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A bit more digging on AncestryLibrary.com:

This arrival in New York of a Luke O'Grady on 10 Aug 1888:

"New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1957"

Line: 3
Name: Luke Ogrady
Arrival Date: 10 Aug 1888
Birth Date: 1853
Age: 35
Gender: Male
Port of Departure: Liverpool, England and Queenstown, Ireland
Destination: United States of America
Place of Origin: England
Ethnicity/Race­/Nationality: English
Ship Name: Germanic
Port of Arrival: New York, New York
Number: 1091

Seems to match the naturalised Luke Grady:

"New York, Index to Petitions for Naturalization filed in New York City, 1792-1989"

Name: Luke Grady
Naturalization Date: 20 Jul 1894
Former Nationality: English
Arrival Date: 10 Aug 1888
Title and Location of Court: Common Pleas Court, New York County
Volume: 768
Record Number: 86

But is not a good match for Luke Grady of Wolverhampton (wrong age, wrong occupation).

Paul

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What was Luke's occupation on the birth cert?

"Glass embosser".

Thanks Gobbo - I've dropped you a line. I have the newspaper article of William Harland's death (which you may already have). The newspaper must have confused the Royal Hotel in Redcar with one of the same name down the road in Loftus.

Cheers,

Paul

I'm trying to trace my ancestor Luke O'GRADY. I have done a little bit of work but I'm fairly new to family history research - can anyone suggest any pointers?


My great-grandfather Frank O'Grady (later Frank CORR) b. 1888, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England.

His birth certificate - and later his marriage certificate - both give his father as Luke O'Grady, occupation "glass embosser (journeyman)".

Frank O'Grady's mother was Emily Corr née FARLEY (and later TILBROOK/TILLBROOK) b. 1854 - she is down on his birth certificate as Emily O'Grady, but I suspect this *might* have been a polite fiction for the registrar's benefit - I certainly can't find any marriage between Emily and any O'Grady.

My great-grandfather kept the name O'Grady until adulthood before changing it to Corr. I can't find any definite information about Luke O'Grady before or after my great-grandfather's birth.



Some potential leads all with "Grady" rather than "O'Grady" - nothing to confirm that any of these are the same person:



Luke Grady b. 1867, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, England (GRO 6b 414).

1871 census @ 80 Temple Street, Wolverhampton: Luke Grady, aged 3, son of William GRADEY, aged 40, occupation "shoemaker", b. Ireland.

1881 census @ 80 Temple Street, Wolverhampton: Luke Grady, aged 13, occupation "scholar", son of William O. Grady (poss. O'Grady!), aged 50, occupation: "cordwainer", b. Armagh, Ireland.

I can't find any matching marriage or death entries for this Luke Grady.

William Grady, occupation: "bootmaker" of Temple Street mentioned in a court case involving his daughter in 1880 - "STAFFORDSHIRE ASSIZES - YESTERDAY". Birmingham Daily Post (Birmingham, England), Tuesday, July 20, 1880; Issue 6876; Page 5.

William Grady d. 1884, aged 54, Wolverhampton (GRO 6b 325).

U.S. petition for naturalisation document for a Luke Grady occupation "laborer", former nationality English, at New York Common Pleas Court on July 20, 1894. (Arrived in U.S. August 10, 1888. Address in New York: 419 East 22 St, New York City).

Finally there are two UK birth records for other people called Luke Grady which both seem less likely:

1848 in Holbeach, Lincolnshire (GRO 14 397);
1856 in South Shields, Co. Durham (GRO 10a 438).

...

And that's me exhausted! Does anyone have any leads or can anyone suggest where I go next: particularly on where I might look for evidence whether the Luke GRADY above is my 2-greats-grandfather or not?

Many thanks,

Paul