US Census 1880 Massachusetts Suffolk County-Boston
Vol 32 Enumeration District 774 Sheet 42 Line 14
523 Columbia Street Ward 24 Grove Hill/Upham Corner

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

774 24 042 14 390 McCORMACK Daniel ma 31 head mrd black smith CA-PE CA-PE CA-PE
774 24 042 15 390 McCORMACK Caroline F. fe 29 wife mrd keeps house US-MA BADEN IRELAND
774 24 042 16 390 McCORMACK Mary J. fe 4 dau sgl US-MA CA-PE US-MA
774 24 042 17 390 McCORMACK Annie fe 2 dau sgl US-MA CA-PE US-MA
774 24 042 18 390 McCORMACK Elizabeth fe 9m dau sgl US-MA CA-PE US-MA

• Daniel McCormack and Caroline May McCormack are the great-grandparents of Scott Michael Connolly. In this slicee of their lives from the 1880 US Census, Daniel is a blacksmith with a wife Caroline and three children.
• He and his parents are born in Prince Edward Island, Canada [CA PE}; and that status of birth is refelcted in every subsequent census in which he appears.
• His wife Caroline is USA born [Massachusetts]; and her father is German born; her mother is Ireland born.
• The May family in which she grew up lives at 14 Pierpont Street in Ward 19 - Boston; that Francis May-father in law's census depiction is here
• In subsequent censuses, Daniel and Caroline McCormack's family will grow to 11 surviving of 3 children. Their reisdences will change from this home at his blacksmith and livery stable business - 325 Columbia Street; to 7 Rill Street, Sagamore-Dorchester [1900 Census]; and 42 Wellington Hill Street, Mattapan [1920 Census].
• The Daniel F. McCormack here; Scott M Connolly's great-grandfather; is remarkably documented by the objective government data of the time - 1868 immigration -ship passenger entry to Boston; marriage license 1873; these censuses; and his land records -alone and with partners; and other legal paper.
• Daniel F. McCormack, a blacksmith among other trades; also became a real estate dealer/broker andowned all his homes or business property when he could.
• This home and shop would be kept open and owned by him through his 1936 death at age ninety. In 1919 Boston City Directory, he is humbly listed at 325 Columbia Street as a 'horseshoer'. Map here his locaton since 1873
• Daniel F. McCormack is Roman Catholic Scottish from PEI, as were his parents .. mixing with others in Roman Catholicism whether in Scotland, Ireland, England, PEI, or Boston.
• His son Charles Alexander McCormack will be born 10 years from this census in 1890 when at the Rill Street home; and will marry in 1920, Anne Louise Keefe .. his children: Mary McCormack & Dorothy L. McCormack ... Scott Michael Connolly is Daniel's great-grandson by Dorothy L. McCormack and Owen. Connolly.