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From: "Jan" <>
Subject: Re: [TIGS] Townlands
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:58:33 -0400
References: <8AC9A2B936D5EB48A0A0446786D664CB0E0B0DBC@DCEX1.crowell.com>


In the Troy City Directory it lists my gr. grfa. as a moulder. I have not
been able to identify what iron factory he worked for. Would love to know.
Glad the info was useful.
Jan
----- Original Message -----
From: "OBrien, David" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 4:39 PM
Subject: RE: [TIGS] Townlands


> Thanks very much Jan. That's a big help. They probably did know one
> another. Where did your g grandfather work? My gg grandfather, Michael
> O'Neil, was a teamster with a work address of 547 River Street which I
> gather was the Miller, Hall and Hartwell Company. According to what I've
> read it was the oldest and largest shirt manufacturers in the city. He
> was at 211, 215, 181 and 278 Green during the 1870ies. During the
> 1880ies he was at 24 Rensselaer, 5 Middlebugh and finally 37 North
> Fourth Street. The city directory indicates that he died at 37 N. Fourth
> on March 27, 1887 and I have his death cert for that date. He's buried
> in St. Peter's but the only date of burial for a Michael O'Neil in 1887
> that St. Peter's shows is on May 10. I assume that the ground may have
> been frozen in March and that the burial was delayed til May for that
> reason. Does that make sense? I'll look at Jeanne's alley history.
> Thanks again, David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 3:37 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [TIGS] Townlands
>
> Hi David,
> My Gr. Grfa. John Riley lived on Green St. around the same time, living
> at
> 114 Green St., and also at 116 Earl's St.. They probably knew each
> other!!
> I went looking for it and Green St. doesn't exist any more. It went
> from
> Green St. to Earl's St. around the turn of the century. It is now
> Earl's
> St. Alley. It is located between
> Fifth and Sixth Ave., and runs behind St. Peter's Church. It begins at
>
> Federal St. and runs north to North St..
> When I was trying to locate the actual street I went to the firehouse
> and
> they had never heard of either Green or Earl's St.. I found the
> location on
> the map of the 7th Ward. If you go into Map Quest they have it listed
> under
> Earl's St., but the street sign is Earl's Street Alley.
> I drove up the alley, and no one lives there on the alley any more, you
> could see where there were vacant lots that may have been occupied by
> houses
> at one time. Our Web Master Jeanne O'Keefe has a wonderful account of
> the
> alley's of Troy. It is availabel on the TIGS Site under Local History,
> "Life in the Alleyways of Troy."
> Jan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "OBrien, David" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 2:05 PM
> Subject: RE: [TIGS] Townlands
>
>
>> I've found one of my ancestors, Michael O'Neil, in Troy City
> Directories
>> for the 1870ies and 1880ies. He lived variously at 215, 211 or 95
> Green
>> Street. I don't think there is a Green Street in Troy any longer.
> Does
>> anyone know where Green Street was or the name of the current street
>> that it became? The Directories often have maps at the beginning with
>> street names but I'm trying to avoid a trip back to the library.
>> Thanks, David
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bill [mailto:]
>> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 1:24 PM
>> To:
>> Subject: [TIGS] Townlands
>>
>> Mimi's mention of looking up townlands prompts me to mention the web
>> site seanruad.com which is a townlands database.
>>
>> Bill Delaney
>>
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