Finally Answering an Early Question and Learning More About the Mannings

One of the first things I discovered while digging in to my family history was that my great-great-grandmother Mary Manning Mullane was the niece of a “J. Manning” based on her death notice in the San Francisco Call. This has been a crazy-making discovery since I had no idea who J. Manning was or whether the person was male or female. The best I could guess was that J. Manning lived in the San Francisco area in 1892 when Mary died, so I would periodically go off on searches through the San Francisco city directories for any Manning with a first name that began with the letter J. I could never find any connection between the random Jameses, Jerimiahs, Johns, and so forth. It was frustrating, but a backburner issue while I went off looking into more promising paths for information.

As I’ve mentioned previously, Newspapers.com has added the complete run of the San Francisco Examiner to its database of newspapers, so I’ve been doing periodic searches on different names and branches of the family. It’s been pretty willy nilly with no real methodology other than generally focusing on more recent latter half of the 20^th century names since it’s one of the few online sources of local newspapers post-1923. When the mood strikes me, however, I go back and search on older records to see if I can fill in any gaps I may have. In that vein, I did a search on Mary Manning Mullane. I wasn’t really expecting to find anything much beyond maybe a society type of article, but discovered another death notice for her. Not a big deal since I have had a copy of the one from the San Francisco Call for eight years, but a useful addition to the collection. Then I read it.

MULLANE, In this city, February ___, Mrs. Mary, beloved wife of the late T.J. Mullane, mother of John, Mary, Joseph, Thomas, Phillip, Patrick, and Edward Mullane, and niece of Julia Manning.

JULIA Manning… Holy cow, now I know who J. Manning is! Off to the city directories! I find a Julia Manning in the 1892 San Francisco city directory living at 7^th Street and Railroad Ave. (There is no longer a Railroad Avenue in San Francisco, so my best guess is she lived somewhere in what is now called India Basin. I need to do some digging to figure out exactly where.) Julia Manning was listed as a music teacher.

Ok, now I know there’s a Julia Manning, so I headed back over to Newspapers.com and another search for obituaries to see if I could learn more. I found an obituary for Julia in an 1898 edition of the San Francisco Examiner.

MANNING – In West Oakland, December 2, Julia Manning, beloved aunt of Elizabeth Quinlivan, a native of Ennis, County Clare, Ireland, aged 80 years.

The funeral will take place to-day (Sunday) at 9 o'clock a.m., from St. Patrick's Church, where a solemn requiem mass will be celebrated for the repose of her soul. Internment, St. Mary's Cemetery, Oakland.

Well, woo hoo! Julia had moved across the bay to Oakland sometime between 1892 and 1898. That made sense since Elizabeth (Lizzie) Quinlivan had been living in Oakland and was quite likely her closest blood relative. The big find here, of course, is that Julia is from Ennis, County Clare, which gives me the most likely location for my Manning ancestors. At the very worst, it’s a place to start looking and wandering out from.

I need to go back and do more digging on Julia to see if I can figure out when she arrived in the United States and if knowing that she was born in about 1818 in County Clare will lead me anywhere. I doubt I’ll be able to find a baptismal record for her as a cursory look at the available records for the parishes that encompass Ennis shows the earliest records start in 1821 and in the most likely parish resource (Drumclift) they don’t start until 1841. However, I may be able to find some associated records like the baptism of my great-great grandmother Mary Manning who was born about 1845 or her cousin Lizzie Quinlivan who was born about 1848. It would be helpful if I knew Mary or Lizzie’s parents’ names, but at the moment I haven’t found them. Still, knowing they are most likely from County Clare is a huge discovery and winnows down where I need to search further. It also leaves just the Kennys as my Irish great-great grandparent immigrant ancestors that have yet to have their county of origin determined. Not too bad.

Another County Cork Connection!

