New York King family

[*Sandra*]

Two ancestry trees show incorrect death information for Anne King Swezey as 2007 - Patchogue, Suffolk, New York when the SSDI shows 6 Feb 1924 - 20 April 2009 - Last Residence:   
10549 Mount Kisco, Westchester, New York.

Anne also appears on FIND A GRAVE - passed away 20 April 2009 - so you cannot totally believe other peoples research when the facts are there to be seen.

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=137642740&ref=acom

The Patchogue Story, by historian Anne Swezey, (2/6/1924 – 4/20/2009) ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patchogue,_New_York

Sandra

[shellyesq]

There is an article in a Patchogue newspaper that mentions Harold D. King of 70 Avery Ave. enlisting in the Army.  http://www.rootschat.com/links/01j8s/   That address matches the WWII draft registration card and the obituary for the elder Harold.   Harold Morgan King's obituary also lists his son as Harold David. 

[Jardiner]

Thanks for the new info. You see Harold M King (Father of Harold (D)) was originally married to Ruth Parsons who died in 1922. He then married Mary circa 1923 and so Harold was born.  Now Mary was approx 28 when she married Harold M. Could she have been married before and hence she is Mary Lewis but was married to  Harris or maybe the other way round?  Certainly the grave stone with her name Mary (Harris) and Harold M tie in with dates I have from previous records. Alas census forms only name her as Mary but it said her mother and father were born in Wales and so from this I picked up a Mary Lewis.( with a large % of info being in her favour). It's these problems that confuse me with accepting Harold D. If only I could see a birth certificate, or such like document for him showing Harold and Mary as the parents. Ah well! back to the drawing board.

MK

[shellyesq]

Unless you want to purchase a birth record for Harold, the Social Security application is as close as you're likely to get currently and that gives his parents' names as Harold M. King and Mary Harris.  I'm still not clear about where the information about Mary's surname being Lewis came from. 

As I mentioned above, the Nassau/Suffolk marriage index at www.italiangen.org has Harold King marrying Mary Harris on 13 Sep. 1922 in Suffolk Co.  I found an obituary for Ruth, which gives her date of death as 25 Feb. 1922, so it seems possible that Harold could have remarried over 6 months after his wife's death.  There is a marriage announcement here - http://www.rootschat.com/links/01j9e/  - that says Harold King, the East Main street awning maker, quietly married Miss Mary Harris, formerly of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, who was working in his shop.  The census records seem to describe your guy as upholsterer or proprietor - upholstery, so that seems to fit an awning maker.

[Jardiner]

Wow! thanks for that. Yes they took a sideways step into awnings.  I must confess I'm not sure where Lewis came from but as from now I'm going with Harris and I'm accepting that Harold is Harold D.

MK

[Jardiner]

moving on from accepting Mary Harris as the wife of Harold M King another problem has arisen for which I need some help. On a local census form it states that Mary's father was born in Wales. With no Christian name and exact location it's nigh on impossible to locate her parents. Even a copy of a birth cert or marriage cert for her and Harold might help. Can anyone out there help?

MK

[*Sandra*]

Details of how to order a marriage certificate -

http://www.nyc.gov/html/records/html/archives/genealogy.shtml

Once you have the marriage certificate, it would hopefully confirm the names of Mary's parents.


Sandra

[shellyesq]

Suffolk Co. is outside of New York City, so the marriage certificate would need to be ordered from New York state.  https://www.health.ny.gov/vital_records/genealogy.htm

[shellyesq]

I wonder if this was Mary in the 1910 census in Wilkes-Barre, which is where the wedding announcement said she was from - https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MG82-QZF  It looks like she had a grandmother with the surname Lewis, so maybe that's where the info came from.

A 1920 PA death certificate for David Joseph Harris shows his parents as Rosser Harris and Ann Lewis.  Rosser's death certificate from 1930 says he was widowed and his wife was Ann Joseph.

This paper has a funeral notice for Mrs. Ann Lewis, mother of Mrs. Rosser Harris - http://www.rootschat.com/links/01jeq/