In this snapshot John M Lane is 38 years old and Catharine is 33. So far they have four children.
John, Joseph, Henry, and Gertrude who all in school, except for Gertie because she's only ONE. She'd been born the spring before.
Looking at this census we get some key information.
First of all, John M Lane (born in 1862) was a brick mason. This is important to connecting him back to a U.S. Census 1880.
Secondly we find out that all four of the married couple's parents were born in IRELAND.
Dad's been plugging England all afternoon as where Pop Pop's family came from, but that just isn't so, they were from IRELAND. We might have to send Dad and Mom TO Ireland to get the Way Back story. We're busy enough here in New England tracking down ancestry Stateside.
We did find a most probable connection between the censuses of 1900 and 1880.
And this comes with surety from having found the registration of the birth of John M Lane.
On the 14 JANUARY 1862 he was born to Jeremiah and Mary Lane.
His mother was Mary HICKS before she married Jeremiah.
Both Jeremiah AND Mary were born in Ireland.
And Jeremiah was a brick layer.
By the time that John grows to the age of 18 it is time for the U.S. Census 1880 where he is listed in Jeremiah's household as a BRICK MASON.
Jeremiah's household is pretty filled up with EIGHT KIDS.
Julia is a year older than John.
Ellen is sixteen.
Mary, 13.
George is eleven years old.
Hannah is 7.
Alfonses is four.
And Frances is the baby there, she's a toddling two.
On the U.S. Census 1870, for Jeremiah and Mary Lane there are only FIVE KIDS.
Julia, John, Helen, Winnie, and George.
Helen must be the proper name of Ellen.
And Winnie? Winnie is what you call a three year old girl Mary.
If you want to take a peek at this census as posted by familysearch.org, you may click on this sentence.
We noticed that some of the neighbors were named Kelly!
But we still don't have a straight answer for Dad how it was the Lanes went from Boston to Camden. The 1910 census gives us a single John M Lane (born in 1890) in BOSTON and then we find him married to Mary Frances (nee Mc Gowen of Philadelphia) in the 1920 census in CAMDEN, NJ.
