Tracing Family Ancestry: Martin
Ann Mulvenna Martin 1907 - 1998
from Coal Miner’s Daughter to the Good Life in America
Dedication FOR AUNT SANDRA Ann Mulvenna Martin’s youngest child and caretaker for her last 30 years of life, and whose tireless enthusiasm and support for this project spurred me on to completion.
Making Mom Proud: Tea in Burnbank, Scotland Sandra Johnson, 65 years old , October 15, 2011
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Table of Contents Preface Where is Burnbank? Burnbank Trip, October 2011 Introduction Reflections of Ann Mulvenna Martin Early Ancestors: Family Tree Early Ancestors: The Hamills Early Ancestors: The Martins Earnock Coal Mine and Village Passage to America Living in the States Family Ties: Siblings Marriage and The Greeks Grandchildren and Great Grandchildren Travels Appendices x x x x
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Preface This book came about as a result of a visit by my aunt, sister and cousins to Burnbank, Scotland, in October of 2011, to honor my grandmother, Ann Mulvenna Martin Caravousanos, born there on January 4, 1907, and to document and preserve her genealogy for generations to come. The goal of our trip was to re-trace some of “Grandma’s” steps, to find her mother’s gravesite, and to learn more about her heritage and her 16 years in Burnbank before she joined her sisters in New York City in 1923. Aside from her early years in Scotland, Grandma lived in New York City, Astoria, Elmont and Bethpage, New York and Levittown, Pennsylvania, before passing away on February 5, 1998. Lucky for all of us who knew her, she maintained her beautiful Scottish brogue for all of her 91 years. Family stories about Scotland, her journey to the United States, early years in New York and the famous discrepancy over Scottish vs. Irish lineage abound. By walking Grandma’s steps in Burnbank, we filled in some gaps of our knowledge and saw glimpses of her life there at the turn of the 20th century.
Our trip peaked my interest in learning more, so upon returning from Scotland, I set out to create a family tree. An Internet search, turned up a surprisingly large amount of information and documents. When family learned of my endeavor, they came forward with such an abundance of information, that my original goal of a family tree quickly turned into a book about the life and times of my dear grandmother. I am most grateful to Sandra Johnson (daughter) and to Peter Martin (nephew), for sharing their invaluable recollections and old family photographs. Thanks also to George Caravousanos (son), Joseph Martin (nephew) and their spouses for all their input; to friends and family ‘on both sides of the pond’ for support, the loan of treasured photos and recollections; and to my son, Paul, for encouraging stories about our ancestors rather than data. Special thanks to my sister, Ann Marie, for her word smithing, and who had the foresight to conduct and record an interview with Grandma in 1986, providing first-hand information in Grandma’s own voice; to Pam ?? for sharing a thesis she wrote in ??? on her neighbor, Ann; and to Wilma Bolton, book author and local historian in Hamilton, Scotland
who generously provided invaluable and otherwise unattainable information on Grandma’s early years in Scotland. To my husband, Richard, whose steadfast support, enthusiasm, technical advice, and willingness to be my sounding board at all hours was beyond compare. And lastly, to the Divine, whose wisdom and guidance carried me through this remarkable journey.
By reading this book, I hope that all who knew her, and those that did not, will have an understanding of Ann Mulvenna’s unique and extraordinary journey from a poor, Scottish, coal miner’s daughter to the good life in America. Susan Morreale Granddaughter, Ann Mulvenna Martin Belmont, MA July 2012
October 15, 2011 Burnbank, Scotland: L to R: Ann Marie, Sandra, Susan , Claire , Ola Alexandria (Sandra) Caravousanos Johnson, age 65, Bethpage, NY, Ann Mulvenna Martin’s last remaining daughter. Granddaughters: Ann Marie Morreale, age 60, Brookhaven, NY, Susan Morreale Carlson, age 58, Belmont, MA, Claire Caravousanos Murphy, age 56, Dublin, Ireland, and Finola (Ola) Caravousanos, age 49, Dublin, Ireland, wife of grandson Anthony Caravousanos
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Acknowledgement
Joseph (Chick) Martin, Sandra Johnson, George Caravousanos, Ann Marie Morreale
Susan Morreale and Sandra Johnson
“Martin Tartan Meetin’” Family elders meeting December 5, 2011 Bethpage, NY
Six hours of sharing of family stories, photos, and research documents. Bill Johnson and Peter Martin
Marilyn Martin
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Acknowledgement Richard Carlson, Technical Advisor
November 2011, Belmont, MA: post-Burnbank trip “Haggis & Scotch Tasting Party� - complete with bagpipe music Page 6
VISITING BURNBANK October 2011
392 coal pits and 9 fireclay pits in Where is 1881Burnbank? operation in Lanarkshire.
Ann Mulvenna Martin was born at, and lived all her 16 years in Scotland at: 85 Albert Buildings, Earnock Burnbank, Lanarkshire, Scotland.
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/sct/LKS/#Occup Burnbank has existed in one form or another since at least the late ations fifteenth century and was absorbed into Hamilton in 1878.
The Albert Buildings were one of three long, narrow buildings consisting of a row of 60 connected houses. Known locally as miner’s cottages or Scotland “pit rows”, this construction was built expressly for the workers of nearby coal mines, and the Albert Buildings housed families of the Earnock Colliery, where Peter Martin lived with his wife and six children, the youngest being my grandmother, Ann Mulvenna Martin. Ireland England With the demise of the coal industry in 19XX, the Earnock pit and housing were torn down in 19XX, with the exception ofWales one house which remains a residence to this day.
Prior to the nineteenth century, agriculture and lace making were important local industries.
With the Industrial Revolution, Burnbank lost its rural identity, becoming a coal mining village.
Agriculture and lace making were important industries in Burnbank prior to the 19th century when the region was tapped for it’s abundance of coal. By the time Peter Martin began working at Earnock c1895, Lanarkshire had 257 mines, two of which were in Burnbank: Earnock and Greenfield.
Lanarkshire had 257 coal mines (collieries) in 1895. Near to the heart of this “black country” Burnbank had two mines Greenfield and Earnock Collieries. Ann Mulvenna Martin’s father, Peter Martin, worked at Earnock. Almost everyone in the community either was employed in the pits or owed their livelihoods to them.
Scotland
According to the 1891 Census, Burnbank had a population of 5,421 with a total of 961 inhabited and 14 uninhabited dwellings.1
Edinburgh (capitol)
Glasgow
Burnbank District, Town of Hamilton Lanarkshire County
1.
http://www.liriodovale.com/English/biography/james_lees.htm
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Where is Burnbank? Ann Mulvenna Martin was born at, and lived all her 16 years in Scotland at: 85 Albert Buildings, Earnock Burnbank, Lanarkshire, Scotland The Albert Buildings were one of three long, narrow buildings consisting of a row of 60 connected houses. Known locally as miner’s cottages or “pit rows”, this construction was built expressly for the workers of nearby coal mines, and the Albert Buildings housed families of the Earnock Colliery, where Peter Martin lived with his wife and six children, the youngest being my grandmother, Ann Mulvenna Martin.
Scotland
Ireland
England Wales
Scotland
With the demise of the coal industry in 19XX, the Earnock pit and housing were torn down in 19XX, with the exception of one house which remains a residence to this day.
Edinburgh (capitol)
Agriculture and lace making were important industries in Burnbank prior to the 19th century when the region was tapped for it’s abundance of coal. By the time Peter Martin began working at Earnock c1895, Lanarkshire had 257 mines, two of which were in Burnbank: Earnock and Greenfield. According to the 1891 Census, Burnbank had a population of 5,421 with a total of 961 inhabited and 14 uninhabited dwellings.1
1.
http://www.liriodovale.com/English/biography/james_lees.htm
Glasgow
Burnbank District, Town of Hamilton Lanarkshire County
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Burnbank Trip: Day One Arrive and tour Edinburgh October 14, 2011
Arrival via Ryan Air at Edinburgh Airport L to R: Ola, Claire, Sandra, Ann Marie, Susan
Walter Scott Monument Susan with a Scotsman
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Burnbank Trip: Day Two Edinburgh to Burnbank October 15, 2011
Train from Edinburgh’s Waverly Station to West Hamilton Station L to R: Sandra, Ann Marie, Claire, Ola
Sheep grazing in the Scottish countryside, view from train
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Burnbank Trip: Day Two Tour Burnbank by foot October 15, 2011
“Twenty’s Plenty” speed sign
St. Cuthbert’s Roman Catholic Church, founded 1893 98 High Blantyre Road, Burnbank Ann Mulvenna Martin baptized here, January 1907
Shop on Purdie Street, Burnbank
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A Toast to Ann
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TIMELINE: 91 YEARS Major Events in the Lifespan of Ann Mulvenna Martin
Introduction On a cold, January day in 1907, in a small, Scottish, coal mining village, Dr. David Douglas delivered the sixth child to Peter and Jane Martin in their two-room, row house with no running water and an outdoor “privy” shared by four families.
Thus, by the time Ann Mulvenna was five years old, three family members had died in her home at 85 Albert Buildings, leaving her father to raise his five remaining children, ages 5-14, until he remarried in 1914.
The baby, Ann Mulvenna Martin, would never come to know her real mother, who died 15 months later at age 34, giving birth to a seventh child.1
“Cold, destitute and starving” is one local historian's description of life in a Lanarkshire coal mining community, where coal barons notoriously became wealthy by ruthlessly exploiting miners. Despite this harsh existence, there was a caring spirit and pride among the villagers of which my grandmother, Ann Mulvenna, subscribed. She viewed the world as “glass half full” maintaining throughout her long lifetime that they had it good in Scotland - in direct opposition to older sisters.
Peter Martin’s widowed Irish mother, Agnes Brannan Martin, came to live with the family to help raise the six children while he worked 12 hour days, six days a week, at subsistence wages, as an underground fireman in the local coal mine. Agnes was to die just three years later in 1911, of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 76. In March of 1912, only six months after losing their grandmother and four years after losing their mother, Ann’s sister, Catherine, died in her sleep at age 10. The cause of death: “probable asphyxiation at 5 hours 40 minutes a.m.”2 which legend attributes to the result of a broken heart; she had choked on tears and regurgitation, never having gotten past the losses.
With her positive outlook, “Annie”, at age 16, the youngest of all the Martin siblings, boarded the S.S. Athenia in Glasgow in 1923 for a better life in America where she married, had five children, thirteen grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren. She lived through 13 U.S. presidencies, five major wars and outlived all of her siblings, her husband, and two of her children before passing away at 91 years old.
1. 1908 Martin, Jane [Statutory Deaths 647/00 0250] www.scotlandspeople.com, 2. 1912 Martin, Catherine [Statutory Deaths 647/00 0188] www.scotlandspeople.com
Not only is her story exceptional, she was exceptional to me. The grandmother I knew was jolly and fun, and didn’t seem to have a care in the world. She loved knitting and crocheting, playing bingo, and a strong cup of tea. She had a friendly hello to seemingly everyone, and people would engage her in conversation just to hear her lovely brogue.
I was the second-oldest of all her grandchildren and spent a lot of time with Grandma when growing up, frequently spending weeks on end of summer vacation with her and Granddad.
This is the story of the life and times of Ann Mulvenna Martin Caravousanos, as best as I have been able to piece together from family recollections, documents and photographs; correspondence with a local Scottish historian; and extensive online research. Though I enjoyed the process tremendously, I lament that I didn’t start much earlier – when I had the best source of all.
“Not only is her story exceptional, she was exceptional to me.”
My special affection for her Scottish heritage stems from the summer of 1973 when she took me, along with her sister, Jean, to Scotland for six weeks. Admittedly, as a 20 year-old engaged to be married later that year, I did not fully appreciate the gift of that trip, though I did come away with a deeper appreciation of her roots. Memories of these earlier times, combined with my second trip to Scotland this past October, inspired me to learn and write about her rise from rags to riches. Returning to Scotland after 43 years, with husband, George, 1966
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Ann Mulvenna Martin Caravousanos January 4, 1907 – February 5, 1998
Age 17
December 30, 1924 Brother Peter’s wedding Astoria, NY Earliest known photo
Age 42
Age 66
September 1949 Mike’s Ship Ahoy Restaurant New York, NY
December 15, 1973 Granddaughter Susan’s wedding Lindenhurst, NY
Age 89
Easter 1996 Daleview Nursing Home Farmingdale, NY
She lived through the advent of television, plastic and sliced bread, the Great Depression, Prohibition, five major wars, the Civil Rights Movement, putting a man on the moon, 13 U.S. Presidencies, and much more. Among her few personal papers, was the news coverage of John F. Kennedy’s 1963 assassination.
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91 Years at a Glance Ann Mulvenna Martin: The Scotland Years 1907 to 1923
Parents Peter & Jane marry 12/31/1895 1895
1896
Sister Mary born
Sister Jean born
1898
1899
1900
Mother dies Ann Jane Hamill Martin Mulvenna 34 yrs old born 1/4/1907 4/6/08
Brother Peter born
1905
1897
Sister Agnes born
1906
1907
1908
Sister Catherine born 1901
1902
1903
Father Peter Martin remarries Agnes Ferns
Grandmother dies Sister dies Agnes Brannan Martin Catherine Martin 76 yrs old 10 yrs old 9/9/11 3/26/12 1909
1910
1911
1912
1904
1913
1914
Emigrate to U.S. First nephew Patrick Murtagh born 1/4/1921 to Mary & Thomas
Sister Mary marries Thomas Murtagh 12/31/19 1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
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1921
Sister Mary
1922
Sister Jean and Ann Mulvenna
1923
Brother Peter
1924
91 Years at a Glance Ann Mulvenna Martin: The U.S. Years 1923 to 1998 Sister Agnes Martin Father & moves to NY stepmother from Scotland move to NY 10/12/25 from Scotland Married George Feb 1926 Son Caravousanos Anthony 12/30/25 born 8/26/27 1925
1927 Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929
1929
1931 Herbert Clark Hoover, 1929-1933
Move from Astoria, NY to Elmont, NY 1940
1942
Father dies NYC Peter Martin bronchial asthma 4/14/33, 62 yrs
Daughter Daughter Agnes Catherine born 1/25/29 born 2/7/30
1933
1946
1957 1959 Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953-1961
1948 1950 Harry S. Truman, 1945-1953
1972 Richard Milhous Nixon, 1969-1974
1974
1987 1989 Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1981-1989
1965
1976 Gerald Rudolph Ford, 1974-1977
1952
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1954
Trip to Greece with husband and granddaughters Susan & Ann Marie 1966
Husband Moves in with dies cancer daughter Sandra 9/9/68
1967 Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-1969
1969
Daughter Catherine dies cancer 3/21/83, 53 yrs
1978 1980 James Earl Carter, Jr., 1977-1981
1991 1993 George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993
1939
Move from Elmont to farm in PA
First greatgrandchild Paul Litterer born 3/26/78
Enters Daleview Nursing home, upon house fire and deteriorating health,1992
1985
First trip back to Scotland since 1923 with husband George, 1965
1961 1963 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1961-1963
Trip to Scotland with sister Jean & granddaughter Susan, summer 1973
1970
1937 Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933-1945
First grandchild Ann Marie Morreale Born 2/9/51
Travel by train to Fountainebleau Resort, Miami Florida for one month duration after Xmas ; late 1950’s – early 1960’s for 3-4 years Start building stores in PA 1955
1935
Stepmother Agnes Ferns (“Granny”) dies NY 2/2/47, 78 yrs
Daughter Sandra born 3/20/45 1944
Move Son George from NYC born 7/29/38 to Astoria
Daughter Agnes dies car accident 8/8/94, 69 yrs
1982
1984
Dies of pneumonia 2/5/98, 91 yrs 1995
1997 1999 William Jefferson Clinton, 1993-2001
MEET THE FAMILY Family Trees
Martin Family Tree: Simplified In relation to Ann Mulvenna Martin:
Great Grandparents
Grandparents
Parents
Siblings
Thomas Martin 1800’s Ireland - Farmer -
Catherine Smith
Thomas Martin Born Ireland ~1831 Died Scotland 1876 - Coal Miner -
Agnes
Agnes Brannan
Mary
Charles Brannan
Peter Martin
Susan Gallagher
Unknown Unknown
Unknown
Alexander Hamill
Born Scotland 1870 Died U.S. 1933 - Coal Miner -
Jane (Jean)
Jane Hamill
Catherine
Peter
Catherine Pettigrew
Ann Mulvenna Martin
Unknown
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Martin Family Tree: Detailed In relation to Ann Mulvenna Martin:
Great Grandparents
Grandparents
Parents and Aunts + Uncles
Siblings
Thomas Martin Born/died Ireland
Catherine Smith Born/died Ireland
Charles Brannan Born/died Ireland
Agnes Martin
Thomas Martin
Born ~1831 - Ireland Died 2/4/1876 - Scotland
Agnes Brannan
Married 11/3/1856 Glasgow, Scotland
9/15/1859 - 1/4/1940 Scotland
Agnes Martin
Born ~1835 - Ireland Died 9/9/1911 - Scotland
Charles Martin
Jane (Jean) Martin
Peter Martin
Born 6/19/1870 - Scotland Died 4/14/1933 - Scotland
Jane Hamill
Born 7/28/1901 - Scotland Died 3/26/1988 - U.S.
