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Deep dive tk, but here is the 1910 census showing Kelly's great-grandfather Giuseppe Pedalino and his second wife Concetta. (Kelly's great-grandma died in 1898.)
He was a wagon driver.
She was illiterate and could not speak English 10 years after arrival.
#resistancegenealogy
He was a wagon driver.
She was illiterate and could not speak English 10 years after arrival.
#resistancegenealogy
Here's John Kelly's maternal grandmother Teresa as a child in the 1900 census.
Her father, a day laborer named John DeMarco had been here for 18 years.
He had not become a citizen.
He could not read, write, or speak English.
#resistancegenealogy
Her father, a day laborer named John DeMarco had been here for 18 years.
He had not become a citizen.
He could not read, write, or speak English.
#resistancegenealogy
John DeMarco is apparently the fruit-peddler Kelly was referencing. That's how he's identified in the 1930 census.
I need to pause and give credit and thanks to @Yokumbrook, the genealogist who did the legwork on John Kelly's tree.
The 1930 census shows those great-grandparents living with their daughter, son-in-law and grandchildren, one of whom was Kelly's mother.
John DeMarco had been here for 47 years and was not an American citizen ("AL"). Crescenza had been here for 37 years and spoke no English.
John DeMarco had been here for 47 years and was not an American citizen ("AL"). Crescenza had been here for 37 years and spoke no English.
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