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Quote from: aghadowey on Sunday 09 March 25 13:59 GMT (UK)

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I am curious as to why he would have a business card registered there. Also the Rhinelander code for the phone number. Perhaps an agency address.

Rhinelander was just the telephone exchange for that address/area.
It would have been quite common for people to commute into the City, My great-grandfather would have commuted 20 miles (by train) into N.Y.C. but later his commute was almost 40 miles away from work.

If you check post #5 and use the link to deliver newspaper hits you can see the range of activity under "Rhinelander 0300" in the mid 20s.

Thanks again - it seems the work ethic of people back in the day was exemplary.

I read it as "accidental illuminating gas poisoning." So the property was gas lit, the flame went out and the gas kept flowing, leading to him being overcome?

Thank you Elmer - I had thought of the word illuminating but did not associate the gas. Hopefully he would have passed in peace.

DC: https://a860-historicalvitalrecords.nyc.gov/view/5845669

Many thanks for this. In John's letter to his father dated 22, January 1927 he reports attending a boxing match at MSG and that the weather was pretty horrendous so I assumed he had died from an infection like pneumonia.

The certificate suggests I was very wrong, though I cannot decipher the handwriting I noted 'gas' and what I am thinking is poisoning. I would be grateful if anyone can shed light.

Hi, I wonder if anyone may be able to shed some light on a business card found in my late grandmother's papers.

It was a business card issued by her brother John Wood b1904 in Sunderand, England, United Kingdom. He migrated to New York in 1925 and became naturalized and a registered US Citizen signing his paperwork 15 December 1926 - sadly he died 25th January 1927 having penned a letter to his father in Sunderland on 22nd January 1927.

John issued a business card which was a simple affair with his name across the front, His address at time of death was 119 40th Street, Corona, Long Island. His body was returned to his hometown where he was interred alongside his mother on 11th February 1927. His corpse was returned on board the vessel Celtic with a pricely sum of £200 paid for by one of his aunts who was a nurse to wealthy clients in NYC.

Can anyone give me any information in relation to the proximity of the address given on the card, image attached, to his home address in Corona.

John's aunts, Sarah Jane Wood and Margaret Wood were regular travellers to NYC as they were nurses to wealthy clients such as Pulitzer and Strauss as well as others. They were recorded as visiting a John Grey reported as a cousin on one of their visits.

A little long in the introduction I am sure.

I have added a photo of John to make it more interesting

I am struggling to find records of my maternal 3rd great grandparents before they are recorded in Sunderland, (North East) England in the 1851 census along with their children: -

Mary Campbell Age 36 Born Monaghan
Andrew Campbell Age 35 Born Monaghan
Owen Campbell Age 13 Born Monaghan
Patrick Campbell Age 11 Born Monaghan
Mary Campbell Age 9 Born Monaghan
Julie Campbell Age 6 Born Monaghan
Cathine Campbell Age 2 Born Sunderland
Ann Campbell Age 6 Mo Born Sunderland

Also, present and marked as Lodgers if it helps: -
Philip Campbell Age 57 Born Kilkenny Dock Labourer
Mary Campbell Age 46 Born Kilkenny
Micheal Campbell Age 17 Born Kilkenny Dock Labourer
Ann Fegham Age 25 Born Louth Paper Worker
Bryan Mahon Age 20 Born Kilkenny Dock Labourer

At the time of the census Andrew, Mary and all the children other than Catherine and Ann were shown as Oakum Teasers so at the very low end of society.

By 1861 the adult males were Mason's Labourers, daughters Mary and Julia were servants and Catherine and two new siblings James 7yrs and Margaret 5yrs were scholars.


The later marriage of Mary (Ann) Campbell, my 2nd great grandmother, took place in a Catholic Church St Mary's in Sunderland. Her husband was Philip Daley (fireman on board a screw steamer at time of marriage) born 1845 in Ireland his father was also Philip Daley.

I can find no records of passage to England and I am hoping someone can assist in tracking their previous movements.

For information my Ancestry DNA shows me 40% Wales, 25% Ireland, 16% England (Inc Flintshire) and 14% Scotland and the remainder Norway - so I am keen on tracking my Irish heritage.

Many thanks in advance - Bryn