Completed:Green Derby Philadelphia

[maryanne]

Has anyone heard of the Green Derby. It may have been nightclub or some such venue in 1941.
My father was taken to the Green Derby in 1941 by his g.cousin Ethel ? (maiden name Beare) when the aircraft carrier he served on in WW2  was in Philadelphia for a refit.

My father died a few years ago.

Ethel had emigrated from Cornwall, England in 1902 and she would have been in her 50's in 1941.
I have a photograph of the family but no names. I know that Ethel divorced her husband Thomas Yelland in 1917 and at that time she was living in Texas. Unfortunately I don’t know what year Ethel went to live in Philadelphia.

I have a lot of information about Ethel until 1917 and after 1917  nothing.

I am hoping that if someone knows where the Green Derby so perhaps then I may have some idea where she lived.

[Genealiza]

I have found the 1910 census for Ethyl and Thomas Yelland and the WWI Draft Card registration for Thomas.  I haven't been able to find anything else.  Maybe someone else will give it a try.

1910    Michigan   Ontonagon   Rockland Township
Series T624    Roll 667    Page 284A    Enumeration Dist 236  Part 2

Yelland, Thomas, head, male, white, 29, M1, 6 yrs, b. Eng, Eng, Eng,
                       immig 1900, PA, spks Eng, miner, copper mine, worker
                       can read, write, wons home free

              Ethyl, wife, female, white, 24, M1, 6 yrs, mother of 2 child-
                       ren, 2 children living, b. Eng, Eng, Eng, spks Eng

              Roy, son, male, white, 5, single, b. Michigan, Eng, Eng,
                       attends school

              Verna, dau, female, white, 1 2/12, single, b. Michigan, Eng,
                       Eng


WWI  Draft Card Registration

Thomas Henry Yelland
37 yrs old b. Feb 23, 1881
naturalized citizen
miner for Phelps-Dodge Corporation
works in Bisbee, Chochise, Arizona
nearest relative: Roy Yelland (age 13) son {this is how it is written
address: General Delivery, Waren, Chochise, Arizona
listed as Tall, Medium build, with brown hair and brown eyes

[Genealiza]

Just found Roy on the SSDI

Roy Yelland
b. 5 Mar 1905   
d. 24 Mar 1988
last residence: Tucson, Pima, Arizona

[Genealiza]

If you go to the <www.msn.com> webpages, click on white pages on the left side of the screen.  Input Yelland and there are two listed in Arizona

[maryanne]

Thank-you for the reply.

I have had the information about Thomas Yelland and family in the past. Roy was the nearest relative on the WW! draft card because Thomas and Ethel were not living together then.

Ethel after 1917 is the brickwall as she disappears after 1917 after the divorce.

All I have is the info about the Green Derby,whatever thatis and a photograph of Ethel with a group of people.

[Pat Reid]

Maryanne:
I think I found your Green Derby. It is in neighbouring New Jersey and not far at all from Philly.
Here is map and you can zoom in for more detail.
http://yp.netscape.com/main.adp?_direxpand=2&_dircat=581301&_dirskip=0&_dirsview=distance&_dis=0&_dlc=500%2b&_dgid=0%2c110621607&_dircid=110621607&_diradid=0&_dgskip=0%2c6&_diraction=map&_dircid=110621607&_diroLat=405004&_diroLong=%2d744013&_dirlat=405186&_dirlong=%2d744125&_dirmapact=zoom&_dircity=Edison&_dirstate=NJ&_dirzip=&_dby=&_dirnamesearch=&_diraddress=&_dirdma=169&_dirpid=&_dirquery=&_dirscale=3#maps

Oops, you might have to cut and paste.
Or try google for green derby edison.

Good luck,
Pat

[liverpool annie]

Try this Pat to shrink your url!

http://www.rootschat.com/links/

Annie 

[liverpool annie]

Hi maryanne !

I was going to suggest the "Brown Derby" - ( there's quite a few of those around - in America and Canada ) - but it looks  like Pat found the right one!!

Annie 

[Pat Reid]

Here we go!

The shrunk url link

http://www.rootschat.com/links/07v/

Pat