Between the research my uncle has done on the Dwyer/Kenny branch of the family tree and what I've found for the Murray/Coleman side, I've learned that my ancestors come from all over Ireland. We've traced people to Counties Down, Tyrone, Sligo, Roscommon, Galway, Tipperary, and Cork. Even with that, there are still a few branches that we only know were from Ireland. The Kennys on my maternal side are still a bit of a mystery. For my paternal side, it's been the Mannings and Mullanes that have left me wondering where in Ireland they came from.

Recently I discovered that the San Francisco Examiner had been added to Newspapers.com. Even better, it's the ENTIRE run of the Examiner from it's beginnings in 1865 to present day. Accessing archives after 1922 requires a different level of subscription which I only recently obtained as my original subscription level expired in February. Since I hadn't had the chance to look at the Examiner before, I decided even the limited 1865-1922 access would be a useful resource and I started searching on some of my early San Francisco ancestors.

One of the first people I tried searching for was my great great grandfather Timothy John "TJ" Mullane. I knew he died in 1888 as I had found his burial record and a brief notice in the San Francisco Call, but hadn't been able to find out much more than that. Once I ran the search in the Examiner, however, I had a little bit of more information. An obituary (or more properly a death notice) appeared in the December 10th issue which read:

In this city, December 8. Timothy Joseph, beloved husband of Mary Mullane, and father of John and Mary Mullane, a native of County Cork, Ireland, aged 41 years, 3 months, and 19 days.

Friends and acquaintences are respectfully invited to attend the funeral to-day (Monday) at 1 o'clock p.m. from his late residence, 25 Belcher Street, off Fourteenth, between Sanchez and Church. Internment, Holy Cross Cemetery.

I was a little puzzled by his name being listed as Timothy Joseph as his voter registrations had his name as Timothy John and that it only listed two of his seven children, but the date was correct as was his home address. I'm guessing the children who weren't named were left out because they were all under 18 at the time. The part I was most interested in was that he was "a native of County Cork" -- finally a link to a specific area in Ireland! While it doesn't narrow down exactly where in Cork he was from, it is much closer than I was with just Ireland as a place to search. It means he likely emigrated from Cobh (then Queensland) to where ever he entered the United States, so a bit of a narrowing down for his immigration record.

This also makes the sixth great great grandparent I have traced back to County Cork, which definitely explains the heavy presence of connections to Cork in my Ancestry DNA test. It also leaves only two paternal great great grandparents with only a country of origin for a birthplace.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

DNA Update

At the end of 2017, my father asked that I get an Ancestry DNA test for him and since that was something I had been wanting to do myself I also got a test for myself. When the results arrived early last year, they turned out pretty much as expected -- Dad and I are pretty definitively Irish.

The test results were broken down into regions, and my test came back with the following breakdown:

• 83% -- Ireland/Scotland/Wales
• 13% -- Great Britain
• 2% -- Europe South
• 1% -- Europe West
• <1% -- Caucasus
• <1% -- Scandanavia

Recently, Ancestry updated their databases which resulted in revising areas and adjusting the test results accordingly. My new breakdown looks like this:

• 97% -- Ireland and Scotland
• 3% -- England, Wales, and Northwestern Europe

Gone are the trace regions and I'm even more Irish than I "used to" be. Again, none of these results are surprising. The three percent that covers England, Wales, and Northwestern Europe is likely the French and German parts of my ancestry as the regions my ancestors came from are covered in the regional map Ancestry uses. The most interesting breakdown is in the 97% Irish segment. In the original breakdown, it indicated that I had a strong connection to the Munster region of Ireland. Munster is the southern province of Ireland and encompasses County Cork where I know quite a few of my ancestors were born. The new breakdown, is more specific about which areas of Munster I am connected to -- North Munster, North and East Cork, North Cork, North Kerry and North Cork. The "North and East Cork" bit encompasses the area around Kinsale and Ballincollig which is where I know my great grandfather Daniel Coleman and great grandmother Lizzie O'Leary were born. The "North Munster" bit encompasses Tipperary, which is where my great great grandfather James Dwyer was born. The "North Kerry and North Cork" bit is interesting since as of this writing I haven't identified any ancestors from County Kerry. My great great grandmother Margaret McAuliffe was born in County Cork, but I don't know exactly where, so that might be her branch of the tree. It could also be a hint to the Mannings or Mullanes since I haven't determined where in Ireland they came from yet. The Kennys are also a branch that hasn't been narrowed down beyond Ireland, but I've not spent much time on that branch of the tree.