Married 12/30/1895 Glasgow, Scotland
Catherine Martin
Born ~1874 - Ireland Died 4/6/1908 - Scotland
Unknown Presumed born/died Ireland
Unknown
Born 5/2/1899 - Scotland Died 4/13/1978 - U.S.
10/20/1875 - 7/16/1888 Scotland
Born/died Ireland
Unknown
Mary Martin
10/24/1862 - ? Scotland
Susan Gallagher
Presumed born/died Ireland
Born 1/24/1898 - Scotland Died 6/28/1989 - U.S.
Catherine Martin
Alexander Hamill Born/died Ireland
Born 2/11/1902 -Scotland Died 3/26/1912 - Scotland
11 more Hamill children
Peter Martin
(source: 1911 Census of Ireland) Married Ireland
Catherine Pettigrew
• •
Born/died Ireland
Presumed born/died Ireland
Born 4/5/1905 - Scotland Died 7/11/1947 - U.S.
Charles, age 25 on 1901 Census of Ireland; born ~1876 Catherine (“Aunt Kate”) Murray 46 yrs on 1911 Census; born ~1865
Ann Mulvenna Martin
Born 1/4/1907 - Scotland Died 2/5/1998 - U.S.
Unknown
NOTE
Presumed born/died Ireland
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Irish or Scottish heritage? • BOTH! • Peter Martin, Ann’s father, was the first of her ancestors to be born in Scotland; all others were born in Ireland
Martin Siblings’ Children: First Generation American 5 Martin Siblings & Spouses
Martin Siblings: 14 Children
Agnes Martin McLaughlin Born 1/24/1898 Blantyre, Scotland Died 6/28/1989 St. Louis, MO (91 yrs)
William McLaughlin
Married 6/28/1927 New York, NY
Born: ~1900 Donegal, Ireland Died: 8/24/1971 Bronx, NY (71 yrs)
Jane
McLaughlin Donegan ~ 1928 - 6/4/1973 (45 yrs)
Mary Martin Murtagh
Born 5/2/1899 Blantyre, Scotland Died 4/13/1978 Bethpage, NY (79 yrs)
Thomas Bernard Murtagh Born 4/25/1892 Kings Court, Ireland Died 1/24/1969 Bethpage, NY (76 yrs)
Married 12/31/1919
Patrick
Peter
Murtagh 1/4/1921 - 9/27/1965 (44 yrs)
Murtagh 1/7/1924-12/25/1989 (65 yrs)
Married 3/31/1929 New York, NY
Joseph (Chick)
Peter
Married 12/30/1924
Ann Mary
Burnbank, Scotland
Jane
Murtagh ~ 1926-1929 (3 yrs)
Rose Kathleen
12/30/1895 Murtagh Glasgow, 1928-1929 Scotland (8 months)
Jane (Jean) Martin
Born 7/28/1900 Burnbank, Scotland Died 3/26/1988 Orlando, FL (87 yrs)
Michael Joseph Martin
Martin 8/26/1936
Martin 9/6/1932
Born 7/13/1901 Ireland Died 4/6/1968 Flushing, NY (67 yrs)
Anna Rose
Martin Driscoll 11/29/1929 - 9/5/2010 (80 yrs)
Peter Martin
Born 4/5/1905 Burnbank, Scotland Died 7/11/1947 Astoria, NY (42 yrs)
Jane (Little Jean) Walker
New York, NY
Martin ~1935 - ~ 1997 (62 yrs)
Married 12/30/1926
Anthony
unknown
Ann Mulvenna Martin Caravousanos
Born 1/4/1907 Burnbank, Scotland Died 2/5/1998 Farmingdale, NY (91 yrs)
George Caravousanos NOTE
Born 4/25/1894 Kythera, Greece Died 9/9/1968 Bristol, PA (74 yrs)
• • • •
George New York, NY Caravousanos (81 yrs) 8/26/1927 - 7/10/2009
All 5 Martin siblings born in Scotland (1898-1907) All 5 moved to U.S. (1922-1925) All 5 married (1 in Scotland, 4 in U.S.; 1919-1929) All of their 14 children were born in the U.S., with one exception (Patrick Murtagh, 1921)
Agnes
Ferns Caravousanos Lackner (65 yrs) 1/25/1929 - 8/8/1994
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Catherine Mary Caravousanos Morreale (53 yrs) 2/7/30 - 3/21/83
George
Jude Caravousanos 7/29/1938
Alexandria
(Sandra) Jane Caravousanos Johnson 3/20/1945
MARTIN ANCESTRY Ann Mulvenna’s Father’s Family
Thomas Martin
Peter Martin
Ann’s Grandfather
Ann’s Father
Thomas Martin & Catherine Smith Martin Great Grandparents Father’s Side
Thomas Martin was Ann Mulvenna’s great-grandfather. He lived in Ireland and was a farmer. All that is known of his wife, is that her name was Catherine Smith.
Presumably, they both were born in Ireland during the early 1800’s. They had at least one son named Thomas who was born in Ireland ~1831 and later moved to Scotland.
Both Thomas Martin and Catherine Smith Martin are listed as deceased on their son’s 1876 death certificate. Though their year of death is not known, it is quite possible that they died as a result of the Great Famine.
Thomas Martin Farmer Ireland, 1800’s
A cottier’s cabin, Ireland A cottier (c.1700–1850) was a person who rented a simple cabin and between one and one and a half acres of land upon which to grow potatoes, oats and possibly flax. The cottier existed at subsistence level because of high rents and the competition for land and labor. The more prosperous cottier worked for his landlord and received cash after rent and other expenses were deducted. After the Irish Famine of 1845–52,the cottier class almost completely disappeared. It is not known if Thomas Martin was a cottier, although this class made up 35% of all farmers at that time.
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Irish Diet: Potatoes - 1840’s Thomas Martin Wife, Catherine Smith Martin Farmer Early-mid 1800’s Ireland
Unlike corn, potatoes could feed a family for around ten months in a year. By the 1840s about half the population depended on the potato and at least one third lived almost exclusively on the potato.
GIRLS SETTING SEED POTATOES, BREAKING CLODS WITH SPADE, GLENSHESK, CO. ANTRIM Page 25
Irish Potato Famine, 1840’s -1850’s During the first forty years of the 19th century, the population in Ireland rose faster than in any other country in Europe: from about 2 million people in 1700 to over 8 million recorded in the 1841census. Population growth was greatly helped by the cultivation of the potato – a crop brought from America in the late 16th century.
Unlike corn, potatoes could feed a family for around ten months in a year. By the 1840s about half the population depended on the potato and at least one third lived almost exclusively on the potato. The potato was the principal source of nutrition for the vast majority of the poorer classes because this crop produced more food per acre than wheat and could also be used to generate income. The most popular variety of potato, however, while producing high yields, also was very susceptible to blight.
A third of Ireland’s people lived on the edge of existence in one-room cabins and usually rented scraps of land from farmers who in turn paid rent to landlords. Many had to beg when the old potatoes had been eaten up and the new potato crop was still maturing. They had nothing to spare if disaster struck, as it did in the summer of 1845.
Thomas Martin (Ann Mulvenna’s great-grandfather) was a farmer in Ireland in the early-mid 1800’s. It is likely that The Famine would have effected him and his family directly.
At that time, no one knew why the flourishing potato crops suddenly withered and the tubers rotted. We now know that the crops were struck by a microscopic fungus originating in America. The loss was almost total and millions faced starvation. The famine affected the poorest classes - the cottiers and laborers - most of all, the cottier class being almost wiped out.
It is also plausible that his son, Thomas, (Ann Mulvenna’s grandfather) emigrated to Scotland because of The Famine. Young Thomas was born ~1831 and would have been 14-18 years old at the time of The Famine. He married and lived in Scotland, working as a coal miner, until his death in 1876.
At least a million people died in Ireland during the Great Famine between 1841 and 1851. Another two million emigrated abroad during and after the Famine. Tens of thousands more perished on the journey or soon after their arrival in Britain or North America. The 1851 census revealed that the population had fallen by 20% to over 6 million. Those who died were drawn from the poorest ranks of society. The densely-populated districts on the Atlantic seaboard and mountain districts inland were hardest hit.
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Emigrating from Ireland to Scotland “The biggest problem in Scotland was that when the area was flooded with desperate Irish refugees they were employed at greatly reduced rates of pay which were already were extremely low to begin with. The law of supply and demand always resulted in this type of cheap labor. Scotsmen then found themselves out of jobs and being replaced by Irishmen. People said they could not get a job because of their religion. It was because the indigenous Scots were trying to keep theirs. The same thing happened when there was a huge influx of Polish, German and Lithuanian workers. The problem here was that these men did not speak a word of English and were a great danger in the mine to themselves and other miners although the coal masters ignored this. A great many of these foreigners were killed or maimed within a month of starting underground. The Lithuanian's , mainly, Roman Catholic, eventually assimilated extremely well into the community.” - Wilma Bolton 2/2/2012 Historian and book author, Hamilton, Scotland
Emigration to Scotland from Ireland was common. Tickets aboard ships were cheap and many came to work temporarily around harvest time when there was work available in the fields. The Irish people suffered the Great Famine (1845-1852) when potato blight decimated the crop. The Irish population depended on the potato crop for their survival and now faced starvation. Those who could left Ireland for food and jobs.
Thomas Martin & Agnes Brannan Martin • • • • • • •
Grandparents of Ann Mulvenna Born in Ireland 1830’s Emigrated to Scotland ~1850 Married in Glasgow November 3, 1956 He worked in the mines near Glasgow She worked in the fields, harvesting crops They had four children, one of which was Peter Martin, Ann Mulvenna’s father
Between 1841 and 1851 the Irish population of Scotland increased by 90% to 207,367. Almost a third of Irish immigrants settled in Glasgow to find work. In 1851 it was estimated that the majority of dock workers and at least two-thirds of miners in Great Britain were Irish. Many also found their way into less skilled jobs as their lack of education and, in many cases, their language (Gaelic), prevented the Irish from more highly paid skilled trades. In our opinion, the Irish have as much right to come to this country to better their lives as the Scots and English have to go to Ireland or any other part of Britain... Let us hear no more complaints about the influx of Irish having a bad effect on Scotland unless it is to do something about tackling the problems which caused the emigration. - The Glasgow Courier, 1830
Many Catholic Irish immigrants faced discrimination and bigotry in Presbyterian Scotland. They were attacked from the pulpit and in the street. Page 27
Thomas Martin Ann Mulvenna Martin’s Grandfather (Father’s Side) Thomas Martin was born in Ireland about 1831. Nothing is known about where in Ireland he was from or when he immigrated to Scotland. He was about 25 years old when he married Agnes Brannan on November 3, 1856 in Glasgow, Scotland.1
In 1861, Thomas was a 29 year old coal miner living in Rutherglen, Scotland with his wife, Agnes, and one year old daughter, Catherine.1 A decade later, at 40 years old, he and his family had moved to nearby Shettleston. Thomas and Agnes have added a daughter, Agnes, and a son, Peter, to their family. Peter is nine months old at the time, and is to become the father of Ann Mulvenna Martin. Their address is 52 Airdrie Road.2 He most likely could not read or write, as indicated by leaving his mark (x) on his daughter Agnes’ birth record in 1862.4
Thomas Martin’s occupation revolved around coal mines in the Glasgow area. His jobs changed from “redsman” (clears rubbish) to “coal miner” to “underground laborer” to “brusher” 3 (repairs mine passage roofs and sides.4) between 1859 and 1871. Thomas only lived until 45 years old before the effects of life in the mines caught up with him. His death certificate states he suffered from hemiplegia (stroke-related total paralysis of the arm, leg, and trunk on the same side of the body)5,6 and the cemetery record lists his cause of death as consumption (tuberculosis).7 Thomas Martin would not come to know his new, baby son, Charles, who was born just three months before he died.
Thomas Martin Born: ~1831 Ireland Emigrated to Scotland: ~1850 Married: 1856 to Agnes Brannan Martin, 20 years
It cost 10 pence to bury Thomas Martin in St. Peter’s / Dalbeth Cemetery, Glasgow, Scotland. His burial took place on February 12th, 1876 – 6 days after his death.7
Father of four children: Agnes, Catherine, Peter, Charles Coal Miner
He left behind his wife, Agnes Brannan Martin, age 41, and four children, ages 3 months to 17 years.
Died: Shettleston, Scotland February 6, 1876 (45 yrs)
Buried: St. Peter’s/Dalbeth Cemetery, Glasgow, Scotland
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Agnes Brannan Martin Ann Mulvenna Martin’s Grandmother (Father’s Side) Agnes Brannan was born in Ireland around 1834 to Charles Brannan, a cattle dealer, and to Susan Gallagher Brannan. After emigrating to Scotland, at age 22, she married Thomas Martin (also from Ireland) on November 3, 1856 in Glasgow.1 Agnes was two years younger than her husband. In 1871, at 37 years old, her occupation is “outdoor worker”2 (see next page).
At age 73, her son Peter’s wife died unexpectedly during childbirth in Scotland in 1908. Agnes moves to her son’s at nearby 85 Albert Buildings, Earnock, Burnbank to help raise her grandchildren. They range in age from 1 year (Ann Mulvenna) to 10 years old. Agnes lives in Burnbank less than three years before passing away on September 29, 1911, at age 76, from a cerebral hemorrhage.
