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Research in Other Countries => US Lookup Requests => United States of America => US Completed Requests => Topic started by: effrenata on Sunday 10 March 24 09:56 GMT (UK)
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Looking for Hugh H Hannay, a photographer in Brooklyn, New York in the 1870 US census. He appears in Brooklyn directories from 1869-1873 at 333/335 Washington. From abt 1874 his widow Mary is at Boerum Pl near Livingston. I can't find any records for marriage or death either.
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He was still alive in July 1874. He had a summer residence at Bath.
https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/541738105/?terms=hannay&match=1
https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/556669853/?terms=hannay&match=1
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Mention (2 January 1875) of the recent death of H H Hannay:
https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/556678210/?terms=hannay&match=1
Though that must be H H Hannay St Aldenheim, also a photographer of Brooklyn, who had just died aged 39:
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/discoveryui-content/view/80211:8920
https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/541745299/?terms=hannay&match=1
Confusing!
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Are "Hugh H Hannay" and "Hugh Hannay St Aldenheim" one and the same person?
- Hugh H St Aldenheim married Mary J Leonard in Brooklyn, 5 September 1867.
- Mary C Leonard St Aldenheim married William Folsom in Jersey City in October 1877.
- In 1884 Mary C Folsom filed a civil war pension claim as widow of Hugh H Hannay, " Aid De Camp US Vols".
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Re the 1870 census, take a look at Hugh and Mary "Waterbury" in Brooklyn. He's a photographer, aged 34, from Scotland. ("Scotland" ties in with the 1867 marriage record for Hugh H St Aldenheim and Mary Leonard).
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/imageviewer/collections/7163/images/4274988_00479
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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn, New York
Mon, 28 Dec 1874
Page 3
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle/143073890/
Sandra
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- Hugh H St Aldenheim married Mary J Leonard in Brooklyn, 5 September 1867.
The World
Saturday, Sep 07, 1867
New York, NY
Page: 5
MARRIED
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Edit to add-
Marriage Certificate: https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/view/7555184
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Here is Hugh's death certificate.
DC: https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/view/2891620
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333/335 Washington
See page 15 of this 1876 Real Estate Record PDF (page 379 of the original) for an entry for May C St Aldenheim at 335 Washington: https://rerecord.library.columbia.edu/pdf_files/ldpd_7031128_017_21.pdf
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Count St Aldenheim is a fictional character in Klosterheim; or, the Masque by Thomas De Quincey (1832).
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You guys are amazing! Thank you.
I'm not quite sure what to make of this but in 1863 Hugh Hannay, a photographer is in Cincinnati, Ohio. In the 1860 census he's in Covington, Kentucky with his ?brother James Montgomery Hannay but born in Ireland.
1858 Tax Assessment, Yonge St, Eastside, Toronto working for a News Depot
1859 Tax Assessment King St, Toronto with his ?brother who married Lucy McEwen in Toronto.
Hugh probably arrived in New York 1857 on the Kangaroo, also born in Ireland.
In 1866 James Hannay absconded with his 9 yr old daughter and $3000 when sent to New York to buy a printing press. Another daughter was born 1864 in Cincinnati.
http://chattanooga.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?t=33888&i=t&by=1874&bdd=1870&bm=6&bd=7&d=06071874-06071874&fn=the_daily_times_usa_tennessee_chattanooga_18740607_english_3&df=1&dt=4&cid=2679 (http://chattanooga.advantage-preservation.com/viewer/?t=33888&i=t&by=1874&bdd=1870&bm=6&bd=7&d=06071874-06071874&fn=the_daily_times_usa_tennessee_chattanooga_18740607_english_3&df=1&dt=4&cid=2679)
Jumping to conclusions here, but the St Aldenheim is surely fictitious?
The death notice in Brooklyn Daily Eagle does say Ireland and Scotland papers please copy.
The Hannay family were from Belfast, but they did have links to Scotland.
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Re the 1870 census, take a look at Hugh and Mary "Waterbury" in Brooklyn. He's a photographer, aged 34, from Scotland.
Also on that census page is Edward Bedford. In the 1871 Brooklyn directory, Bedford's home address is 4 St Felix, and H H Hannay's home is at 6 St Felix. Further down the census page is Harris McKeever, who lived at 16 St Felix. Similarly Wellington Jarvis (2 pages on) who lived at number 48.
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Jumping to conclusions here, but the St Aldenheim is surely fictitious?
Agreed!
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As if one alias wasn't enough!
I think Hugh could have been in on the theft of the money - the timing is right as he arrives in New York c.1866.
I also found a death notice in the Belfast Weekly Examiner 15 Jan 1875
St. ALDENHEIM—At 51 Johnson Street, New York, H. H. Hanway St. Aldenheim. aged 39 years.
If I can find his war record (or is that a fiction too?) it might confirm the Irish origins but this is looking like my ancestor.
Thanks so much for your help - it's like the shoemaker's elves working while I sleep.
Cathy, New Zealand