Along with learning about these breakdowns, several of my aunts, uncles, and cousins have taken the Ancestry DNA test as well. It's fun getting notices about a "close relative" match and sending a text or email off to the matching person with a joking "I guess we are family." However, because of this my mother's older brother, who has been researching the Dwyer/Kenny side of the family for the last 25 years, sent a note to those of us who have taken the test explaining who some of the matches are. One match is a descendant of Winifred Gallagher who was the younger sister of my great great grandmother Elizabeth (Bessie) Gallagher. Winifred married a man named Robert Coleman, and when my uncle discovered this he contacted me to see if there might be a connection to my Colemans. The Gallaghers are from County Roscommon, which is in the northwestern part of Ireland -- nowhere near County Cork where my Colemans are from. Still there was an outside chance Robert Coleman was connected to my Coleman ancestors, so with the new information from the DNA tests, I hopped over to my father's test results to see if there was a match to the same person. No such luck, but even a no match is a good result. Now we know my Colemans and Robert Coleman aren't related (though, admittedly, it's still possible there's a much further back connection than the tests can identify at this time.)

Finally, I did check my father's new results to see what change might have popped up for him. Since his initial results showed he was pretty much Irish, I didn't expect to see a whole lot of variation, and I didn't. His original test results came back as:

• 93% -- Ireland and Scotland
• 3% -- England, Wales, and Northwestern Europe
• 1% -- Finland/Northwest Russia
• <1% -- Scandinavia
• <1% -- Middle East

The new results are:

• 98% -- Ireland and Scotland
• 2% -- England, Wales, and Northwestern Europe

So, yep, Dad is still about as Irish as you can get. His Munster province breakdown is similar to mine, only adding "Southwest Munster" which is mostly the southern parts of Counties Cork and Kerry, which gives some hint that there is a possible link to County Kerry in the Manning/Mullane part of our family tree since we know the Murrays are from Galway, the McDonoughs are from Sligo, and the Colemans and O'Learys are from Cork. Perhaps somewhere down the line the DNA test will find a match with one of my Manning/Mullane relatives and we can figure out where everyone came from.

A Little Bit More About Martin Mullane

At the beginning of the year, I decided to tackle the case of Martin Mullane. Martin appears in the 1869 San Francisco city directory living with my great-great grandfather T.J. Mullane. Other than knowing Martin was a tailor and likely T.J.'s older brother, I hadn't been able to find out much more information. I tracked him through the city directories up until 1880 when he disappears. I had to go back and see if I could find Martin in any census records.

The Mullanes have been very hard to locate in the census records, largely due to the misspelling of their last name. After some digging, I was able to find Martin in the 1870 Census listed as Martin Melane. Finally! That record gave me a lot more information. Martin was married to a woman named Mary, which should make things interesting since T.J.'s wife was also named Mary and they named their daughter (my great-grandmother) Mary! Such fun! Martin and Mary have three sons, Peter age 6 who was born in Ohio, Martin age 3 who was born in California, and Christopher age 1 who was also born in California. I will assume both Martin, Jr. and Christopher were born in San Francisco. Those names match up with the names I found in the 1890s voter registrations, so my guess that they were Martin's sons was correct.

There are a number of other families enumerated in the same building, but since the 1870 Census doesn't record street addresses, I don't know if there are several families living together or if they are living in an apartment building of some kind. The really interesting bit I found is a few lines down from Martin and his family there is another Mary Melane, age 23, who is a washerwoman with a son who is about 9 months old named John. I believe this is my great-great grandmother Mary Manning Mullane, but there's no sign of T.J. with them. Well, that makes for yet another Mullane mystery to figure out. Where the heck was T.J. when the 1870 Census was taken?

