New York Irish

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• My Ancestors (241 KB)
  My Ancestors

Family Photos

• Thomas Ryan & Family, 1908 (66 KB)
  Thomas Ryan & wife Elizabeth with children Margaret, Harry, & Thomas Jr.
• Harry Beal & family, 1937 (95 KB)
  The Beal family of St. Albans, Queens, N.Y. (rear standing) Gloria, Walter, & Robert (sitting) Harry A., Sarah McBride, & Kathleen A. (front standing) Stephen, Norbert, & Bernard
• 145 14th Street, Brooklyn, NY (39 KB)
  This is a 1940 photo of 145 14th St. in Brooklyn. Annie Beal & her three children lived here from 1879 - 1895
• Anna Wallace - 1895 (174 KB)
  Anna Wallace in 1895, shortly after being widowed when her husband William Wallace died. She was born in 1849 to Miles & Eliza Keon in Co. Fermanagh Ireland
• John Nolan, c. 1880 (162 KB)
  John Nolan, brother of my 3rd great grandfather Joseph Nolan. John was born in Longford town, County Longford, Ireland in May 1855. This picture was taken while he was attending college in Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Birthplace of Henry Beal, 325 15th Street (78 KB)
  My great-grandfather was born here on Saturday June 6, 1896 to Henry G. & Mary Beal
• Freidrich Munk - 1845 (219 KB)
  My great-great-great grandfather as a boy in Stutgartt, Germany
• Ellen Nolan, c. 1915 (139 KB)
  My great-great grandmother, Ellen Nolan of 155 Baltic St., South Brooklyn
• Ryan & Pidgeon families in 1918 (396 KB)
  Photo taken behind my great-grandfather's house in Whitestone. This is of his brother, sisters, and aunts, uncles, cousins on his mother's side. He is in the back all the way on the right
• St. Peter's Church - Hicks & Warren Sts. (284 KB)
  The second-oldest catholic church in Brooklyn. Much of my family was married & baptized here. Starting with the O'Neils of State St., in the 1860s, the Watsons in the 1870s, and the Nolan & Gray families of 1880s-90s.
• Josephine Byrne, c. 1935 (262 KB)
  My great-grandmother. Daughter of George L. Byrne & Ellen E. Nolan
• Ryan family in the 1930s (446 KB)
  (standing) Helen, Denis, Ada, Mary, Harry, Tommy Ryan (sitting) Cordelia, Elizabeth (nee Pidgeon), & Martin Ryan
• 2233 19th St., Astoria, N.Y. (130 KB)
  Home of the Byrne family from 1923 through the 1940s.
• St. Agnes' Church (73 KB)
  St. Agnes Church at Hoyt & Sackett Streets.
• Madeleine Munk in 1925 (255 KB)
  My great-grandmother Madeleine at age 17
• Birthplace of Mary J. Watson, 27 Atlantic Av. (191 KB)
  This brick tenement near the foot of Atlantic St in Brooklyn is where my great-great-grandmother was born on July 3, 1873. This entire neighborhood was demolished to make way for the B.Q.E. in the 40s.
• 1739 N. Sydenham, Philadelphia (109 KB)
  Deathplace of George T. Beal, 1879
• Harry & Madeleine Ryan - 1929 (311 KB)
  My great-grandparents wedding picture, taken on September 8, 1929. Witnesses Denis & Ada Ryan
• Bernie Beal & family - 1964 (287 KB)
  My grandparents Bernie & Ann with their children (top to bottom) David, Madeleine, Roger, John, and Jerry at 146-10 13th Av., Whitestone N.Y.
• Munk sisters - c. 1916 (124 KB)
  Dorothy, Grace, and Madeleine Munk of Corona N.Y. c. 1916. Daughters of Charles Munk & Anna Wallace
• Anna Munk with her two daughters - 1934 (279 KB)
  Anna Munk (nee Wallace) in July 1934 with her two daughters Dorothy and Madeleine
• 149-37 12th Rd., Whitestone, NY (154 KB)
  My great-grandfather Harry Ryan grew up here. His family lived here from c. 1912 through the 1940s. The old pre-numerical address was 18 West 19th Street in the village of Whitestone.
• 293 East 10th St., NYC (165 KB)
  East-side tenement, home of the Keon family of Fermanagh, Ireland in the 1860s-70s.
• "Caisteal nan Maoidh" (97 KB)
  "Castle of Threatening" - the castle on the Isle of Mull in the Scottish highlands built by the Maclaine clan in the early 1300s.
• 26 State St. cor. Columbia, Brooklyn (295 KB)
  The Gray family's tenement on State Street in the early 1880s. (1939 NYC tax photo)
• Bernie Beal USAF photo - 1950 (323 KB)
  My grandfather after completing Radar Bomb Scoring School on January 10, 1950. He is 5th in the bottom row.
• St. Stanislaus Martyr R.C. Church - 328 14th St. (329 KB)
  The church where Henry Peter Beal was baptized in June 1896, next door to their 14th street tenement.
• Harry Ryan in 1920 (195 KB)
  My great-grandfather hiking (age 16)
• 136 Meserole Ave., Brooklyn (42 KB)
  Home of the Pidgeon family from the 1880s through the turn of the century
• 513 6th Av. (415 KB)
  Home of the Beal family during WWI & the early 1920s.
• The Beal children in 1931 (173 KB)
  Waiting for Santa Claus - Robert, Gloria, Walter, Bernie, and Steven Beal. Saint Albans, Queens, N.Y.
• 360 Union St., Brooklyn (356 KB)
  The McBride family's tenement from 1905 through the 1920s.
• Sophie Munk around 1910 (166 KB)
  Sister of my great-great grandfather Charles Munk. Sophie bought this hat and had this photo taken in Atlantic City.
• H.M.S. Black Prince (86 KB)
  My great-great-great grandfather, William Wallace of Roscommon, Ireland was a sailor in the Royal Navy aboard this ironclad frigate in the 1860s. During a cruise to the carribbean in 1869, the ship anchored in N.Y. harbor and he jumped off, swimming towards Manhattan. He married Annie Keon in 1873 and the family lived on Sutton Pl. near East 59th St.
• Portrait of the Beal children, 1937 (324 KB)
  Steven, Gloria, Bernie, Robert, Norbert, & Walter Beal
• Birthplace of Kathleen A. McBride, 101 Dean St. (335 KB)
  My great-grandmother Kathleen McBride was born here on June 28, 1900 to John & Sarah McBride
• Bernie & Ann Beal's wedding photo - Aug. 6, 1955 (187 KB)
  Norbert, Steve, Bernie & Ann Beal, Roberta, Harry, & Jerry Ryan
• Watson house in Brooklyn (280 KB)
  270 17th Street,home of Peter Watson & family, 1886-1927
• Henrietta Brimlow of Brooklyn, c. 1865 (177 KB)
  Sister of my 3rd great grandmother Ada Brimlow
• Frederick & Rosina Munk - 1880s (168 KB)
  These are two individual tin-types of my great-great-great grandparents Frederick & Rosina Munk. They were married in Stuttgart, Germany. Frederick came to NYC in 1863 and worked as a tinsmith. He sent for Rosina and their daughter Anna who arrived in 1866.
• William Baze Family - 1850s (58 KB)
  The gentleman sitting is the older brother of my 5th great-grandfather. His wife Jane (left; standing) is Cherokee Indian.
• Pvt. Eltora Dye, 5th Kansas Cavalry, 1862 (334 KB)
  This is my great-great-great grandfather at age 20. He was a settler in Kansas and joined the army in 1861 and fought the entire war as a cavalryman.

