Name: 03238 -- Reardon and O'Connor Families

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Sources
1. Title:   1930 U.S. census, \i Maricopa County Library\i0, Digital images
Page:   T626, roll 1159, Little Neck, enumeration district (ED) 41-919, sheet 12B, p. 24, dwelling 217, family 217, Marion O'Connor, accessed 7 Sep 2009
Author:   New York, Queens
Publication:   www.mcldaz.org: National Archives and Records Administration, 2007
2. Title:   Birth Certificates
Page:   birth certificate 14310 (1920), Marion May O'Connor
Author:   New York Department of Health
3. Title:   Death Certificates
Page:   death certificate 2008-025618 (2008), Marion Mary Reardon
Author:   Arizona Department of Health Services
4. Title:   Marriage Certificate and License.
Page:   Book 167, Page 149, Reardon-O'Connor, 1953
Author:   Arizona. Maricopa County.
5. Title:   Superior Court of Arizona.
Page:   63949, Divorce Decree, 24 April 1981
Author:   Arizona. Maricopa.

Notes
a. Note:   Marion was born at home while living at 753 East 165 Street in the Bronx. Her birth certificate shows her middle name to be May and her mother's first name to be May. Marion has always said that the name was Mary, but May was a nickname. Her birth certificate states that her father's occupation as Starter. Marion states that he worked as a Trolly Car driver at one time. During World War I he was going to be drafted and he went down to volunteer. Her mother would not let him go since William was a baby. Her father then drove a taxi cab during the depression and then started a trucking company named New England and Hartford. Uncle Tom was the secretary to the president of the New England/Hartford Railroad in Boston when her Dad went to him to start a trucking company possibly named the New England and Hartford Trucking Company. Some of there clients included the Barnum and Bailey Circus. Mom went to her first circus in 1938. The railroad possibly was actually named the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
  Marion's baptism certificate shows her mother's name as Mary Cullin (which may have been the correct spelling). Sponsors were Thomas O'Connor and Marion Dowling.
  I remember my grandfather coming to the house we lived in on Picadilly. He was so tall (6'1") that he filled the doorway of the house. He had bright red hair and blue gray eyes.
  My mother said that she spent her first years in the Bronx living in a small apartment, sleeping on a fold out bed. Her sister Charlotte was born around 1924 and died of diptheria. The family moved to (Brooklyn or Queens) and my mother went to a Catholic school. The family lived in areas like New Hyde Park and Floral Park.
  Marion's communion certificate shows she received her Holy Communion sacrament on May 30, 1931 at the Holy Ghost Church from Rev. Francis Videnz. Written on the back is Marion's name and that she was 10 years old.
  By the time my mother was in high school or 18-20 years old, the family was living in Washington Heights on 56 Street. (this is what she told me although by 1930 they are in Queens. Also 56th Street may not be right since Washington Heights is upper Manhattan above 125th Street). On the 1940 census they are living in College Point at 2563 124th Street. They were living at 550 Fort Washington Avenue by 1942 (per Daniel's WWII registration).
  According to the 1940 census, Marion was working in a sweater factory as a finisher.
  Mom told me that she worked for a man from Switzerland who started a barge business in lower Manhattan in the "boot". She worked there after Marie was born and she returned to NY.
  Marion worked for a man Hugh Gillen at Gillen and Gordon Trucking 110 Morton St., New York City. She had a child Marie by him in 1947.
  She remembered Wilhelmina stayed with her family nine months out of the year. Wilhelmina had a canary and an angora cat. Marion said that Julia O'Connor (Shultz) had epilepsy and cancer, and her husband was nasty. She remembers granny having auburn hair, Kathryn blonde, Julia brown, and Tom dark hair.
b. Note:   HI3
Note:   (Research):See attached sources.
c. Note:   MI3
Note:   (Medical):Marion was diagnosed with Altzheimers

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