The 1871 census lists their three children: Catherine 11 years; Agnes 8 years; Peter 9 months living at 52 Old Airdrie Road in Shettleston, a satellite of Glasgow.2 A fourth child, Charles, is born ~ 1875 and they have moved to 7 Green Street, Shettleston.4 Agnes is widowed the next year in February of 1876 at 41 years old when her husband Thomas died. 5 She is left with four children between ages 1-17. Agnes and the children are still living on Green Street at the time of the 1881 census. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
1862 Martin, Agnes [Statutory Births 644/02 1732] (Ann Mulvenna Martin’s aunt, her father’s sister) 02/04/1871 Martin, Peter [Census 1871 622/03 006/00 019] www.scotlandspeople.gov 03/04/1881 Martin, Peter [Census 1881 622/02 007/00 015] www.scotlandspeople.gov 1876 Martin , Thomas [Statuary Deaths 622/02 0026] www.scotlandspeople.gov
Agnes Brannan Martin Born: ~1834 Ireland Emigrated to Scotland: ~1850 Married: 1856 Thomas Martin, 20 years Mother of four children: Agnes, Catherine, Peter, Charles Grandmother Coal Mine Outdoor Worker Died: Scotland September 29, 1911 (76 yrs) Buried: St. Peter’s/Dalbeth Cemetery, Glasgow, Scotland TRACING MARTIN ANCESTRY I Ann Mulvenna Martin
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Agnes Brannan Martin: Outdoor Worker c1871 “Your enquiry on outdoor worker is interesting. This term was used for a male/females working in the fields. It was an extremely hard life working from almost dawn to dusk during the growing season. Thinning out turnips etc., hoeing up round the vegetables, potatoes and the like, harvesting when there was all done by hand and sheer brute strength. It was farm work when machinery was almost nonexistent. They may also have been milking cows by hand, mucking out the byres (cow sheds), etc. It was very often cold wet work and we are not known for our sunny weather. The women would have used Hessian (burlap) sacks over their shoulders and heads, and as aprons to try and keep out the rain. I remember these sacks well and they became very heavy and were extremely rough when wet. They must have worked in deep mud when it was raining and they must have had large hacks on their hands. They would have wrapped rags round their fingers to try and prevent this but if it was wet then it would not have prevented them developing. (The miners used these rags for the same purpose).
Also, in Scotland we have very long days during the summer and although I am not saying that they worked 20 hour days, they worked twice as long as we do. If the harvest was to be got in, then they would have to work on, as dry weather is anything but guaranteed here. We have just passed the longest day 22nd June and it was light from about 3 am until 11:30 pm, and even then it was never really dark. We have long summer nights (usually raining) but we also have long, long winters, when it gets dark about 3:30 pm till 9 am. Your ancestor who worked in the fields had a very, very hard life.� - Wilma Boston, 6/29/12, local author and historian
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Peter Martin: Ann Mulvenna’s Father
Royal Glasgow Infirmary – where PM was taken after his accident
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Martin Lineage
Peter Martin (Grandma’s father) Source
Date
Name
Age
Place
Occupation
Place of Birth
6/19/1870
Peter Martin
Born
Shettleston
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Lanark, Shettleston, Scotland
1871 Census Scotland
4/2/1871
Peter Martin
9 mos
52 Old Airdrie Road, Shettleston
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Lanark, Shettleston, Scotland
1881 Census Scotland
4/3/1881
Peter Martin
11 yrs
7 Green Street, Shettleston
Scholar
Lanarkshire, Shettleston, Scotland
1891 Census Scotland
4/5/1891
Peter Martin
20 yrs
7 Green Street, Quad Omnia Parish of Shettleston, NW Lanarkshire
Coal Miner
Lanarkshire, Shettleston, Scotland
1907 Ann Mulvenna Martin birth registry
12/31/1895 New Year’s Eve
Peter Martin marries Jane Hamill
1901 Census Scotland
3/31/1901
Peter Martin
30 yrs
83 Albert Bldgs, Earnock, Burnbank, Hamilton, Scotland
Coal Miner Hewer
Lanarkshire, Shettleston, Scotland
Wife dies 4/1908. Widowed mother Agnes Brannan Martin comes to live with him to help raise the 6 children
Peter Martin
40 yrs
85 Albert Bldgs, Earnock, Burnbank, Hamilton, Scotland
Underground Fireman
Shettleston, Scotland
Daughter Catherine dies at 10 years old, 3/1912
1911 Census Scotland
How did they meet? Wedding photo? Who attended?
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1930 Census New York
~1914
Peter Martin marries Agnes Ferns
44yrs 45 yrs
1930 Census New York
4/4/1930
Peter Martin (Agnes Ferns Martin)
59 yrs 61 yrs
86th Street / York and First Streets New York, NY
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Grandma’s Prayer Card
4/14/1933
Peter Martin
Death 62 yrs
New York, NY
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Note
How did they meet? Wedding photo? Who attended?
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Cause of death?
Photos far left + middle: Scotland, undated. Far right, NYC ~1930 with wife Agnes Ferns (“Granny”) and daughter, Jean
Bridgeton Umbrella, 2010 Bridgeton is a district to the east side of Glasgow city center. The octagonal cast iron Bridgeton Cross Shelter and Clock, known as the Bridgeton Umbrella, was manufactured by George Smith & Company and gifted to the city in 1875. It provided a covered meeting place at the heart of the local community. The Caledonian Railway's Bridgeton Cross Station, opened November 1895, is directly behind the shelter and is still operational today.
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Jane Hamill Martin, 1874 - 1908 Ann Mulvenna’s Mother Roman Catholic and born in Ireland, it is unknown when Jane Hamill went to Scotland. Her parents were born in Ireland and remained there their entire lives until death in their early 70’s. The 1901 Irish Census states there were 12 children, thus Jane may have had up to 11 siblings, if all of them lived.
The only known photo of Jane Hamill Martin, undated
1. 2.
Jane married Peter Martin on New Year’s Eve in 1895 in Bridgeton, Glasgow.1 They lived at 85 Albert Buildings, Earnock (coal mining village in Burnbank) where she gave birth to six
children before she died giving birth to their seventh child.
Nothing is known about the baby, or where they are buried.
Details of her death are outlined in the death registration below. She died at precisely 5 hours 15 minutes a.m. on April 6th, 1908, at 34 years of age, in their home. She suffered one day each of anti-partum and post-partum hemorrhage, and one day of ‘syncope’ (blackout) and was attended by David G. Douglas M.B.Ch.B. (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery). The death was registered on April 6, 1908 at Hamilton by Gavin Francis, Registrar.
Jane’s death registration revealed important information about her lineage as it provided her parent’s names: •
Father: Alexander Hamill (occupation: Road Surfaceman)
•
Mother: Catherine Pettigrew Hamill
From this, I was able to investigate more about the Hamills by searching for them on Ireland’s census records.
Statutory Births: #647/00 0039 Page 13, 1907, Births in the District of Hamilton, County of Lanark, Ann Mulvenna Martin TRACING MARTIN ANCESTRY Statutory Deaths: #647/00 0250 Page 84, Deaths in the District of Hamilton, County of Lanark, Jane Martin
I Ann Mulvenna Martin
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The Bridgeton Umbrella 1894 Bridgeton, Glasgow Peter Martin & Jane Hamill married in Bridgeton, Glasgow on New Year’s Eve 1895
Bridgeton Umbrella, 2010 Bridgeton is a district to the east side of Glasgow city center. The octagonal cast iron Bridgeton Cross Shelter and Clock, known as the Bridgeton Umbrella, was manufactured by George Smith & Company and gifted to the city in 1875. It provided a covered meeting place at the heart of the local community. The Caledonian Railway's Bridgeton Cross Station, opened November 1895, is directly behind the shelter and still operational today.Page 34
Peter Martin had five children and had been widowed for about six years when he married Agnes Ferns in 1914. He was 44 years old and Agnes was 45 when they married.1 Agnes was born on January 27, 1869 in Port Glasgow, Scotland and baptized four days later at St. John’s Roman Catholic Church. Her parents were Edward and Margaret Ferns. Margaret’s maiden name was Lynne and she was born in Ireland.2,3
The only thing known of Agnes’s siblings is that she had a brother, Daniel, who lived at 67 Cowcaddens Street, Glasgow in 1926.4 She could read and write4 but otherwise was not educated, and had no children of her own. Peter’s children ranged from 7 to 15 years when they married. The children liked her and called her “Granny”.
1. 2. 3. 4.
Peter Martin - Second Marriage 1914
Agnes Ferns Martin came to the U.S. with her husband, Peter Martin, in 1926 at 56 years old.4 They lived on East 86th Street between 1st and York Streets in New York City.1 She was 78 at the time of her death and living with her daughter, Mary Martin Murtagh, at 20-67 38th Street, LI City. Agnes died on December 2, 1947. Her funeral, arranged by Thomas M. Quinn & Sons Funeral Home, was held on December 5, 1947 after a Roman Catholic funeral mass at St. Francis of Assisi in Astoria. Agnes Ferns Martin is buried with her husband in St. Raymond’s Cemetery in the Bronx, NY.2
Peter and Agnes Martin NYC, circa 1930
Agnes Ferns Martin: Stepmother
Peter Martin and Agnes Ferns Martin undated - wedding photo? If wedding photo: 1914 Peter Martin 44, Agnes Ferns 45
Known as ‘Granny’, she was nice, but gruff. She wouldn’t say “Excuse me – you’re in my way”, she would say: “Git out me road!”
1930 U.S. Census, Manhattan Borough, Ward 16 Thomas M. Quinn & Sons Funeral Home, 35-20 Broadway, Long Island City, NY 11106 www.scotlandspeople.gov 1869 Fern, Agnes [S.C.A. Births MP 9 1 2 1 185-, Port Glasgow, St John’s] Ancestry.com NY Passenger Lists, 1820-1957, S.S. Cameronia from Glasgow, February 27, 1926
TRACING MARTIN ANCESTRY I Ann Mulvenna Martin
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HAMILL ANCESTRY Limited Information
Jane Hamill BIRTH (possibilities) Name: Date of Registration: Registration district: Birth Country: Volume: Page: FHL Film Number:
Jane Hamill 1873 Larne Ireland 1 672 101050
Glenarm, Antrim
Larne Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864-1958 about Jane Hamill Name: Jane Hamill Date of Registration: 1874 Registration district: Ballymena Birth Country: Ireland Volume: 1 Page: 134 FHL Film Number: 101051 Ancestry.com
Source Information Ancestry.com. Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864-1958 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: “Ireland, Civil Registration Indexes 1845–1958,” Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah. General Register Office. "Quarterly Returns of Births in Ireland with Index to Births." Belfast, Ireland. About Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864-1958 This database contains an index extracted from an index of births registered in Ireland. Historical Background Civil registration of all births, marriages, and deaths in Ireland began in 1864 (except for non-Catholic marriages, for which registration started in 1845). Registration produced two sets of records: registers for births, marriages, and deaths and published indexes to these registers. The repositories for the records spilt in 1922, with the records for Northern Ireland being kept by the General Register Office (GRO) in Belfast, while records for the Republic of Ireland are housed at the GRO in Dublin. But the record set as a whole has survived and provides an invaluable source of vital information for Irish research. This database contains details extracted from the published indexes of Irish birth registers. Details provided include name birth year mother’s surname (from 1903 forward) registration district volume and page number for the original record For some years, records were submitted quarterly, and births were likewise divided by quarter, which can help you narrow a search, but otherwise, births are listed only by year. You can use the information in the index entry to obtain a copy of the entry in the original register from the General Register Office.
http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=2573&enc=1
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Possible Irish Birth Registrations for 3 of Jane Hamill’s siblings JANE HAMILL’S BROTHER - CHARLES HAMILL POSSIBILITY Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864-1958 about Charles Hamill Name: Charles Hamill Date of Registration: 1864 Registration district: Ballymena Birth Country: Ireland Volume: 16 Page: 115 FHL Film Number: 101041 Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864-1958 about Charles Hamill Name: Charles Hamill Date of Registration: 1874 Registration district: Ballymena Birth Country: Ireland Volume: 11 Page: 139 FHL Film Number: 101051 ANE HAMILL’S BROTHER - ALEXANDER HAMILL POSSIBILITY Ireland, Civil Registration Births Index, 1864-1958 about Alexander Hamill Name: Alexander Hamill Date of Registration: 1872 Registration district: Larne Birth Country: Ireland Volume: 11 Page: 603 FHL Film Number: 101049 Ireland, Births and Baptisms, 1620-1911 bout Alexander Hamill Name: Alexander Hamill Gender: Male Birth Date: 24 Jun 1872 Birth Place: Glenarm, Ant, Ireland Baptism Place: Glenarm, Ant, Ireland Father's Name: Alexander Hamill Mother's Name: Catherine Pettigrew FHL Film Number: 255856
WILMA – Catherine Hamill (below) married Robert Quinn and lived across the way from my grandmother at Earnock. My grandmother lovingly describes her in her taped interview (Aunt Kate), and said Peter Martin was very fond of Catherine’s husband, Robert. Their Earnock cottage was destroyed in the cottage and they loved in the palace until it was rebuilt.
Sister? Ireland, Births and Baptisms, 1620-1911 about Catherine Hamill Name: Catherine Hamill Gender: Female Birth Date: 11 Jun 1868 Birth Place: Glenarm, Ant, Ireland Baptism Place: Glenarm, Ant, Ireland Father's Name: Alexander Hamill Mother's Name: Catherine Pettigrew FHL Film Number: 101170 Ireland, Births and Baptisms, 1620-1911 about Catherine Hamill Name: Catherine Hamill Gender: Female Birth Date: 11 Jun 1868 Birth Place: Antrim, Ireland Father's Name: Alexander Hamill Mother's Name: Catherine Pettigrew FHL Film Number: 101170
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Ann Mulvenna Martin The Hamills (Mother’s Side) Mothers’s Side
Father’s Side
The Hamills
The Martins
Great Grandparents
Great Grandparents
Thomas Martin
No information
married Catherine Smith
Grandparents
Born/lived/died Ireland
Grandparents
Alexander Hamill
Thomas Martin
married Catherine Pettigrew
married Agnes Brannan
Mother
Born Ireland Lived/died Scotland
Father
Jane Hamill
Married Dec 31, 1895
Peter Martin
Ann Mulvenna Martin
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ALEXANDER HAMILL Jane Hamill FATHER ; grandma’s great-grandfather (mother’s side) Born: County Antrim, Ireland ~ 1847 (54 years old on 1901 census of Ireland) Address: 21.2 Toberwine Street, Glenarm, Antrim Occupation: road surfaceman (also noted on Jane Hamill’s death reg 4/6/1906) Source: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000364332/
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1911 CENSUS of IRELAND ALEXANDER + CATHERINE HAMILL Jane Hamill FATHER ; grandma’s great-grandfather (mother’s side)
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ALEXANDER HAMILL Jane Hamill FATHER ; grandma’s great-grandfather (mother’s side) Born: County Antrim, Ireland ~ 1847 (77 years old on 1911 census of Ireland) Address: 21.2 Toberwine Street, Glenarm, Antrim Occupation: road surfaceman (also noted on Jane Hamill’s death reg 4/6/1906 Source: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai001556729/
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Alexander and Catherine Hamill lived here at the time of the 1901 Census of Ireland; both 54 years of age (1911 Census of Ireland: both ages 77 years, and 59 years married) Page 43
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Burnbank, Hamilton Scotland Coal mine here; Jean, Catherine, Peter, Ann born here; Jane Hamill and Catherine die here)
Antrim, Ireland Jane Hamill’s parents lived here (Grandma’s grandparents)
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LIFE IN A MINING TOWN
Early 1900’s in Earnock, Burnbank, Lanarkshire, Scotland
SEE: http://www.sorbie.net/lanarkshire_mining_industry.htm
Mining Villages: The Role of Women Even before 1842 and the prohibition of female work underground in the coal mines, the presence of girls and women in the pit had been a sign of technically backward districts, as female labor had generally been phased out when underground pony haulage had been introduced.
In an exceptionally dirty industry, women were kept extremely busy in keeping husband, clothes, and household clean, and the slipperbath was a badge of respectability in a miner’s home.
“I can still vividly remember the colour of my father when he came home from his work as a brusher in Bothwell Castle Colliery. He was, simply, coal black, and more often than not, soaked to the skin from working in appalling conditions. Long before he walked through the door of our single end home at 40 Selkirk Street, my mother would have the water heating in pots for his bath.
