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Note: BY SCHOOLS GROWING UP, ALTHOUGH NO WRITTEN PROOF OF THAT HAS COME FORTH AS OF THIS DATE, JULY 25, 2000. JOHN AND ELLEN BOYLAN WERE MARRIED IN DERBY ON THIS DAY IN 1863. TOM WAS MY GRANDFATHER.
ASIDE FROM HIS BIRTH AND BAPTISMAL RECORD, THE 1870 CENSUS RECORDS THOMAS AS "LIVING AT HOME." HE WAS 7 YEARS OLD WHEN HIS FATHER JOHN DIED ON OCTOBER 11, 1881, WHILE THE FAMILY WAS LIVING AT 17 CAROLINE STREET, IN DERBY.
HE MOVED WITH HIS MOTHER ELLEN AND BROTHER THOMAS TO WALLINGFORD AROUND 1888-1889, AND LIVED WITH THE FAMILY OF RICHARD SHORTELL AT 49 FRANKLIN STREET, WHICH AT THAT TIME WAS KNOWN AS BARTHOWLEMEW ROW. RICHARD SHORTELL HAD MARRIED ELLEN BOYLAN'S SISTER CATHERINE. ALSO LIVING WITH THEM WAS ELLEN AND CATHERINE'S MOTHER, ALSO NAMED CATHERINE, WHOS MAIDEN NAME WAS MCNAMARA.
CATHERINE MCNAMARA WAS BORN IN FEDAMORE PARISH, COUNTY LIMERICK, IRELAND IN OCTOBER, 1811, ACCORDING TO PARISH RECORDS.
THE 1891 WALLINGFORD TOWN DIRECTORY SHOWS TOM WORKING AT A COMPANY IN WALLINGFORD CALLED M S & C COMPANY, WHICH I BELIEVE WAS ON QUNNIPIAC STREET.
MY FATHER JOHN BOYLAN WOULD OFTEN POINT OUT THE BUILDING LOCATED ALONG THE RAILROAD TRACKS JUST WEST OF THE TRAIN STATION. THE BUILDING IS STILL STANDING. IN 1891 ELLEN, PAT, AND TOM MOVED TO THEIR OWN HOME ONE STREET NORTH OF BARTHOWLEMEW ROW CALLED SPRING STREET, WHERE ELLEN HAD A BUILDER NAMED EDGAR LANE CONSTRUCT A TWO STORY HOME, WITH FOUR ROOMS ON THE FIRST LEVEL, FOUR ROOMS ON THE SECOND LEVEL, AND THREE ON THE THIRD.
THIS WAS THE FIRST HOME BUILT ON SPRING STREET, ACCORDING TO SANBORN FIRE INSURANCE MAPS PRODUCED IN THE EARLY 1900S FOR THE TOWN OF WALLINGFORD.
ELLEN BOYLAN HAD PURCHASED THE LAND ON SPRING STREET IN 1872 (ACCORDING TO TOWN RECORDS), FROM JOHN ROACH.
FAMILY STORIES SAY THAT ELLEN BUILT THIS HOME NEAR THE RAILWAY LINE ON COLONY STREET SO THAT SHE COULD TAKE IN BORDERS. THE WALLINGFORD TOWN DIRECTORIES ALL THROUGH THE 1900S SHOW THAT DIFFERENT FAMILIES HAD LIVED AT 33 SPRING STREET (NOW 39 SPRING STREET) ON THE FIRST FLOOR. THE HOME, CURRENTLY OWNED BY DAVID BOYLAN, STILL HAS TENANTS LIVING IN IT AS OF JULY, 2000.
THE TOWN DIRECTORY FOR 1893-1894 SHOWS TOM WORKING AT THE HALL, ELTON & CO. DIRECTORY ENTRIES ALSO SHOW HE WAS WORKING THERE IN 1897.
THE FEDERAL CENSUS FOR 1900 LISTS TOM AS HAVING WORKED AS A PRESSMAN IN A SPOON FACTORY.
THE WALLINGFORD TOWN DIRECTORY FOR 1903-1904 SHOWS TOM WORKING AT A COMPANY CALLED THE S.L. & G. H. R. CO., WHERE HE REMAINED AS FAR AS MY RECORDS SHOW, INTO THE TEENS, BUT PERHAPS BEYOND.
TOM'S MOTHER ELLEN QUINN BOYLAN DIED ON MARCH 3, 1908 AT THE ST. FRANCIS HOSPITAL, HARTFORD. CAUSE OF DEATH WAS CANCER.
THE 1910 CENSUS, COMPILED FOR THE SPRING STREET AREA IN APRIL OF THAT YEAR, SHOWS TOM LISTED AS AN "EXPRESSMAN," WHO OWNED HIS OWN BUSINESS. MY FATHER JOHN BOYLAN WOULD OFTEN RELATE HOW HIS DAD TOM, HAD A HORSE AND TEAM AND WOULD HAUL GOODS FOR PEOPLE.
THOMAS MARRIED MY GRANDMOTHER KATHERINE QUINN AT HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, WALLINGFORD, ON OCTOBER 19, 1910. KATHERINE WAS LIVING ON COLONY STREET WALLINGFORD BEFORE HER MARRIAGE. SHE WAS BORN IN NEW HAVEN, THE DAUGHTER OF PATRICK QUINN, FROM COUNTY ROSCOMMON, IRELAND, AND NELLIE HARRINGTON, FROM LISSYCLEARIG, KENMARE, COUNTY KERRY, IRELAND. THE HOUSE WHERE NELLIE GREW UP IN LISSYCLEARIG IS STILL STANDING. THE THATCHED ROOF WHICH ONCE COVERED IT HAS LONG DISAPPEARED.
THE MARRIAGE WAS PERFORMED BY THE REV. JOHN CARROLL, WHILE THE WITNESSES WERE MY UNCLE PAT BOYLAN AND ELIZABETH BARRY.
THE NOTICE OF THE WEDDING, PRINTED IN THE MERIDEN RECORD FOLLOWING THE WEDDING STATES:
WALLINGFORD, CONN., OCT. 20--A PRETTY OCTOBER CHURCH WEDDING TOOK PLACE YESTERDAY AT THE HOLY TRINITY CHURCH WHEN THOMAS BOYLAN AND MISS KATHERINE QUINN WERE UNITED IN MARRIAGE, REV. J.H. CARROLL OFFICIATING. THE BRIDE WAS GOWNED IN A TAN COLORED SILK AND WORE A WHITE BEAVER HAT WITH YELL
Note: TOM WAS THE 4TH BORN CHILD OF JOHN AND ELLEN BOYLAN. HE WOULD HAVE ATTENDED DER
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