Seems the Ancient Order of Hibernians has condemned dump

[Historic NY]

10. My mother's family dropped the O and for a time changed the spelling to make it sound Protestant

they lived in NY in a pile of shacks and cottages near 5th Ave. until 1892 then they moved. Majority died of TB .My ggfather end up in NY right in the middle of the Civil War draft riots. I recently found two pictures from the NYPD and the 1890 census showing the the shacks, and an artists drawing .It wasn't easy 8 children died by 1875,
They came from Tipperary too. A great aunt went an rescued my mother when she was 8 and got her out of NY and a cold water flat packed with 12 people.


"Angela's Ashes" by FRank McCourt and his familys experience in the 20s and 30s they ended back up in the Old Sod.