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Name: Marguerite McGowan Wilks ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17}
Sex: F
Birth: 7 APR 1893 in Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey, USA ^{1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 13 18 19 20 21}
Death: 10 AUG 1982 in Inverness, Citrus, Florida, USA ^{4 7 18 20}
Burial: Saint Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida, USA. ¹⁹
Baptism: 10 MAY 1893 in Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey, USA.
Residence:
1. 1900 in Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey, USA. ⁶
1. 1905 in Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey, USA. ¹³
1. 1910 in Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey, USA. ¹
1. 1920 in Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey, USA. ⁵
1. 1930 in East Hanover, Morris, New Jersey, USA. ³
1. 1935 in East Hanover, Morris, New Jersey, USA. ⁸
1. 1940 in East Hanover, Morris, New Jersey, USA. ⁸
1. 1950 in East Hanover, Morris, New Jersey, USA.
1. 26 JAN 1964 in Port Richey, Pasco, Florida, USA.
1. ABT 1968 in Pinellas Park, Pinellas, Florida, USA. ¹⁸
Person Id: I6263
Tree Id: 616941

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Parents

Father:

Isaac Wilks: Birth: 29 NOV 1836 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. Death: BEF 1925 in New Jersey, USA

Mother:

Catherine A. McGowan: Birth: 9 AUG 1863 in Belleville, Essex, New Jersey, USA. Death: 17 AUG 1949 in Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey, USA

Family
Marriage:

Married: Philip Henry Lennon on AFT 15 APR 1910 at Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey, USA.^{3 11 14 22}
Philip Henry Lennon: Birth: BEF 22 SEP 1877 in Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey, USA. Death: 5 OCT 1959 in Pinellas Park, Pinellas, Florida, USA

Children:

Philip Walter Lennon: Birth: 12 NOV 1911 in Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey, USA. Death: 4 JAN 2002 in Saint Petersburg, Pinellas, Florida, USA
Mary Catherine Eileen Lennon: Birth: 1 JAN 1913 in Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey, USA. Death: 20 DEC 1988 in Salem, Marion, Oregon, USA
Frances Howe Lennon: Birth: 20 JUN 1915 in Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey, USA. Death: 21 JAN 1994 in Inverness, Citrus, Florida, USA
Marguerite Gertrude Lennon: Birth: 5 JAN 1920 in Bloomfield, Essex, New Jersey, USA. Death: 22 JUL 2007 in Poughkeepsie, Dutchess, New York, USA

