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The Washerwoman’s Genes. July 25, 2007. 8212; by WWG @ 8:19 am. The earth collapsed into a sinkhole in Ossining NY recently, and the reason turned out to be an underground warren of tunnels. So what are they? There are some ad hoc. I would love to see these tunnels. They are now off-limits: on private property, a danger to casual explorers, and the subject of controversy over their fate. The tunnels tell a story about the past. They tell a profound truth: the past is a mystery. The remnants we ha...Hollo...
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Port Ewen in the News: The Brooklyn Perspective | The Washerwoman's Genes
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The Washerwoman’s Genes. September 5, 2007. Port Ewen in the News: The Brooklyn Perspective. 8212; by WWG @ 9:48 am. References to Port Ewen show up in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. From time to time. I checked them in case, admittedly unlikely, a family name might crop up. Fortunately, none does, for the articles about Port Ewen tend to the scandalous or the truly bizarre:. Because of its location on the corner of Rondout and Hudson, many of the Eagle’s. The remaining fellow got himself a pistol from the ta...
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The Doubts | The Washerwoman's Genes
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The Washerwoman’s Genes. March 24, 2010. 8212; by WWG @ 10:24 am. My most recent immigrant ancestors came in the 1880s to New York. They have been harder to track back than any of my other lines, harder than my colonials in Kingston NY or even my 1850s English arrivals, the Davises and Parrys. My most recent immigrants are Irish not my only Irish but folks who came off the boat in 1880-something while their early lives dissolved into mist. Oh, for sure, nineteenth-century Roscommon was full of Dowds, but...
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Strickly | The Washerwoman's Genes
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The Washerwoman’s Genes. Digressing to another branch: My grandfather McM’s mother. Complexities abound. APRIL 9, 2006. This is quite a story to cook up on the basis of one census. Of course, the records for 1890 are missing, so to follow the trail backwards I had to look in 1880. My previous attempts led nowhere, but now I know a few more tricks for panning the census stream. Ay” A previous street named on the page is Spring Ay. Could it stand for Alley? Or does the enumerator just have an odd way of wr...
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Remote Explorations | The Washerwoman's Genes
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The Washerwoman’s Genes. April 26, 2011. 8212; by WWG @ 8:11 am. I recently explored by satellite, street view, and maps Brook Avenue, the Bronx. My mother’s aunt and her family lived in the Bronx from the mid-1890s onward, and in 1910 were ensconced in a rental on this street. Today their address would be across from where the embankment of the Major Degan cuts through, where Brook Ave, the Bronx, essentially begins:. I’ve written of it before, but only obliquely.*. I have always been a train personR...
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Archetypes | The Washerwoman's Genes
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The Washerwoman’s Genes. Visual arts, folklore, children’s stories, opera, . . . she crops up in many places. Who knew? Once, perhaps, she was a stereotype, when everyone needed a washerwoman. Today, the term seems antique, or perhaps primitive, a relic of some other more basic time. My mom referred to her mother as a washerwoman. Jannette listed her occupation as the same in 1880. It’s the word for it. The Irish word, the English word. Laundress. Is Anglo-Saxon. Laundress. Leave a Comment ». Get a free ...
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Reports of Their Deaths Have Been Greatly Exaggerated | The Washerwoman's Genes
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The Washerwoman’s Genes. February 23, 2009. Reports of Their Deaths Have Been Greatly Exaggerated. 8212; by WWG @ 12:40 pm. They’re growing old, you realize, as you track their lives, census after census, and you know that at a certain point you won’t find them any longer. They will have become ancestors. The way of all citizens is to pass out of the census and into the great beyond, right? They pop up again, not dead and gone after all. Alive and kicking, alive and, pretty often, making whoopee. It was ...
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Trains Passing in the Night | The Washerwoman's Genes
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The Washerwoman’s Genes. October 16, 2009. Trains Passing in the Night. 8212; by WWG @ 2:11 pm. In 1976 the records of defunct railroads the Pennsylvania and the companies it had absorbed over the years were held in a series of decrepit warehouses in West Philadelphia, on Merion Avenue, near what are now the Amtrak tracks. Leave a Comment ». Feed for comments on this post. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Cornelius H. Burger.
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Bklyn 101 | The Washerwoman's Genes
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The Washerwoman’s Genes. I can count on my hands the number of times I’ve been to Brooklyn. I’ve been to Junior’s; I’ve visited friends in DUMBO back around the time the acronym was invented. I’ve been to the Brooklyn Museum a couple of times. Brooklyn: to me, a foreign country, just as if my Dad had been born in, say, Togoland or Andalusia. But a trip to the city with my Dad? My Dad’s home may have looked like these on the extant next block of 17th St., facing the Prospect Xwy. Or, more li...To catalog ...
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Cornelius H. Burger | The Washerwoman's Genes
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The Washerwoman’s Genes. Cornelius H. Burger. The census in 1850 gives us more: names and ages of everyone in the household. We learn the names of the three boys born before 1840: Benjamin, b. about 1837, Josiah, b. 1838, and George, b. about 1839. Then more children: Elisha J, b. 1841; Eliza C? B 1844, Jane H? B 1846, Richard. B. 1848, and Rachel S., b. within the year. The census was taken in July, and ages not birth years are reported, so all birth dates could be off by half a year. Received from Warr...
