Hi Rootschatters,
I just got the death certificates on my great great grandparents and their daughter.
According to the death certificates, Patrick O'Shaughnessy died at home: 62 DeGraw Street, in Brooklyn, Ward 6 on 16th April 1893.
His occupation was cooper yet the directory listed him as an oiler? Umm...
Informant was the doctor.
And his wife Bridget was a Shaughnessy herself?
That is what her certificate says?? Her mother a Moran (not correct spelling here). The doctor probably was misinformed by someone in the family. I think Shaughnessy father was her husband's, not hers.
She died at 194 DeGraw Street...a tenement 6? It seems she had been living in NYC much longer than I thought...her certificate stated that she had been living in NYC for 45 years and in the US for the same length? A bit confusing here...
So, that means they had lived in Brooklyn...could someone kindly help me find Bridget O'Shaughnessy in 1900 Census? Please note that the surname is often badly transcribed.
Their daughter died in Staten Island. I am not sure why she died there when her husband and her family was in Brooklyn according to the 1900 Census?
The parents' names are correct with a slight wrong spelling of her mother's maiden name.
All the certificates are correct because the information matches the cemetery and the burial dates I obtained from the cemetery.
Hard to believe that Patrick O'Shaughnessy was 35 years old at the time of his death when his wife died in 1905 at age of 53 years old. I believe the couple did not know their actual ages.
Now, back to the point, that means the family settled in Manhattan for a brief period and moved to Brooklyn sometimes between 1890 and 1893. And that entry in the directory may be my great great grandfather as he died at the very address.
Then where was my great grandfather? Comes to think of it...it was him who was listed in the directory, not his father! Joseph O'Shaughnessy is my great-grandfather. That means he was in Brooklyn. And what is an oiler?
Then, why did his father's certificate stated that there are only two persons living at the address?
My mind is bogging now.
Hope you can help me sorting this out.
Thank you,
Tees