Typically, there were no other kinds of female employment in the mining districts. Girls either left, mainly to become domestic servants, or got married. There was no shortage of marriageable young men, reaching their peak earning power in their early twenties, and miner’s daughters generally married young and brought up large families.
On his return from work, the big portable zinc bath would be placed in the front of the fire, the water added, and then, in a ritual which was being repeated in thousands of miners’ homes throughout the country, my father would begin to wash away the coal dust which covered him from top to toe.
The fact that they could not contribute to the family income was no hindrance to the large number of children which miners raised, their family size remaining well above that of the rest of the population and of any other occupational group until after the First World War. It would be wrong to suppose that this was because there was little else to do in the spare time in mining villages, apart from drinking. The probable cause was the low age at marriage of miner’s wives.
I have vivid recollections of helping to wash his back and I would look on in childish wonder at what appeared to me to be snakes moving down his back from his hairline to his waist. It was, of course, the water running through the black coal dust.
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My mother would then scrape and brush the dirt off the soaking wet moleskin trousers and place them in front of the fire to dry.” - Wilma Bolton, Black Faces and Tackety Boots, 1988
World War I: The Role of Women In 1914 women were a major part of Britain's workforce but they were its drudges, doing menial jobs for low wages. World War I (1914-1918) changed that by providing new opportunities for women in the workforce. Working roles expanded as women replaced male colleagues and made inroads into professions traditionally dominated by men. In addition, women who would never have dreamt of working had both the desire to ‘do their bit’ and the opportunities to do it.
Agnes Martin, Ann Mulvenna’s oldest sister, would have been among these women, working as a conductor for the tramway. Among my grandmother’s photographs were two picturepostcards of Agnes, dated 1916 and 1918, in a tramway uniform. Most women had accepted the temporary nature of their new work. Returning soldiers also expected them to stand aside and let men resume their old positions. By summer 1920, over 60 percent of all the women who entered employment during the war had left it again.
Agnes Martin, 1918 Tramway Motor Woman (conductor) Picture postcard signed: “Best Love to Mr. & Mrs. McLaughlin + Family from Agnes”
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Glasgow, Scotland 1914
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Scottish Headlines: 1915
WWI Scottish soldier reading a letter while on gas sentry duty near the trenches
The women's suffrage movement , Edinburgh
RENT STRIKES OF GLASGOW 1915 During the First World War, rent increases across Glasgow provoked massive working class opposition, mainly from women organized in tenants’ groups. Months-long rent strike of 30,000 Glasgow residents against profiteering landlords, forced the government to freeze rents for the duration of the war.
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Exploring Scotland’s influenza pandemic of 1918–19: lest we forget J R Coll Physicians Edinb 2007; 37:362–366 © 2007 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh The influenza pandemic of 1918–19 is one of the most catastrophic medical events in human history. Global mortality may have been as high as 100 million. Scotland had its full share of suffering but, strangely, the calamity had little effect on the public consciousness and the memory of what occurred rapidly faded. Equally strangely, the pandemic has been largely ignored by social historians. This article attempts to ignite interest in what was a cruel ending to the bloodshed of the Great War and an appalling setback to health in Scotland. The number dying in Scotland of flu was originally given as 17,515 in just ten months, based on the figures given in the statistical returns, but this is certainly a substantial underestimate. The Registrar General of Scotland5 reassessed the figure in a supplementary report and concluded that, during the pandemic, 22,000 deaths could be attributed to influenza and, if that figure is further adjusted in the same way as that for global mortality, then around 70,000 is not unreasonable. Many, of course, who contracted influenza recovered (nine out of ten) and so the number of Scots infected with flu was nearly one million. Although there were small influenza epidemics throughout the period of the Great War, the pandemic proper did not commence until May 1918 and lasted until April 1919. It came in three waves, each lasting a few weeks. Most deaths (64% in Britain) occurred during the second wave, lasting from September 1918 until January 1919, thus spanning the Armistice. Influenza is generally thought of as an annoying phenomenon of winter; the patient feels dreadful for a day or two, but rapidly recovers. Only the elderly are vulnerable to complications. The influenza of the pandemic was significantly different. Previously healthy people became ill on the way to work and were dead by nightfall. Undertakers had difficulty dealing with bodies as there were so many. In the words of a report from the RCPE: Not only does this epidemic of influenza tower over all previously recorded epidemics of similar nature: it proved the most fatal epidemic disease of any form that has occurred in Scotland since death registration begun. 1 There is some evidence to suggest that the UK pandemic among civilians started in Glasgow, spread throughout Scotland, and then spread to England and Wales. As Figure 3. MonthlyGlasgow (or trimesterly) mortality rate* in was a major port, it is reasonable that(ordinate) it should a point of entry from 1917 to 1921be (abscise). Lines and shading are as defined
The reaction of public figures, newspapers and the medical profession to the pandemic was a curious silence. Coining the term Spanish flu shows this. It did not originate in Spain, but as Spain was not involved in the Great War, information about the spread of pandemic influenza was freely reported in the Spanish press while elsewhere in Europe this information was suppressed. Possibly there was a tacit agreement between governments and the press to keep from the public news of yet more fatalities. It could take no more bad news. In copies of the The Scotsman newspaper for 1918–19 all the major events of those years (Allied advances, the German surrender, the Peace Treaty) are given their expected prominence. But news items about the influenza pandemic are not. For example, in an issue 17 of March 1919, when the pandemic was at one of its highs, deaths from influenza were reported along with the normal weekly returns for births and marriages in Scotland in a small item at the bottom of page 7. Even a ninefold increase in deaths from bronchitis, pneumonia and pleurisy over the same week in 1918, surely not unconnected with the influenza pandemic, was reported without comment. Far more space in that issue was given to an Edinburgh department store’s new spring millinery. The impact of the pandemic on those at home was exacerbated by the poor wartime diet and scarce medical resources. The pandemic came at a time when most doctors were enlisted in military service. As a result, many areas were left without proper medical car or were left in a situation where one doctor had thousands of patients assigned to him. In one area of Glasgow, normally looked after by 17 GPs, ten were on military duty and three were ill. This meant there were only four doctors for a population of 55,000 people. 20
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Earnock Colliery Haswell Colliery 1880
See listing of EARNOCK http://www.pdmhs.com/pages/1896%20Lists/ 1896-08.htm
http://www.aditnow.co.uk/photo/Haswell-Colliery-Coal-Mine-Archive-Album-Image-57089/
Earnock Mine - Situated at Burnbank, Burgh of Hamilton Persons employed underground 970, above ground 252, total 1222 The mine shafts at this mine are all situated in the County area, but the mine owners' houses are all situated in the Burgh of Hamilton. Earnock Colliery Type: Coal John Watson, Ltd., Owner 123 St Vincent Street, Glasgow John Watson, Managing Director, Earnock Thos. Moodie, Certified Manager & Agent
Source: http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/232.html
Source: Mines In Scotland In 1893 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~miningvillages/ListMines1893.html
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Peter Martin: Occupation Men employed as "Firemen" under the supervision of a "Firemaster" had the responsibility of checking the pits for the build up of firedamp and other dangerous gases such as "Afterdamp", i.e. Carbon Monoxide (CO) which is poisonous & Carbon Dioxide (CO2) which suffocates. (Source: http://www.sorbie.net/lanarkshire_mining_industry.htm)
Underground Fireman Earnock Colliery Burnbank, Scotland Dates?
Colliery Rules The following General and Special Rules (in Terms of the Act 18 & 19 VICT. Cap. 108.) are from the 1856 report by William Alexander, Inspector of Coal Mines for the Western District of Scotland. The Special rules contain excellent descriptions of the duties of the various occupations in the collieries. (Source: www.scottishmining.co.uk/13.html)
Fireman XXI. The fireman shall descend the pit before the colliers' shift shall begin, and where firedamp is known or suspected to be, shall proceed with a safety lamp through every drawing road, and along the whole coal faces and working places in the colliery, and shall minutely examine the same to ascertain if they are free from firedamp, chokedamp, or other impurities, and are otherwise apparently safe for workmen to enter and to work within. And in case firedamp or other impure air shall be discovered in any working place, road, or level, the fireman shall, in the first instance, thoroughly clear the same of such impurity - if that can be done easily - and shall thereupon report to the colliers that the working places are apparently safe ; but if the impurity cannot be readily, or at once cleared out, the colliers shall not be permitted to enter any such working places, roads, or levels until the impure air shall have been, by farther appliances, entirely dispelled. If no firedamp, chokedamp, or other impurity shall be discovered or suspected, after such careful inspection, the fireman shall make report to the colliers, and allow them to proceed to work. XXII. If the fireman shall encounter falls from the roof in any of the roads which he requires to traverse, or in working places under the care of the colliers, he shall not proceed further in the direction of such falls, so as to pass under the broken roof, but shall endeavour cautiously to ascertain if there be any accumulation of firedamp or other impurity in or about the falls, so that the safest way of clearing the same may be learned, and shall proceed elsewhere through the Colliery to examine the unobstructed parts thereof, and to complete his inspection, whereupon the fireman shall report to the underground manager the state of the falls, and whether free from impurity, to the end the necessary directions may be given for having the same cleared away and the roof secured ; and until this shall be done no collier shall be at liberty to proceed near, or be under, the broken roof. If the falls shall be within the limits of a collier's working place, and shall have been caused by his inattention or neglect, in not properly supporting the roof, he shall be guilty of a violation of these regulations and be punishable accordingly. The fireman shall prevent colliers, drawers, and other workmen entering the roads or working places until a report shall have been made that they are apparently safe. XXIII. In: case, from any case, the Colliery operations shall have been discontinued for an unusual length of time and thereafter resumed, no workman shall be allowed to descend the shaft until the underground manager, or fireman, shall have first descended and reported on the state of the workings; and in discharging this duty the underground manager, or fireman must proceed with great caution, and shall not go further into the workings than he, from his own experience, shall deem safe, and in case there are reasonable grounds for apprehending the presence of impure air, he shall return to the pithead and remain there until precautionary appliances shall have been employed to restore proper ventilation to the colliery. XXIV. When a cube, or rarifying furnace, for accelerating the current of air through the Colliery has been established, the fireman and bottomer shall be bound to attend thereto, and see that it is at all times kept lighted and in a sufficient state to aid the ventilation. 52
Scots Miners Wages by Year Year
Miners Wages (per day, unless stated otherwise)
1842
2s. [1]
18511863
In 1851 average wage of miners in Scotland was 2s. 6d. aday; in 1854, it was 5s. A gradual fall then took place ; and in 1858 the average was 3s.; below which sum it has not fallen, the figures for the six succeeding years being respectively 3s. 6d., 4s., 4s. 6d., 5s. 6d., and 4s. 9d. From these sums about 3d. a-day falls to be deducted for light, sharpening tools, &c [7]
1862
3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. [1]
1869
Newbattle 4s 6d a day Dalkeith 3s 6d a day with free house [7] Period of wage increases 4s. 6d. rising to as much as 9s. 9d. later in year [1]
1872 1874
5s. [1] Rents [9]
1875 1876
Cost of living
May 1876 - 3s. [1]
Newspaper Reports, 1926 Scots Miners' Earnings- In a statement issued by the Scottish Coal Association, the question is discussed as to what Scottish miners can earn. It is pointed out that the owners terms are: For an 8 hours day a wage not less than 9s 4d per day for coal hewers. Under the agreement prior to the stoppage the average wage earned by all persons, including women and boys, employed above and below ground in Scotland was 10s 2d per day. The skilled miner working at the coal face during the same period made 13s per day. When the miners resume work they will be able to make the same wages - that is the average skilled miner 13s per day, and the lowest paid adult underground miner 9s 4d per day. Working 5 and 1/2 days, or 44 hours per week, the average wake which a skilled miner can earn is ÂŁ3, 11s 6d. Although not mentioned in the owners statement, it is well known that the miners have advantages over ordinary workers in the matter of cheap rents and also cheap fuel. [Scotsman 3 November 1926]
“They never in their lives had two nickels to rub together.� 1887
2s. 6d. to 4s. [1]
1894
5s. 3d. to 6s. [1]
1899
5s. 3d. to 7s. [1]
1901 1903
6s. [1] 5s. 6d. [1]
1906
5s 6d. [1]
1907
7s. 6d. [1]
~ Peter Martin, nephew, December 2011, age 79
Rents in Lanarkshire [8]
1910 1912
6s. [1]
1914
Rent 2s. 6d. per week to 3s. 2d. [5]
1926
9s 4d to 13s [6]
1931
8s. [1]
1936
9s. [1]
1947
18s 8d for underground 15s. 6 1/2d for surface workers [1]
Miner in his House A miner sitting at a table with his daughter, c.1910. They appear to be sharing a plate of food. Source: http://smm.1cm.me.uk/collection/galleryList.asp?collection=3
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Earnock Colliery, 1907
“Earnock was a well-managed colliery, you say?” - Yes.
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Mining in Hamilton Parish
Avondale East Kilbride Glasford Stonehouse First Division Total
... 1 ... ...
Persons Employed ... 34 ... ...
1
34
Blantyre Bothwell Cambuslang Cambusnethan Dalserf Dalziel Hamilton Second Division Total
7 19 7 14 18 10 14
3670 10733 3426 1874 3124 4470 8899
89
36196
New Monkland Old Monkland Shotts Third Division Total
16 18 21
2316 4035 4462
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145
47043
Parish
Middle Ward Total
Coal Mines
Hamilton Parish Coal mining has been carried on in this parish from the very early times, chiefly at Quarter, where at one time blast furnaces also existed for the smelting of iron. Many mines have been opened up in the vicinity of the Town of Hamilton since the sixties and seventies.
The census population of the whole parish, including the Burgh of Hamilton is:1851 11,740 1861 14,047 1871 16,803 1881 26,231 1891 31,023 1901 40,372 Table 1 shows that the parish now contains 14 collieries, in which 8899 persons are employed. The total number of houses in the parish, exclusive of the Burgh of Hamilton, is 1363, while the number occupied by miners is 1,067 - that is 78.28%. Of these houses, 901 have been provided by mine owners, 158 are rented by miners, and 8 are owned by miners.
(Source: http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/232.html)
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Coal Miner’s Housing Address: Ann Mulvenna Martin (Grandma) 85 Albert Buildings, Earnock, Hamilton, Scotland Burnbank was home to a number of coalmines or pits. Miner's cottages or "pit rows" were erected by mine owners to house their employees. Many of these were built by local builder Sir Robert McAlpine, 1st Baronet early in his career and the foundation of his later wealth. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnbank)
Peter Martin (Grandma’s father) worked at Earnock Colliery, owned by John Watson Ltd. who owned two other mines: Eddlewood and Neilsland.
Earnock Colliery, on the estate of John Watson, of Earnock, and about 1,000 acres in extent, is situated about a mile west of Hamilton.
Description of Local Housing Eddlewood Colliery Rows, 1914 This is a large group of houses, which consists mostly of two-storey tenements. It is owned by John Watson, Limited, and is situated in the landward part of the Hamilton Burgh. The houses are in fair condition, the front row having water inside the house.
