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Re: Finding John and Lizzie Gallagher after arrival in NY in 1910
« Reply #9 on: Thursday 02 May 13 12:03 BST (UK) »
Strangely the birth date on the WW1 Draft is a month earlier  ??? John Gallagher 28 Feb 1884.
He had declared his intention to become a citizen at this date. Bricklayer for Inter State Iron & Steel.
Nearest relative :- Elizabeth Gallagher. John was medium height (5 ft 6 ins) Medium Build, Brown Eyes and Black hair. No Distinguising Marks.

Sept 1918

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Re: Finding John and Lizzie Gallagher after arrival in NY in 1910
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 02 May 13 12:06 BST (UK) »
US Naturalization Index gives the same birth date as the WW1 draft. John Gallagher. Ireland. Feb 28th 1884. Resides 5142 S. Bishop Street. Naturalized Sept 24 1919
Witnesses were David Walker and Betsy Blythe Walker. 5206 S. Bishop Street.
Supreme Court Cook County Illinois.

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Re: Finding John and Lizzie Gallagher after arrival in NY in 1910
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 02 May 13 12:18 BST (UK) »
John was born on 29 March 1884 (I have his birth certificate), but I'm sure this is the right John Gallagher (amongst the thousands of Gallagher men named John). Thank you so much for your sleuthing...and my family will be so pleased to hear about John and Elizabeth's adventures in America - it has been such a mystery! I will look further at his military records on Ancestry.com too, so I can learn where he served. :) Helen
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Re: Finding John and Lizzie Gallagher after arrival in NY in 1910
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 02 May 13 12:24 BST (UK) »
All men of a certain age were required to complete the draft registration cards.  It doesn't mean that they were actually drafted or ever served in the military.

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Re: Finding John and Lizzie Gallagher after arrival in NY in 1910
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 02 May 13 12:26 BST (UK) »
Hi  :)

Just to confirm the age difference for the record!  I started looking at this very early this morning but got side tracked and then had to do an urgent Photoshop project for work.

Anyway, I looked at their marriage cert and found that there was a 5 year age diff. - John was 26 and Elizabeth was 31. See attached.


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Re: Finding John and Lizzie Gallagher after arrival in NY in 1910
« Reply #14 on: Thursday 02 May 13 12:35 BST (UK) »
Thanks Shelley and to everybody else for solving these family mysteries...as they seem to have had no children, I guess there is little chance of finding either of them on any family trees!  I posted originally only a couple of hours ago, and now I have all these answers :) :) Great stuff and thanks once again. Helen
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Re: Finding John and Lizzie Gallagher after arrival in NY in 1910
« Reply #15 on: Tuesday 14 May 13 06:20 BST (UK) »
How would I go about finding dates of death for John and Lizzie? Ancestry.com searches show several possibilities, but the images shown don't have enough detail to be confident that I would be looking at the right ones.  ::) Helen
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Re: Finding John and Lizzie Gallagher after arrival in NY in 1910
« Reply #16 on: Tuesday 14 May 13 08:44 BST (UK) »
Hi Helen,

Shelly said on another thread yesterday that " Ancestry.com is scanning Pennsylvania death certificates and they are due to be online by the end of 2013"

Have you tried reading the thread - Pennsylvania Death Indexes, 1906-1961. Plus  listed in the resources thread.

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,582973.0.html

Death Indexes:-

http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt?open=514&objID=1085804&mode=2

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Re: Finding John and Lizzie Gallagher after arrival in NY in 1910
« Reply #17 on: Tuesday 14 May 13 10:35 BST (UK) »
Thanks Sandra: my couple were last traced to Cook County Illinois (1940 census): is there something similar for that state? ???
Anderson, Wylie,(Glasgow Scotland) Gallagher and Weir, (Co. Donegal, Ireland to Glasgow, possibly also to Canada) McCormack, (Ireland to Scotland),  Leigh, (England to Australia) Thomas (England to New Zealand)  Hatfield and Hoare (England to Australia) Bacon (England to Australia) Parenti (Italy to Australia) da Silva (Azores to New Zealand)
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