Content of the Record:
The record below spans two pages and was edited for compactness. In 1900, Kate is living with her daughter and son-in-law at 64 Stone St. in Newark. She is a 47 year old widow who is the mother of one child. Kate and both her parents were born in Ireland. She immigrated to America in 1870. No occupation is listed.
Conclusions and Speculations:
We learn from this document that Kate was already a widow by 1900 and that she had only a single child, born in New York in 1878, and who was now 21. We also are told that Edith's father was born in New York, although subsequent records will not be consistent naming New Jersey as well. I have not been able to find any additional information about a William Beaver.
Stone Street is less than a mile north of downtown Newark and about a mile from Wickliff where we will find Kate in 1910. Neither are far from the Littleton Ave home of the parents of Charles Edward Ecker. Of interest is the fact that one year later, my Grandmother Edith Margaret would be born at 64 Stone Street.
Daughter Edith Agnes in this census record married young at age 18 and had three children in the next 4 years. One of these did not survive until 1900. Sadly, the infant Hazel who is listed here did not survive to adulthood either.