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Thomas Proctor Stewart was born in January of 1855 in the Townland of Granny, Parish of Kilcronaghan, Co. Derry, to Mathew Stewart and Ellen Proctor. He emigrated to NYC about 1875, where he began working first as a waiter in a well known oyster and chop house called Dorlon's on Madison Square in NYC, progressed to become a manager and when Dorlon's closed in the early 20th century, he reopened it as the Madison Square Restaurant with one of the other former managers, a Scot named Robertson.
Tom married twice - first in 1882 to Mary (Mollie) Mannix, who was born in Kansas to Daniel Mannix from Ireland and his wife, Mary Harper. She died in 1882 a month after giving birth to a daughter, Helen. In December of 1889, he married Annie Wren (1864-1930) the NY born daughter of Famine emigrants from County Leitrim. Patrick S. Wren and Annie Murray. Her uncle, Peter Wren, was in the NY 37th Regiment known as the Irish Rifles in the Civil War. Tom and Annie had 5 children: Edwin Proctor, Thomas Florence, Raymond James, Genevieve Estelle, and Anna Florence. Tom and Annie died within a month of each other in September of 1930, preceded by the death of their son, Edwin, in August. The Stewarts were firm Church of Ireland people but Thomas was received into the Catholic Church during his final illness and is buried with Annie in Calvary Cemetery in Long Island City, New York.
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| Date of Birth | 1st Jan 1855 | |
| Date of Death | 1st Sep 1930 | |
