1910 - 1930 Mary Nolan delving deeper !!

1910 where are we at in the world at this time ?

Here are a few events and discoveries that were happening. Check out the washing machine date.  Thank goodness for Alva I say.

Jan 3 British miners strike for 8 hour working day

Figure 1: the first electric washing machine
called The Thor and invented by Alva Fisher

Jun 2 Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
Aug 9 Alva Fisher patents electric washing machine
Oct 5 Portugal overthrows monarchy, proclaims republic
Dec 3 Neon lights first publicly displayed (Paris Auto Show)

If you are chasing further information concerning different years, have a look here as its a easy to manoeuvre site. http://www.onthisday.com/date/1910

I sort of wanted to start off like this as to get my head back into that era. It helps me develop a picture and gives me that imagination and enthusiasm to dig further.

As I have previously mentioned our Mary was living with an Italian family in 1910, this was recorded in the census of that year. The address was 261 East St 8th St Pauls. There is mention of 6 children born with 1 now  living, (this being Robert). She is working as a domestic at a restaurant.

The interesting snippet of info that I get from the above 1910 census entry is the 6 children born. I have found no further details regarding other births for Mary, besides Robert at all and unfortunately I feel this might not be able to be verified.

Keeping with the timeline, Mary's only surviving child, Robert marries in 1918 in Missouri.

We next find her in 1920 at 423 East St 7th St Pauls where she is listed as a lodger and gives her occupation as a dishwasher at a restaurant. Her age is given as 50 years.
I have tried to research the street addresses for St Pauls where our Mary was residing but I am having difficulty narrowing down specifics.

Figure 2 : Map of Saint Paul 1903

I did come across this map above of St Paul in 1903 on a great site and felt this gave me an idea of the layout of the city around that period.

There are a series of streets, named 5th, 6th, 7th to name some examples that run parallel to each other.

The shaded  grid area looks to be the inner city area and East St 7th seems to be located on the upper right hand side of this section. You will also notice the Missippi River runs right through the city.

The map is from this site here, which is a great research tool and can be purchased as well.

St. Paul and Minneapolis Maps (click on the blue link to take you to the page).

As a bit of extra information, when Robert, Mary's son filled in his Registration Card in 1917 for WWl he lists his mother as being dependant on him.

Mmmmm interesting,  does that mean Mary was unable to work at that time ?  Going back to the 1920 Census she is working as a dishwasher at a restaurant. 

My next question is where did Mary reside between the years of 1920 to 1930 as in the 1930 US Census we find her having moved to Kansas City. To find further information on this I will have to look in the Directories and see if I can track her down.

Alas that is a job for another time.

Tune it for next week where I will be looking at Mary - from 1920 onwards with her move to Kansas City 

Hope you have enjoyed the read and I am off to have a cuppa :)

What happened to Mary Nolan ??

Finally I am back on the trail of Mary Nolan and her son Robert James Logie and following on from my last entry, we will endeavour to find out what happened to her.

We last found Mary Nolan in the 1900 US Census, where she was living with her parents, Thomas and Ellen and son Robert James. Here she was listed as being a Widow but lets go back a little first to see what we can find about her marriage or if we can find a record of one.

I have assumed she married Robert's father, Thomas Logie around the year of 1892 and  so far have been unable to trace a marriage certificate or record.  Thomas Logie is said to have been born in Michigan, this has been mentioned several times throughout census entries.

Thus this leaves us without any actual record of Mary's marriage to Thomas Logie.

It has been recorded in a census extract that Mary had 6 children with 1 living only and this morning I may have had a little break though in perhaps finding a couple of entries detailing the birth/christening of some Logie children to a Thomas and Mary.

Name	Logie
Gender	Male
Birth Date	28 May 1885
Birthplace	St. Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota
Race	White
Father's Name	Thomas Logie
Father's Birthplace	Michigan
Mother's Name	Mary
Mother's Birthplace	Ireland

Name	Logie
Gender	Male
Birth Date	28 May 1886
Birthplace	Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota
Race	White
Father's Name	Thomas
Father's Birthplace	U.S.
Mother's Name	Mary
Mother's Birthplace	Ireland

These details can be freely accessed here https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bgivenname%3Athomas%7E%20%2Bsurname%3Alogie%7E%20%2Brecord_country%3A%22United%20States%22&collection_id=1680827

These maybe some of the missing children belonging to Mary & Thomas, but NOTE  I do say maybe and the repetition of the birth dates does not do much for verification.


Mary's only surviving child Robert James Logie was born on the 28th November 1887 in Minnesota, this birthdate is taken from his WWI Draft Card.

Taking the previous 1900 US Census information into account where we see Mary is listed as a Widow we can assume that Thomas Logie died somewhere during the period of 1887 - 1900. Though I have found no factual record of a death for him at all.

I will take a break for now and continue on with Mary next time. Time for a much needed coffee I think.