FITZPATRICK

This page would not have been possible without the excellent notes of Florence (Healy) Keller, a great-granddaughter of the Anne FitzPatrick and Patrick McCann, who in July 2006 was still alive at the age of 79 years. We should also like to thank her daughter Marsha (Keller) Weaver, for supplying us with extracts from her work, Tom Schaffner, who made a suggestion about the spelling of the surname of Bridget McLenag [McLenagh?], and Joan Tremblay, whose husband’s mother was a McCann, and who sent a copy of the 1942 address by ____ McCann which mentions the voyage of Anne (FitzPatrick) McCann to New York.

The clues which have led to the identification, or partial identification, of two siblings of Anne (FitzPatrick) McCann have both come from a valuable collection of newspaper extracts made by Christine M. Spencer. The evidence for a brother will be presented below. The evidence for a sister, which is less direct, comes from an item of 1892 in a Perth, Ontario, newspaper which states: “Misses Nina and Maggie O’Reilly, Brooklyn, New York, are visiting their cousin John McCann of this town.”^[1] While only a small fragment of the 1890 U.S. Federal Census for New York survives, the 1892 New York State Census, which could not be more fortunately timed for our purposes, has adjacent entries for Nina and Maggie O’Reilly, aged 30 and 26 respectively, both born in the U.S. and both teachers, living in Ward 19 of Brooklyn.^[2] These women are not however listed in Lain’s Brooklyn Directory for any of the years 1892, 1894, or 1895. Attempting to work backward, we were unable to find any Nina O’Reilly of the right age in the federal censuses of 1880 or 1870, a difficulty which proved to have an unexpected explanation (“Nina” being evidently a nickname not adopted until adulthood). Eventually, the discovery of a detailed death announcement for Nina provided sufficient evidence for the filiation, including mention of a brother Luke whose marriage record names his mother as Margaret FitzPatrick. We therefore identify this Margaret FitzPatrick as a sister of Anne (FitzPatrick) McCann.

               Anthony = Molly           John   =  Bridget
                McCann | McDonald   Fitzpatrick |  McLenag
                       |________              __|  [McLenagh?]
                               |              |
                       Patrick McCann = Anne Fitzpatrick
                                      |
                                      |
          John Joseph Healy = Elizabeth McCann

1. John FitzPatrick, of Laurel Hill, in the parish of Errigal-Trough (lying mainly in the barony of Trough, co. Monaghan), Ireland, alive in 1828 (the earliest possible birthdate for his daughter Margaret). He m. before 1823 (the latest possible birthdate of their daughter Anne), Bridget McLenag [McLenagh?].^[3] Almost everything we know of him comes from a newspaper death notice of his daughter Anne (FitzPatrick) McCann:

On Friday last passed away from this life Mrs. Patrick McCann, one of the oldest and most respected settlers in this part of the country. By her kind and affable manners she endeared herself to all with whom she came into contact and her loss will be felt not only by her sorrowing children but by all those who had the pleasure of her acquaintance. She was the daughter of the late Mr. John Fitzpatrick, Laurel Hill, County Monaghan, Ireland, and came to this country 42 years ago and settled with her husband in the County of Leeds where she remained until her death….^[4]

According to the address prepared by a great-grandson for the Irish Historical Society of Canada in 1942 (see the McCann page),

Patrick McCann … married Anne Fitzpatrick in Ireland, she being only fifteen and he nineteen. The romance began in a small town in the County of Antrim where her father owned a grist mill and Patrick McCann went to town from his country estate, named Shannawood, to have his father’s wheat ground into flour.

It should be noted that the counties of Monaghan and Antrim, where these two accounts place John FitzPatrick, are not adjacent. There is however a townland named Shannawood in the parish of Annagh, co. Cavan, which county is adjacent to Monaghan, and Cavan was certainly the county of birth of John FitzPatrick’s son-in-law, Luke O’Reilly, below. The second account, which evinces a confused awareness of the O’Reilly family, continues:

After seven years of marriage, Patrick McCann immigrated to Canada…. After building a log house…, [he] sent for his young wife. She left Ireland in 1842 [no, about 1846] with three children…. The youngest one died aboard ship, just before arriving at New York, and was buried in a cemetery in New York….
    When my grandmother arrived in New York she got in touch with her husband’s brother [no, this was Luke O’Reilly, who married her own sister, Margaret FitzPatrick]…. His grandchildren are living in New York, one of them being Judge O’Reilly of New York. She then had to make the trip from New York to Portland….

