- Researching whether Mays immigrated to Boston? or travelled there from NYC or Philadelphia.
SS Calisto departure port unknown carried other Baden passengers to USA-NYC in 1841 ... also some Mays in 1880 Boston census in adjoining German-Am families are born or from Mannheim, Pa
- US Naturalization Soundex Record ..
MAY F. (Francis)
Boston Mass
Certificate #1-22
Title & Location of Court: USDC Boston Mass
Country of Birth or Allegiance: Germany
When born: Aug 20, 1823
Date of Naturalization: June 25 1846
Date & Port of Arrival: [no time listed]
... but believed 1839-41. [citizenship waiting years & other May arrivals]
Certificate can be had from US DOJ-INS & NARA
- Other May naturalization [New England Index] Soundex results here
- Delia May died March 6, 1897 in Boston, living at Centre Street where the directory notes list Francis May. Her age is stated at 67, but she is 70 by other records. Her father was John Fitzmorris. She has had nine children. since her 1846 marriage. Burial place in reserach, but believed Holyhood. [Earlier information about the bridget in New Bedford, is evidently erroneous]; She immigrated before 1848 to the United States; married Francis May a baker born in Germany in 1823, in Boston; she and great great-grandfather Francis May had 9 children.... [tentative -- nb in another census 1900 ..Caroline May McCormack has given one of her parents as Massachusetts born ... 1 discrepancy-- father alleged Ireland born]
Note .. verification of this bridget May will come with death certificate.
- Census Files
- 1880 Boston Germans Census
Boston Census Ward 19 1880 ..scroll down forMay on page
Daniel McCormack 1880 US Census Boston Ward 24
- Francis May, a baker from Baden Germany, has a shop at the rear of 43 Pleasant Street in 1849-50 Boston. That location is here.
Source: Boston Directory July 1849-July 1850, p.200 , [929.3 Mass. B65Dir]. This was three or four years after he married Adelia Bridget Fitzmorris. By this time he has also become, at his earliest time, an American citizen. He is not immediately related to established Boston Mays ... but he fits in! By present geography .. his old shop site is in Boston at the shunt of Storrow Drive & east of Soldier's Field Road. In fact it almost looks near the Alston Depot where another McCormack-May descendant would have a restaurant before opening one at Quincy Market.
- By 1867 The Boston Almanac lists under bakers in the Business Directory is [ May F.J. 184 harrison Avenue ... map here] .. [Call# 929.3 Mass B65Baa 1867]
- The Boston Directory in 1900, p1062 & 1905 p1239 lists Francis J May at 1780 Centre opposite Beech .. and the May Family is in the 1850, 1860 & 1870 Census, in West Roxbury. Francis J. May and Delia May were residing at Centre [sic] Street when she died in 1897.
- More of Francis J. & Delia [Fitzmorris] May's daughter, Caroline, and her marriage to Daniel F. McCormack here.
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