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John J. O'Brien
b.Abt 1875 Killernan townland, County Clare, Ireland
d.10 May 1959 Mercy Hospital, Buffalo, Erie Co., NY USA
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m. 28 Jan 1865
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m. 12 Aug 1908
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Built for Cunard Line, British flag, in 1900 and named Ivernia. Liverpool-New York service. Later Liverpool-Boston and Trieste-New York services. Torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine on January 1, 1917 First Name: John Last Name: O'Brien Ethnicity: Irish Last Place of Residence: Foxford Date of Arrival: May 21, 1900 Age at Arrival: 20 Gender: M Marital Status: S Ship of Travel: Ivernia Port of Departure: Queenstown Manifest Line Number: 0013 Destination: . The first census record for John living in Buffalo, is the :1 Jun 1905, New York State Census. He was living at 197 Front Street, Buffalo, Erie County, NY with his brother Stephen O'Brien. He immigration: 23 May 1900, through NYC, NY USA on the SS Ivernia. sailing from Cobh or Queenstown, County Cork, Ireland. On the ships manifest John is listed as having twenty dollars and he was going to stay with his sister Bridget O'Brien in Elmira, NY (Order Admitting to Citizen ship County Court of Erie Co. 7 July 1907). Occupation: Stationary-engineer. On April 7, 1904 John O'Brien solemnly swore that it was his bona fide intention to become a Citizen of the United States of America. John filed his Declaration of Intention with the State of New York, County Court, County of Erie. At this time he was residing at 197 Front Avenue, Buffalo, Erie County, NY. He stated on his petition that he emigrated to this country, and on or about the 23rd of May 1900 at the port of New York. James P. Kane of 234 Trenton Street and John J. Sullivan of 227 Niagara Street submitted affidavits in the matter of John O'Brien to be admitted to become a citizen of the United States of America. Citizenship was granted July 7, 1906 by Hon. Edward K. Emery, County Judge. John lived in Elmira, NY with his sister, Bridget and brother, Stephen before he moved to Buffalo, Erie County, NY. Delia and Stephen had emigrated to the United States five years earlier. The O'Brien's were living in Elmira, NY because the Cahill's, were their cousins living there. There were railroad jobs for John and Stephen and Delia worked as a domestic. The Cahill's were first cousins of theirs on their mother's side. Her sister Mary O'Halloran married Martin Cahill of the same parish. John was only in Elmira a few years before he moved to Buffalo. Buffalo was a big "Clare Town" and there were many families from the parish and towns in West Clare where the O'Briens were from. John's first job was working on the new Bethlehem Steel Plant in Lackawanna, NY. After this and the time of his citizenship he was working as a fireman. There is a story that was told about John's first trip to Buffalo. John was working on the railroad as a fireman. At this time they still used steam locomotives and the engine's boilers had to be feed by shovel. This was John's and a friend of his job. On this particular trip John and his friend were having too much fun and drink and somehow they broke the shovels, lost them, or burned them up and the train came to a halt on the route to Buffalo from Elmira. John and his friend were dismissed on the spot from their duties. John was too embarrassed to return to Elmira so he stay in Buffalo John and Mary Margaret O'Briens wedding picture 1908 Gas Works on Genesee St. He married Mary Margaret Moroney, daughter of Thomas Moroney and Catherine Conole, on 12 Aug 1908, in Blessed Sacrament, Buffalo NY USA. Born, 1 April 1879, in Miltown Malby, Co. Clare EIRE. Died, 23 Dec 1942, in Mercy Hospital, Buffalo NY USA. Christened, 3 April 1879, in Kilfarboy, Co. Clare EIRE. Burial: circa 1942, in Holy Cross GRAVEYARD, Lackawanna NY. Immigration: circa 1900, in NYC, NY USA. Occupation: housewife. Mary Margaret Moroney had a twin sister Bridget; they were the second and third child of 10 children. Their birth was never recorded with the vital statistics office and the information on their birth is from St. Joseph's R. C. church in Miltown Malby. Her father was a farm laborer on her grandparent's, Michael Conole's and Bridget Gorman's farm in Islandbawn, a few miles North East of Miltown Malby. This is how her mother Catherine Conole met her father. Her parents lived in Miltown Malby and her father worked as a laborer and a Jarvey car driver for the West Clare Railroad. Margaret spent most of her youth on the Conole farm with her grandparents. When she was old enough to work she got a position as a domestic servant with the Matthews family. The Matthews were the rent collectors and had a large estate in the townland of Kildimo. Her older brother, Thomas also worked on this farm as a farm hand. He was very capable and had a reputation as the best horse and dog trainer in the parish. Martin Cahill of Kildimo told me everything he knew about farm machinery he learned from Thomas Moroney. Margaret was the first of the Moroney family to emigrate to America. Her uncle Paddy Conole was living in Buffalo, Erie County, NY and she made the trip in 1900. Paddy Conole was here because his mother, Bridget Gorman had family living in Buffalo and Buffalo was a "Boom Town" at the turn of the century. In fact