Wilcox maybe married Margaret Harrison b. 1886 Ireland, lived Queens NY
Seeking information on the immigrant to NYC Margaret Harrison who MAY have married Mr. Wilcox and lived in Richmond Hill, Queens County, New York, part of New York City, NYC.Their son may have been a distinguished banker also in NYC.Because she immigrated after age 12 (26?) she retained her Irish accent. I would enjoy learning more about her.Thank you--Polly Lynn
MARGARET HARRISON, DID SHE MARRY A WILCOX?
On 2 April 1886 Margaret Jane Harrison was born to Robert Harrison and Margaret Anne of Tullyrahan, County Monaghan, Ireland.
In 1901 Margaret Jane Harrison was not living with her mother and siblings in Tullyrahan.(Census of Ireland 1901.)About 15, perhaps she was working and living outside the home.
IMMIGRATION TO U.S.
On 2 September 1912 Margaret Jane Harrison immigrated to the United States.(Babs Williamson, ancestry family tree.)She was about 26 years old.
1920
In the 1920 U.S. census, though I found married Margaret Harrisons and a single Margaret Harrison in Massachusetts, I did not find anywhere an unmarried Margaret Harrison born in Ireland in 1886.Perhaps she did not answer her first census or perhaps she had married and changed her last name.
1930
In the 1930 U.S. census, I did not find an unmarried Margaret Harrison born in Ireland in 1886 and single.I did find a Margaret Harrison 45 born in New York with parents born in Ireland.Given that I did not find a Margaret Harrison who exactly matches ours, I suspect she married and changed her last name.
1940
In the 1930 U.S. census, I did not find an unmarried Margaret Harrison born in Ireland in 1886.Perhaps she had married and changed her last name.
In the social security death index and 1940 census, I find but one Margaret __ born 2 April 1886 in Ireland.She is a Margaret from Massachusetts and possibly Chicago.She was born in Ireland.
Margaret Wilcox
born 2 April 1886
died May 1970, last residence was in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts
(Social Security Death Index, accessed 6 August 2012.)
In 1940 there is a Margaret Wilcox born in Ireland who married Edwin of Chicago.Is this ours?It is the best match as far as birth date (eleven were right) and birth in Ireland (among the eleven born on 2 April 1886, only this one was born in Ireland).
Hugh Harrison, who knew Margaret's sisters Sarah Martin Stutt and Martha Lewis of NYC, writes, "Don't recognize those names [Margaret Wilcox, Margaret Frank, and Margaret Siegelman].However, I do remember as a young boy visiting a Wilcox family in Richmond Hill, New York.Richmond Hill is in Queens Co., part of NYC.The elders of the family spoke with the distinct brouge of the Ulster Irish.I beleive they had a son who became a ditinguished banker in NYC.Have to discuss this with my brother [Hugh] h emay have more info."(Hugh Harrison, e-mail, 8 August 2012.)
Is this right that Margaret married a Wilcox?
Polly
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Re: Wilcox maybe married Margaret Harrison b. 1886 Ireland, lived Queens NY
Mabel Harrison-Pigott 9/07/12
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Margaret Harrison married James Cansdale, she dau. of Robert Harrison & Margaret
Pauline Lynn 9/10/12
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Margaret Harrison married James Cansdale, she dau. of Robert Harrison & Margaret
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Re: Wilcox maybe married Margaret Harrison b. 1886 Ireland, lived Queens NY
Pauline Lynn 8/28/12