Sources

1.	Title: 1910 United States Federal Census Page: Year: 1910; Census Place: Bloomfield Ward 2, Essex, New Jersey; Roll: ; Page: ; Enumeration District: ; Image: . Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;
2.	Title: New Jersey, Births and Christenings Index, 1660-1931 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;
3.	Title: 1930 United States Federal Census Page: Year: 1930; Census Place: East Hanover, Morris, New Jersey; Roll: ; Page: ; Enumeration District: ; Image: . Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2002;
4.	Title: U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 Page: Number: 148-12-0813; Issue State: New Jersey; Issue Date: Before 1951. Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;
5.	Title: 1920 United States Federal Census Page: Year: 1920; Census Place: Bloomfield Ward 2, Essex, New Jersey; Roll: T625_1028; Page: 14B; Enumeration District: 14; Image: . Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;
6.	Title: 1900 United States Federal Census Page: Year: 1900; Census Place: Bloomfield Ward 2, Essex, New Jersey; Roll: T623_969; Page: 8B; Enumeration District: 201. Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;
7.	Title: Florida Death Index, 1877-1998 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2004;
8.	Title: 1940 United States Federal Census Page: Year: 1940; Census Place: East Hanover, Morris, New Jersey; Roll: T627_2371; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 14-34 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;
9.	Title: U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2015;
10.	Title: Newspapers.com - Poughkeepsie Journal - Wed, Jul 25, 2007 - Page 4B Page: Marguerite Gertrude Lennon, death notice, 2007 Wed, Jul 25, 2007 Publication: Name: Poughkeepsie Journal; Location: Poughkeepsie, New York; Date: Wed, Jul 25, 2007;
11.	Title: New Jersey, Marriage Index, 1901-1914 Page: New Jersey State Archive; Trenton, New Jersey; Marriage Indexes; Index Type: Brides; Year Range: 1910-1914; Surname Range: T - Z Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2016;
12.	Title: Oregon, Oregon State Health Division, Department of Human Resources, Vital Records Unit, Certificate of Death
13.	Title: New Jersey, State Census, 1905 Page: New Jersey State Archive; Trenton, NJ, USA; State Census of New Jersey, 1905; Reference Number: L-07; Film Number: 9 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2017;
14.	Title: Wilks Family, The Page: A genealogy of the descendants of Thomas Wilks and Barbara Grey from the back their portrait Author: Lennon, Mary Catherine Eileen Publication: Date: 1957;
15.	Title: Newspapers.com Obituary Index, 1800s-current Page: Tampa Bay Times; Publication Date: 6/ Oct/ 1959; Publication Place: St. Petersburg, Florida, United States of America; URL: https://www.newspapers.com/image/317811273/?article=5ae4eb21-bbc1-43c3-8052-4d208eff676f&focus=0.13373525,0.50678545,0.2476666,0.63250613&xid=2378 Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2019;
16.	Title: Tampa Tribune, The Page: 07 Oct 1959, Wednesday, Main Edition, p. 2 Publication: Location: Tampa, Florida; Date: 7 Oct 1959;
17.	Title: Herald-News, The Publication: Location: Passaic, New Jersey;
18.	Title: St. Petersburg Independent Page: Evening edition, Aug 12, 1982, p. 11-A Publication: Location: St. Petersburg, Florida;
19.	Title: Funeral Card
20.	Title: Social Security Death Index
21.	Title: Catherine Roll Family Bible
22.	Title: 1910 Federal Census Page: Marguerite was single and still living at home in the 1910 census. Publication: Name: The enumeration day was 15 Apr 1910.;