Typical miner’s housing “Pit Rows”
Rent for room and kitchen, 6s. 10d. per fortnight. The other rows got their water by means of stand-pipes on the street. Rent, 5s. l0d. per fortnight. The sanitary arrangements are very crude, and consist of the ordinary dry-closet and privy midden*. *Widely used in rapidly expanding industrial cities ; difficult to empty and clean. A typical comment was they were of "most objectionable construction" and "usually wet and very foul". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privy_midden)
(Source: http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/99.html) [Evidence presented to Royal Commission, 25th March 1914]
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Religion: Roman Catholic
Ann Mulvenna Martin Baptism and School at St. Cuthbert’s
St. Cuthbert’s Roman Catholic Church, founded 1893 98 High Blantyre Road, Burnbank Ann Mulvenna Martin baptized and schooled here, dates unknown
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St. Cuthbert’s Roman Catholic Church
St. Cuthbert’s Roman Catholic Church, early photo 98 High Blantyre Road, Burnbank
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Religion: Roman Catholic
Ann Mulvenna Martin Baptism and School at St. Cuthbert’s
Turn of the century houses near St. Cuthbert’s in 2011 above and ~1900, below
St. Cuthbert’s Roman Catholic Church, early photo 98 High Blantyre Road, Burnbank
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Report on Miner’s Housing, 1918 20th Century Housing In 1912 a Royal Commission was set up to report into the housing conditions of the Industrial Population of Scotland, rural and urban. The Commission finally published their report in 1918. The following is a general description of miners housing from the introduction.
A Mining District The "Miners' Row " of inferior class is often a dreary and featureless place, with houses, dismal in themselves, arranged in monotonous lines or in squares. The open spaces are encumbered with washhouses, privies, etc., often out of repair, and in wet weather get churned up into a morass of semi-liquid mud, with little in the way of solidly constructed road or footpath - a fact which adds greatly to the burdens of the overwrought housewife. The houses vary greatly in construction, but a large number are of two types. The older is either a " single-end" or "but-and-ben," according as it has one or two rooms. It has only one door, and the solid back wall is pierced only by the smallest of windows, if by any, so that through ventilation does not exist. Many of the older houses show the faults of their class - leaky roofs, damp walls, and uneven and broken floors - the last a source of particularly bitter complaint. In addition there are faults not found outside mining communities, the chief being broken plaster and fissures in the walls, where "subsidence" has been serious; while in the worst houses in the West of Scotland the only place for the storage of coals is below the bed. The impossibility of domestic cleanliness and order where this is the case needs no enforcement.
If the workers in a house are on different shifts, the task of the housewife is complicated by irregular meals and sleeping-hours. If the pit is a wet one, the miners' soaking clothes must be left at night by the kitchen fire ; and as the kitchen is a sleeping apartment even where there are one or two other rooms, the steam and gas which are given off as the pit clothes dry are highly injurious to the children, who may be in one of the two large beds near by. In the absence of baths at the pithead or in any save the newest houses, the miner on his return must take his bath in the scullery (if there is one), or in the inevitable publicity of the kitchen. With this accumulation of difficulties to contend with, the standard of cleanliness and neatness attained in many houses (though by no means in all) is a matter for genuine surprise and admiration. In the numerous cases, however, in which water has not been introduced into the houses, but must be fetched from a standpipe at the end of the row, a high standard of cleanliness cannot be looked for. The dreary and unkempt surroundings of many rows have been already referred to, but a word must be said as to the nature of the outhouses which fill the intervals between the rows. Occasionally there is a properly constructed common washhouse, but in the older villages more often only such makeshift and ramshackle washhouses and coal-sheds as the miners have run up for themselves. But the chief of these unsightly structures are the privies. In the West of Scotland this often is a "privy-midden," which has only in comparatively recent times been expelled from the cities and still unhappily retains its place in the mining villages. It is a large erection, open on one side, where ashes and all other household refuse are thrown in, and closed (though often not adequately closed) on the side which serves as latrine. It is the only sanitary convenience in many rows; and it is so impossible to keep clean, so foulsmelling, and so littered with filth of all sorts, that no decent woman can use it, while if children do so, it is at grave risk to their health of body and mind. Another case, one degree less bad, is that of the range of separate privies - one for each three or four houses in the row. Here things may be better if they are well kept, but the difficulty of keeping them well is enormous ; and often locks are forced, and doors may even be wrenched off. These abominations are gradually being replaced by better sanitary appliances, but in some districts they are still the rule. (Source: http://www.scottishmining.co.uk/4.html)
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Coal Miner’s Housing
Earnock Colliery - Housing Situated at Burnbank, Burgh of Hamilton Persons employed underground 970, above ground 252, total 1222 The mine shafts at this mine are all situated in the County area, but the mine owners' houses are all situated in the Burgh of Hamilton 164 employees reside in rented houses in Blantyre, 6 in Cambuslang and 10 in Larkhall
The mine owners' houses situated in the County area are described as follows:Eddlewood Village • 24 One-apartment houses Rental £5 4s • 163 Two-apartment houses Rental £7 to £8 9s • 12 Three-apartment houses Rental £10 8s • Erected within last 25 years - 24 houses fronting highway have stone front, all other brick built - 10 houses single story, others two storey - Newer houses have damp proof course, other have none - Walls appear to be hollow built - Wood floors, ventilated - Internal surface of walls and ceilings in good condition • No overcrowding has been discovered recently - seven years ago 2 of the houses were occupied by Poles and registered as houses let in lodgings, were found overcrowded, proceedings were taken, and accused were convicted and fined £3 and expenses • No gardens - common wash houses - coal cellars provided • Privies at rear with locked doors - one for every 4 houses • Sinks, without water, at stairhead for upper flat - 24 one-apartment houses, 30 two-apartment houses, and 6 threeapartment houses of more recent construction have each an inside sink, with gravitation water - all other houses use surface channels or gullies under wells for disposal of waste water • Drainage discharged into Hamilton Burgh sewers • Gravitation water • Pillar wells supply a portion of the village where water has not been taken inside. • Scavenged regularly at owners' expense • Action taken relative to allocation of privies and provision of locks on doors. Company have also been met regarding provision of inside sinks for houses not already provided, and as to substituting WC for present privies. The objection of the latter proposal is that the Burgh Authorities do not wish additional sewage discharged into their sewers in the meantime • Notes on Eddlewood Village - all these dwellings are now provided with sinks and water supply in the kitchen windows 61
The refuse from all the houses is deposited in ash-pits, which are a serious source of trouble in summer time. These ash-pits are built between the blocks of houses. Clothes poles are studded in the space between the backs of the rows. The existing privies are such that women cannot use them, and men should not. They should be done away with absolutely, as should the ash-pits, and a daily system of refuse removal adopted. The pathways are made of ashes for the most part." Theodore K. Irvine, Report on the Housing Conditions in the Scottish Shale Field, 1914 http://www.scottishshale.co.uk/G azVillages/BroxburnOverviewVilla ge.html
overwhelmed
Earnock Colliery, 2011 - ?
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Earnock Estate, September 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MapOfEarnockEstate.png
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Map – Scotland Towns
Glasgow St Peter’s Cemetery, Glasgow Buried: Grandparents Thomas Martin age 45 & Agnes Brannan Martin age 72
Shetteston Birthplace of father Peter Martin, 1870
Rutherglen Grandparents Thomas Martin age 29 & Agnes Brannan Martin age 27 lived here in 1861, per 1861 Census
Blantyre Birth place of sisters : Agnes & Mary Martin
Burnbank Site of Earnock Coal Mine and home of the Martins (85 Albert Buildings, Earnock Coal Mining Village, Burnbank ) At-home Births: Jane (Jean), Catherine, Peter & Ann At-home Deaths: Jane Hamill Martin (age 34), Agnes Brannan Martin (age 72) & Catherine Martin (age 10)
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Leaving “The Old Country”
PASSAGE TO AMERICA
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Leaving Scotland
Ann Mulvenna Martin was the only one of her family who came to the states via Canada. A popular crossing point was St. Albans, Vermont, through which immigrants from Montreal and Quebec were processed.
Immigrants ready to leave Scotland for Canada, c1920 (Crofting = tenant farming)
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Leaving Glasgow, July 1923
S.S. Athenia Passenger Manifest Passenger: Age: Occupation: Able to Read: Country: Race: Last Residence: Relative:
Annie Mulvenna Martin 16 years, female, single Domestic Yes, English Scotland Scotch Irish Burnbank, Scotland Peter Martin, Father 85 Albert Bldgs, Earnock Burnbank, Scotland Final Destination: NY, New York Arrival Date: August 1, 1923 Port of Arrival: St Albans, Vermont, U.S. Source: www.ancestry.com
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“Annie” Martin: Passage to America, 1923
ss ATHENIA Built: Last Name: Port of Registry: Propulsion: Launched: Capacity: Ship Type: Ship's Role: Tonnage: Length: Breadth: Draught: Owner History: Status: Remarks:
By Fairfield Govan, Yard No 596, Engines by Shipbuilder ATHENIA Glasgow Steam Saturday, January 28, 1923 315 cabins, 1000 3rd, 315 crew Passenger Vessel Transatlantic voyages 13,465 538 feet 66.2 feet 38 feet Anchor-Donaldson Ltd., Glasgow 1936 Donaldson Atlantic Line, Glasgow Torpedoed & Sunk - 03/09/1939 Maiden voyage to Liverpool, Quebec and Montreal 4/19/1923 The first ship sunk in World War II on the day war was declared 3/9/1939. Sank with loss of 128 lives. Torpedoed by U.30 when 200 miles west of Hebrides en route Glasgow to Canada.
http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/viewship.asp?id=502 http://www.secondworldwar.org.uk/athenia.html
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Arriving in Halifax, Nova Scotia
On August 1, 1923, Ann Mulvenna Martin disembarked the S.S. Athenia at Pier 2, in Halifax, a deep water terminal of the Intercolonial Railway , opened in 1880. Stopping in Montreal, she took a train from Halifax to St. Albans, Vermont – a U.S. point of entry for immigrants.
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St. Albans, Vermont – Entry to the U.S.
By 1895, the US and Canada established a system of joint inspection of immigrants crossing by land. US commissioners of immigration were placed in Quebec, Halifax, Montreal, Victoria and Vancouver.
A popular crossing point was St. Albans, Vermont, through which immigrants from Montreal and Quebec were processed. http://familychronicle.com/NotThroughNY.html The steamships crossing the border were to keep a passenger manifest form. Railroads were "to carry only those immigrants who were legally admitted to the United States to U.S. destinations". The U.S. inspectors, stationed along the borders, collected the manifests.
In Canada, burgeoning factories and cities were attracting Scottish immigrants. There were 200,000 Scots who came to Canada seeking a better future between 1919 and 1930. Ann Mulvenna Martin was the only one of her family who came to the states via Canada. A popular crossing point was St. Albans, Vermont, through which immigrants from Montreal and Quebec were processed.
Ann traveled by ship from Glasgow to St. Albans, Vermont, arriving on August 1, 1923 where she boarded a train to New York City.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~holdenclan/albans.htm?cj=1&o_xid=0000584978&o_lid=000058 4978
St. Albans Train Station c1920
In 1895 the U.S. inspectors required that those entering the U.S. via Canada through sea ports to obtain a Certificate of Admission after passing a health inspection and quarantine. Railroads required a Certificate of Admission if the passenger arrived in Canada within the previous 30 days. At land border "ports", inspectors prepared the List (or) Manifest of Alien Passengers Applying for Admission to the United States from Foreign Contiguous Territory also called Form 1-Canada. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~holdenclan/alba ns.htm?cj=1&o_xid=0000584978&o_lid=0000584978
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LIVING IN THE STATES
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G&G lived here – 1933 to end of 1938 1586 1st Avenue, between 82nd and 83rd
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Gram lived here – 1939 to 1942 - ? 23-74 32nd Street, Astoria, ny
Gram lived here – 1939 to 1942 - ? 23-74 32nd Street, Astoria, ny
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Ann Mulvenna Martin 11 Moves Address
Year/s
Lived with
NYC – where ?
1923 to ?
Sisters: Agnes, Jean & Mary
1586 1st Avenue between 82nd and 83rd New York, NY 23-74 32nd Street, Astoria, NY
1933 - 1938
Husband: George Karavousanos Children: Anthony, Agnes, Catherine, George Husband: George Karavousanos Children: Anthony, Agnes, Catherine, George
266 Lucille Avenue, Elmont, NY
(early 1940’s)
Husband: George Karavousanos Children: Sandra born at home
The Farm RD1 Bristol Road, Bristol, PA (now Levittown, PA) The Jubilee 29 Gardenia Road, Levittown PA
? 1955 to ?
Husband: George Karavousanos Children: Sandra & George
? to ?
Husband: George Karavousanos Children: Sandra
# ? Sherer Blvd, Franklin Square, NY
? to ?
Husband: George Karavousanos Children: Sandra
69 Gaping Rock Road, Levittown, PA
? to ?
Husband: George Karavousanos
12 Lincoln Boulevard, Bethpage, NY
1962 – 1970
Husband: George Karavousanos Daughter: Sandra and husband, Bill, 1970
1939 – 1942 (guess)
(9/9/1968 George dies; sold house to Sandra & Bill 1970)
10 Lynn Place, Bethpage, NY
1975 - 1993
Daughter: Sandra and husband, Bill
Daleview Care Center 574 Fulton Street, Farmingdale, NY
1993 – 1998
2/5/1998 (death)
Photo?
The Stores Began building shopping center, two stores at a time (years?) Louie died 9/27/54
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Prohibition
Prohibition in the United States was a national ban on the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol, in place from 1919 to 1933.[1] The ban was mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and the Volstead Act set down the rules for enforcing the ban, as well as defining the types of alcoholic beverages that were prohibited. Prohibition ended with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, on December 5, 1933. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proh ibition_in_the_United_States
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The Great Depression, 1929 – 1939 Bread line in Bryant Park, New York, NY The Caravousanos family avoided such a fate, as Granddad remained employed in the restaurant industry, and brought home food from the kitchens to help feed his family.
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The 1939–40 New York World's Fair, which covered the 1,216 acres (4.92 km2) of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park (also the location of the 1964–1965 New York World's Fair), was the second largest American world's fair of all time, exceeded only by St. Louis's Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. Many countries around the world participated in it, and over 44 million people attended its exhibits in two seasons. The NYWF of 1939–1940 was the first exposition to be based on the future, with an opening slogan of "Dawn of a New Day", and it allowed all visitors to take a look at "the world of tomorrow". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1939_New_York_World's_Fair
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Rockaways' Playland was an amusement park located on Beach 98th Street in Rockaway Beach in the Borough of Queens, New York City, at Beach 98 Street between Rockaway Beach Boulevard and the beachfront. It was opened in 1902 by William Wainwright and was closed permanently in 1985. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Rockaways'_Playland
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World War II “During the war they used to try to get their hands on black market butter. I used to get sent by bus to the South Bronx [to get it] at Meg Murray’s. Her husband raised canaries in the bedroom.” - Peter Martin, nephew
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Martin Siblings Weddings
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Martin Children at-a-Glance Father: Peter Martin 1870-1933
Mother: Jane Hamill Martin ~1874-1908
Jane (Jean)
Catherine
Born 5/2/1899 11:00 pm Larkfield, Blantyre Scotland
Born 7/28/1900 2:00 am 83 Albert Bldgs, Earnock Burnbank, Scotland
Born 2/11/1902 6:00 pm 83 Albert Bldgs, Earnock Burnbank, Scotland
Born 4/5/1905 9:30 pm 83 Albert Bldgs, Earnock Burnbank, Scotland
Born 1/4/1907 85 Albert Bldgs, Earnock Burnbank, Scotland
Died 6/28/1989 St Louis, MO
Died 4/13/1978 Bethpage, NY
Died 3/26/1988 Orlando, FL
Died 3/26/1912 85 Albert Bldgs, Earnock Burnbank, Scotland
Died 7/11/1947 Rockaway, NY
Died 2/5/1998 Farmingdale, NY
Lived 91 years
Lived 79 years
Lived 87 years
Lived 10 years
Lived 42 years
Lived 91 years
Married 44 Years Tuesday 6/28/1927 Manhattan, NY at age 29 to William McLaughlin, age 27
Married 50 Years Wednesday 12/31/1919 Burnbank, Scotland at age 20 to Thomas Murtagh, age 27
Married 39 Years Sunday 3/31/1929 Astoria, NY at age 29 to Michael Joseph Martin age 27
Married 23 Years Tuesday 12/30/1924 Astoria, NY at age 19 to Jane (Little Jean) Walker
Married 43 Years Wednesday 12/30/1925 New York, NY at age 20 to George Caravousanos
Children: 1 Jane
Children: 4 Patrick, Peter, Jane, Rose
Children: 3 Joseph, Peter, Anna Rose
Children: 1 Ann Mary
Children: 5 Anthony, Agnes, Catherine, George, Sandra
Occupation: Tramway Motor Woman
Occupation: Nursing
Occupations: Manager, Apartments
Occupations: ?