It is quite doubtful that Luke O’Reilly can have been in New York so early as 1846, much less 1842; and it seems likely the writer has confused the incident of Anne’s arrival with some later contact with the O’Reillys. Furthermore, the judge — Frank E. O’Reilly, who had died a decade earlier — was a son, not a grandson, of Luke O’Reilly.
    Known issue:

1. A son, alive in 1889. His existence may be inferred from a report in a Perth, Ontario newspaper that “Mr. Fitzpatrick of New York, uncle of Mr. John McCann [son of Patrick McCann and Anne FitzPatrick], is visiting in town for a short time.”^[5] Unfortunately we have found no clue as to his complete name.
2. Anne FitzPatrick, b. around 1823,^[6] d. 23 March 1888, allegedly aged 66 years, and buried at Perth, Drummond Tp., Lanark Co.^[7] She m. about 1839 in Ireland (where their elder children were born), Patrick McCann, afterwards of South Burgess township, Leeds County, Ontario, was b. around 1806-16^[8] in Ireland, possibly in co. Antrim, and d. 25 July 1880 “at his residence in South Burgess,” allegedly aged 71 years,^[9] son of Anthony McCann, of Ireland, possibly of co. Cork, by the latter’s wife Molly McDonald. From the birthplaces of their children as reported in the 1861 census it is evident that Patrick McCann and his wife were still in Ireland in 1841, but were in Ontario by 1849. According to her death notice, their year of immigration would have been about 1846, and this date receives support from other sources. For further details see McCANN.
3. 2Margaret FitzPatrick, b. around 1828 (aged 32 in 1860, 40 in 1870, 50 in 1880) in Ireland.

2. Margaret FitzPatrick,^[10] b. around 1828 (aged 32 in 1860, 40 in 1870, 50 in 1880) in Ireland of Irish parentage, d. (intestate) 7 Feb. 1887 at Brooklyn (see below). She m. before 1856, Luke O’Reilly, b. around 1830 (aged 30 in 1860, 39 in 1870, 48 in 1880) in Ireland of Irish parentage, d. about 1908 in New York State. (He was somehow related — possibly as a cousin — to another Luke O’Reilly, born about 1835, d. 26 July 1883, Principal of New York Grammer School no. 37, who m. Anne Gilchrist,^[11] for the latter’s son John is called a “cousin” of the present man’s son Luke Jr. in his death notice.^[12])
    In the passport application of their son Luke O’Reilly, Jr., he is described as Luke O’Reilly, deceased, born at Cavan, Ireland, who immigrated from Ireland in or about 1848, and resided for 60 years until 190_ at Brooklyn, being naturalized as a U.S. citizen by the Supreme Court of the State of New York at Brooklyn.^[13] He is possibly the Luke O’Reily, aged 19 years, born in Ireland, who was enumerated in Ward 15 of New York City in the 1850 census.^[14] He and his wife were enumerated in Brooklyn in the 1860 census, in which he is called a clerk.^[15] In the 1865 State Census of New York, Luke O’Reilly, of Kent Avenue, is shown as making his living through “liquors &c.”^[16] As two directories of the mid-1870s show a Luke O’Reilly, with a liquor business at 60 Wythe Ave. and house at 51 Wilson, but no man of this name designated as a clerk, it seems clear that he continued to derive income from the liquor trade despite being called a clerk in later census records.^[17] In the 1870 census he is described as Luke Reilly (sic), clerk in the police court.^[18] His is enumerated again in Brooklyn in the 1880 census, in which he is called a “county official.”^[19] $$ On Margaret’s death without a will in 1887, administration of her estate, valued at under $300, was granted to her widower Luke O’Reilly, of 75 Ross Street, Brooklyn, the record stating that she left five suriving children, Frank E., Nina A., John F., Luke, and Margaret O’Reilly, “all of full age.”^[20] We have not found a convincing match for Luke O’Reilly in the 1892 U.S. state census, but he was enumerated with four of his children in the 1900 Federal census.^[21] We are not able to account for the description of him, in the death notice of his son Luke Jr., as “Luke O’Reilly, a Williamsburg district leader.”
    For a family which was clearly well-educated, it is surprising how inconsistently the ages of its members are reported in contemporary records. The situation is so bad that some censuses do not even agree as to the birth-order of the children. In particular, the ages reported in census records for the daughters Nina and Margaret are the stuff of science-fiction. After some years’ experimentation in the deceleration of the aging process, they managed to reverse its effects altogether during the 1890s and exited the decade younger than when they entered it.
    Known issue:^[22]

