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Mary Lawler
Malone
Emigrated from Ireland ca
1847. Sailing ship took @ six weeks. |
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William Maher
"Great-Great-Grandfather Maher was a blacksmith on the Erie RR which started at Deposit NY. According to Baba's Aunt Maggie (Margaret Meagher), of Conklin Avenue, Binghamton, the family left Waterford, which is next door to Tipperary, the source of the
Meaghers/Maher. She also said he spoke Gaelic" |
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Mary
Cecilia Malone Maher
Mother of
William Francis Maher
From Uncle Peter's Family History (a work in process)
"My father’s mother (1867-1951), born in New Ireland, a settlement in upstate New York, was a beauty when she was young. "
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William
Theodore Maher
Father of William Francis Maher
(1867-1955) |
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William T.
Maher
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Mary
Cecilia Malone Maher |
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 William T. Maher
of Newell & Truesdell, Binghamton, N.Y. stops along his way to
renew old acquaintances
Ford model T panel truck ca 1916,
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 Aunt
Lizzie |
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•William Francis
(L) &
Sister Agnes Maher
circa 1899 |
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The names Nana and Baba came into regular use in our family just after our first born cousin, young Tom Watson, first attempted to say Grandma and Grandpa. Nana and Baba are the affectionate names of our Grandparents Martha and William, at least among most of the Grandchildren.
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Anna Maher. Possibly in the Security Mutual Building |
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Mary Cecilia Malone was Wm F's mother. The one-room schoolhouse she went
to still stood in the days when we went out "to the country' to the
Malone farm in (Stella) New Ireland. We swam in the creek (say CRICK)--
cold and stony bottom, shallow...We played in the hayloft. Swung from
ropes to land in the hay. What perfume - new mown hay... There was an
old horse (named Bill) with a scar the length of his body. Had been
gored by a bull -- and lived to tell about it. Tom picked up ears and/or
tails of slaughtered pigs and sold them at St Pat's for a dime per.Or so
I was told...
Unc pete
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John
M axian (16 Winding Way, Binghamton). Picture from Kathleen's wedding
shower 1950, if memory serves. Husband of Ellen (Nell) Aurelia Linehan
Maxian, Mattie Browne Maher's friend from her arrival in Binghamton.
Father of Joyce and Bill Maxian.
Nellie was always sickly, but lived to over a hundred. Drank green tea,
which Mattie Browne detested, a black tea & milk purist.
John Maxian grew up near Scranton PA, where he learned English from
Irish immigrants. When the mick kids found out he was a "foreigner" they
beat the crap out of him for talking with their accent. Had a sort of
jolly Santa Claus Ho-ho-ho laugh. "Sure, sure" he said in an Irish
brogue.
Maxians were Slovak; the name itself is not Slovak, but from Austrian
Emperor's name Maximilian. The ancestors in Maxian families may have
been workers on the estate of such a bigwig.
"Apple John" {as} he was known to kids in the "orphanages", as he always took
bushels of apples to the kids (and 256-ers and 85 South Washington
street-ers) every fall. He drove a Ford
Model A pick-up truck.
An incessant cigar smoker. John never went to church, which mortified
the church-going majority. How could this be, the nicest man known in
all the neighborhood?
Submitted by J P Maher AKA Uncle Pete |
Do you remember when the dam split behind Cutlers? Sure do remember
getting into some heated arguments with the guys from the north
side............no one would dare to try and swim across to challenge
one another, especially me ( I still swim like a rock).
Joe Husnay |
I knew that they
collected ice at Cutlers but never had never seen it put in the
building, where out front on Front St they either had a machine or you
paid someone to put the block of ice on your "homemade wagon" where it
would slide off and break into small chunks that we gobbled up on the
way home.
Believe it or not I still have the sign that said, 25/50 and on the
other side 50/100 that was posted on the front porch to tell the ice man
how much ice to deliver.
Joe Husnay |
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