User:Acurley/Sorting Out the Glancys of Essex County, New Jersey

The Thomas and Margaret (Gallagher) Connolly family emigrated to America aboard the ship "A.Z." out of Liverpool and arrived in New York on 20 January 1851. On the manifest, Thomas's occupation is listed as butcher. His age is given as 40. Besides his wife Mary, age 30, and his children Michael, 16; Thomas, 14; William, 7; Pat, 5; Brid[ge]t, 3, and H.J. [Henry L.], infant, he was accompanied by Fanny Narry, 16, whose occupation is listed as "service", and who would marry the younger Thomas, and Mary Glancey, 35, "to husband".

Living with the Bridget (Connolly) McEnery family of Belleville, Essex County, NJ, at the time of the 1900 Census are Sarah Glancy, widow, born October 1859 in New Jersey, mother of six children, only one of whom was living; and Edward Glancy,born October 1890 in New Jersey. Both are identified as cousins to the head of household.

At the time of the 1905 census, Harry Hoag (b. Oct. 1889), and Edward Lancey (should this be Glancy?) (b. Nov. 1892), both students, were living with the family, as was the widow, Sarah Glancy, (b. New Jersey, April 1860). Harry Hoag, who was still living with the family in 1910, may be the Harry Hoag who was an inmate of St. Mary's Orphan Asylum, Newark, in 1900.

In 1910, 49-year-old Sarah A. Glancy was a housekeeper for Fr. Thomas J. McEnery in Caldwell.

In 1915, Sarah A. Glancy, a widow born in New Jersey in October 1859, and Edward J. Glancy, born in New Jersey December 1893, are living on Hunterdon Street in Newark.

The 1916 Newark Directory list Sarah A. Glancey, widow of Michael, living at 903 Hunterdon, and Edward J., leatherworker, boarding at 903 Hunterdon.

In 1918, Sarah is still at the Hunterdon St. address, but Edward has moved to 124 Seymour Avenue.

In 1850, 32-year-old William Glancy, and his 27-year-old wife Mary, both born in Ireland, were living in Bloomfield, with their children: Michael (7, b. in Ireland), Catherine (2, b. NJ) and William (1/12, b. NJ). Also living with them was Irish-born Francis Glancy, age 18.

Catherine was born 11 August 1848 in Bloomfield.

Is Michael the 27-year-old hat finisher living on Market Street in Newark in 1880?

Is he the Michael Glancy who married Sarah Cullen on 20 February 1881 in Newark?

In 1885, Michael and Sarah Glancy are living in the seventh ward of Newark with sons John (age 5-20) and James (0-5)

Is he the Michael Glancy who died 6 June 1893 at 16 Cabinet St., Newark, who was buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in a plot owned by Sarah Glancy?

In 1852, Francis Glancy, son of William and Mary, b. 3 January in Belleville, was baptized 11 January, presumably at St. Peter's RC Church.

In 1860, 28-year-old Francis Glancy and his 27-year-old wife Sarah (both b. Ireland) were living in Bloomfield with their two children, 2-year-old Mary, and 4-month-old Sarah, both born in NJ.

John Francis Glancy, son of Francis and Sarah, was born 21 December 1861 in Bloomfield.

In 1870, the family was living in Gale, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin. In addition to New Jersey-born Mary, Sarah, and John, the other children were: 6-year-old Wisconsin-born Michael, 4-year-old Wisconsin-born Terence, and 2-year-old Wisconsin-born Thomas W.

In 1880, they were living in Beadle, Dakota Territory, with the addition of Wisconsin-born female A.H.

On 19 December 1880, at Fort Dodge, Webster County, Iowa, 21-year-old Newark-born Sarah Glancy, resident of Galesville, Wisconsin, daughter of Frank Glancy and Sarah McCormick, married 35-year-old Irish-born Edward Agnew, resident of Berlin, Wisconsin, son of Owen Agnew and Ellen Coyle. (Iowa, Marriage Records, 1880-1940 on ancestry.com)