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From: "John Steitz" <>
Subject: Re: [ALL] Gordons in 1900 census, Proximity question
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:49:19 -0500
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You are welcome.

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Jeanne Crews <>
wrote:

> Thanks, John, for the help and suggestions!
> Jeanne
>
> John Steitz <> wrote: Hi Jeanne
> I left Pittsburgh a long time ago and there are much better people on this
> list for the geography so I will defer to them while answering what I can.
> My Irish Buckley, 3 houses of them( 2 under married names of McGinty and
> Hess), also were on Forward Ave in 1900. My Irish came from south Wales so
> that is something to consider. The steel/ iron industry is the connection.
> My Irish attended St Stephen in Hazelwood and Calvary is Catholic Cemetery
> and Thursday is the day the research person is there, very helpful.
> Good luck
> John
>
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Jeanne Crews
> wrote:
>
> > Hello, I'm new to this list. My great-grandmother was Anna Gordon, born
> > 1876 in Ireland. She married Frank Burke in Allegheny Co. in 1894 and
> they
> > had three kids. (I assume Frank Burke died because she married my
> > great-grandfather, Charles E. Yorks about 1904.)
> > In the 1900 census,
> > Anna and Frank Burke were living on Forward Avenue.
> > There is a Maria Gordon living with the W J Hammond family on South
> > Negley.
> > Bridget Gordon, age 70, is living on Kansas St. with seven
> grandchildren.
> >
> > This Maria and Bridget were both born in Ireland, too. I know from other
> > sources that Anna did have a sister named Marie and her mother's name
> was
> > Bridget. So I'm trying to figure out if the census records are for them
> > because there are some discrepancies. I don't know a lot about
> Pittsburgh
> > geography, but I looked for those streets on mapquest and they look like
> > they're roughly in the same neighborhood. Can anyone give me some
> insight?
> > Was this an Irish neighborhood? Does it have a name? Are all three of
> these
> > streets really in the same neighborhood? (Or would they have been back
> in
> > 1900?) Is there a Catholic Church there? Is Calvary Cemetery a Catholic
> > cemetery? Are there records for it online?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jeanne
> >
> >
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