Emigrant to Bronx and WWII Registration Card

[shellyesq]

In the 1920 Census, there is a Darby Mills, age 33, a cousin living with husband and wife Henry & Bridget Broderick.  Ancestry has Darby mis-transcribed as "Darhy".  The address is hard to read - looks like 506 W. 49th Street.  It appears to be a large apartment building. 

Henry immigrated in 1914 and was naturalized in 1918.  He was 26 years old and a laborer at a potato plant.  Bridget immigrated in 1915 and was also naturalized in 1918.  Darby is listed as arriving in 1913 and being an alien.  His occupation looks like fireman in the hotel industry (?). 

[YvonneR]

Wow...brilliant work Shellyesq       

I couldn't find B Broderick at all 

Sooooo on the back of that....found this



Henry Broderick married Bridget Boylan, June 1st 1919 in Manhattan



S.S. New York, sailing from Liverpool, September 16th 1916, arriving New York September 24th 1916

Bridget Boylan, age 22, Servant
Last residence, Gortmellar, Ireland

Father, Michael Boylan, Gortmellar

Going to Sister, Mary Boylan, 316 E 47th Street, New York

Place of birth, Gortmellar, Ireland


Still haven't found Darby or Bridget in 1930 but will continue to look   

Best wishes

Agnes

[Northerngirl]

Hello again.

Thank you to you both.  It's quite incredible how much information is out there.

J.A.

[findwyer]

Hi I dont know if anyone is reading this anymore. I just stumbled across this - I am not related but I have a copy of a picture of Darby Mills belonging to a local historian in Erris.

[Northerngirl]

Hello Windwyer.

Thank you very much for your information.  Apologies for not getting back sooner than this.  I would love to see a photograph of my great uncle.  Thank you once again.

NG.

[findwyer]

This is a picture of Darby Mills posted by the Erris historian Uinsionn Mac Graith. He operated a shop from the back of this donkey.

[ZoeC]

Hello Windwyer.

Thank you very much for your information.  Apologies for not getting back sooner than this.  I would love to see a photograph of my great uncle.  Thank you once again.

NG.

Hi NG,

I think we do need to connect - I have worked through the B Broderick Darby Mills chain.  There were two Darby Mills cousins and I think the one with B Broderick is not the same as the one with the military card but my husband's GF who came back to Ireland in 1922 as he did arrive in 1913.

ZoeC

[Northerngirl]

Hi ZoeC.

The Darby Broderick was perhaps my grandmother's brother - sorry it has been such a long time since I've researched this side of the family.  My great grandfather was Darby Mills who married Margaret Mullarkey.  If the Darby of the Broderick is my great uncle then his father was Anthony and his mother was Margaret Ginnelly. 

I don't know if that helps.  It is lovely to hear from you though.  Please keep in contact.

I have not seen the photograph of Darby and his horse until now so that is fabulous. 

[Northerngirl]

Hi Findwyer.

That is a fabulous image.  Thank you very much for posting it.  Which Darby it is would be interesting to find out.  I wonder if that is actually near Gortmellia.

From both a visit to family in Gortmellia a few year ago and from information given in Father Noone's book the Mills family had a shop in Belmullet which may now be where the Magin shop is.  That Mills was my great grand father's side!!!!!