Finding this record, allowed me to trace Martin's family a bit more, and I located them in the 1880 Census record living on Shipley Street. Mary Mullane is listed as a widow when the census was taken in June 1880, and since I had records for Martin in the 1879 and 1880 San Francisco city directories, I suspected he may have died earlier in the year. The 1880 Census has a mortality record of anyone who had died over the previous year, so I went to see if I could find Martin in those records, and he turns up twice! Martin died in March 1880 of tuberculosis. I still haven't figured out where he was buried and there aren't any San Francisco papers available on line for 1880, so it will require a trip to a library with microfilm to see if I can find a death notice.

Knowing that Martin had died, I turned to see what I could learn about his wife and sons. The records I found for Mary stop in 1883, so that was a bit of a dead end. I was able to track Peter Mullane until 1904 when he died from tetanus. Peter was a woodworker who worked in mills in and around San Francisco. It doesn't appear that he married or had any children. Martin Francis Mullane went on to become a tailor like his father, but I can't find any record of him after 1898. I did find a Martin Mullane in the Calvary records at sfgenealogy.com who died in March 1900 who is about the same age as Martin Francis Mullane, but I couldn't find a death notice in either the San Francisco Call or San Francisco Chronicle that matched up with the date to confirm if it is the same Martin Mullane, so I don't know if it's the one I'm looking for. The youngest son of Martin and Mary Mullane, Christopher J. Mullane, became a peddler and I've been able to track him up to 1913.

So, as always with the Mullanes, there are a bunch of new puzzles and mysteries to work out and people to track down. I still need to find evidence that the elder Martin Mullane is indeed the older brother of my great-great grandfather T.J. as I believe he is. Knowing that his son Peter was born in Ohio gives me another lead to follow, so that will be part of my next steps along the Mullane branch. My preliminary searches thus far haven't turned up any Mullanes in Ohio, but I've not done much more than a cursory search. It also makes me wonder if Martin fought in the US Civil War. My direct ancestors all seem to have been in California for most of the war and I haven't found anyone who fought in the war, but with Martin living in Ohio which was more more located where the war was going on may have enlisted at some point.

The Ever Mysterious Mullanes -- Who is Martin Mullane?

One of the many on-going mysteries on the Mullane side of my family tree, is the curious case of Martin Mullane. In the 1869 San Francisco city directory, Martin is living with my great-great grandfather Timothy J. (T.J.) Mullane on O'Farrell Street. It's the only occasion where Martin and T.J. appear at the same residence, but I believe they are related somehow; quite possibly brothers. (T.J.'s oldest son is named John Martin Mullane which lends support to this theory.)

In the 1869 directory Martin's occupation is listed as a tailor, so I decided to go back through the San Francisco directories looking for a tailor named Martin Mullane. This was a little more challenging than I anticipated as I found listings for Martin Mullane, Martin Mullan, Martin Mulane, Martin Mulaine, Martin Mullene, Martin Mulan, and the misspelled Martin Mullena! Fortunately, I seldom found two possible names for the same person, and when I did the addresses were identical. The earliest listing I could find for Martin was in 1867, which is four years after T.J. shows up in the San Francisco directories. Besides the city directories, I was able to find a few voter registrations for Martin (as Martin Mullan) which gave me his approximate age. According to those records, Martin was born in about 1834, which would make him about 13 years older than T.J. It also lets me know he was naturalized in San Francisco on August 2, 1869.

I was able to track Martin Mullane through the city directories up until 1880 when he disappears. In 1885 a Martin Mullane, butcher, appears living on Tehama. There is also a Peter Mullane at the same address working as a machine hand. Going from a tailor to a butcher seems like a pretty drastic career change (especially considering the five year gap between entries), but could perhaps this be the son(s) of the Martin Mullane I've been tracking? Hard to say as they disappear in subsequent directories. A Martin F. Mullane, tailor, shows up in 1891, but we're now 11 years from the Martin Mullane, tailor, that I've been looking for so I doubt it's the same person. When I find a Martin F. Mullane in the 1890 California Voter Register who is living at the same address as in 1891 and is also listed as a tailor, I discover this Martin Mullane was born in California in about 1868. So again, if he's related, Martin F. Mullane is most likely the son of the Martin Mullane I'm tracking.

