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- Nickname: Nannie
********************************************************************** Dad's notes, 7/24/79
(copied from Robert E Conrad's notes after talking with his dad, R E Conrad Sr)
1. Previously, Dad related to me the following:
a) Mom, Aunt Mary Kerstetter and Uncles John and James (Hendersons) were
being reared in a Catholic Orphan's Home in Philadelphia
b) John Henderson married a Polish girl in Delaware (Dover?)
c) Then Mom and AUnt Mary were transferred to an O'Shaughnessy (?)
family in Lewisburg. This family was quite old when Mom and Aunt Mary
went there to live. The husband shot to death either his wife or himself.
d) Then Mom was transferred to a Kelly family (about 1915) in Milton,
Pa, until about 16 yrs old. At the same time, AuntMary went to an O'Neill
family in Coatsville (and later to Sunbury).
e) Then Mom ended up working in a silk mill in Sunbury and lived with the
Riegle family on Catawissa Ave across from the East End Hose Company.
That's when Dad met, courted Mom and married her!
f) Aunt Mary, while in Sunbury stayed at the Zerbe Hotel (the Shreffler Pontiac
place now on Market Street near Eighth St).
At the same time, Tom Kerstetter was a bartender there. They married.
g) Uncle Tom and Aunt Mary then went to Berrysburg to open up a Hotel there.
Tom Jr was born there. Tom Sr borrowed $1000 from a whiskey salesman
to take over the hotel.
h) Then Uncle Tom and Aunt Mary went to Gratz to open a hotel there (which
later burned down). then to Elizabethville, then to hotel in Dillsburg,
and finally to Camp Hill (they had a used car garage on Market St.
not far from the Rt 15 bypass traffic intersection).
i) My grandfather SimonPeter Conrad was placed on a Scanlon farm about
1870 or 1871 and used to workhis ass off there. Durin ghte flood of 1889,
he worked on a RR bridge at Mexico, Pa.
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Dad adds:
the place she first stayed was probably 604? North 4th inLewisburg (he drove
by and remembered her pointing to the place...)
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1880 census, NWard Lewisburg, Union Co, pg 498C, Edw. Shaughnessy 55, farmer,
Ire, Bridget 49, born Ire.
1890
1900 census, Lewisburg, North Ward (UnionCo), line 29, Ed Shanacey age 70 and
Bridget Shanacey, age 70, both born in Ireland. (taken 14 Jun 1900), Nannie Henderson 5, Jan 1895, adopted daughter (parents of PA), M43, 1/1, farmer
1851/1853 (Ed naturalized) 333 North St, north(born Jan 1830, Aug 1830)
Shanacey, Shanesy, Shaughnessy, Shaughnessey
Shaunacey
1910 census, 2nd Ward, Milton Boro, Simon Kelly 72, Ireland, Rose 72,John J 33,
Mark? A 30, Margaret R 25, Anna Henderson 15 servant, private family,
Anna born in NY, parents from NY. pg 252B, Simon- freight... Steam Railroad,
address 310 Readway? Ave (Reading? Readessy?) between Park? Ave and
LocustSt.
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A search for Nannie Henderson in 1894 (No 951607) in Philadelphia found nothing (3 yrs)
Anna Elizabeth Henderson 1893-5 (66622) nothing
Anna Elizabeth Henderson 1897-9 (66588) nothing
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Note: in marriage license book, 24:113, #24236, 1916, the wife is listed as "Nannie A. Henderson, 21, silkweaver; father John Henderson (occ.="__") and mother unknown (occ="deceased") (Sunbury, PA)
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much information found in records of Children's Aid Society, records
now at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
apparentlysome involvement with "Hospital of Good Shepherd". This
would be the Hospital and Home associated with "Church of the Good Shepherd".
"The Home and Hospital took in children (both boys and girls) who ne
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1894 - 1953 (59 years)