Occupations: Salad Maker Chambermaid
Best Known for: Religious
Best Known for: Compassionate
Best Known for: Feisty
Best Known for: Jokester/Prankster
Best Known for: Happy-Go-Lucky
Agnes
Mary
1898-1989
1899-1978
Born 1/24/1898 3:30 am Annefield Row, Blantyre Scotland
1900-1988
1902-1912
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Peter
1905-1947
Ann Mulvenna 1907-1998
Sister: Agnes Martin McLaughlin Tramway Summerlee operates an electric tramway on over half a kilometre of track.. A number of trams are operational on a daily basis including one from Austria and one from Belgium. An open topped Lanarkshire Tram was first unveiled to the general public in 1995. Many of the trams are both driven and restored by the Summerlee Transport Group. The only reconstruction that is missing is the 1950's conductress shouting "Come oan - Git aff". http://www.monklands.co.uk/su mmerlee/index.htm
First born, and oldest of all the Martin children. Born January 24, 1898 Blantyre, Scotland Died June 28, 1989 Devout Catholic – attended church daily. Came to the U.S. 10/12/1925
Husband William (Willie) Patrick McLaughlin born in Donegal, Ireland. When departing after a visit, he would invariably say: “I’ll away now. Goodnight to you all. Agnes, are you with me?” and be out the door before she had said her goodbyes. When he came to this country, Jean, Agnes’s sister, met him at the boat. They walked up the East River stopping at every pier on the way back, asking for a job. He finally got a job wheel barrowing coal, and started the next day. ~ Peter Martin
Had one daughter, Jane. Jane had 12 children of which every 4 died from ??
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Sister Agnes: Wedding June 28, 1927, NYC
William Patrick McLaughlin (27) & Agnes Martin McLaughlin (29) St. Joseph’s R.C. Church, Manhattan, NY / Tuesday - June 28, 1927
Witnesses: Barney McLaughlin (“Willie’s” brother) and Jean Martin (27, Agnes’ sister)
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St. Joseph's R.C. Church 408 E. 87th Street, NYC interior, 1927
Sister: Mary Martin Murtagh Second born child of Peter and Jane Martin.
Sister: Mary
Born 5/2/1899 Blantyre, Scotland Died 4/13/1978 Bethpage, NY at 79 years of heart failure
Husband: Thomas Bernard Murtagh Born 4/25/1892 Kings Court, Ireland Died 1/24/1969 Bethpage, NY (76 yrs)
Married December 31, 1919
Four children: Patrick, Peter, Jane and Rose
In the mid 1920’s their four children were hospitalized with a mysterious disease, of which only the boys survived. The whole of page two in the NY Daily Mirror, was taken up with the story of the Murtagh family. Jane was older than Rose who was about four years old at the time. The day Jane was buried, Rose died. Mary Martin Murtagh became a nurses aid, working in Bellevue Hospital, NY in the 1940’s – 1950’s.
Mary Martin Murtagh New York, undated
Sister: Jean
Jean Martin
Third born.
Born 7/28/1901 Burnbank, Scotland Died 3/26/1988 Orlando, FL 87 years Married Michael Joseph Martin – did not have to change her last name.
With her beloved father, Peter Martin New York , NY ~ 1930
Sister: Catherine Died 10 years old
ADD PRAYER CARD – ADD LETTER OR POST CARD TO GRAM from MURRIN
Brother: Peter
First and only boy.
Born 7/28/1905 Burnbank, Scotland 4/5/1905 7/11/1947 Astoria, NY 42 years cerebral hemmorhage Married (Little) Jean and had one child, a girl named Ann Mary, born about 1935 who was severely retarded. He loved her very much and was institutionalized most of her life, living in Staten Island then an upstate mental hospital after her father died. Peter was a jokester using the pen name “Murrin Blair” for the many letters her sent his sister Ann Mulvenna.
Peter Martin (right) age 19 Wedding to (Little) Jean New York, 1924
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Ellis Island Registry Room Examination of Immigrants at Ellis Island
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Meeting George Met while both were working at the Commodore Hotel.
Shortly after arriving to the U.S., 16 year old Ann Martin began work in the Commodore Hotel as a salad maker. She worked evenings from 2:00 – 10:00 pm, as she worked as a chambermaid in the mornings. (per gram’s tape) Granddad was a waiter??
Worked: Regent Hotel, Sherman Square, NY, NY
Married 12/30/26 in NY, NY town hall per Sanddra
Mike’s Ship Ahoy, NY, NY – head waiter
No honeymoon
Came to U.S> at 13 years old, per At Sandra Born (?)in his parents house on Kythera
Sisters disapproved of marrying a Greek
George Karavousanos
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Ann Mulvenna Martin 1 Marriage , 42 yrs Met Granddad – both worked in restaurants in NYC
Sisters disapproved of her marrying a Greek Married 12/30/1926 - town Hall, NYC (until her husband’s death 9/9/1968) No photos Who was there? No honeymoon Address of first apartment - ??
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Ann Mulvenna Martin 5 Children Children / Name
Birth Date
Birth Place
Death Date
Death Place
Age/Cause of Death
Anthony George Caravousanos
8/26/27
NYC – where?
7/10/09
Syosset Hospital Syosset, NY
81 years Multiple causes
Agnes Ferns Caravousanos (Lackner)
1/25/29
NYC – where?
8/8/1994
65 years Injuries from car accident
Catherine Mary Caravousanos (Morreale)
2/7/30
NYC – where?
3/21/83
Nassau County Medical Center, E. Meadow, NY Cheshire Medical Center Keene, NH
George Jude Caravousanos
7/29/38
NYC – where?
Alexandria Jane Caravousanos (Johnson)
3/20/45
266 Lucille Avenue, Elmont, NY (at home)
53 years Ovarian & colon cancers
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18 year difference
Ann Mulvenna Martin 13 Grandchildren Grandchildren / Name
Birth Date
Birth Place
Parents
Ann Marie Morreale
2/9/1951
Susan Agnes Morreale Carlson
3/6/1953
Mineola Hospital, NY
Catherine Mary Caravousanos & Warren Eldert Morreale
Peter Warren Morreale
7/18/1957
Good Samaritan Hospital, Islip, NY
Claire Caravousanos Murphy
4/7/1955
Loretta Caravousanos Moran
9/2/1956
Anthony Caravousanos
8/26/1927
Parents Marriage Date
Note
5/14/1950
Anthony Caravousanos & Loretta Day
George Caravousanos Fred Caravousanos Steven Caravousanos
George Jude Caravousanos & Sandra Caravallaro
2/27/1960
Alexandria (Sandra) Jane Caravousanos & William Johnson
3/16/1963
Agnes Ferns Caravousanos & Edward Paul Lackner
?
Peter Caravousanos Christine Johnson Williams William Johnson Debra Johnson Tuttle Leslie Ann Lackner
Katina Lackner
Both daughters adopted 103
Ann Mulvenna Martin 5 Great Grandchildren (during her lifetime) Great Grandchildren / Name
Birth Date
Birth Place
Parents
Paul John Litterer
Erika Ann Hermanson Chambers
Parents Marriage Date
3/26/1978
Mid-Island Hospital Bethpage, NY
John Frank Litterer & Susan Agnes Morreale Litterer
12/15/1973
Parents divorced 12/1984
6/8/1980
Cheshire Medical Center Keene, NH
Wayne Stanley Hermanson & Ann Marie Morreale
?
Parents divorced ?
Gretchen Susan Hermanson
12/28/198 1
Cheshire Medical Center Keene, NH
Joseph Johnson
?
?
William Johnson & Barbara ?
?
Melissa Morena
?
?
Steven Morena & Leslie Ann Lackner
?
Note
Parents divorced ? Parents divorced ?
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TRAVELS
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Ann Mulvenna Martin Greece, 1966
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Susan - Recollections Scotland, 1973 Citing physical limitations, these otherwise sturdy women did not venture far from tour bus, cab, or kitchen table of their cousins who we were staying with.
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REMEMBERING ANN
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Reflections
“Anything goes with Aunt Annie. She was easy to get along with. A fun person. We would load up in her house. Be all over the floor sleeping. She loved it. Happy go lucky” ~ Peter Martin, nephew, age 79 Shown here at age 13
Ann
266 Lucille Avenue Elmont, NY 1945
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Daleview Nursing Home Farmingdale, NY January 1994 Age 87
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Best Recollections of Ann Mulvenna Martin “Sitting on the front steps at her house on Lincoln Boulevard, Bethpage singing When Irish Eyes Were Smiling or Danny Boy when we kids were running around the yard catching lightning bugs.” ~ Erika Ann Hermanson Chambers, Great Granddaughter, (2011, age 31)
“She was outgoing, friendly, happy – and singing.” ~ Richard Carlson, husband of Granddaughter, Susan Morreale (2011, age 54)
“Staying up late with her when I was little and watching TV. Also, going to Bingo with her.” ~ Debra Johnson Tuttle, granddaughter (2011, age??) On 5/1/2012 5:31 PM, UPC wrote: > Hi Susan > Just had another thought about grandma, when we were kids visiting over the summers we used to go to bingo with her. We got our bingo cards usually about two with the markers and played along being careful to pay attention and most specifically not to talk while the numbers were being called. At the break we got a doughnut and drink. They were fun times I think we were about 12 or 13. But don't remember if we won or not!!! > Hope all well > Claure > Sent from my iPhone
“Her brogue, trips to Pomeroy’s department store in Pennsylvania, sitting with Selma in the shoe store she managed in Granddad’s plaza, going to Bingo, singing ditties and ‘diddle-dee, diddle-doo’.”
“I don’t remember much about Grandma, but I remember running after Granddad when they were leaving from a visit at our house and him giving me a PACK of Wrigley’s spearmint gum instead of the usual stick. For the next birthday, he gave me a CASE. Mom wasn’t pleased - but I was!” “I also remember waving to him from outside of his hospital room before he died, and him waving back to me. I was 9 years old at the time and must have been too young for visiting.” ~ Peter Morreale, grandson (2011, age 54)
Peter (2 yrs) with Granddad, Summer 1961, Bristol, PA
~ Ann Marie Morreale, granddaughter (2011, age 60)
Hi Susan, this stuff is great. My best memories of Grandma were fishing with her from the beach. I think I was about 10 years old. "My dad would take the truck on the beach, fishing was better back then. Grandma must of made a deal with the lord, she always caught the most fish. When she would catch a fish she would turn her back to the surf, look over her shoulder and reel the fishing rod backwards." Wish I remembered what she said, it was something funny, like a complaint that she was catching so many fish. Great stuff My memories of Agnus, would be clamming in the Great South Bay. Your Mom and Dad, would be upstate NY just saying, lol Be well love Freddy (Ferdinand George Caravousanos born 5/19/62) 1/16/2012 Grandson 49 years old
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Story Granddad also came to the U.S. as a teenager in the early 1900’s from his native Greece, and like Grandma, settled in New York City with family members who preceded them there. They both worked in hotel kitchens, where they met. Much to the chagrin of her family, they married on December 30, 1926, for at that time, Greeks were not highly thought of; better she should marry a Scot or Irishman, as her three sisters did. Granddad soon proved himself and they remained married until his death in 1968. Life was not easy for these hard-working immigrants, but they took advantage of the opportunity that America offered and ended up prosperous. They moved out of New York City in the mid 1930’s to 32nd Street in Astoria, where their son became friends with the now famous, Tony Bennett. It was the dayold bread and other hotel kitchen leftovers that helped sustain their family during the depression. My mother used to talk about the bags of rolls her father would bring home – this when unemployment reached 33% and many New Yorkers did not have enough to eat. In the early 1940’s they had saved enough to buy their own house, and the two-bedroom bungalow at 266 Lucille Avenue in Elmont, New York became the hub for many big, family Scotch-Irish gatherings. It was also the place where their last child, Sandra, was born in March of 1945 – creating a span of 18 years between herself and her oldest brother, Anthony. Seizing another opportunity, my grandparents bought the parcel of land next door to 266 where Granddad designed and built a brick, two-family house for rental income. Both houses still stand today, although the bungalow is unrecognizable. Opportunity presented itself again when Granddad inherited a farm in Bristol, Pennsylvania from his two brothers in 1954. Along with the property, which sold fruit and vegetables to Campbell Soup Company, was a half-built house with no running water and an outhouse. Life on the farm was rustic and the work hard, and I can’t help but think that it must have taken Grandma back to her early days in Scotland. The two Elmont houses were sold to finance completion of the farm house. Eventually the property became part of Levittown with Granddad selling off most of it in the later 1950’s with the exception of a portion he would build a shopping plaza on. While Granddad spent his time managing “The Stores” as they affectionately became known, Grandma and I would frequent them. They were within walking distance from their house, and I happily accompanied Grandma on many summer afternoons to Selma’s shoe store, where we would visit for hours between Selma’s customers, order hoagies for lunch at the neighboring sandwich shop, and then invariable finish the day with a stop at Twin Kiss ice cream across the street. By now my grandparents were enjoying the fruits of their labors and they loved to spoil their grandchildren. Christmas gifts included real fur Eskimo coats for my sister and I, and a riding horse with surrey for my brother. Grandma gave me an appreciation for department stores and I loved wandering through the now defunct Pomeroy’s with her. A simple glance at an item and it was in a bag. I remember still, arriving at the mall with her and my sister to find John Kennedy campaigning outside. In the summer of 1966, she and Granddad took my sister and I on a six-week trip to Granddad’s home on the island of Kythera in Greece – via 11 days on the S.S. Olympia – where she and I played a summer-long card game of rummy. After Granddad’s passing in 1968, Grandma took her sister, Jean, and me to Glasgow in 1973, and in 1975 she gave me a loan to fund my first attempt in retail. 1. 2.
Death reg Jane Hamill Tracing Martin Ancestry: Ann Mulvenna Martin 1912 Statuary Deaths; Martin, Catherine 647/00 0188. www.scotlandspeople.com
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Susan - Recollections Though I was fortunate to grow up with both sets of grandparents, it was these maternal grandparents who highly influenced and shaped my childhood. I grew up hearing stories of how Granddad was a marathon runner in his youth, and he retained his fitness and strength into mid-life. As a young girl, I remember that he could still sit in a chair and while pushing himself up on the arms, hold his legs out perfectly straight. He would often pick, cook and enjoy a bowl of dandelion greens, and thought of white bread as cake. His idea of a “sundae” was to cut the crust off a piece of white bread, lay it in a bowl, slice a fresh peach over it and cover with milk. Grandma, meanwhile, was always portly, and I credit/blame her for my sweet tooth. Our taste diverged at breakfast, however, where she enjoyed her daily Matzos with marmalade. Their differences in physique and eating patterns may very well be the reason I majored in nutrition in college! They were quite opposite in personality as well, for as outgoing as Grandma was, Granddad was quiet and when he did speak, his heavy Greek accent made him hard to understand. Whereas Grandma smelled of Avon’s Topaz perfume, you knew Granddad was near by the lovely aroma of his pipe. We kids would clamor around him upon leaving from a visit, hoping he would not forget to give us each his trademark piece of Juicy Fruit or Wrigley’s spearmint gum – and a one dollar bill.
