Hey all, I was wondering is it possible to search for specific occupations for the records of the New York Emigrant Savings Bank, 1850-1883, Testbooks?

It seems that the only variables that were put into the records were the names, place they were living and county of origin.

Hello,

This List is for people looking for "New England" information, but I'm an easy-going Admin and allow many things on the Lists I started up. Having said that, I could mention that my gr-gr-gr-grandfather, Jacob Homer HUTCHINSON, always of the Farm in Winchester, MA, had 3 siblings leave the Farm right around 1850. The oldest brother, John HUTCHINSON, and 2 married sisters moved down to Brooklyn, NY, and remained there. *

For several reasons, I belong to 3 NY Lists, and I don't remember hearing about the "NY Emigrant Savings Bank." I just looked it up, and it was started because of the "Irish Emigrant Society."

http://www.jstor.org/pss/30097644

I don't have access to "Ancestry," so I probably can't look at information there. And, the HUTCHINSON siblings were descended from 1600's English ancestors. But, when I searched that data base, a John HUTCHINSON showed up in the Index. But, that John was probably from Ireland.

When looking for information just now, I came across this web site which is just an FYI for researchers:

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05402b.htm

The earliest American organization for the care of immigrants was the Charitable Irish Society of Boston, Massachusetts, founded 17 March, 1737. Says its charter: "Several Gentlemen, Merchants and Others of the Irish Nation residing in Boston in New England from an Affectionate and Compassionate concern for their countrymen in these Parts, who may be reduced by Sickness, Shipwrack, Old age and other Infirmities and unforseen Accidents, Have thought fit to form themselves into a Charitable Society for the relief of such of their poor and indigent Countrymen". The Managers, according to the rules, were to be "Natives of Ireland, or Natives of any other part of the British Dominions of Irish Extraction being Protestants and inhabitants of Boston". This anti-Catholic rule did not last long, for representatives of the Faith were members of the Society in 1742, and today they are in the majority on its roll.


Here's another FYI site which looks interesting:

http://www.genealogybranches.com/irish.html

AND:

http://legacy.www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/rbk/faids/emigr...


There are fifty-nine volumes in the Emigrant Savings Bank Records. Not all these
volumes contain the personal and family information that you have heard about. This
guide has been prepared to help you zero in on the ones that do.

That's all for this morning.

Betty (near Lowell, MA)

Board Administrator


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Just a note that the 3 HUTCHINSON siblings remained part-owners of the large Farm in MA. And they visited often from 1850 to 1900, probably. My Jacob and his wife died in 1890's on the Farm, and possibly the siblings came up for that memorial.