Alec's Ancestors
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Alec's Ancestors
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Surnames
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The Broderick Family
Unfortunately, I know very little about my mother’s family. I have some wonderful photographs, but not much more. First
Generation:
David Edmund Broderick was born before 1850. He was the son of a Baptist minister. On the U. S. 1920 and 1930 census, David's son, Elmore indicates that his mother and father were born in England. David married and had two sons, James, and Frank. The boys were about 3 and 5 years old, when he married Jane Mosher. Jane was an identical twin and she and her sister loved to fool their boy friends about who was who.
Second Generation: Elmore Harris Broderick was born March 25, 1879 in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. He married Grace Harriet Guinnop March 18, 1904 in Jackson, Calhoun County, Michigan. Grace was born October 12, 1883 in Mason, Le Roy County, Michigan. Her parents were Charles Guinnop and Caroline Rench. Elmore indicated on the 1920 census, that he had immigrated to the United States in 1901 and on the 1930 census, he stated that he had immigrated in 1904. Elmore, Grace and their daughter, Natalle were always moving. He worked as a clerk for the Michigan Central Railroad in 1903. In 1905, he worked as a stone inspector for the railroad. He worked for Joliet Tire Works in Joliet, Illinois, as a manager for Horse Shoe Stone Quarries in St. Mary’s, Ontario, a service station attendant in Battle Creek, Michigan, a supervisor for the Butterick Publishing Co., in New York City. He finally found his career in the newspaper business. He lists his occupation as circulation manager for the News-Courier for Booth Publishing Co., in Saginaw, Michigan on his Draft Registration Card, signed September 12, 1918. Elmore listed his address as 630 S. Weadock, Saginaw, Michigan. Elmore, Grace and Natalle are listed on the 1920 census as living in San Diego, California in January of that year. He worked for many newspapers, including the Lansing Capitol News, the Herald Post in Louisville, Kentucky from 1928 to 1929. At the end of World War II, he stayed at the newspaper until well after midnight, waiting for news of the armistice. In May of 1929, he packed up his family and drove cross country to California, where he was circulation manager of the Santa Ana Times and then the Long Beach Sun. In 1931, he got restless again and moved back to Michigan where he worked as a night engineer for the City National Bank. In 1935, it was back across the country to California to work for the News Post in Monrovia. He retired in the 1940’s in Monrovia and later, he and Grace moved to Oceanside, California to be near their daughter and her family. Grace died October 4, 1960 and Elmore passed away December 27, 1960. They are buried at Eternal Hills Cemetery, Oceanside, California. I remember my grandfather as very frail. When I was just a baby, my grandparents were driving a Pierce Arrow and were struck by a car so hard that it spun the car around 180o. My grandmother had just picked me up off of the back seat, when the car hit us. My grandfather had back problems for many years after that. My mother would visit with her parents almost every day and I made friends with a little girl that lived two houses away. Whenever my mother took me to visit "Nana" and "Paba", I would run down to see my friend, Nancy. "Paba" would come down to get me when it was time to leave and I would skip back to the house with my arm around his waist. He would sing a little tune that I can't remember now and have to tell me to "take it easy". He was a very sweet man.
Third Generation: Natalle Francis Broderick was born December 25, 1909 in St. Mary’s Ontario, Canada. One day when she was a very young child, she picked up a glass of beer and drank the foam off the top. She was known as "Bubbles" or "Bubs" for the rest of her life. Natalle worked as a cashier for Walgrens Drug Store in Battle Creek, Michigan, J. C. Penney’s and in Monrovia, California. She worked as a stenographer for a real estate office in 1930. In September of 1938, Natalle married Claude W. Purbaugh. They were divorced in May of 1940. In 1942, she went to work for the Bank of America, working her way to head teller before she resigned in 1949. In 1948, she met Harold "Red" Guild de Crevecoeur. Friends had been trying to get the couple together for sometime. When they finally met for coffee at a friend’s diner in Monrovia, Bubbles told the curly red head, that she would "love to run her fingers through his hair." They were married July 31, 1949 in Las Vegas, California. In 1952, they moved to Oceanside, California, where they bought Buddy’s brother-in-law’s chicken business. In the early 1960’s the business began to fail and he returned to roofing for a few years. He then went to work at Camp Pendleton for about 15 years, retiring as an asphalt plant operator. He and Bubbles moved to Anza in 1975. Bubbles died June 22, 1977 Red remarried in March of 1980 and died June 30, 1980. They are both buried in Eternal Hills Cemetery, Oceanside, California next to Grace and Elmore Broderick.
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The
Broderick Home in St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada
The Broderick sisters, clockwise from bottom right,
Effie, Lila, May, Nettie and Harriet.
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