Hello,
Could your John
Fay have lived in NY and been Margaret's father?
If you have any leads for me I'd like to have them!!!!!
Margaret
Faye was born in NY in 1868 according to her obituary. Her death certificate spells her maiden name as
Fay and lists her father as John
Fay born in Ireland. Mother is listed as unknown. (Ogden IA census of 1900 lists
New York as her birth location and that of her mother) Sometime between her birth in Dec of 1869 and 1886 she rode the orphan train to
Iowa where she was reared by the Spain family and married Bernard
Lentz in 1886. Margaret does not show up in the 1870 or 1880
Clinton county,
Iowa census. So she probably did not live with the Spains very long.
A woman by the name of Anne
Fay was listed on a newspaper account as dying in 1884 in NY the widow of the late John
Malone.
Deaths week ending July, 1884
Anne
Fay relict of late John
Malone (
Fay?) died on the corner of
Morton and
Gwich street (
New York) July 18,1884. She was a native of
Ennis county
Clare(Ireland ?)
oclc#01642943
call number ny 01New
York 93-31984
A ships manifest lists a John
Fay as a passenger on the ship Omega in 1847.
I cannot verify Margaret's connection to any of these three people, perhaps you can use the information on your
Fay tree.
Any information or direction you could give me would be appreciated. I would like to correspond even if we are not related, we might be able to help each other!
John
Nennig 319-334-2142
203 9th
AVE SW
Independence, IA