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From: joe moore <>
Subject: Re: [SO.PHILLY] S.Phiilly Surnames
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2001 11:59:53 -0500
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wrote:

> Hola from SouthWest Texas ! Like Rose and Lani, my ancestors also lived
> (and/or were born/died) in South Philadelphia over 200 years ago.
> My name is John Lewis Read. South Philly was sort of a melting pot back
> then, representing emigrants of many countries, according to my father and
> grandfather. My wife is my researcher who knows more about "my family" and
> it's "roots" than her own. I was born in Philadelphia as were my father,
> grandfather, great-grandfather, and great-great-grandfather. However, we now
> live in Texas. To Judy Jackson Anastasi, is "Howard Hospital" the hospital
> you are trying to locate? I was born there.
> My gr-gr-gr-grandfather, Francis Read, bought a tract of land in 1801 for
> which he built the "Francis Read School". Later on, the name was changed to
> the Old Buck Lane School House. It ran along the old Moyamensing Road which
> adjoined the land of his neighbor, Peter Young.
> To Bob Jenkins, (who mentioned "2nd and Reed St."), I was always told
> that "Reed Street" in South Philly was named after my family although spelled
> differently, however, this may only be "a foolish legend". Trinity
> Evangelical Lutheran Church (and cemetery) on Wolf Street (The "cross
> street", I can't recall at this precise moment) has provided me the history
> of many ancestors, along with the 25th Police Precinct, and memories of Ft.
> Mifflin, the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and the "ferry" from Marcus Street to
> Camden which I remember as a youngster. My father worked in a book bindery
> in the 30s and 40s ~ close to the location of where the Society Hill Sheraton
> Hotel now stands.
> My South Philly surnames are: BETHAM, DUGAN/DUGGAN, GETTZ/GETZ/GOTZ/,
> KLAWANSKY, KANE, METZGER, READ/REED, SCHWARTZ, SIMON, TUSTIN/TUSTEN,
> YOUNG/JUNG, and ZIMMERMAN.
>
> John (and Joanna) Read
> John and Joanna Read
>
> ==============================
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> http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp

The bookbinding company may have been National's - my family worked there in
30's, 40's 50's, etc.

I have a John Reed living with the Cahill's in 1900 at 8th & Bainbridge. I'll
forward that stuff later. I also grew up on 2 St. , etc.
Nice contribution - Thanks,
Joe Moore
2 St.


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