Evenings frequently included going to a bingo hall, where, much to my astonishment Grandma could monitor about two dozen boards. It was shear terror to watch them for her if she needed to step away! Grandma also turned out the most beautifully crocheted doilies and knitted afghans – though her choice of color due to colorblindness truly blighted their real beauty. My personal afghan was dark grey with fire-engine red - so bright it was nearly blinding.
Illness Lived with Sandra who Mid-Island Hospital - home away from home Levittown mall, 1953 http://home.comcast.net/~levittownrelics/shoparama/index.htm
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Grandma’s Shortbread and Irish Soda Bread Recipes
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Appendices
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Primary Sources:
www.ScotlandsPeople.gov/uk www.Ancestry.com www.Family Search.org www.scottishmining.co.uk
Family elders meeting (“Martin Tartan Meetin’”) December 5, 2011, Bethpage, NY
Joseph (Chick) Martin, Sandra Johnson, George Caravousanos, Ann Marie Morreale
Susan Morreale and Sandra Johnson Bill Johnson and Peter Martin
Marilyn Martin
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Acknowledgment
Richard Carlson, Technical Advisor
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Cemetery Plots: Where is everyone? Name
Relation to Ann Mulvenna Martin Caravousanos
Birth Date
Date of Death
Age at Death (years)
Thomas Martin
Grandfather
1831
2/4/1876
45
Agnes Brannan Martin
Grandmother
~1839
9/29/1911
72
Catherine Martin
Sister
2/11/1902
3/26/1912
10
Jane Hamill Martin & baby
Mother
~1874
4/6/1908
34
Cause of Death
Cemetery
Note
Consumption Cerebral hemorrhage, at home Asphyxiation, at home Post-partum hemorrhage, at home
St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Cemetery, Glasgow, Scotland St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Cemetery, Glasgow, Scotland ?
Scotland?
?
Scotland?
St. Raymond’s Cemetery 1201 Balcom Avenue (Bronx), New York 10465-1858 (718) 792-1133 Section 12, Range 42, Lot 157
Peter Martin
Father
6/19/1870
4/14/1933
63
?
Agnes Ferns Martin (2nd wife of Peter Martin, aka “Granny”)
Stepmother
1/27/1869
12/2/1947
78
?
Catherine Caravousanos Morreale
Daughter
2/7/1930
3/21/1983
53
Ovarian & colon cancers
Warren Eldert Morreale (husband of Catherine)
Son-in-Law
10/11/1927
1/14/1998
70
Coronary artery disease
George Anthony Caravousanos
Husband
3/23/1896 ?
9/9/1968
70?
Pancreatic cancer
Ann Mulvenna Martin Karavousanos Agnes Ferns Caravousanos Lackner Edward Paul Lackner
Self
1/4/1907
2/5/1998
91
Heart failure
Daughter
1/25/1929
8/8/1994
65
2/1/?
2/19/?
Injuries from car accident Heart failure
Anthony George Caravousanos
Son
8/26/1927
7/10/2009
82
Multiple causes
Jane (Jean) Martin Michael Joseph Martin (husband of Jean) Mary Martin Murtagh
Sister
7/28/1901
3/26/1988
87
COPD, pneumonia
Brother-in-Law
7/13/1901
4/6/1968
68
Sister
5/2/1899
4/13/1978
79
Heart failure
Thomas Bernard Murtagh (husband of Jean)
Brother-in-Law
1800’s per PM
1/24/1969
?
?
Agnes Martin McLaughlin William Patrick McLaughlin (husband of Agnes)
Sister
1/24/1898
1990’s ?
?
?
Calverton National Cemetery 210 Princeton Blvd, Calverton, NY Section 8 Site 5218 Calverton National Cemetery 210 Princeton Blvd, Calverton, NY Section 34 Site 916 Mt. St. Mary Cemetery 172-00 Booth Memorial Avenue Flushing, NY 11365 (718) 353-1560 Saint Charles Cemetery Calvary Cemetery (Fourth Calvary) 4902 Laurel Hill Boulevard, Flushing, New York (718) 786-8002 Plot 5, Section 63, Grave/Lot #2 ?
1800’s per PM
8/24/1971
?
?
?
Peter Martin
Brother
4/5/1905
7/11/1947
42
Cerebral hemorrhage
Calvary Cemetery (Fourth Calvary) 4902 Laurel Hill Boulevard Flushing, New York 11377 (718) 786-8002 Plot 5, Section 63, Grave/Lot #2
Jane Walker Martin (wife of Peter Martin - bro)
Sister-in-Law
?
?
?
?
?
Stavrous (Louis) Karavousanos
Brother-in-law
?
9/27/54 ?
?
Colon cancer
Mount Olivet Cemetery Maspeth, LI, NY (718) 326-1777 Grave # 3016 Plot: Juniper
Nickolas Karavousanos
Brother-in-law
?
2/18/1953 ?
?
Brain cancer
Son-in-Law
Brother-in-Law
Tracing Martin Ancestry: Ann Mulvenna Martin
Saint Charles Cemetery 2015 Wellwood Avenue Farmingdale, New York 11735 Section 24, Range P, Plot #16 Saint Charles Cemetery 2015 Wellwood Avenue Farmingdale, New York
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Living in NY at time of death Living with daughter Mary Murtagh at time of death at 20-67 38th Street, LI City, NY
Ashes spread here and Lake Effner, Corinth, NY
Plot # - ? Plot # - ?
T5 US ARMY WORLD WAR II SGT US AIR FORCE WORLD WAR II
Moved to St Louis MO by a grandson; died there
Interment record dated 9/27/54
Date of Birth
Date of Death
Caravousanos, Ann M Martin
Relation to Ann M Martin Caravousanos Self
1/4/1907
2/5/1998
Age at Death (years) 91
Caravousanos, George Anthony
Husband
4/25/1894
9/9/1968
74
Pancreatic cancer
Caravousanos, Anthony George
Son
8/26/1927
7/10/2009
82
Multiple causes
Karavousanos, Anthony
Father-in-law
1866
?
?
Fire?
Karavousanos, Stavros/Louis
Brother-in-law
9/27/1893
9/23/1954
61
Colon cancer
Karavousanos, Nicholas
Brother-in-law
?
2/18/1953
?
Brain cancer
Lackner, Agnes Ferns Caravousanos
Daughter
1/25/1929
8/8/1994
65
Car accident injuries
Lackner, Edward Peter
Son-in-Law
2/1/1925
2/19/1988
63
Heart failure
Martin, Catherine
Sister
2/11/1902
3/26/1912
10
Asphyxiation
Martin, Agnes Brannan
Grandmother
~1839
9/29/1911
72
Cerebral hemorrhage
Martin, Thomas
Grandfather
~1831
2/4/1876
45
Consumption
Martin, Agnes Ferns (Granny)
Stepmother
1/27/1869
12/2/1947
78
?
Martin, Peter
Father
6/19/1870
4/14/1933
62
Martin, Jane Hamill
Mother
~1874
4/6/1908
34
Martin, Jane (Jean)
Sister
7/28/1901
3/26/1988
87
Coronary Post-partum hemorrhage, at home COPD, pneumonia
Martin, Michael Joseph (Joe)
Brother-in-Law
7/13/1901
4/5/1968
67
Esophageal cancer
Martin, Peter
Brother
4/5/1905
7/11/1947
42
Cerebral hemorrhage
Martin, Jane Walker (Little Jean)
Sister-in-Law
?
?
?
?
?
McLaughlin, Agnes Martin
Sister
1/24/1898
6/28/1989
91
?
McLaughlin, William Patrick (Willie)
Brother-in-Law
1900
8/24/1971
71
?
Calvary R.C. Cemetery 58 McLean Blvd, Paterson, NJ Section 12, Grave #1553
Donegan, Jane McLaughlin
Niece
?
?
?
?
McLaughlin, Patrick
Willie’s brother
~1903
1/31/1939
36
Hypertension
Morreale, Catherine Caravousanos
Daughter
2/7/1930
3/21/1983
53
Ovarian & colon cancers
Morreale, Warren Eldert
Son-in-Law
10/11/1927
1/14/1998
70
Coronary artery disease
Murtagh, Mary Martin
Sister
5/2/1899
4/13/1978
79
Heart failure
Murtagh, Thomas Bernard
Brother-in-Law
4/25/1892
1/24/1969
76
?
Name
Cause of Death
Cemetery
Heart failure
Saint Charles Cemetery 2015 Wellwood Avenue Farmingdale, NY Section 24, Range Q, Plot #27 Calverton National Cemetery 210 Princeton Blvd, Calverton, NY Section 34 Site 916 ? Mount Olivet Cemetery 6540 Grand Avenue, Maspeth, NY Grave # 3016 Plot: Juniper Bristol, PA Cemetery Military Section Calverton National Cemetery 210 Princeton Blvd, Calverton, NY Section 8 Site 5218 St. Peter’s /Dalbeth RC Cemetery Glasgow, Scotland St. Peter’s /Dalbeth RC Cemetery Glasgow, Scotland St. Peter’s /Dalbeth RC Cemetery Glasgow, Scotland St. Raymond’s Cemetery 1201 Balcom Avenue, Bronx, NY Section 12, Range 42, Lot 157
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? Mt. St. Mary Cemetery 172-00 Booth Memorial Avenue Flushing, NY Calvary Cemetery (Fourth Calvary) 4902 Laurel Hill Blvd,Flushing,NY Plot 5, Section 63, Grave/Lot #2
Calvary R. C. Cemetery 58 McLean Blvd, Paterson, NJ Section ?, Grave ? St. Raymond’s Cemetery 1201 Balcom Avenue, Bronx, NY Section 12, Range 42, Lot 157 Saint Charles Cemetery 2015 Wellwood Avenue Farmingdale, New York 11735 Section 24, Range P, Plot #16 Saint Charles Cemetery 2015 Wellwood Avenue Farmingdale, NY Section 26, Range NN, Plot #200
Note
SGT US Air Force, WW II Last address: Vandergrift, PA Buried 9/27/54 room for one more in grave
T5 US Army, WW II Buried in Common Ground Buried in Common Ground
2nd wife of Peter Martin; Funeral mass St. Francis Assisi, Astoria, NY
1st wife of Peter Martin
In Thomas Murtagh plot per cemetery
Moved to St Louis MO by a grandson; died there; burial date 6/28/89
Daughter of Willie & Agnes, above Per cemetery records. Burial date 1/31/1939. Funeral mass St. Rita’s, LI City, NY
Ashes spread with wife Catherine and Lake Effner, Corinth, NY Mary SS# 087-10-0831 Buried 4/17/1978 Thomas SS# 059-01-7661 Buried 1/28/1969 Room for one more in grave No headstone
Name
Relation to Ann M Martin Caravousanos
Date of Birth
Date of Death
Age at Death (years)
Caravousanos, Ann Mulvenna Martin
Self
1/4/1907
2/5/1998
Karavousanos, George Anthony
Husband
4/25/1894
Caravousanos, Anthony George
Son
Karavousanos, Anthony
Cause of Death
Cemetery
Note
91
Heart failure
9/9/1968
74
Pancreatic cancer
Saint Charles Cemetery 2015 Wellwood Avenue Farmingdale, NY Section 24, Range Q, Plot #27
8/26/1927
7/10/2009
82
Multiple causes
Father-in-law
1866
?
?
Fire?
Karavousanos, Stavros/Louis
Brother-in-law
9/27/1893
9/23/1954
61
Karavousanos, Nicholas
Brother-in-law
?
2/18/1953
Lackner, Agnes Ferns Caravousanos
Daughter
1/25/1929
Lackner, Edward Peter
Son-in-Law
Martin, Agnes Brannan
Calverton National Cemetery 210 Princeton Blvd, Calverton, NY Section 34 Site 916
SGT US Air Force, WW II
?
Last address: Vandergrift, PA
Colon cancer
Mount Olivet Cemetery 6540 Grand Avenue, Maspeth, NY Grave # 3016 Plot: Juniper
Buried 9/27/54 room for one more in grave
?
Brain cancer
Bristol, PA Cemetery Military Section
8/8/1994
65
Car accident injuries
2/1/1925
2/19/1988
63
Heart failure
Calverton National Cemetery 210 Princeton Blvd, Calverton, NY Section 8 Site 5218
Grandmother
~1839
9/29/1911
72
Cerebral hemorrhage
St. Peter’s /Dalbeth RC Cemetery Glasgow, Scotland
Martin, Thomas
Grandfather
~1831
2/4/1876
45
Consumption
St. Peter’s /Dalbeth RC Cemetery Glasgow, Scotland
Martin, Catherine
Sister
2/11/1902
3/26/1912
10
Asphyxiation
St. Peter’s /Dalbeth RC Cemetery Glasgow, Scotland
Martin, Agnes Ferns (Granny)
Stepmother
1/27/1869
12/2/1947
78
?
Martin, Peter
Father
6/19/1870
4/14/1933
62
Coronary
Martin, Jane Hamill
Mother
~1874
4/6/1908
34
Post-partum hemorrhage, at home
Martin, Jane (Jean)
Sister
7/28/1901
3/26/1988
87
COPD, pneumonia
Martin, Michael Joseph (Joe)
Brother-in-Law
7/13/1901
4/5/1968
67
Esophageal cancer
Martin, Peter
Brother
4/5/1905
7/11/1947
42
Cerebral hemorrhage
Martin, Jane Walker (Little Jean)
Sister-in-Law
?
?
?
Martin, Ann Mary
Niece
~1935
~1997
~62
120
?
St. Raymond’s Cemetery 1201 Balcom Avenue, Bronx, NY Section 12, Range 42, Lot 157
?
T5 US Army, WW II Buried in Common Ground
Buried in Common Ground 2nd wife of Peter Martin; Funeral mass St. Francis Assisi, Astoria, NY
1st wife of Peter Martin
Mt. St. Mary Cemetery 172-00 Booth Memorial Avenue Flushing, NY Calvary Cemetery (Fourth Calvary) 4902 Laurel Hill Blvd,Flushing,NY Plot 5, Section 63, Grave/Lot #2 ? ?
In Thomas Murtagh plot per cemetery
Name
Relation to Ann M Martin Caravousanos
McLaughlin, Agnes Martin
Sister
McLaughlin, William Patrick (Willie)
Brother-in-Law
Donegan, Jane McLaughlin
Niece
McLaughlin, Patrick
Willie’s brother
Morreale, Catherine Caravousanos
Daughter
Morreale, Warren Eldert
Son-in-Law
Murtagh, Mary Martin
Date of Birth
Date of Death
Age at Death (years)
1/24/1898
6/28/1989
91
?
1900
8/24/1971
71
?
?
?
?
?
~1903
1/31/1939
36
Hypertension
2/7/1930
3/21/1983
53
Ovarian & colon cancers
Cause of Death
Cemetery
Note
Calvary R.C. Cemetery 58 McLean Blvd, Paterson, NJ Section 12, Grave #1553 Calvary R. C. Cemetery 58 McLean Blvd, Paterson, NJ Section ?, Grave ?
Daughter of Willie & Agnes, above
St. Raymond’s Cemetery 1201 Balcom Avenue, Bronx, NY Section 12, Range 42, Lot 157
Per cemetery records. Burial date 1/31/1939. Funeral mass St. Rita’s, LI City, NY
Saint Charles Cemetery 2015 Wellwood Avenue Farmingdale, New York 11735 Section 24, Range P, Plot #16
10/11/1927
1/14/1998
70
Coronary artery disease
Sister
5/2/1899
4/13/1978
79
Heart failure
Murtagh, Thomas Bernard
Brother-in-Law
4/25/1892
1/24/1969
76
?