the Pan American Exposition was held here shortly after Margaret arrived. It was a this exposition that President McKinley was assassinated. In Buffalo she worked as a domestic on Buffalo's Delaware Avenue the prominent area with the large homes. As I said Mary Margaret was the first but not the last in her family. Paddy, Elizabeth, Catherine, Michael, Bridget, Anne, and Ellen Moroney followed her to America. John and Molly as most people called her first lived on Elk Street and attended St. Stephens Church also on Elk Street. They were listed in the 1901 Federal Census along with their first daughter, Mary Margaret O'Brien. Before John was married to Molly he was working as a stationary Engineer at the hotel Iroquois in downtown Buffalo, Erie County, NY. Molly didn't like him working there as she considered the clientele at the hotel not the best citizens in the community. One day a cousin of Margaret's through the Gorman side of the family, Paddy Maddigan asked Molly when she and her man were going to get married. Molly told him as soon as he gets a respectful job. Maddigan a Forman at the Atlas Refinery told her to send him down for a job. This Molly did and John went to see paddy Maddigan and John secured a job at the refinery. The wedding date was set but there was a delay. When John received his first pay check he went to Gormans Saloon to celebrate. The drinks were going down good when someone started to play Irish music. John got up to dance a jig when the bar room floor gave way to John's dancing. John's foot crashed through the floor and he broke his foot and ankle. This put John in the hospital for and on his back for awhile. Molly told her son, John S. that it was at this time when She and John became very close to each other and they made all their future plans over the hot homemade soup she would bring to John every evening after work. John signed up for social security sometime after 1937 after only paying into it for a short time. He collected for the next twenty years. He was only retired a few years before Molly died from cancer in December 1942. John and his son lived as bachelors for a few years and John thought about going back to Ireland and living on his American pension but decided he couldn't go back. John was getting use to the comfortable American life with indoor plumbing and central heating. When his son, John S. got married in May 1945, John was 70years old. At this time he decided to give his house to his youngest son Edward and his wife Dorothy and live with them. Not long after this the house was moved for industrial expansion to another location in the neighborhood. Here John had a full basement with central heating. One of the first in the neighborhood. This was John's home for the next few years until another expansion of the company and then the family moved out to a three acre country setting in West Seneca in September 1951. Here John lived there until may of 1959 when he died O'Brien, John memorial card http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=c1876b7a-af36-4784-a686-38e9a263531b&tid=7775997&pid=-1039232713 O'Brien, John young http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=7f552bbb-d752-40e4-adfd-3b4419cca19d&tid=7775997&pid=-1039232713 O'Brien, John young http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=6931a1b1-6bc6-4bad-9b5d-4351a4979982&tid=7775997&pid=-1039232713 O'Brien John Naturalization http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=a8366683-6da9-4729-9eb7-43d5858fa838&tid=7775997&pid=-1039232713 O'Brien RCC !@ Aug 1908 http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=c2b88d94-4071-46a0-a077-4cd91a7903c7&tid=7775997&pid=-1039232713 O'Brien Civil Marriage 12 Aug 1908 http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=9844c72c-c49c-4562-9072-60dc49a643b9&tid=7775997&pid=-1039232713 O'Brien, John and Molly Moroney 1908 http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=ec81eac5-f1c5-4f71-b639-6fc710e1a6ef&tid=7775997&pid=-1039232713 OBrien John Baptism Oct 23, 1875 http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=835177ad-3146-42ff-985b-7a483ba15c11&tid=7775997&pid=-1039232713 O'Brien, John & Cahill, Tom http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=47f6dcd5-910d-442c-9f7c-94a0b1f0fd4d&tid=7775997&pid=-1039232713 O'Brien, John 1875 http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=3ac7b765-46d8-4c48-80d6-a0bfb1ec3fe6&tid=7775997&pid=-1039232713 O'Brien, John wedding http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=195f16a5-0d87-46b4-a12f-b20a3b6cd479&tid=7775997&pid=-1039232713 O'Brien John molly John S http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=aca915d5-f2ab-41ab-bbb0-b2354f11d31d&tid=7775997&pid=-1039232713 O'Brien Greg, Ned, Dorothy, John, Sr http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=ce699322-9d72-4cd1-a633-d04ed549d926&tid=7775997&pid=-1039232713 O'Brien, John and Molly Moroney family1 http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=03b99688-c76b-4258-979b-ec3261155ba8&tid=7775997&pid=-1039232713 O'Brien, John and Molly Moroney family1 http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=9825e801-3a65-4be7-ba99-fa60c18ba49d&tid=7775997&pid=-1039232713 O'Brien, John young http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=image&guid=5722a920-6bbc-47a0-9c00-fd48225bdcff&tid=7775997&pid=-1039232713 References
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