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Note: Married Name:<_MARNM> NEVER MARRIED NO RECORDS HAVE MATERIALIZED IN THE EARLY LIFE OF PATRICK BOYLAN. IT IS ASSUMED HE WENT TO SCHOOL IN DERBY BECAUSE HE COULD READ AND WRITE. IN HIS LIFE TIME HE LIKED TO READ WESTERNS, ACCORDING TO MY FATHER, JOHN PATRICK BOYLAN.
HE MAY HAVE ATTENDED THE IRVING SCHOOL ON ELIZABETH STREET AND ALSO THE BIRMINGHAM HIGH SCHOOL WHICH WAS LOCATED UPSTAIRS.
PATRICK LIVED WITH HIS MOTHER AND FATHER AT 17 CAROLINE STREET IN DERBY. tHE FIRST RECORD I FOUND ABOUT HIM WAS IN THE 1870 CENSUS FOR DERBY, WHICH WAS ALSO CALLED BIRMINGHAM. tHE CENSUS STATES PATRICK WAS SIX YEARS OLD AND "LIVING AT HOME. WHAT IS CURIOUS ABOUT THE CENSUS ENTRY IS THAT THE HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD WAS LISTED AS MICHAEL, NOT JOHN, WHO WAS PAT'S FATHER. THIS MICHAEL MAY HAVE BEEN JOHN BOYLAN'S BROTHER, BUT I HAVE FOUND NO PROOF OF THAT.
THE NEXT RECORD I HAVE IS THE 1880 CENSUS, COMPILED WHEN PAT WAS 16. THE CENSUS STATES HE WAS WORKING AT THE 'BOLT FACTORY' AT THAT TIME.
PAT WOULD HAVE MOVED TO WALLINGFORD CONNECTICUT WITH HIS MOTHER AND BROTHER THOMAS IN THE LATE 1880S. HE LIVED ON BARTHOWLEMEW (NOW CALLED FRANKLIN STREET IN 1889 AND 1890), ACCORDING TO THE WALLINGFORD TOWN DIRECTORY.
HE MOVED INTO A HOUSE ONE STREET NORTH OF BARTHOWLEMEW STREET. THIS HOUSE HAD BEEN BUILT BY EDGAR LANE OF CHERRY STREET AND PAID FOR BY PAT'S MOTHER ELLEN. ELLEN HAD PURCHASED THE LAND FOR THE HOUSE IN 1872 FROM A JOHN ROACH. SUBSEQUENT TOWN DIRECTORY ENTRIES SHOW THAT PAT WORKED AT THE H.L. JUDD COMPANY INTO THE 1900S. ACCORDING TO MY UNCLE JAMES BOYLAN, PATRICK HAD ALSO, SOMETIME IN THE EARLY TO MID 1900S, WORKED IN THE WINCHESTER RIFLE FACTORY IN NEW HAVEN.
THE 1900 CENSUS SHOWED THAT AT THE TIME OF THE ENUMERATION PAT HAD PREVIOUSLY WORKED IN A BRASS FACTORY, BUT HAD BEEN UNEMPLOYED FOR THE PAST TWO MONTHS.
THE 1910 CENSUS, COMPILE IN APRIL OF THAT YEAR SHOWS THAT PAT WORKED IN A "BRASS FACTORY," BUT HAD BEEN UNEMPLOYED DURING 1909.
THE 1920 CENSUS LISTS PAT AS WORKING IN A "RUBBER FACTORY," AND LIVING WITH HIS BROTHER THOMAS, THOMAS' WIFE KATHERINE, AND THEIR THREE CHILDREN, MY FATHER JOHN, UNCLE JAMES, AND AUNT ELLEN BOYLAN. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WILL BE ADDED TO THESE NOTES ABOUT PATRICK AS IT BECOMES AVAILABLE.
PATRICK BOYLAN DIED ON DECEMBER 17, 1951 IN FRONT OF THE HOME OF WALTER STEPANY AT 23 SPRING STREET. HE HAD GONE TO THE STORE TO PURCHASE TOBACCO AND ON HIS WAY HOME HE DROPPED DEAD ON MR STEPANY'S SIDEWALK IN FRONT OF THE DRIVEWAY. HE WAS 87 YEARS OLD. AT THE TIME HE WAS LIVING AT 39 SPRING STREET, WHERE HE HAD RESIDED SINCE 1891.
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