Murtagh, Muriel
Niece-in-law
7/8/1922
1/11/2004
81
Murtagh, Patrick J.
Nephew
1/4/1921
2/27/1965
44
Murtagh, Peter
Nephew
1/7/1924
12/25/1989
Murtagh, Jane
Niece
?
~1929
3
Acute infectious colitis
Murtagh, Rose Kathleen
Niece
?
~1929
8 mos
Acute infectious colitis
Driscoll, Anna Rose Murtagh
Niece
11/29/1929
9/5/2010
80
Alzheimer/dementia
?
Driscoll, William
Nephew
?
?
?
?
?
Driscoll, William
121
Complications of diabetes ?
Moved to St Louis MO by a grandson; died there; burial date 6/28/89
Saint Charles Cemetery 2015 Wellwood Avenue Farmingdale, NY Section 26, Range NN, Plot #200 ? Pinelawn Cemetery 2030 Wellwood Avenue Farmingdale, NY
Calvary Cemetery (Fourth Calvary) 4902 Laurel Hill Blvd, Flushing, NY Plot 5, Section 63, Grave/Lot #2
Ashes spread with wife Catherine and Lake Effner, Corinth, NY Mary SS# 087-10-0831 Buried 4/17/1978 Thomas SS# 059-01-7661 Buried 1/28/1969 Room for one more in grave No headstone
1911 Census: Peter Martin
1911 Census Summary
Source: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/Search/results.aspx
Census #647/00 001/00 030
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1911 Census: Peter Martin, pg 2
1911 Census Summary
Source: http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/Search/results.aspx
Census #647/00 001/00 030
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Peter & Agnes Martin: Passage to America, 1926 S.S. Cameronia February 27, 1926 From Glasgow to New York Peter Martin, 55, Miner Sister: Mrs. Catherine Quinn Main Street, Chryston, Scotland Agnes Martin, 56, Housewife Brother: Daniel Fearn 67 Cowoaddens Street, Glasgow, Scotland
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Peter & Agnes Martin: 1930 U.S. Census, New York East 86th Street, 1st and York Streets
Peter Martin age 59 Agnes Martin age 61
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Ship Manifest
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Ann Mulvenna Martin Simplified Family Tree
Father’s Side
Mothers’s Side
The Martins
The Hamills
Great Grandparents
Born in Ireland No other info
Great Grandparents
Thomas Martin
No information
married Catherine Smith
Grandparents
Born Ireland Lived/worked/died Scotland
Grandparents
Thomas Martin
Alexander Hamill
married Agnes Brannan
married Catherine Pettigrew
Father
Born Scotland Lived/worked Scotland Died U.S.
Born/lived/died Ireland
Mother
Peter Martin
Married Dec 31, 1895
Ann Mulvenna Martin
Jane Hamill
Born Ireland Lived/died Scotland
For as long as I can remember, my grandmother had an ongoing debate with her sister Jean as to whether they were Scottish or Irish, which heated up during our trip to Glasgow in 1973, but was not resolved. Creating a family tree, I discovered – 128were both right. they
Family Tree – Detailed
Great Grandparents
Thomas Martin (farmer) Married:
Presumably 1700’s Ireland
Catherine Smith Grandparents
Thomas Martin (mother surname: Smith) Born: Ireland ~1831 Died: Feb 4, 1876; Shettleston, Lanark, Scotland (66 years)
Married: Nov 3, 1856, Glasgow (source: daughter Agnes’ birth reg)
Grandparents
Alexander Hamill
Agnes Brannan
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Born/lived/died Ireland
Born: Ireland ~ 1834
Catherine Pettigrew
Catherine Martin Born: October 11, 1859; District of Rutherglen, County of Lanark,Scotland Died?
NEED INFO: 11 siblings (source: 1911 Census of Ireland) Charles, age 25 listed on 1901 Census of Ireland
Agnes Martin Born: October 24, 1862; District of High Church, Burgh of Glasgow, Scotland 18 yrs old on 3/4/1881 Census Scotland Died?
Charles Martin Born: 5 yrs old on 3/4/1881 Census Scotland Died?
Peter Martin Born: June 19, 1870; Shettleston, Lanark, Scotland Died: April 14, 1933, NY place? 62 yrs old; cause?
Grandma’s Father
* Source: Ann Mulvenna Martin’s birth reg.
Married Dec 31, 1895 Bridgeton, Glasgow*
Jane Hamill Martin Born: Date 1874 ? Ireland (source: 1901 Census) Died: April 6, 1908 ; Burnbank, Scotland
MARTIN CHILDREN Agnes Martin Mary Martin Jane (Jean) Martin Catherine Martin Peter Martin Ann Mulvenna Martin (Grandma)
Grandma’s Mother
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http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/maps/scots_map9.html
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Hamilton, Scotland, 1862
Source: http://www.archive.org/details/handbookhamilto00macpgoog Google books
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December 17 1907 Lord Kelvin, scientist and inventor, died. January 26 1908 The 1st Glasgow Scout troop was registered, the first to be formed. January 28 1908 Jimmy Shand, Scottish country dance band leader, born. July 2 1908 Dumfries reached a temperature of 32.8C (91F), the highest recorded - so far. April 17 1909 Riot by fans after replay of Scottish Cup Final between Rangers and Celtic at Hampden Park. May 25 1909 Oscar Slater found guilty of murder. The conviction, based on circumstancial evidence, was quashed after he had spent 18 years in jail. May 26 1909 Birth of football player, coach and manager Sir Matt Busby . He was manager of Manchester United Football Club 1945-69, winner of European Cup 1968. November 23 1909 Historical novelist Nigel Tranter born in Glasgow. He was the most prolific Scottish writer of all time, writing mainly factual and fictional books related to Scottish history. November 14 1910 Poet Norman MacCaig born Edinburgh. July 19 1911 Chapel of the Thistle dedicated in St Giles Cathedral. October 26 1911 Poet Sorley MacLean born on the island of Raasay. February 10 1912 Death of Lord Joseph Lister, pioneer of surgery and antiseptic at the University of Glasgow and Glasgow and Edinburgh Royal Infirmaries. April 12 1913 Flyweight boxing champion Benny Lynch born. July 22 1913 Edinburgh Zoo opened for the first time. September 13 1913 Sir Robert Lorimer, architect and exponent of the Scottish Vernacular Revival, died. March 16 1914 Death of Sir John Murray, pioneer of oceanography and inventor of a device for recording the ocean's temperature at great dep ths. May 26 1914 Actor Archie Duncan (known for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes) born Glasgow. January 13 1915 Mary Slessor, missionary in West Africa and known to many as "Ma", died in Calabar. March 29 1915 Jazz trombonist George Chisholm born. May 22 1915 Britain's worst train disaster at Quintinshill (near Gretna Green) in which three trains collided, with the loss of 227 lives . A troop train carrying the Seventh Royal Scots Regiment hit a stationary train and the night express from London then hit the wreckage. Two signalmen were later jailed. December 30 1915 Cruiser "Natal" exploded in Cromarty harbour, killing 405. March 10 1916 Birth of James Herriot (the pen name of James Alfred Wight), author of "All Creatures Great and Small" May 21 1916 Clocks and watches went forward for one hour as the Daylight Savings Act brought in "British Summer Time" for the first time. May 24 1916 Conscription to the armed forces began for the first time. May 31 1916 British Grand Fleet leaves Scapa Flow for the Battle of Jutland. June 5 1916 HMS Hampshire sank off Orkney after striking a mine. Lord Kitchener, conqueror of Sudan, was drowned. July 23 1916 Death of Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist who discovered helium, xenon, neon, argon, radon and krypton. November 14 1916 Author Hector Munro died in action in France. Some of his work was written under the pseudonym "Saki". June 19 1917 Parliament voted by a majority of 330 to give votes to women over 30 for the first time. November 11 1918 Armistice Day - World War I ends on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. July 30 1918 Provisions were included in the Scottish Education Bill to ensure adequate facilities for teaching Gaelic in Scotland. November 21 1918 German battle fleet surrendered to the allies in the Firth of Forth prior to being interned at Scapa Flow. January 1 1919 The naval yacht Iolaire struck a reef on approaching Stornoway Harbour at 2am. Despite being only 20 yards from shore, 205 out of 260 Lewis men and 24 crew died as the overloaded boat sank. June 11 1919 Actor Richard Todd (A Man Called Peter and The Hasty Heart etc) born. June 21 1919 German fleet scuttled in Scapa Flow. January 31 1918 "Battle of Isle of Mey" - 100 men died in a series of collisions in the Firth of Forth, involving submarines and surface ships. February 1 1918 Author Muriel Spark born. February 6 1918 Representation of the people Act received Royal assent, granting votes to women over the age of 30. May 9 1918 John MacLean, socialist revolutionary, first Soviet Consul in Britain in 1917, honorary president of the first Congress of Soviets, tried in the High Court for sedition. November 11 1918 Armistice Day - World War I ends on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. January 31 1919 "Bloody Friday" Riot - mass rally of strikers in Glasgow's George Square repeatedly charged by police. February 1 1919 Tanks and army patrol the streets of Glasgow after "Bloody Friday" when 20,000 strikers gathered in George Square. July 6 1919 Airship R34, constructed by Glasgow's Beardmore Engineering Co., landed Long Island, USA after the first Trans-Atlantic airship flight - from East Fortune, East Lothian. March 15 1921 First women jurors in Glasgow Sheriff Court. September 30 1921 Hollywood film star Deborah Kerr ("From Here to Eternity" and "The King and I") born in Helensburgh. October 9 1921 SS Rowan sank off the Rhinns of Galloway, near Corsewall Point with 34 casualties. October 16 1921 Poet George Mackay Brown born. October 23 1921 Death of John Boyd Dunlop who re-invented the pneumatic tyre from the design of Robert W Thomson. August 2 1922 Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, died in Nova Scotia. August 12 1922 Popular character actor Fulton McKay was born. October 28 1922 Novelist Cliff Hanley ("Dancing in the Streets" etc) born in Glasgow. January 1 1923
Scottish History - Part Three (1907 – 1923) Years Ann Martin Lived in Scotland
February 24 1923 Steam train, the "Flying Scotsman" went into service with London and North Eastern Railway (LNER), on the London (King's Cross) to Edinburgh route. March 6 1923 BBC Scotland began broadcasting (from Glasgow). Lord Reith of Stonehaven, the founder of the BBC opened the station. April 26 1923 Lady Elizabeth Bowes Lyon married the Duke of York at Westminster Abbey, the first Royal wedding to take place there since 1383. The couple later became King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. September 25 1923 Pit disaster at Redding (near Polmont, Stirlingshire) when the mine flooded, drowning 40 miners. Five survivors were recovere d after 10 days underground. November 30 1923 John Maclean, political activist, Marxist, appointed Bolshevik consul for Scotland by Lenin, died.
http://www.rampantscotland.com/timeline/2000.htm
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Mom -- lived here Feb 7, 1947 22-61 42nd Street, Long Island City (Astoria), NY
Peter Martin (Gram’s brother) -- lived here 1947 (per obit) 22-77 Steinway Street, Long Island City (Astoria), NY
Gram lived here – 1930’s to 1940’s - ? 23-74 32nd Street, Astoria, ny
Gram lived here – 1930’s to 1940’s - ? 23-74 32nd Street, Astoria, ny
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Martin Tartan Martin Name From Wikipedia (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_(name) Scotland: There are several groups of Martins or Macmartins in Scotland. The MacMartins of Letterfinlay appear to have allied themselves to the Clan Cameron in the late 14th century, and finally merged with the Camerons after the Battle of Lochaber in 1429. The Martins in Skye are traditionally associated with Clan Donald, and the Lothians were home to a powerful 'de St Martin' family from the 12th century. In Ireland there are at least three major families bearing the name "Martin" [5]; one being of foreign origin and the latter two, indigenous Irish clans. There are many mottos and arms registered by various Martins throughout the British Isles. The motto of Abraham Martin of Cleveragh and Bloomfield, County Sligo, was "Hinc Fortior et Clarior", which translates as: "... hence stronger and more illustrious". This same motto was registered by another Martin in Edinburgh, 1672.[6][7]
Scottish Tartans World Register: Martin Martin WR1207 The source of tartan 1207 was: Dgn. R. Martin, Granville S.C. The designer no longer considers this to be the Martin sett however it has been used by those with the surname for some time.
Clan Info The name Martin is claimed as a sept by both Camerons and MacDonalds. Martins of Marshadder in Skye are descended from Angus of the Wind (Aonghas na Gaoithe), while the MacMartins of Letterfinlay belong to the Cameron Clan. (Source: http://www.house-of-tartan.scotland.net/scottish/dir2.asp?secid=77&subsecid=1409)
Source: http://www.tartans.scotland.net/tartan_info.cfm@tartan_id=233.htm
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Ann Mulvenna Martin Simplified Family Tree
Mothers’s Side
The Hamills
Great Grandparents
Father’s Side
The Martins
Great Grandparents
Thomas Martin
No information
Grandparents
Born/lived/died Ireland
Grandparents
Alexander Hamill
Thomas Martin
married Catherine Pettigrew
married Agnes Brannan
Mother
Born Ireland Lived/died Scotland
Born in Ireland No other info
married Catherine Smith
Born Ireland Lived/worked/died Scotland
Father
Jane Hamill
Married Dec 31, 1895
Peter Martin
Born Scotland Lived/worked Scotland Died U.S.
Ann Mulvenna Martin
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Ann Mulvenna Martin 5 Siblings Siblings / Name
Birth Date
Birth Place in Scotland
Death Date
Death Place
Age/Cause of Death
Agnes Martin (McLaughlin)
1/24/1898 3:30 am
Annefield Row, Blantyre
?
?
Mary Martin
5/2/1899 11:00 pm
Larkfield, Blantyre
?
? NY
Jane Martin (Jean)
7/28/1901 2:00 pm
83 Albert Buildings, Earnock, Hamilton
?
? NY
Catherine Martin
2/11/1902 6:00 pm
83 Albert Buildings, Earnock, Hamilton
3/26/1912
85 Albert Buildings, Earnock, Hamilton
10 years Probable Asphyxia (found in bed)
Peter Martin
4/5/1905 9:30 pm
83 Albert Buildings, Earnock, Hamilton
1946
? NY
41 years ? cause
Ann Mulvenna Martin
1/4/1907 7:00 am
85 Albert Buildings, Earnock, Hamilton
2/5/1998
? NY
91 years Complications of old age, (dementia, diabetes, ??? )
?
?
?
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Ann Mulvenna Martin January 4, 1907 Burnbank, Scotland to February 5, 1998, Bethpage, New York 91 years
Nieu Amsterdam, Holland American Line 1965 Stayed with cousins Mary & Bernard McLaughlin in Chryston, Scotland
5 Siblings: 5 Children: 15 Grandchildren:
4 Great Grandchildren: Married:
Agnes, Catherine Mary, Jean, Peter Anthony, Agnes, Catherine, George, Sandra Ann Marie, Susan, Peter, Claire, Loretta, Tony, George, Fred, Steven, Peter, Christine, William, Debra Paul, Erika, Gretchen, Alexa George Caravousanos, 12/30/1926, ?? years
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1924 Brother’s Wedding (Peter Martin + Jane) 17 years
Ann Mulvenna Martin January 4, 1907 Burnbank, Scotland to February 5, 1998, Bethpage, New York 91 years
Fondest Recollection
1954 on the farm, PA 47 years
Nieu Amsterdam, Holland American Line Destination: Chryston, Scotland 1965 60 years
Bethpage, NY July 4, 1988 81 years
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