April 11, 1927

STATE OF NEW YORK

Department of Health of The City of New York
BUREAU OF RECORDS
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

Register No. 7644
1. Place of Death: Borough of Brooklyn
Name of Institution: Holy Family Hospital
2. Full name: Mary Mulcahy

3. Sex: Female
4. Color or Race: White
5. (Marital Status): Widowed
6. Date of birth: [blank]
7. Age of decedent: 57 years
8. Occupation
a. trade: Housewife
b. industry: [blank]
9. Birthplace: U.S.
9A. How long in US (if of foreign birth): Life
9B. How long resident in City of New York: Life
Parents of Deceased
10. Name of father: Matthew Madigan
11. Birthplace of father: Ireland
12. Maiden name of mother: Margaret Sullivan
13. Birthplace of mother: Ireland

14. Special Information:
Usual Residence: 85 Luqueer St.

15. Date of death: April 11, 1927
16. I hereby certify that the foregoing particulars (Nos. 1 to 15 inclusive) are correct as near as the same can be ascertained, and I further certify that deceased was admitted to this institution on March 8, 1927, that I last saw her alive on the 11^th day of April 1927, that she died on the 11^th day of April 1927 about 11:40 o’clock AM, and that I am unable to state definitively the cause of death; the diagnosis during her last illness was Pyelo nephrosis, duration, 8 mos. Contributory (secondary): Toxemia + Bachyemia, duration 20 ds.

Witness my hand this 11^th day of April 1927

Signature: William Conner, MD
House: Holy Family Hosp.

Filed: April 12, 1927

18. Place of Burial: Holy Cross Cem
Date of Burial: April 14, 1927
22. Undertaker: Jos. P. Clavia
Address: 556 Poust St.

TO UNDERTAKERS

1. No burial permit can be obtained without a proper certificate.
2. Certificates must be written throughout in black ink.
3. No certificate will be accepted which is mutilated, illegible, inaccurate, or any portion of which has been erased, interlined, corrected, or altered, as all such changes impair its value as a public record.

I hereby certify that I have been employed as undertaker by Joseph Mulcahy the son of deceased. This statement is made to obtain a permit for the burial or cremation of the remains of deceased Mary Mulcahy.

Signature: Joseph P. Clavio #1228

[Apr 11 1927
Permission granted to remove
body to home + store.
Otto R. Fozderm, MD]

This is Mary Ann Mulcahy’s death certificate (strangely, I have never come across her name as Mary Ann or Mary A. Mulcahy, except in the family notes. That doesn’t mean, of course, that her name wasn’t Mary Ann, just that she seemingly never mentioned the Ann to anyone creating records of any sort). She died in her 50s – before Nana and Papa met, Betty and John tell me – of kidney problems. (That’s what pyelonephrosis is.) I really have no insight at all into the contributory causes of death, other than that I’m not at all sure I read the handwriting correctly - the second contributory cause may be "Pachyemia," or "thickening of the blood" (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/pachyemia). She was in the hospital just more than a month before she died, and had been suffering from pyelonephrosis for 8 months. Her parents’ names confirm what we already knew. Papa supplied the information for the death certificate.

Here's Mary Ann Madigan Mulcahy's picture again:

Auntie Mae's Baptismal Certificate

[GB 26457]

COPY OF RECORD
IN BAPTISMAL REGISTER OF
VISITATION CHURCH
RICHARDS AND VERONA STREETS, BROOKLYN, N.Y.

NAME Mary, child
OF Patrick Mulvaney AND Julia Toner
BORN Jan. 18, 1897 BAPTIZED Feb 4, 1897
SPONSORS John V. Murphy AND Rose McGuine
DATED 10-8-35

REV. Wm. Galloway

A copy of the record of Auntie Mae’s baptism. I’m not sure whether the sponsors are John V. Murphy and Rose McGuine or John D. Murphy and Rose McGuirre, or some combination thereof, but they both intrigue me. We know that the Mulvaneys had cousins, on Julia’s side, named Murphy, and we know that at one point, a McGuirre/McGuine was boarding with the family and working in the same field as Patrick. I’m not sure what the number in the upper right hand corner refers to, but it might end up being a useful reference or index number if we were at the actual church looking up records. (Which is something I ended up not being able to do this Christmas break because of a bad cold that sidelined me this last week, the week I’d planned on dedicating to wandering Brooklyn doing in-person research. Maybe next time I’m home.) The certificate was requested in 1935. I don't know when Auntie Mae was married. Could it have been 1935? She would have likely needed a record of her baptism for that - but did she marry that late, at 38?

Apologies for the underwhelming formatting on the previous post. I tried to make it look like the actual certificate, with poor results.

Patrick and Julia's Marriage Certificate

Certificate of Marriage
Visitation B.V.M Church
Verona and Richards Streets
Brooklyn, N.Y.

This is to Certify

That Patrick J. Mulvaney
and Julia Toner
were lawfully MARRIED
on the 9 day of April 1893

According to the Rite of the Roman Catholic Church

and in conformity with the laws of the State of New York,
Rev. John J. Loughnan officiating, in the presence of Patrick Harrington and Catherine Higgins, Witnesses, as appears from the Marriage Register of this Church.