With the lack of information on Martin after 1880, I am guessing he died some time around then. The particularly frustrating thing, is I'm unable to find any Mullanes in the 1870 census. I know both T.J. and Martin are in San Francisco in 1870, but I'm not completely certain where they were living. They could be at the address on O'Farrell, or they could be living elsewhere, and since the 1869 San Francisco city directory also covers 1870, the next address I have for either is in 1871. Going on to the 1880 census is also problematic. It took me a long time to find T.J. and his family in 1880 since their last name was recorded as McLay. If Martin died before June 1880, he may not be in the census at all, and, as evidenced in my search for T.J., the last name Mullane doesn't readily pop up in the 1880 Census either. As I have no certainty that Martin Mullane was married, I can't even search for his family. (I did go back and look at the record for Martin F. Mullane from the 1891 voter register and I noticed there is also a Peter J. Mullane living at the same address. He's a few years older and was born in Ohio, so if these are the sons of the Martin Mullane I'm tracking I have a few other leads to follow up.)

I'm not even sure if Martin Mullane died in 1880 as I've found no evidence of his death as yet. He doesn't appear in the records for Holy Cross and Calvary at sfgenealogy.com and I haven't found a death notice in the paper (though those don't always turn up on a search and require a more manual review.) I'm fairly confident Martin and T.J. are related, but beyond that it's a mystery. More research needed.

More Mullane mysteries ahead as I also try to figure out if/how a Michael Mullane, tailor, fits into the puzzle.

Another Holy Cross Visit -- November 2015

It's fairly time consuming to head up to Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma to try to track down where all the many relatives I have buried there are located.  It helps tremendously that I have a list of locations from the Cemetery Index at SFGenealogy.com so have a list of where I need to go and which family members are buried near each other.  I always make a plan ahead of time as to which sections I'm going to visit and who I'm going to look for.  I had some time off last November, so I planned to spend a morning at Holy Cross.

For this visit, I planned to hit Sections J, K, and M which are more or less in the center of the cemetery.  I parked my car near the Priests Plot and paid a quick visit to Uncle Eddie and waved at Joe DiMaggio's grave in Section I before trekking through Section J looking for some of my Mullane relatives.

This was the first trip I remembered to stick my phone into my search bag (which usually contains gardening gloves, my camera, a bottle of water, a clipboard with my search list, and a gardening shovel in case uncovering a headstone requires a bit more work than my hands can manage) and it proved handy.  Section J is one of the older sections and the row numbering is somewhat perplexing.  After some cross-checking on the phone that I was headed in the right direction, I was able to find the grave I was looking for -- that of my great grandmother's brother Phillip J. Mullane and his wife and three children.  Phillip and Mary Agnes Greeley Mullane had four children, but only one lived to adulthood.  Edward, Nora/Norine, and Phillip Clayton are the only ones whose names appear on the headstone.

Next it was over to Section K to see if I could find Thomas Joseph Mullane and his mother Margaret Shanahan Mullane.  Margaret was married to my great grandmother's youngest brother Edward.  Edward is buried over in Section F with his parents and other family members, and based on what I've been able to find at SFGenealogy.com, it appears Thomas and Margaret are buried with some Shanahan relatives.  Unfortunately, I was unable to get properly oriented in this section and wasn't able to locate the grave.  It was particularly frustrating because my Theler great-great grandparents are also buried in Section K and I've located their grave previously and I couldn't find them either to help with my orientation.  I'll need to head back to find them.

I walked up the hill next to see if I would luck out in Section M and find a headstone for my grandfather's sister Mollie Murray Johnson.  I knew from a previous visit looking for her mother and sister in the section that there weren't a lot of headstones in this older part of the cemetery and that the ones that were there are much newer.  With so many rows containing very few headstones it was a trick trying to find the right approximate location.  I walked around the area I thought I should be looking for any headstone I could cross-reference on my phone and I couldn't find anything for Mollie.

