My Trails into the Past

I am taking the virtual GRIP class “Marching Toward Change: Reformers, Crises, and Movements that Transformed 19th and 20th Century America,” coordinated by Katherine R. Willson. One session yesterday (Tuesday) was about women’s rights and suffrage taught by Gena Philibert-Ortega. I started thinking if I had checked out that database for my female family members. California gave the vote to women in 1911. My grandmother’s aunt, Mary Martha (Gleeson) Gilbert, was living in California at that time. She was the daughter of John Gleeson and Margaret Tierney, and my great-grandaunt. Warren, Mary, Anna (her sister), Lorene (Anna's daughter), Muriel, John Sullivan (Anna's father) c. 1923 Did she register to vote? Ancestry has a California Voter Registration collection, so let's check it out. I did not find her in 1912, but did in 1914. She and her husband, Warren E. Gilbert, were listed living at 2343 Scarff Street in Los Angeles. He registered as a Democrat and she registe...

The last three 12 for '26 posts have been about John Gleeson, the husband of Margaret Tierney (1835-1920). These next posts will focus on Margaret and her parents John Tierney and Ann Murray. Introduction Margaret was born on 20 April 1835, likely in Goulbourn Township, the daughter of John Tierney and Ann Murray. [1] She was baptized on 18 May 1835 at Notre Dame of Ottawa, with William Hanrahan and Eleonore Murray as sponsors. [2] John Tierney and Ann Murray married on 27 November 1832 also at Notre Dame of Ottawa. They were both of Goulbourn. [3] She was the second child. Her older sister, Elizabeth was baptized on 15 December at Nepean. [4] John and Ann lived in Nepean until their deaths. John died on 14 December 1891. [5] Ann died on 8 October 1899. [6] Census Records John and Ann were enumerated in each of the census records from 1891 down to 1841. I will list them below beginning with the most recent one first. At the end will be a table showing all the census records...

We last left off with the John Gleeson family packing up and moving to Portland, Oregon, from Mitchell, South Dakota, in November 1900. The last news article said they would stop off in Montana to visit some of their children. The following records are from prior research, full-text search at FamilySearch , and newspaper search at Newspapers.com . Portland, Multnomah Co, Oregon Supposedly, some of John’s children already lived in Oregon prior to John and Margaret moving there, however, I did not locate any of the Gleeson children in 1890-1900 city directories. [1] A John Gleeson and Mrs. Gleeson from Oltane, were staying at The Imperial Hotel on 15 January 1901, but Oltane doesn’t seem to exist. [2] However, since they left in late November, it is possible in early January, that they may have stayed at a hotel until locating a place to live. The 1901 Portland city directories listed several Gleasons and one Gleeson, but none of the Gleasons were his family, and the one Gleeson, a...