Person:Peter Gormley (1)

[Broderbund Family Archive #354, Ed. 1, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, Date of Import: Mar 7, 1999, Internal Ref. #1.354.1.35377.8]

Individual: Peter Gormley Place: Philadelphia Year: 1867

Primary Individual: Gormley, Peter

Source Code: 5704.8

Source Name: MITCHELL, BRIAN. Irish Passenger Lists, 1847-1871. Lists of passengers sailing from Londonderry to America on ships of the J. & J. Cooke line and the McCorkell line. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992. 333p.

Source Annotation: Date of departure and intended destination. Place of origin and name of ship are also provided.

Source Page #: 221 [Broderbund Family Archive #354, Ed. 1, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, Date of Import: Mar 7, 1999, Internal Ref. #1.354.1.35377.9]

Individual: Peter Gormley Place: Philadelphia Year: 1872

Primary Individual: Gormley, Peter

Source Code: 9296

Source Name: UNITED STATES, WORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATION. Index to Records of Aliens' Declarations of Intention and/or Oaths of Allegiance, 1789-1880, in United States Circuit Court, United States District Court, Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Quarter Sessions Court, Court of Common Pleas, Philadelphia. Compiled by W.P.A., Project No. 20837. [Harrisburg:] Pennsylvania Historical Commission, [1940]. 25 vols. in 11. Vol. 4. Letter G. 224p.

Source Annotation: Called Section II, Alphabetical Index of Naturalization Records, 1794-1880, Maritime Records, Port of Philadelphia. Entries include names of applicants, countries of former allegiance, courts of record, and declaration dates. Reproduced from typewritten material. Only a few copies exist. Republished in one volume by Gale Research Co. as Philadelphia Naturalization Records, no. 2041.

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Individual: Peter Gormley Place: Philadelphia Year: 1878

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Marriage Index: Indiana, 1851-1900

Crouser, MaudSpouse : Gormley, Peter Marriage date : Jun 20, 1900 County : Grant Gender : Female

Source : County Court Records located at Marion, IN

Alleen says (12/2000) that Peter was a glassblower and may have worked at the Ball Jar factory in Grant Co., Indiana. She wasn't aware that he might have been a fireman in Philly, nor did she know there were other Gormleys in Grant Co at this time.

From Ball Corp. history: "During its 100-plus years of existence, Ball Corporation has grown from a small producer of wooden-jacketed tin cans to an international manufacturing company. Ball is recognized around the world for its high-quality metal and PET plastic food and beverage containers, and for its leading aerospace technology products and services. The five founding Ball brothers started the company in 1880 in Buffalo, New York. Two of the brothers, Frank and Edmund, borrowed $200 from their Uncle George, a minister, to go into business selling wood-jacketed tin containers to hold paint, varnishes and kerosene. They named their business the Wooden Jacket Can Company. Their product was so successful they expanded their line. Soon, the brothers had refined their original product to tin-jacketed, glass-lined containers. In 1884, the renamed Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company began manufacturing yet another new product - the home canning jar, which would one day make Ball a household name. In 1887, the five Ball brothers - Edmund, Frank, George, Lucius and William - moved their business to Muncie, Indiana to take advantage of a natural gas boom in the Midwest. Great quantities of natural gas were necessary to make glass. Ball acquired the first of several small glass companies in 1898, and printed the first Ball Blue Book - featuring home canning recipes and techniques - in 1909."

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