In my last post regarding the Fanning family, we saw their Manhattanville residence in relation to the 1900 census. New York did not have a regular census but they did conduct one in 1905 and it shows Peter & Mary Jane had moved from the Manhattan Street address down to the East Side of the island at 209 East 44 Street near Third Avenue. Peter was 42 years old and was occupied as a "horseshoer". Mary Jane was five years younger and kept house with their three children. James is not listed on the 1905 census and I assume he died as a child. Family lore says there may have been another son, Peter Jr., who died as a baby or was still born.
I have not located any evidence as to when Peter or Mary Jane passed away. They are not found in any other census reports after 1905. Family notes indicate they are buried at Calvary Cemetery in Queeens, NY. Calvary Cemetery is a Catholic cemetery and is a sprawling graveyard that many of us have driven over at some point since the Long Island Expressway and the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway have viaducts that transverse it. Calvary has four sections and the Fanning immigrants are supposed to be buried with their two sons, James and Peter, in the first section at 49-02 Laurel Hill Blvd. Another location I need to visit when I travel to NYC.
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| Calvary Cemetery in Laurel Hill, Queens. |
As I wrote in the last post, their eldest son, Joseph Patrick "Paddy" Fanning, was born in Dublin in 1887. Paddy is listed in the 1905 census living with his parents and was "driver" and I have to assume that he is a horse and wagon driver. Two years later he is married to my great-grandmother, Julia Anna Schalk, on May 22, 1907, in Manhattan. Their first child, Marie, was born in 1908 and son, William, followed the next year. The 1910 census has this family residing at 334 East 90 Street between First and Second Avenue and Paddy's occupation is listed as a driver for a laundry service. I am going to save the rest of this branch of Paddy & Julia's family for another Fanning post.
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| Julia & Paddy Fanning at the beach (not sure who the child is or who was cut out!) |
Peter & Mary Jane's second child was daughter Mary Alice, born August 30, 1889, in Ireland. She came to the States as a child with her family. Mary Alice was married on September 27, 1918 to Erik Adolf Carl in Saranac, NY. I found a passenger manifest for her and Erik when they traveled to Europe in 1924 and when they returned they apparently moved out west to San Diego, CA.
I think this move to San Diego is significant for the Fanning family because it created the connection for a whole other branch of the family that set roots on the west coast. Erik died in 1927, though, and Mary Alice decided to stay. The 1930 census reports that Mary Alice, now 40 years old (although she fibbed on the census trimming four years off her age), was living on Altadena Avenue in San Diego with her niece, Marie Elizabeth. Marie is Paddy's daughter and sets the stage for the Weinbrecht family connection.
I haven't been able to locate her in the 1940 census yet, but by September 1947 she remarried to a fellow named Jack Thompson. As far as I know there were no children from either marriage but in 1960 Jack & Mary Alice were divorced. Mary Alice died on December 16, 1979 in San Diego.
Next post brings us to the Chicago branch of the Fannings.
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