Family Tree Maker Reports and Trees

• Ancestor Tree of Bernard Higgins BEAL (PDF Format)


• Ancestor Tree of Ann Elizabeth RYAN (PDF Format)


• Ancestor Tree of Bobby Dye MOORE (PDF Format)


• Ancestor Tree of Rose Mary LUISI (PDF Format)


• Genealogy Report: Descendants of Henry McLAIN (View PDF)

Related Files

• Ancestors arriving in the Port of N.Y.C. (1 KB)
  Summary from Passenger lists

Related Links

• Brooklyn Genealogy Info
• Ancestry.com
• Guide to Irish Genealogy
• Brooklyn Daily Eagle Online: 1841-1902
• Forgotten New York
• Irish Midlands Ancestry - Kings & Queens Counties
• Life & Death in NYC's Fourth Ward, 1860-70
• The Lower East-side Tenement Museum
• The Great Irish Famine
• Ellis Island.org: Search for a Passenger List!
• One-Step Genealogy Indexes by Steve Morse
• Irish Civil Records Guide
• Scotlands People: Census & Civil Registration 1855-1930s
• The Beal surname Messageboard @ Ancestry.com
• "How the Other Half Lives" by Jacob Riis
• Failte Romhat: Some Irish databases online
• Irish Family History Foundation (Civil/Parish Registers)