Discovered – Another Fay Generation

There are many family lines on both my maternal and paternal sides for which I know many generations. The Fay family line was not one with which I was familiar. A recent trip to the New Jersey State Archives helped identify another generation in my Thomas Fay line. Thomas Fay is the father of Annie Fay Moore, my maternal great grandmother. 

Marriage records at the archives show that Thomas Fay had at least three brothers. All were married at St. John’s Catholic Church in Trenton, New Jersey.

Groom	Bride	Date of Marriage	Parents
Matthew Fay	Margaret Bryson	17 April 1865	Owen/Ann[1]
Eugene Fay	Catharine McKanna	3 February 1861	Eugene/Anna[2]
Thomas Fay	Bridget McDermott	1 January 1869	Owen/Nancy[3]
Charles Fay	Catherine Grillens	28 November 1867	Owen/Nancy[4]

At first glance, there appears to be a discrepancy in the parents’ names. However, there are many Irish names that are used interchangeably. In this case, Eugene and Owen are the same name and are used interchangeably. The same is true for Ann and Nancy. So this establishes at least part of the family unit.

The following marriages were also identified but the connection to this family is unclear at this time.

Groom	Bride	Date of Marriage	Parents
John Fay	Bridget Connell	17 April 1865	James/Ann[5]
Charles Carr	Catherine Fay	13 August 1862	No parents listed[6]

Note that John Fay [James/Ann] was married on the same day as Matthew Fay [Owen/Ann]. The parents are not consistent. Is James a transcription error of Owen or are Matthew and John cousins?

Catherine Fay was married in the same time frame as the grooms above but no parents are listed. Is she a sister? Clearly, more research is needed to accurately establish the complete family of Owen and Ann Fay.

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[1] Mercer County, New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, Marriages 1865, U:416, marriage of Matthew Fay and Margaret Bryson, date of marriage 17 April 1865; microfilm.

[2] Mercer County, New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, Marriages 1861, U:350, marriage of Eugene Fay and Catharine McKanna, date of marriage 3 February 1861; microfilm.

[3] Mercer County, New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, Marriages 1869, BH:462, marriage of Thomas Fay and Bridget McDermott, date of marriage 1 January 1869; microfilm.

[4] Mercer County, New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, Marriages 1867, BG:466, marriage of Charles Fay and Catherine Grillens, date of marriage 28 November 1867; microfilm.

[5] Mercer County, New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, Marriages 1865, U:416, marriage of John Fay and Bridget Connell, date of marriage 17 April 1865; microfilm.

[6] Mercer County, New Jersey State Archives, Trenton, Marriages 1862, U:387, marriage of Charles Carr and Catherine Fay, date of marriage 13 August 1862; microfilm.

Edward James Moore, Jr. (1869-1930)

Edward James Moore, Jr., my maternal great grandfather, was the second son of Edward Moore and Mary Curtin.[1] His father’s pension file reveals some detail about Edward and his siblings.

Children	Birth Date
Henry	12 August 1867
Edward James, Jr.	19 December 1869
Mary	1 October 1870
Honora Cecilia	19 July 1872
Anna	10 November 1874
James E.	8 December 1876
Michael J.	3 June 1879
Katie	10 June 1882
Elizabeth	25 March 1884
Katherine	24 August 1885
Margaret	8 December 1887
John	8 December 1887

                  

By 4 April 1915, the date of the pension application, four of Edward’s siblings were dead. Henry died in 1903.[2] Daughter, Katie, likely died before the birth of her sister, Katherine, in 1885. Twins, Margaret and John, may have died as infants.

On Wednesday, 23 June 1892, “Edward Moore, a stone-cutter, and Miss Annie Fay, of No. 639 Cass street, were married in the Church of the Sacred Heart. The happy couple [spent] their honeymoon at Asbury Park.”[3] To date, no record of this marriage has been located at Sacred Heart Church or in the state-wide index of New Jersey marriages at the New Jersey State Archives.

Annie Fay, daughter of Thomas Fay and Bridget McDermott, was born in 1869 in New Jersey.[4] She was the oldest of seven children.

In the first eight years of Edward and Annie’s marriage, three of their first four children died in infancy. Edward died 13 July 1893.[5] Daughter, Marion, died 16 March 1898.[6] Ethel died on 3 May 1900.[7] They had six children who survived to adulthood.

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[1] Edward Moore (Pvt., Co. I, 16^th Reg’t PA Infantry, Civil War), pension no. SC 569,600, Case Files of Approved Pension Applications…, 1861-1934; Civil War and Later Pension Files; Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15; National Archives, Washington D.C.

[2] Mortuary Notice, Trenton Evening Times, Trenton, New Jersey, Monday, 15 June 1903, p. 1, death of Harry J. Moore, date of death 14 June 1903; digital images online (www.genealogybank.com : 13 March 2015).

[3] Marriage Notice, “People We Meet,” Trenton Evening Times, Mercer, New Jersey, Sunday, 26 June 1892, p. 4, marriage of Edward Moore and Annie Fay, 23 June 1892; digital images online (www.genealogybank.com : 13 March 2015).

[4] 1870 US census, Mercer, New Jersey, population schedule, Trenton City, 7th Ward, p. 62, dwelling 468, family 546, household of Thomas Fay; digital images online, (www.heritagequestonline.com : 14 October 2010) citing NARA publication M593, roll 872.

[5] Mortuary Notice, Trenton Evening Times, Trenton, New Jersey, Sunday, 23 July 1893, p. 5, death of Edward Moore, date of death 13 July 1893; digital images online (www.genealogybank.com : 13 March 2015).

[6] Mortuary Notice, Trenton Evening Tiems, Trenton, New Jersey, Thursday, 17 March 1898, p. 5, death of Marion Moore, date of death 16 March 1898; digital images online (www.genealogybank.com : 13 March 2015).

[7] Mortuary Notice, Trenton Evening Times, Trenton, New Jersey, Friday, 4 May 1900, p. 4, death of Ethel Moore, date of death 3 May 1900; digital images online (www.genealogybank.com : 13 March 2015).