David Fitzgerald

Life

How we know this: His birth and parentage are documented; his marriage, children, migration, and death is recorded here but not yet supported by a document. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

Work and occupation

• labourer — 1925–1926

  [COMPILED] “Fitzgerald David (Cath) lab h200 18th.”

  Citation: Jersey City directory — David and Cath Fitzgerald at 200 18th Street, 1925–1926 [3]

Where they lived

• 1925–1926: 200 18th Street, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey

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Historical context

These background articles explain the places, work, and events in this entry.

What we still don't know

• Which Cullane locality the birth record identifies
• His marriage to Catherine Condon
• His migration history
• A record of his reported death in Jersey City about 1939
• Search the offline Hudson County Court of Common Pleas Naturalization Records, 1834–1920, control CHDCP003—especially the loose naturalization papers, 1834–1906—for David Fitzgerald.
• Obtain a 1930 census schedule or directory continuity chain before joining the 775 Newark Avenue lead to the strong 200 18th Street David-and-Cath match.
• The family's registration geography is now precise. Cullane, Ballylanders sits in the **Galbally** registrar's district, **County Limerick**, inside the **Mitchelstown** Poor Law Union. Flemingstown, where Catherine Condon was born, is in the same **Mitchelstown union**. An earlier note in this archive described the Fitzgeralds and Condons as families 'twenty miles apart in different counties' — that overstated the distance. Both were inside one union, which makes the marriage an ordinary local one. Galbally had never been searched before August 2026 because it was absent from the district lists used.
• [LEAD] The 1920 census dates his arrival to 1897 and Catherine's family came separately from Cork. Two passenger manifests are therefore findable in a narrow window, and a post-1906 manifest names the nearest relative left at home — which for David would be his father John Fitzgerald of Cullane South, the man who signed his own name four times.
• His exact death date. The memorial gives April 1939 and no day; a New Jersey death record would give it, and would also name his parents a second time.

References

1. [1] entry 116 imageBack to citation 1
2. [2] Jersey City directory — David Fitzgerald at 775 Newark Avenue, 1902–1903Back to citation 2a Back to citation 2b
3. [3] Jersey City directory — David and Cath Fitzgerald at 200 18th Street, 1925–1926Back to citation 3a Back to citation 3b Back to citation 3c
4. [4] Jersey City municipal schedule — 775 Newark AvenueBack to citation 4
5. [5] Irish civil birth register, David Fitzgerald, 28 March 1875, Cullane, BallylandersBack to citation 5a Back to citation 5b
6. [6] Irish civil birth register, Richard Fitzgerald, 17 April 1872, Cullane, Ballylanders, Galbally districtBack to citation 6
7. [7] Catherine Condon Fitzgerald memorial, Holy Cross CemeteryBack to citation 7
8. [8] David Fitzgerald memorial, Holy Cross CemeteryBack to citation 8

See also

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