This census reported that Mary Noonan -- in the 1870 household of Jeremiah Noonan -- had been
born in Ireland and was about seven years old (born about 1863) on census day. I searched for her baptism and found a good match
in the Roman
Catholic parish of Lismore:
Name
|
Date of Baptism
|
Parish
|
Address
|
Father
|
Mother
|
Mary
Noonan [2]
|
26 April 1862
|
Lismore
(Roman Catholic)
|
Ballysagartmore
|
Jeremiah
Noonan
|
Ellen
Fox
|
Now I’ll be ordering FHL film 001,972,732 – “Michigan
Deaths, 1921-1952” – to take a look at a copy of the following original document. The corresponding FamilySearch index lists the
death of one Mary Crowley with no image available:
Name
|
Date of Birth
|
Date of Death
|
Death Place
|
Father
|
Mother
|
Mary
Crowley [3]
|
30 April 1863
|
20 June
1930
|
Houghton,
Houghton, Michigan
|
Jeremiah
Noonan
|
Ellen
Fox
|
Crowley is more than likely Mary’s married name, while the
birth date appears to be later than the Lismore baptism. Yet birth information on a death record is
secondary information while the date of baptism is primary information and
likely closer to the truth.
NOTES:
NOTES:
[1] 1870 U. S. census, Houghton County, Michigan,
population schedule, Quincy, p. 9, dwelling 54, family 57, Jeremiah Noonan;
digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 14 September 2013), citing Family History
Library microfilm 552,173; citing National Archives microfilm publication M593,
roll 674.
[2] Irish
Family History Foundation extraction from record held by Waterford Heritage
Genealogy Center, Jenkins Lane.
[3] “Michigan,
Death Certificates, 1921-1952,” index, Houghton County, entry for Mary Crowley,
20 June 1930, FamilySearch
(https:familysearch.org : accessed 8 October 2013).
