My great-grandfather and great-grandmother; Thomas John and Mary Margaret"Mame"(Connelly)Haddock.
Thomas was born 28 September,1875 at 1804 Latona Street, Philadelphia. He was christened 16 April, 1876 at the Church of the Mediator (Episcopal), 19th & Lombard Streets.
Mame was born 4 June, 1881 in Philadelphia and christened 5 June, 1881 at the Church of the Gesu, at 18th & Thompson Streets. This is the same church I attended while I was enrolled at Girard College a few blocks away.
Born to Mary Ann Hart and Patrick K. Connelly Mame had four siblings:
Ellen (Nell),born 18 September, 1885 at 2222 Manning Street, Philadelphia - died 2 May, 1956, Married (1st)Charles Christie having three children,Mary, Eleanor and Charles; and (2nd) Charles Jervis having two children, a girl who died young and Charles Jr.
Catherine (Kate), born 3 October, 1887 - died 10 June 1955, married William Meyers on 28 July, 1909 and had four children, 1.William, married Edith Watson/one daughter Patricia; 2.Elizabeth(Sis),married William Feldman and had one daughter Catherine who married James Raively and had James,John,William, Donald, Karen and Gary.3.James(Jimmy)who died as a young man,and4.John(married Rose Rambo and had Kay, James and Kenneth).
John Patrick(Jack), born 20 September, 1889 - died 29 March, 1945, married Lydia Murphy and had 9 children who survived; Lydia,John,William,James,Anna,Albert,Joseph,Catherine and Frank; and four who died very young,Mary Ella,Eleanor,Thomas and Francis.
Elizabeth(Lizzie),born October 1896 - died 24 Febuary, 1956, married James Morris and had two sons, James(Moby) and William who died young.
Bieng raised in a strict Protestant family Thomas caused a rift that would never be mended when he married Mame who was Catholic. They were married in Chester, PA, 16 December 1901, by Richard W. Humphries, Minister of the Gospel. They had three children who survived. Thomas Francis (my grandfather),Anna Rosaria, and Howard Aloysius. The bad feeling was so strong that when Thomas Francis was christened Catholic his two aunts, Jenny and Maggie came to visit one day and on the ploy of taking baby Tom for a stroll actually took him to the local Episcopol church and had him baptized Protestant! The family was living on Green Street in Marcus Hook, PA at the time(a town I would get to know well in my Boilermaker years)and Thomas was working for the Pure Oil Refinery, as a clerk, having graduated Pierce Buisness School in Philadelphia. When he heard of the new Vacuum Oil Refinery in Paulsboro, NJ he took the Camden ferry and walked to Paulsboro to get a job there. He was the Head Storekeeper for years there and managed to get all his in-laws work there too.
He lived on Ferry Avenue with his family for years in a house that was once part of Lincoln Park a local attraction. At the end of his life he moved to a small place at 82 Riverview Avenue where he was cared for by his housekeeper Mrs Agnes Holland. Thomas died 28 October, 1939 of chronic inferstitual nephritis and pneumonia.
Recently found were the death certificates of the other children who were:
John S. P. (possibly Samuel Patrick for both his grandfathers) b. 8 May, 1905 in Phila., Pa. d. 27 March, 1907, in Marcus Hook, Pa. aged 1yr. 10mos. 11 days. The family was living at 7 Eighth Street in Marcus Hook. Cause of death listed as convulsions due to indigestion with a note "w/o medical attendance".
Elmer C. (possibly Charles for his uncle) b. 19 Dec, 1906, d. 20 March, 1907. Cause of death listed as marasmus (or severe malnutrition). The family was at the 7 Eighth Street, Marcus Hook address.
Charles James b. 2 April,1906, d. 25 July, 1908. Cause of death listed as entrocolitis at the 7 Eighth Street address.
William J (probably for his uncle)b. 28 April, 1909 d. 8 August, 1909 from gastroenteritis at Eighth St. 3mos. 11 days.
Myrtle Cecilia b. 9 October, 1910, d. 27 May, 1913 from diphtheria, aged 3yrs, 7mos. The family was living at 124 Green Street in Marcus Hook when she died but no record of her birth place (ie Green St. or Eighth St.)
Catherine b. 15 September, 1914, d. 16 December, 1914, aged 3mos. from malnutrition. Address not apparent.
My grandfather Thomas Francis as a boy in Philadelphia,(probably the 4th of July) and as a teen on the beach of the Delaware river at the foot of Ferry Ave. On the hill behind him is the house (unseen) where he will eventually live with his family.
Anna Rosaria and Howard Aloysious as youngsters. Anna is in front of the "Brick Hotel" a long time landmark "down the river".
Howard Aloysious, "Bud" was born December 12, 1911 in Marcus Hook, PA. The family moved to Paulsboro ca. 1917 and he remained there for the next 87 years. His father worked for the Vacuum Oil Co.(now Mobil Oil) in Paulsboro and Bud followed him into the work place where he put in 46 years of service. He was also a member of the Billingsport Volunteer Fire Association in Paulsboro, NJ for 63 years, where he served in many capacities including, Lieutenant, Captain, Financial Secretary and President. He was also the Fire Marshall for the Borough of Paulsboro for 17 years. He married Dorothy M. Silvey who was born December 17, 1915 to John L. Silvey and Mary E. Calhoun Silvey of Philadelphia, PA. They were married October 21, 1933 in Elkton, MD a notorious destination for elopers. She died February 10, 1980. They had 2 children. Uncle Bud Passed away on January 25, 2005, aged 93 years, at the Shady Lane Nursing Home in Clarksboro, NJ.
Anna Rosaria(Aunt Anna) and Howard Aloysious(Uncle Bud)the two youngest of Thomas' three children, at left ca. 1970 and Bud with his wife Dorothy May (Silvey)in 1967.
Anna Rosaria Haddock was born December 13, 1912 @ 9:15am at 824 Green Street in Marcus Hook, PA. She married Frank (Mickey) McCall on November 11, 1933 (divorced ca. 1954) and they had 2 children. She died May 28, 1989 at her home on Earl St. in Philadelphia, PA.