1. Frank E. O’Reilly, b. 1852-53 (aged 7 in 1860, 12 in 1865, 17 in 1870, 26 in 1880, 44 in 1900, 50 in 1910, 62 in 1920) in New York, d. (almost certainly unmarried) some time between 21 April 1930 (census date) and 12 Feb. 1931 (when he is called deceased in the death notice of his sister Nina). He is mentioned as “former magistrate Frank E. O’Reilly” in the death notice of his sister Nina. He attended Public School no. 16, Brooklyn, being mentioned amongst its graduates as “Frank E. O’Reilly, city magistrate, City of New York.”^[23] He was a student in Medicine at Columbia College in 1873-74,^[24] but must have subsequently changed the course of his studies to Law (unless, like his younger brother Luke, he was self-taught and simply challenged the bar examinations). In between, he was living at his parents in 1880 and was working as a clerk in a store. Frank E. O’Reilly was one of the four Democrat magistrates whose appointments by Mayor Van Wyck in 1901 provoked an unsuccessful legal challenge from the Republican party. In a newspaper story about the incident he is described as “Frank E. O’Reilly of the Fourth Assembly District … now Secretary of the Democratic County Committee. He is a law partner of Jere Wernberg and has been active in politics in the Ninth Ward of Brooklyn for several years. He has a large law practice.”^[25] He is found at Hewes Street, in Ward 19 of Brooklyn, in the 1910 census, in which he called a “lawyer, city magistrate.”^[26] In 1920 his occupation or profession is stated as “Law,”^[27] and in 1930 he is called a criminal lawyer.^[28] In all three censuses between 1910 and 1930 his household included his unmarried sisters Eliza/Elizabeth [a.k.a. Nina] and Margaret, and in 1910 and 1920 it also included his niece Nina, daughter of his (presumably deceased) brother John. On 2 August 1928, the Brooklyn Standard Union reported that “Brooklynites summering at the Catholic summer school, Cliff Haven, N.Y., gave a reception recently under the direction of Frank E. O’Reilly.”^[29]
2. Sarah O’Reilly, b. 1854-55 (aged 5 in 1860, 10 in 1865) in New York, d. in 1865-70.
3. Eliza(beth) Jane a.k.a. Nina E. O’Reilly, b. 1855-56 (aged 4 in 1860, 8 in 1865, 15 in 1870, 20 in 1880, 30 in 1892, 26 in 1900!, 42 in 1910, 50 in 1920, 72 in 1930) in New York, d. unmarried 12 Feb. 1931 at Brooklyn. This daughter is found in her parents’ household until 1880, when she is called a teacher, and (as Nina) in the household of her widowed father in 1900, when she is called a school teacher. She was living with her brother Frank at the taking of the 1910 census, in which she is called a teacher in a public school. In these records she is called Elizabeth J. up to, and occasionally after, 1892, which marks the first known appearance of the name Nina, evidently a nickname adopted in adulthood. Elizabeth and Nina must be the same person, as they were the same age (so far as it is possible to judge from its rather elastic reportage) and the two names never appear together in the same census. Moreover, in the 1931 death notice of Nina E. O’Reilly, it would be an incomprensible oversight if Elizabeth J., attested under that name so late as 1920, were really a sister of the deceased but failed to be named therein. A death notice reads: “Miss Nina E. O’Reilly, sister of Assemblyman Luke O’Reilly of Brooklyn and the late former magistrate Frank E. O’Reilly, died yesterday morning at her home, 184 Hewes Street, Brooklyn. The funeral will be held tomorrow morning with a solemn requiem mass at the Church of the Transfiguration, Hooper Street and Marcy Avenue. Burial will be private in Calvary Cemetery. Miss O’Reilly was born in Brooklyn, and prior to her retirement several years ago was a teacher in Public School 16, Brooklyn. In addition to her brother, Assemblyman O’Reilly, she left a sister, Margaret O’Reilly.”^[30]
4. Margaret (“Maggie”) A. O’Reilly, b. probably in 1858 (aged 2 in 1860, 6 in 1865, 11 in 1870, 18 in 1880, 26 in 1892, 24 in 1900!, 40 in 1910, 48 in 1920, 71 in 1930) in New York, alive and unmarried on 12 Feb. 1931 as she survived her sister Nina. She is found in her parents’ household until 1880, when she is called a teacher. She is found in the household of her brother Frank in the 1910 and 1920 censuses, in the first of which she is called a teacher in a public school.
5. 3John F. O’Reilly, b. in Nov. 1861 (per 1901 census, agreeing with the age of 9 given for him in the 1870 census but not for that of 11 in the 1865 census) in New York.
6. Luke O’Reilly, Jr., b. 10 Nov. 1862 at Brooklyn,^[31] d. 25 Oct. 1949, aged 87 years,^[32] almost certainly without surviving issue as none is mentioned in his death notice. He is mentioned as “Assemblyman Luke O’Reilly of Brooklyn” in the death notice of his sister Nina, and as “Luke O’Reilly, 87, a Democratic member of the State Assembly from Brooklyn from 1929 to 1934” in his own death notice. He was a member of the New York state assembly from Kings County 8th District, 1930-1934, and an alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention from New York, 1932.^[33] He should not be confused with his kinsman, another Luke O’Reilly, Jr., son of Luke O’Reilly and Anne Gilchrist, who was a school-teacher.^[34] He attended Public School no. 16, Brooklyn, being mentioned amongst its graduates as “Luke O’Reilly, prominent criminal lawyer.”^[35] He was living unmarried with his parents at the taking of the 1880 census, in which he is called a worker in a printing office; however the age of 14 years stated for him is impossible. We have not found him in any census between 1910 and 1930. On 28 Feb. 1921, planning a trip to Cuba, he applied for a passport (from which the photograph appearing here is reproduced), stating that he was born on 10 Nov. 1862 at Brooklyn, and was a lawyer, of 315 West 98th Street.^[36] However, in 1930, on a return trip from England, he gave his address as 244 Carol Street, New York.^[37] He m. (1) 3 Jan. 1899 in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City,^[38] Elizabeth J. Nann, d. 1921, daughter of John Nann and Elizabeth Davis. The record of this marriage names his parents as Luke O’Reilly and Margaret Fitzpatrick. He m. (2) in 1939, Honora Petterson, of Forest Hills. His death notice in the New York Times reads:

   Luke O’Reilly of 296 Sterling Place, Brooklyn, a former Democratic Assemblyman from the Eighth Brooklyn District, who had practiced law for sixty-one years until his retirement in 1944, died yesterday in his Sheepshead Bay cottage at 3082 Emmons Street after a long illness. He was 87 years old.
   
   Born in Brooklyn, a son of Luke O’Reilly, a Williamsburg district leader, Mr. O’Reilly was largely self-taught in preparing himself for his bar examinations, yet he passed with good marks and was admitted to practice in 1883. He acquired a large clientele and appeared as counsel in many criminal trials. For some years he occupied offices in the Temple Court, Building with his brother, the late Magistrate Frank E. O’Reilly.
   
   In 1929 Mr. O’Reilly was elected to the State Assembly on the Democratic ticket, and he was reelected several times, serving until 1934. Known as a caustic speaker, he bade farewell to the lower house of the Legislature in a poem that included the lines:

   “Farewell you ancient hall of laws and bores,
   A long farewell to all your vacant hours.”

   Mr. O’Reilly is survived by his widow, who was Honora Petterson of Forest Hills at their marriage in 1939. His first wife, the former Elizabeth Nann, died in 1921.

7. Arthur O’Reilly, b. around Dec. 1864 (aged ½ year in June 1865) at New York, d. by 1870.
8. Thomas O’Reilly, b. 1866-67 (aged 3 in 1870) in New York State, d. by 1880.

3. John F. O’Reilly, b. in Nov. 1861 (per 1901 census, agreeing with the age of 9 given for him in the 1870 census but not for that of 11 in the 1865 census) in New York, alive in 1900 but evidently d. by 1910, when his daughter Nina was living with his brother Frank. He was living unmarried with his parents at the taking of the 1880 census, in which he is called a worker in a printing office. He m. before 1889, Arabella (“Bill”) Foster,^[39] b. in Nov. 1868 (per 1901 census) in New York State, alive in 1900. He is found in the 1900 census in Ward 23 of Brooklyn, and is called a sargeant with the New York police.^[40] Known issue, all born in New York State:

1. Frank Eugene O’Reilly, b. 12 Jan. 1889,^[41] d. in April 1981, his last address being Jamaica, Queens Co., New York.^[42] He was “at school” in 1900. He is doubtless the Frank E. Oreilly, aged 21 and born in New York, unmarried, a bookkeeper for a coal company, who was a boarder in the home of Nicolas J. Flocken, of Brooklyn Ward 19, Kings County, New York, in 1910.^[43] Franklin Eugene O’Reilly, of 1011 Ocean Avenue, Brooklyn, a bookkeeper for the Scranton Lehigh Coal Company, and single at the time, registered for the draft on 5 June 1917.^[44] We have not found him in the 1920 or 1930 censuses. Franklin Eugene O’Reilly, of 88-42 179th Street, Jamaica, Queens Co., New York, although he was then 53 years old, registered for the draft again in 1942, naming as his emergency contact his sister Mrs. Evelyn Geffken, of 95-10 Flatlands Avenue, Brooklyn, New York; he therefore doubtless had no wife living at the time, though the record failed to ask the question of marital status.^[45]
2. Bessie O’Reilly, b. in April 1890, “at school” in 1900.
3. Margaret O’Reilly, b. in April 1893.
4. Evelyn O’Reilly, b. 9 Nov. 1894 at Brooklyn, d. 12 Oct. 1992 at Birchwood Terrace Healthcare Center, Burlington, Vermont, of “old age,” aged nearly 98 years.^[46] Her death record names her parents as John O’Reilly and Arabella Foster. She m. apparently in 1913-14,^[47] John Henry Louis Geffken, b. about 1896 (aged 23 in 1920, 35 in 1930) in New York State, who predeceased her. At the taking of the 1920 census they were living in Brooklyn Assembly District 2, Kings, New York, in which he is called an hotel-keeper.^[48] They were still in Brooklyn in 1930, at which time he was a book-keeper for a stock-broker, and she the keeper of a candy store.^[49] They were living at 95-10 Flatlands Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, at the time of her brother Frank’s draft registration in 1942. At the time of her death she was a widow, had resided at 43 Starr Farm Road, Burlington, and had been the owner of a restaurant. Known issue:
   1. John Henry Geffken, about b. 1918 (aged 2 in 1920, 11 in 1930) in New York State.
   2. Frank Geffken, b. 1920-21 (aged 9 in 1930) in New York State.
   3. Robert Geffken, b. 1922-23 (aged 7 in 1930) in New York State.
5. Nina O’Reilly, b. in Aug. 1897, living with her uncle, Frank E. O’Reilly, in 1910 and 1920.

Notes

name          gender age  birthplace  occupation
------------------------------------------------
Margaret O'Reilly   F   26   U.S.     teacher
Nina O'Reilly       F   30   U.S.       "

name              age   birthplace   occupation
-----------------------------------------------
Luke O'Reilly        30   Ireland    clerk
Margaret O'Reilly    32   Ireland
Franklin P.* O'Reilly 7   New York
Sarah O'Reilly        5   New York
Eliza J. O'Reilly     4   New York 
Margaret O'Reilly     2   New York
=====
* sic

name           age  relationship  birthplace  occupation
---------------------------------------------------------
Luke O'Reilly        35  [head]   Ireland     liquors &c.
Margaret O'Reilly    38  wife        "
Frnklin O'Reilly     12  child    New York
Eliza Jane O'Reilly   8    "         "
Sara O'Reilly        10    "         "
Margaret O'Reilly     6    "         "
John O'Reilly        11    "         "
Luke O'Reilly    2 6/12    "         "
Arthur O'Reilly    6/12    "         "

name           age  birthplace  occupation
---------------------------------------------------
Luke Reilly*    39   Ireland    clerk, police court
Margaret Reilly 40   Ireland
Franklin Reilly 17   New York   at school
=== (page-break) ===
Eliza Reilly    15   New York   at school
Margaret Reilly 11       "         "
John Reilly      9       "         "
Luke Reilly      7       "         "
Thomas Reilly    3       "         "
Mary Cooney     20   Ireland    domestic
=====
* Value of real estate: $25,000; value of personal estate: $1,000.