Since it was a nice day and I had struck out on most of the folks I was looking for I decided I was close enough to walk up to the St. Rose of Lima section where several of my aunts are buried.  After saying hello to Helen, Diane, and Betty (all conveniently within a few rows of each other), I headed down the hill to the San Lorezno section and visit my aunt Pat and got my first look at my cousin Mark's headstone.  It was a little bit sad to walk through these sections as they all were people who impacted my life directly -- much more so than all of the other folks I had been looking for but had never met (or even knew about until recently!)  I miss them all.

As I headed back to my car I realized I was going to have to cut across Section G to get there, so I made my way down to Section G2 to make a quick visit with Nana and Grandpa Murray.  While this wasn't a particularly productive trip in locating ancestors, it was a nice way to spend a warm fall morning.

More Mullane Misery

As I noted when following up on posts about the Mullane family, there was a lot of tragedy in the early part of the 20th Century for all members of the family.  While conducting one of my regular searches of newspapers a while ago, I ran across another sad story about the Mullane family.

Myrtle Mullane, who was the only child of Patrick Henry Mullane and his wife Ellen Mary Sullivan, died at the age of nine during the Independence Day celebrations in 1916.  When I found her death notice that indicated she died while the family was in El Verano in Sonoma County, I thought perhaps there had been some kind of accident while the family was on vacation.  I would need to order her death certificate to know for certain how she died, but I discovered something more about Myrtle that may have contributed to her young death.

In October 1910, Myrtle was playing in the back yard of her parents' home when she found some matches and managed to light one and set her dress on fire.  Ella Mullane rushed out of the house and batted the flames with her hands.  Both Ella and Myrtle were badly burned.  According to the article I found in the San Francisco Call, Myrtle was "a pathetic, moaning figure, swathed in bandages from head to foot."  She was admitted to the Mission Emergency Hospital "where the surgeons will work desperately at the well nigh hopeless task of saving her life."  She was "terribly burned on the face and chest" and was clearly not expected to survive.  The Oakland Tribune coverage was brief, but more optimistic.  Myrtle was sent home after spending just a day at the emergency hospital to be cared for by her mother who was also burned on her hands and arms, but was "well enough to attend to [Myrtle's] injuries."  There was also a brief mention of the incident in the Santa Cruz Sentinel, which made it sound like both Myrtle and Ella were in dire condition.

Myrtle clearly survived this horrific accident, but it does make me wonder if a result was enduring other health problems over the remaining years of her short life.  None of the news articles are particularly long, and the way it was written in the Call was quite dramatic, so it's difficult to know just how badly injured Myrtle was, but it seems to have been fairly serious.  Surviving those kinds of injuries is challenging today, so I can only imagine what it was like in 1910.  It is not terribly surprising that she died about six years later.

Timelines: The Mullanes

Keeping the family history in order is challenging, so to assist in figuring out who, what, where, and when things happened I've created a couple of timelines.  I put up a timeline for the Murrays a couple of weeks ago, this one will cover the Mullanes.  There is some overlap here, so I will leave out the information posted in the Murrays timeline as it relates to the descendants of Marshall Edward Murray and Mary Josephine Mullane.

I plan to do a similar timeline for the Colemans and O'Learys, but those will be further down the road as I focus my 2016 research on that side of the family.

MULLANE FAMILY TIMELINE:

About 1845:  Mary Manning is born in Ireland

19 August 1847:  Timothy John Mullane is born in Ireland.

About 1860-1862: Mary Manning immigrates to the United States (this is my best guess to date.  It’s possible she arrived earlier than 1860.)

1862:  Mary Manning is working as a domestic in San Francisco. 

About 1860-1863:  Timothy John Mullane immigrates to the United States (this is my best guess to date.  It’s possible he arrived earlier than 1860.)

1863:  Timothy John (T.J.) Mullane is working as a clerk in San Francisco.

