Individual Notes

Note for: James Joseph DILLON, 15 JUL 1882 - 1940 Index

Occupation:
     Place:   Ice Delivery Driver

Occupation:
     Date:   12 SEP 1918
     Place:   Truck Driver, Standard Oil Company, Englewood, New Jersey

Immigration:
     Date:   1910
     Place:   England

Residence:
     Date:   1920
     Place:   Brown's Annex, Englewood Ward 3, Bergen, New Jersey

Event:
     Type:   Other-Begin
     Place:   Bergen County

Burial:
     Date:   1940
     Place:   Mount Carmel Cemetery, Tenafly, Bergen, New Jersey

Individual Note:
     James, according to "Arabic" ship records of his crossing to New York on April 23rd 1910, he was of medium height and build with grey eyes and brown hair. His mother and father were living in Creggs, Galway, Ireland and he was traveling to his sisters house Mr & Mrs McIlwain @@ 182 West Street, Englewood, New Jersey. Research leads to the fact that his sister, Beatrice was living in Englewood. He remarks that this is his first visit to the U.S.A. His last residence was in Bolton, England before his voyage.
James was an ICEMAN in the Englewood, NJ area delivering blocks of ice from his truck to the neighbors along with his sons.
James was also a truck driver for The Standard Oil Company in 1918.
Registered on September 12, 1918 for the WW I draft.
James and his wife, Amelia lay at rest in the Mount Carmel Cemetery, Tenafly, New Jersey

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Note for: Friedrich Wilhelm GELENG, 22 MAR 1843 - Index

Christening:
     Date:   29 JUN 1843
     Place:   Sankt Georgen, Berlin Stadt, Brandenburg, Preussen, Germany

Individual Notes

Note for: Dorothy Betsy GELENG, 5 MAY 1918 - 27 SEP 1994 Index

Residence:
     Date:   1920
     Place:   Clarkstown, Rockland, New York

Event:
     Type:   SSN issued
     Place:   New Jersey

Individual Notes

Note for: Margaret Ruth DILLON, 19 AUG 1935 - 18 MAR 1993 Index

Burial:
     Date:   22 MAR 1993
     Place:   Sun City, Arizona

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Note for: John F. DILLON, 1908 - 1974 Index

Residence:
     Date:   1920
     Place:   Englewood Ward 3, Bergen, New Jersey

Burial:
     Date:   1974
     Place:   George Washington Memorial Cemetery, Paramus, New Jersey

Individual Note:
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Note for: Joanna DILLON, 5 DEC 1889 - Index

Alias: /Jane/

Individual Notes

Note for: Michael DILLON, ABT 1853 - 1917 Index

Occupation:
     Date:   1906
     Place:   Bootmaker

Individual Note:
     Multiple interviews with Connie Shaw provide a wealth of information an Michael and his family. Below are some excerps from those interviews:
8-3-2006 Michael Dillon was born in Mount Mary, was a shoemaker/bootmaker in Creggs and had a house right across from what is now the Heritage Center. The ruins were still there when I first visited some years ago, but they removed all traces of it in the '90s. All the children were born there and Michael. They all emigrated and he lived there until his death in about 1917. Aunt Peggy (McGill) is the only one who ever went back to visit. My grandmother, Mary, inherited the house as the oldest child, but they all agreed that Peggy should get it because she was closest to her father. She owned the house for many years and her daughter, Mary discovered when she died that she had lost the house for non-payment of taxes. Mary was crushed because her mother had never told anyone and of course her children would have paid the taxes to keep the house. Did you know that Michael's wife (our great grandmother, Elizabeth) died in childbirth? I asked my grandmother what her father died of, and she told me "stomach trouble" which could have been any of a gazillion different things.

Individual Notes

Note for: Bridget DILLON, 15 DEC 1885 - Index

Residence:
     Date:   1 FEB 1920
     Place:   432 Bown's Annex, Englewood Ward 3, Bergen, New Jersey

Residence:
     Date:   29 APR 1910
     Place:   331 West Street, Englewood Ward 3, Bergen, New Jersey

Individual Note:
     In 1910 John and Amelia came from Ireland to stay with Bridget and her family in Englewood according to ships records.
According to the U.S. Census, in 1920 Bridget had a niece staying with her by the name of Marie Cleary. This must have been her sisters Catherine child.