will provide me with some nugget of information that I can then link to the next piece of searchable data. Fingers crossed.
Meanwhile, the Sinnott Family in 1880 on Tenth Avenue consisted of:
Edward, age 31 (DOB: 1849), box maker, born in Ireland
Mary, age 30 (DOB: 1850), keeping house, born in Ireland
Catherine, daughter, age 6 (DOB: 1874), born in New York
Nicholas, son, age 4 (DOB: 1876), born in New York
James, son, age 3 (DOB: 1877), born in New York
with:
Guy Spears, age 39, a boarder in the house, box maker, from Scotland
James Sinnott, age 35, brother to Edward, clerk in a grocery, from Ireland
And, from the NY Times, it looks like Tenth Avenue was a business district... but don't pass off Oleo as butter or you'll be arrested! : ) Interesting immigrants' statistics below.
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