8 October 1868:  Timothy John Mullane becomes a naturalized US citizen in the 4th District Court in San Francisco.

About 1868-1869:  Timothy John Mullane and Mary Manning are married in San Francisco.  (This is my best guess to date as I've not yet found a record for their marriage.  I suspect they may have been married at Mission Dolores due to the fact that both of their funerals were held there.)

1870:  John Martin Mullane is born to T. J. Mullane and Mary Manning Mullane in San Francisco.

21 March 1871:  Mary Josephine Mullane is born to T. J. Mullane and Mary Manning Mullane in San Francisco.

22 January 1872:  Timothy Joseph Mullane is born to T. J. Mullane and Mary Manning Mullane in San Francisco.

10 May 1874:  Thomas Michael Mullane is born to T. J. Mullane and Mary Manning Mullane in San Francisco.

3 September 1875:  Phillip James Mullane is born to T. J. Mullane and Mary Manning Mullane in San Francisco.

6 January 1877:  Patrick Henry Mullane is born to T. J. Mullane and Mary Manning Mullane in San Francisco.

July 1879:  Edward George Washington Mullane is born to T. J. Mullane and Mary Manning Mullane in San Francisco.

8 December 1888:  Timothy John Mullane dies of tuberculosis in San Francisco.  He is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, CA.

5 February 1892:  Mary Manning Mullane dies of tuberculosis in San Francisco  She is buried with her husband Timothy John Mullane at Holy Cross Cemetery.

About 1899:  Thomas Michael Mullane marries Jennie (last name unknown) in San Francisco. (The 1900 US Census indicates Thomas and Jennie Mullane have been married for 1 year.  I have not found a marriage record for them as of this writing.)

21 April 1900:  Mary Josephine Mullane marries Denis Edward Hayes in San Francisco.  They appear as married up to the 1910 US Census when Denis Edward Hayes disappears from the records.  As of this writing I do not know what happened to Denis Edward Hayes and believe he abandoned Mary. [For more on Mary Josephine Mullane, see the post Timelines: The Murrays.]

10 May 1900:  Thomas Mullane is born to Thomas Michael Mullane and Jennie (Unknown) Mullane.  As of this writing, this is the only record I have been able to find of Thomas Mullane, Jr. beyond his appearance in the 1900 US Census which was recorded in June, 1900.

29 October 1902:  Phillip James Mullane marries Mary Agnes Greeley at St. Brendan's Church in San Francisco.

10 September 1903:  Edward Ignatius Mullane is born in San Francisco to Phillip James Mullane and Mary Agnes Greeley Mullane.

17 December 1903:  Patrick Henry Mullane marries Ellen Mary Sullivan in San Francisco.

6 June 1905:  Maria Nora (Norine) Mullane is born in San Francisco to Phillip James Mullane and Mary Agnes Greeley Mullane.

28 August 1905:  Maria Nora (Norine) Mullane dies of enteritis in San Francisco.  She is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, CA.

14 June 1906:  Timothy Joseph Mullane marries Hattie Mae Huber in Oakland.

8 July 1906:  Myrtle Marie Mullane is born in San Francisco to Patrick Henry Mullane and Ellen Sullivan Mullane.

18 June 1907:  Phillip Clayton Mullane is born in San Francisco to Phillip James Mullane and Mary Agnes Greeley Mullane.

About 1908:  Edward George Washington Mullane marries Margaret Shanahan, probably in San Francisco.  I've yet to find a definitive marriage record for them, but the 1910 US Census indicates they have been married for 2 years.

9 February 1909:  Edward John Mullane is born to Edward G.W. Mullane and Margaret Shanahan Mullane in San Francisco.

19 March 1910:  Thomas Michael Mullane dies of tuberculosis in San Francisco.

15 April 1911:  John Martin Mullane dies of tuberculosis in San Francisco.  He is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery with his parents.

13 July 1911:  Thomas Joseph Mullane is born to Edward G.W. Mullane and Margaret Shanahan Mullane in San Francisco.

1912:  Jennie (Unknown) Mullane is working as a janitor (janitrix) in San Francisco.  As of this writing, this is the last record I have been able to find about her.