name    relationship  cond.  age birthpl. occupation
----------------------------------------------------------------
Luke O'Riley        head  M  48   IRE   county official
Margaret O'Riley    wife  M  50   IRE   keeping house
Franklin E. O'Riley son   S  26   NY    clerk in Store
Eliza J. O'Riley    dau.  S  20   NY    teacher
Margaret A. O'Riley dau.  S  18   NY    teacher
John O'Riley        dau.*    16   NY    works in printing office
Luke O'Riley        son      14   NY    works in printing office
====
For everyone in the household, the fathers' and mothers' birthplaces
are Ireland.
* sic 

name     relationship cond. birthdate age birthpl. father  mother  occupation
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
O'Reilly, Luke*    head W  Oct. 1837  62  Ireland  Ireland Ireland  
                                                          clk surrogate court
    "   , Frank E.  son S March 1856  44  New York Ireland Ireland     lawyer
    "   , Nina     dau. S  Oct. 1873  26  New York Ireland Ireland
                                                               school teacher
    "   , Margaret dau. S  Oct. 1875  24  New York Ireland Ireland
                                                               school teacher
Stryke, Teresa  servant S March 1873  27  New York Germany Germany    servant
Connell, Mary** servant S  Feb. 1875  25  Ireland  Ireland Ireland    servant
=====
 * Year of immigration: 1846
** Year of immigration: 1885
[The birthdates of the daughters as stated here are wildly fictitious]

Address: Hewes Street


name          relationship age cond. self father mother  occupation
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Frank E. O'Reilly    head    50  S  NY  Ire. Ire.  lawyer, city magistrate
Eliza J. O'Reilly    sister  42  S  NY  Ire. Ire.  teacher [at] public school
Margaret A. O'Reilly sister  40  S  NY  Ire. Ire.  teacher [at] public school
Nina M. O'Reilly     niece   12  S  NY  NY   NY   ----
=====
Mother tongue of entire family English

name         relationship  age cond. self father mother  occupation
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Frank O'Reilly      head    62  S    NY    NY     NY    law
Elizabeth O'Reilly  sister  50  S    NY    NY     NY    ----
Margaret O'Reilly   sister  48  S    NY    NY     NY    ----
Nina O'Reilly       niece   14  S    NY    NY     NY    ----
=====
[note obvious error in birthplaces of parents of first 3 persons]

name         relationship  age cond. self    father   mother   occupation
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
Franklin E. O'Reilly  head   76  S  New York  Ireland Ireland  lawyer,
                                                                 criminal
Elizabeth J. O'Reilly sister 72  S  New York  Ireland Ireland  none
Margaret A. O'Reilly  sister 71  S  New York  Ireland Ireland  none

Name      relationship   birthdate age cond. b.p. father mother  occupation
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
John O'Reilly      head  Nov. 1861  38  M   NY   Ire.  Ire.
                                                         Sargt. N.Y. Police  
Bill O'Reilly      wife  Nov. 1868  31  M   NY   Ire.  Ire.            ----
Frank O'Reilly     son   Jan. 1889  11  S   NY   NY    NY         at school
Bessie O'Reilly    dau.  Apr. 1890  10  S   NY   NY    NY         at school
Margarete O'Reilly dau.  Apr. 1893   7  S   NY   NY    NY     
Evelyn O'Reilly    dau.  Nov. 1894   5  S   NY   NY    NY     
Nina O'Reilly      dau.  Aug. 1897   2  S   NY   NY    NY

name         relationship gender age  birthpl. father mother occupation
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Robert Geffken*           head  M 73  Germany   ----  ----  [illegible]
John Henery Louis Geffken  son  M 23  New York  ----  ----  hotel keeper
Evelyn Geffken     dau.-in-law  F 24  New York  N.Y.  N.Y.  ---- 
John Henry Geffken    grandson  F  2  New York  N.Y.  N.Y.  ----
Gussie Geffken        daughter  F 21  New York  Germ. Germ.
                                                artist, pictorial review
-----
* Year of immigration: 1865; year of naturalization: 1869

name   relationship gender age  birthplace father    mother occupation
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Henry Geffken   head  M  35 (1) New York   New York* Germany
                                        book-keeper [for] stock-broker
Evelyn Geffken  wife  F  31 (2) New York   New York  New York
                                                 keeper of candy store
Henry Geffken   son   M  11     New York   New York  New York
Frank Geffken   son   M   9     New York   New York  New York
Robert Geffken  son   M   7     New York   New York  New York
-----
(1) Age at first marriage: 23
(2) Age at first marriage: 19
* Sic; it will be noticed that this is conflict with the entry for his
father in the 1920 census.

From the Genealogy Page of John Blythe Dobson
URL = library.uwinnipeg.ca/people/Dobson/genealogy/ff/FitzPatrick.cfm
This page first appeared 3 April 2010
Revised 15 August 2011