Monday, April 16, 2012

Mystery Monday-What year is this photo?


How can you not love this photo?  Really, the hair is awesome!  Look at the shirt!

A cousin just sent it to me--a scan of a tintype of my great-grandfather, Albert Murray.

But I have no idea what year this is from.  Albert was born in 1856.  He was a farmworker and laborer in New York and around 1880-1882 settled in Emporium, PA where he married, was a constable, and at one point, worked at a dynamite factory.  I have trouble imagining someone who was a laborer being this finely styled for anything other than his wedding in 1882 when he was 26.

Friday, March 23, 2012

A Marriage Certificate!

I just got word that a cousin has a copy of Albert "Allie" Murray's marriage certificate to Agnes Dalton!  I hope it will help me further with my efforts to uncover more about Allie (or Alley).  I wrote about my initial research here: Albert Murray, aka Edward Mallory.  At the time I wrote that post, it seemed the Dalton Gang connection was unlikely, despite family stories.  But maybe the marriage certificate will yield some clues.  Stay tuned!

UPDATE: 4/27/2014

Although I never found the marriage certificate, I did find this:

From the Sept. 20, 1909 Arizona Republican


Allan (but spelled Allen) was his brother's middle name, so I suppose this was the first phase of finding an alias, before he ended up as Edward Mallory. I haven't been able to locate him in the 1910 or 1920 census. Hard to tell what name he might have been using.

Oh, and just to confirm, Agnes was not from the Dalton Gang family. Her father emigrated from Ireland in 1880 and the family was living in Williams, AZ.