1930 US Federal Census; Boston, Massachusetts

[shellyesq]

No, you do not have to be naturalized to be in the military. 

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/United_States_Naturalization_and_Citizenship#Military

[oldohiohome]

Is this him boarder Joseph ADLEY age 28 born Ireland
1930 House No. 324
Boston (Districts 251-500), Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQRM-ST4

He was never naturalized. This 1930 Census says "Pa" in Column 23 headed Naturalization. Pa = something like "papers pending". It means he had filed a Declaration of Intention to become a citizen but hadn't yet been naturalized. The Declaration is the document you found from 1926. After that he would have to wait a few years before he could submit his Petition for Naturalization, and if approved then be admitted as a citizen.

[oldohiohome]

As to why he isn't in the city directories from 1923 to 1929, maybe he was overlooked because he was boarding. You don't really know how many boarders they had in that house. I lost count of the number of people my great-grandparents had with them over the years.

In 1930 Barbara Flaherty was renting a single family. Take a look at it on Google Maps, even 2-story and gentrified as it is today, it is huge http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ohs/. I have been in that neighborhood and I would bet anything that ground floor was living quarters in the 1930s and until recently. She had 5 boarders in 1930.

And/or maybe the Flahertys' didn't want the landlord to know who all was in there.

[Deesider]

To Shellyesq and oldohiohome,

Many thanks for your most recent posts I will need to think a few things through before I look further.
Thanks for your help
Regards
Brian Audley

[Deesider]

Hi All,
Please find attached the photo of Joseph Audley is he wearing a US navy uniform?
Please ignore the black box near his right arm. I believe two people took a photograph at the same time and the black box is a photograph of someones mobile phone

Regards
The Wirral Way

[oldohiohome]

My father was in the US Navy from 1943 to 1945 and the hat he wore does not look at all like the hat in the picture. The shirt does. Maybe they changed the design of the hat, I don't know.

[Deesider]

Hi Oldohiohome,

Many thanks for your comment about the US Navy uniform; unfortunately your comments are not conclusive one way or another.

Regards
The Wirral Way