Notes

Note: Marguerite was an avid fan of the demolition derby.
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Source: Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 10th edition.
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Demolition derby: n. (ca. 1953): a contest in which skilled drivers ram old cars into one another until only one car remains running.
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Source: Demolition derby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_derby
Source: William Henry Roll.
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Note: My grandmother Marguerite Wilks Lennon was visiting with my family at 1411 Thomas Avenue, San Diego, CA, about 1955. I asked her if she could jot down some information about what she could remember of her family's genealogy, and she did. The result was a three page essay, titled "The Genealogy of the Lennon Family."
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The Lennon Family
by Marguerite Wilks Lennon
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Edited by Catherine Lennon Roll and William Henry Roll
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Philip J. Lennon and Mary McKenna
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The Lennon family owned a farm near Maynouth, Ireland. They sprang from the ancient MacLennon clan. Philip J. Lennon married Mary McKenna; they had four boys and three girls. I can remember that two of the boys' names were Philip John Lennon and Patrick Lennon.
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Patrick Lennon, Brother Christian
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Patrick, the second son of Philip J. Lennon and Mary McKenna, worked his way through college. He joined the Christian Brothers Order in New York City and took the name Brother Christian. He became president of La Salle College in New York, and later built a college in Hong Kong, and another in Ceylon. He retired in New York City.
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Philip John Lennon and Gertrude Owens
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As was the custom in those days, the family saved to send their first son to study for the Roman Catholic priesthood. Philip John Lennon attended St. Patrick's College in Maynouth, County Kildare and graduated with a Master of Arts degree. He traveled to Canada to study at the Notre Dame seminary at Montreal, Canada.
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After withdrawing from his studies for the priesthood, Philip came to the United States. He taught mathematics, Latin, and Greek at Fordham City College in New York, and Rutgers in New Jersey. He moved to Clifton, Pennsylvania, and founded the Clifton Times newspaper, later called the Clifton Lansdowne Times.
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Philip married Gertrude Owens, the daughter of John and Marion Hughes Owens of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Marion was a Roman Catholic and died giving birth to Gertrude.
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John Owens was a successful Philadelphia lawyer, but was shot to death during anti-Catholic riots in Philadelphia, having been mistakenly identified as a Catholic. John and Marion had three children: John, Henry, and Gertrude.
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John Owens, the first child, also became a Philadelphia lawyer. Henry, the second son, left home in his youth despite his fathers strong opposition, and joined the army during the Civil War. He enrolled on July 16, 1864, as a private in Company D, 195th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers Infantry for one hundred days. He suffered all his life from a wound he received during the war. On November 4, 1864, he mustered out with the company. His age was given as 23 or 25 on the discharge papers. He worked as a cabinet maker. Known to us as Uncle Harry, he died at the age of 75 years at his home in Atlantic City, New Jersey. He was buried at the Catholic cemetery in Pleasantville, Atlantic County, New Jersey.
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Gertrude Owens attended a boarding school for young ladies. While attending, she met Philip John Lennon and married him. Her father did not approve. She became a Catholic. Philip's parents in Ireland sent a goose feather mattress as a wedding present, according to Irish custom.
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Philip and Gertrude Lennon had children. One died young of diphtheria. Other children were John Francis, Minnie, Philip Henry, and Gertrude Cecilia. There may have been other children that died in infancy.
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Minnie Lennon became an actress. She married and had a daughter named Gertrude, who later used the name Rice until she married Hugh Smith of Newark, New Jersey. I do not remember the surname of Gertrude's father. Gertrude and Hugh had a daughter named Ann.
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Later Minnie married Elmo T. Rice, a son of a well-heeled box manufacturer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, who had contracts with the United States government to supply cases for munitions during World War I. Minnie and Elmo had one son, Elmo, known as Jack Rice. Jack lived for a time at Franklin Village in Morristown, New Jersey, where he had an orchestra. Family tradition holds that his wife was a well-known vocalist. Minnie died in Newark, New Jersey.
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Philip closed the Newark office to supervise the Bloomfield plant when his brother left, changing the firm's name to The Lennon Press. Later he moved the family and business to the second floor of a building above a post office and a grocery store on
Mount Pleasant Avenue, Hanover Center (now named East Hanover), New Jersey.
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Gertrude Cecilia , daughter of Philip John and Gertrude Lennon, became a hairdresser, starting her own business in Newark, New Jersey.
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Philip H. Lennon, son of Philip John and Gertrude Lennon, was studying law in Philadelphia at the time of his father's murder, but had to abandon his studies to become a printer. He started a printing business, the Lennon Bros., with his brother John. Their printing plant was in Bloomfield, New Jersey, supervised by John Lennon. Philip H. Lennon had his office in Newark, New Jersey.
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John Lennon soon left the Lennon Bros. printing business to study for the Methodist ministry, and married Martha Dupre. They had three children: John (who also became a Methodist minister), Martha, and William.
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Philip H. Lennon married Marguerite Wilks of Williamson Avenue, Bloomfield, New Jersey, about 1910 at Sacred Heart Church. They had four children: Philip Walter, Mary Catherine. Frances Howe, and Marguerite Gertrude.
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Philip Walter married Eleanor Artho, and had two daughters: Florence married Wayne Crouse. Philip later married Doris Davenport who had one son, Philip Davenport.
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Mary Catherine married David Hedges Roll of 182 Grove Avenue, Verona, New Jersey. David became a Senior Design Engineer at General Dynamics Corporation in San Diego, California. They had three sons: William Henry, David Hedges, and Philip Lennon.
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Frances Howe married Joseph J. Durham of Whippany, New Jersey. They had children: June, Mary Beth, Peter, and Kevin.
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Marguerite Gertrude married John Kostenko of Singac, New Jersey.
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I wish to thank my daughter, Frances Howe Lennon Durham, for her wonderful, patient, and helpful assistance in this effort.

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