Dated Oct. 13-1942
Wm. Galloway ast. Pastor

This is a transcription record of the marriage of Julia Toner and Patrick Mulvaney, April 9, 1893, at the Church of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Julia would have been about 21, I believe (though of course, we’ve found no evidence whatsoever of her actual birth, since her parents’ family disappears off the map in the early 1870s), and Patrick, if memory serves, about 31. This certificate itself was created in the 1940s, and I wonder why, as both Julia and Patrick were deceased at this point. I suppose one of their children needed it for something, but I can’t imagine what would require the marriage certificate of your parents. I have no idea who Patrick Harrington and Catherine Higgins were, but I’d sure like to know. We know, from this and from Auntie Mae’s baptismal certificate, that the Mulvaneys attended Visitation Church at Richards and Verona, and John Griffin has told me that the Mulcahys attended St. Mary Star of the Sea. Those are the first places I want to look when I get some more free time in the tri-state area.

August 26, 1933

Sorry for the long break in posting. I was home and busy with Christmas-y things. Here is Harold Mulvaney's Death Certificate from August, 1933.

STATE OF NEW YORK

Department of Health of the City of New York

BUREAU OF RECORDS

CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

Registered No.: 17288
1. Place of Death: Borough of Brooklyn
No.: Pier 5, Robbins Dry Dock
Character of Premises: East River
2. Full name: Harold Mulvaney

Personal and Statistical Particulars
3. Sex: Male
4. Color or Race: White
5. (Marital Status): Single
6. Date of birth: [blank]
7. Age of decedent: 28 yrs
8. Occupation
a. trade: Machinist’s
b. industry: Rigger
c. No. years so occupied: [blank]
9. Birthplace: United States
9A. How long in US (if of foreign birth): [blank]
9B. How long resident in City of New York: Life,
Parents of Deceased
10. Name of father of decedent: Patrick
11. Birthplace of father: U.S.
12. Maiden name of mother of decedent: Julia Toner
13. Birthplace of mother: U.S.
14. Usual residence: 270 Van Brunt Street

Medical Certificate of Death
15. Date of death: August 28, 1933
16. I hereby certify that the foregoing particulars (Nos. 1 to 15 inclusive) are correct as near as the same can be ascertained, and I further certify that I have this 26 day of August, 1933, taken charge of the body of the deceased found at Morgue, and that I have investigated the essential facts concerning the circumstances of the death.

17. I further certify that I have viewed said body and from autopsy and evidence, that he died on the 26 day of August, 1933, at 12:30AM., and that the chief and determining cause of his death was Drowning. ACCIDENT. And that the contributing causes were [none].

Signature: G. [Mouiluiel]
Assistant Medical Examiner

Approved: Charles Morris, [--]
Chief Medical Examiner

18. Place of Burial: Holy Cross Cemetery
Date of Burial: Aug. 29, 1933
22. Undertaker: Joseph Redmond, Undertaker
John J. Redmond, 2190
Address: 476 73rd St.

MEDICAL EXAMINERS’ RETURNS

The Department of Health may, from time to time, make rules and regulations fixing the time of rendering and defining the form of returns and reports to be made to said department by the office of the chief medical examiner of the City of New York, in all cases of death which shall be investigated by it; and the office of the chief medical examiner is hereby required to conform to such rules and regulations.—Sec. 1203, Chap. 466, Laws of 1901, as amended by Chap. 284, Laws of 1915.

It shall be the duty of the next of kin of any person deceased, and of each person being with such deceased person at his or her death, to file a report in writing with the department of health within five days after such death, stating the age, color, nativity, last occupation and cause of death of such deceased person, and the borough and street, the place of such person’s death and last residence. Physicians who have attended deceased persons in their last illness shall, in the certificate of the decease of such persons, specify, as near as the same can be ascertained, the name and surname, age occupation, term of residence in said city, place of nativity, condition of life; whether single or married, widow or widower, color, last place of residence and the cause of death of such deceased persons, and the medical examiners of the city shall, in their certificates conform to the requirements of this section.—(Sec. 1238, Chap. 466, Laws of 1901, as amended by Chap. 284, Laws of 1915. In effect January 1, 1918.)

Accident, suicide, or homicide? Accident
Date of injury: August 26, 1933
Where did injury occur? Pier 5, Robbins Drydock
Manner of injury? Accidental fall overboard
Nature of injury? Drowning

TO UNDERTAKERS

1. No burial permit can be obtained without a proper certificate.
2. Certificates must be written through in black ink.
3. No certificate will be accepted which is mutilated, illegible, inaccurate, or any portion of which has been erased, interlined, corrected or altered, as all such changes impair its value as a public record.

I hereby certify that I have been employed without any solicitation on my part or that of any other person as undertaker by Julia Mulvaney the mother of deceased. This statement is made to obtain a permit for the burial or cremation of the remains of deceased Harold Mulvaney.

Signature: Joseph Redmond, undertaker
John J. Redmond, 2190