11 October 1912:  Leonard F Mullane is born in San Francisco to Phillip James Mullane and Mary Agnes Greeley Mullane.

6 March 1913:  Raymond W Mullane is born to Edward G.W. Mullane and Margaret Shanahan Mullane in San Francisco.

11 January 1915:  Thomas Joseph Mullane dies in San Francisco.  He is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, CA in the Shanahan family plot.

9 March 1916:  Margaret E Mullane is born to Edward G.W. Mullane and Margaret Shanahan Mullane in San Francisco.

20 June 1916:  Margaret E Mullane dies in San Francisco.  She is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in the Mullane family plot.

4 July 1916: Myrtle Marie Mullane dies in El Verano, California.  She is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, CA.

16 January 1917:  Edward George Washington Mullane dies of tuberculosis in San Francisco.  He is buried with his parents and daughter in the Mullane family plot at Holy Cross Cemetery.

25 Februrary 1917:  Edward Ignatius Mullane dies in San Francisco.  He is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery with his sister Maria Nora (Norine) Mullane.

27 March 1917:  Phillip Clayton Mullane dies in San Francisco.  He is buried with his siblings Edward and Nora at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, CA.

20 September 1931:  Raymond W Mullane dies of tuberculosis in San Francisco.  He is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in the Mullane family plot with his father and sister.

6 January 1933:  Margaret Shanahan Mullane dies in San Francisco.  She is buried with her son Thomas in the Shanahan family plot at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, CA.

16 June 1935:  Timothy Joseph Mullane dies of tuberculosis in San Francisco.  He is buried at Mount Olivet Cemetery (now Olivet Memorial Park) in Colma, CA.

3 June 1937:  Mary Agnes Greeley Mullane dies of pancreatic cancer in San Francisco.  She is buried with her children at Holy Cross Cemetery.

Before April 1940:  Leonard F Mullane marries Gladys Nichol, presumably in San Francisco. (They appear as married in the 1940 US Census. I have yet to find a marriage record for them.)

12 July 1940:  Mary Mullane Murray dies from heart disease in San Francisco.  She is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, CA.

18 December 1941:  Phillip James Mullane dies in San Francisco.  He is buried with his wife and children at Holy Cross Cemetery.

1941-1946:  Leonard F. Mullane and Gladys Nichol Mullane have two children that are still living and will therefore not be specifically named.

11 November 1943:  Hattie Huber Mullane dies in San Francisco.

27 May 1944:  Jerald Mullane is born in Marin County, California to Leonard F Mullane and Gladys Nichol Mullane.  He dies one day later.

21 January 1945: Patrick Henry Mullane dies of pneumonia in San Francisco.  He is buried with is daughter Myrtle at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, CA.

About 1946:  Edward John Mullane marries Frances Dorothy Donohue in San Francisco. (This is a best guess based on the birth of their children.  I've yet to find a marriage record for them.)

Between 1947-1951:  Leonard F. Mullane and Gladys Nichol Mullane divorce. (This is a best guess based on the birth of their children and Leonard's subsequent re-marriage below.  I have not found a divorce record.)

Between 1948-1949:  Edward John Mullane and Frances Donohue Mullane have 2 children who are still living and will therefore not be specifically named.

8 September 1951:  Leonard F. Mullane marries Helen Anita Becker (nee Balletto) in San Francisco.

26 November 1961:  Leonard F. Mullane dies in San Francisco.  He is buried at Cypress Lawn Cemetery in Colma, CA.

30 May 1979:  Helen Balletto Mullane dies in San Mateo County, CA.  She is buried at Cypress Lawn Cemetery in Colma, CA.

14 November 1980:  Frances Donohue Mullane dies in San Francisco, CA. She is buried in the Mullane family plot at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, CA.

6 April 1997:  Edward John Mullane dies in Redwood City, CA.  He is buried in the Mullane family plot at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, CA.