I ended my last post by stating the next step would be to
trace the 53 year-old Mary Walsh from the 1900 census backward through city
directories to find the name of her husband (See previous post, Welch 2).
I didn’t have far to travel:
the 1899 Boston city directory listed Mary at 436 W. Second:
“[Walsh], Mary, widow of Edward, h. 436 W. Second” [1]
Now it’s just a matter of tracing Mary back far enough to
find out when Edward died.
Notes:
[1] “U. S.
City Directories, 1821-1989,” Massachusetts, Boston, 1899 database,
Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com :
accessed 26 March 2014), entry for Mary Walsh, p. 1609; citing The Boston Directory, 1899, Sampson,
Murdock, & Co.
