1930 US census of Merchant Seamen in Boston,

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1930 US census of Merchant Seamen in Boston, Thomas Mason who was 57 years old - widowed - Canada-English - NA -
A veteran of WW.   Address 96 Main Street Gloucester Massachusetts.

Can anyone give me more info on this Thomas Mason. Parents, birthdate?
Thanks Branchingout

[*Sandra*]

Background info for the elusive Thomas F Mason -

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=845230.0

Sandra

[oldohiohome]

There is no one named Mason at 96 Main St, Gloucester in 1929 or 1932 directory. no Thomas Mason listed at any address.

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There is no one named Mason at 96 Main St, Gloucester in 1929 or 1932 directory. no Thomas Mason listed at any address.

I’m going to recheck the piece of paper that I found with this information.  Thanks

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There is no one named Mason at 96 Main St, Gloucester in 1929 or 1932 directory. no Thomas Mason listed at any address.

I may have given some misleading information, but here is the document that I was given that I took the info from. Not sure what the document really is.  Would you be able to tell me the last names of the persons living at the address at the time.

[*Sandra*]

That is the 1930 census of Merchant Seamen - SS Transportation -  same as this copy below.
Thomas Mason is the only one living at that address.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9398-C5D1-K?i=339

Sandra

[oldohiohome]

Would you be able to tell me the last names of the persons living at the address at the time.

You would have to browse the images of the enumeration districts for Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts for the 1930 Census. If you have a subscription to ancestry.com, they tell you the boundaries of each E.D., if you can make sense out of them. I didn't take the time to try. I looked at the first page of each E.D. and didn't find any that had a street that looked like it was close to 96 Main St.

Familysearch.org also will let you browse each E.D. by image.

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Sometimes a city directory will have a reverse search by address section that lists the residents, but the 1929 and 1932 Gloucester Directory did not.

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Usually stevemorse.org's Unified Census Finder at https://stevemorse.org/census/unified.html will narrow down the likely E.D. by having you enter streets and house numbers, but not for Gloucester in 1930.

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The document you gave is not the census of Gloucester, but of merchant seamen in the port of Boston on board that particular ship when the census was taken. - as far as I can tell.

[shellyesq]

There's a Sargent family at 96 Main Street in the 1930 census - https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GRHC-SVQ?i=1&cc=1810731&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AXQL1-F22

The census says Rockport, Massachusetts, but they are in the Gloucester city directory too.

Looking at modern day addresses, they have a 96 East Main Street in Gloucester & a 96 Main St. in Rockport.  Not sure if there may be a separate 96 Main St. for Gloucester back then.