John Joseph Powers : Short Biography

John Joseph Powers 1870

County Waterford

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Place of migration

Migrated to/Born in USA

John Joseph Powers (1870?-1940) from Dungarvan (we heard) in his 1939 work Identification card from Brooklyn (Kings County) Lighting Company.

His siblings also emigrated to New York: Joseph, Richard, Anastasia. Their parents were Bridget Kane and Patrick Powers.

Siblings Edmund and Patrick either stayed or passed as children.

One baptism might have been in Kilmacthomas.....so hard to trace a Powers in Waterford from across the pond!

Thank you!

Ann Marie Lynch (another challenging surname to trace)!

Additional Information
Date of Birth	1st Jun 1870
Date of Death	2nd Jan 1940

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The family lived in Kilrossanty Parish, in Ballykerogue (did not say if it was BIG or LITTLE). His father, Patrick, was listed as a farmer.

John's date of birth was 10 June 1864.

He married in the new Saint Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, NYC. June 12, 1898 at a side altar off the back of the large altar. John married his girlfriend from Newcastle, Tipperary, Norah Leahy. We were told they must have met at a dance in Four-Mile-Water area, early 1890s, and planned to migrate to the US. John's brothers immigrated to Brooklyn; Norah's sisters went to Manhattan.

John and Norah had four boys: John, James Patrick, Patrick, Edward and lived in Brooklyn, New York.

I am their granddaughter, Ann Marie