US Census 1880 Massachusetts Suffolk County-Boston
Vol 30 Enumeration District 728 Sheet 33 Lne 29
14 Pierpont Street Ward 19

Name-Sex-Age-Status-Marital-Occupation-Birthplace-Father's BP-Mother's BP

728 19 033 29 348 MAY Francis J. ma 55 head mrd baker BADEN BADEN BADEN
728 19 033 30 348 MAY Adelia fe 47 wife mrd keeps house IRELAND IRELAND IRELAND
728 19 033 31 348 MAY Daniel ma 27 son sgl wks-printing offic US-MA BADEN IRELAND
728 19 033 32 348 MAY Lizzie fe 24 dau sgl dress mkr US-MA BADEN IRELAND
728 19 033 33 348 MAY Adelia fe 22 dau sgl embroiderer US-MA BADEN IRELAND
728 19 033 34 348 MAY Henry ma 18 son sgl clerk in store US-MA BADEN IRELAND
728 19 033 35 348 MAY George ma 14 son sgl errand boy US-MA BADEN IRELAND
728 19 033 36 348 MAY Charles ma 14 son sgl office boy US-MA BADEN IRELAND
728 19 033 37 348 MAY Lena fe 11 dau sgl at school US-MA BADEN IRELAND
728 19 033 38 348 MAY Emma fe 9 dau sgl at school US-MA BADEN IRELAND

• Francis May and Adelia May are great-great-grandparenst of Scott M Connolly .. and parents of Caroline May .. in the same census as the wife of Daniel F. McCormack with chidren at 523 Columbia Street -Grove Hill-Dorchester [a blacksmith shop].
• Francis May is a baker .. born in Baden, Germany; his wife "Adelia", also "Bridget" elsewhere is Irish born. The children's census data reflect their Massachusetts births by a German immigrant and amother immigrated from Ireland.
• In this excerpt of Scott M. Connolly's great-great-grandparents lives - they live at 14 Pierpont Street in Boston.
• Their daughter Caroline was born in 1851 in Brookline, Ma. [then West Roxbury] .. Francis May and Bridget Adelia were married in 1846. He sought naturalization in 1848. Delia May will die 17 years after this census in 1897 in Boston; when the family lived at Center Street. See vital records here.
• The Mays are German-Irish American Roman Catholc .. regarded as part of the Holy Trinity Church [German Roman Catholic] parish on Shawmut Avenue in Roxbury-Boston.]
• German-Boston Resource Center is a courtesy, free, on-line transcription of the 1880 Boston US Census; arranged by Ward where at least one household member is German born.
• In this census return, Francis May, a baker with a wife and family of ten, reports that he has been unmployed for six months in the last year.
• This link leads to a map of Boston 1861 in his lifetime. By 1867 he was living, or working on Harrison Avenue. His prior business and home on Pleasant Street, No 43 would be changed as Boston filled the adjacent Back Bay; and later added the esplanade along the river with Storrow Drive in the 20th century.
• Francis May's son-in-law Daniel McCormack & Caroline May 1880 Census