Our Museum: Bernard Moynahan's Wallet

During the period of COVID-19 in 2020 when all of the archives and museums around the world were forced to close, many museums and individuals started posting photos with the hashtag #MyMuseum on twitter .

"As we grow older 
many of us create 
our own museum of things..."

The idea of sharing photos of of treasures and trinkets from "our own museum of things" inspired me to create this series called  #OurMuseum. Here is my great uncle Thomas Moynahan's leather wallet.

Thos. Bernard Moynahan's Wallet 

So Many Stories - So Little Time To Tell Them

I love to tell the ancestor's stories. So many new stories have come to me in recent weeks that I cannot possibly keep up and write about them all but I DO have a few interesting ones lined up already in the queu!

October 2019 Research documents

52 Ancestors No. 52: The Broderick-Knapp Family Photographs

My first cousin (2x removed) Mary Amelia "Geraldine" Broderick was born on the 4th of December 1908 in Canard River, Ontario the daughter of Leo William Broderick (1879-1920) and Claire (Gignac) Broderick (1882-1973). Leo Broderick was engaged in farming at the time of her birth (Source: Ontario, Canada, Catholic Church Records (Drouin Collection), 1747-1967) . Her father Leo would later become a detective in Windsor Ontario

Geraldine's Parents
 Leo William Broderick (1879-1920) 
and Claire (Gignac) Broderick (1882-1973)

Mary Amelia "Geraldine" Broderick (1908-1974)
Photo (c 1925); Source: Detroit Border Crossings 1905-1963

I located a border crossing card for her that said she worked at the Book-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit in the mid to late 1920's

The Book-Cadillac Hotel in the 1920s
Source: The Burton Collection; Detroit Public Library

 1929

I found pictures of Geraldine in the Border Cities Star at the Annual Haverhill Club Holiday Dance. She is with her sister Madge Broderick and future brother-in-law Johnny E. Murray.

At 24 years of age, Geraldine married Thomas C. Knapp at the Immaculate Conception church in Windsor, Ontario

As far as I know, Geraldine and Thomas Knapp had only one daughter pictured below.

Geraldine (Broderick) Knapp and daughter "Gerry" (c1940)

 In 1946, when her sister Margaret (Broderick) Hogan died, her obituary stated that Geraldine was living in Nomoka, Indiana.

Windsor Daily Star - Nov 11, 1946

When Geraldine's mother Claire (Gignac) Broderick died in August 1973, her obituary stated that Geraldine was then living in Pompano Beach, Florida.

Mary Amelia "Geraldine" (Broderick) died aged 65 years at Lighthouse Point, Broward, Florida, USA and her husband Thomas Cassius Knapp died there in 2003 at 95 years of age. (Source: Social Security info)