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descendant of Johann Pieter STRAUB, 1733 immigrant to Philadelphia, PA
Patrick NOLAN
Catherine FALLON
Husband:  Patrick NOLAN
Birth:  1829/30/31, Glenmore, co. Mayo, Ireland
Death:  1862, City & Co. of San Francisco, CA
Transhumance:  1852, to New England; settled Winthrop, Kennebec Co., ME
Marriage:  1852-55, ME
Transhumance:  1862, to CA
Wife:  Catherine FALLON
Birth:  1836/7, Ireland
Other Spouse:  m2. ?
Transhumance:  ? to St. Louis, MO
Sister:  Margaret FALLON / FALLAN, b. 1834/5, Ireland
Children:
1.  Margaret NOLAN, b. 1856/7, ME
2.  Timothy N. NOLAN, b. 2 Mar 1859, Hallowell, Kennebec Co., ME
Keywords for search engines:  USA, United States, California, Maine, Missouri

Sources:

1.  Marriage Record:

2.  1860 Census Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #58 of 59):  Winthrop P.O., Winthrop, Kennebec Co., ME, p. 1050, PN 58, 442/482, enumerated 7 Jul 1860, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1860 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):
Patrick Nolan 29 M   Oil Cloth Carpet Laborer     Ireland
Catharine " 23 F         do
Margaret  "  3 F         Maine
Timothy   "  1 M         do
Marg Fallan 25 F         Ireland
Several men on this and adjacent pages were employed in various jobs in an "Oil Cloth Carpet" factory.  Margaret FALLAN is almost certainly Catherine's sister.

3.  Family Quest Archives:  California Federal Census 1870:  Plumas and Sacramento Counties.  (Heritage Quest CD M593-77):  Sacramento 4th Ward, Sacramento Co., CA, p. 320B, PN 4, enumerated ca. 9 Jun 1870, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1870 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):
1870:  for an explanation of the column headings, please see
What the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained no data).
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 15 19
27 36 Hopkins Mark 54 M W Treasr R R Co 9150 8,655,780 New York       /
    _______ Mary F 48 F W Keeps House      "   "         
    Nolan Timmy N  9 M W attends school     Maine     /  
    Ah Sing 25 M C domestic     China / /    
This may be a "Stella Dallas" story, with Catherine giving up her son so he could have a better life than she could have given him.  On the dark side, she could have sold him or just deserted him.

4.  1880 United States Census and National Index (LDS Family History Resource File: CD-ROM Library):
Census Place: 6th Ward, San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Source: FHL Film 1254074; NARA Film T9-0074; Pg 701B
  Relation Sex Marr Race Age Birthplace Occupation Fa Mo
M. F. HOPKINS Self F W W 52 NY Keeping House CT MA
Timothy HOPKINS Son M S W 21 CA At Home CA CA
May CRITTENDEN Niece F S W 17 MO At Home NY NY
[nine servants]
Mary adopted Timothy, her housekeeper's son, as an adult, after the death of her husband, Mark HOPKINS, in 1878.  Timothy was born in Maine, not CA, and his parents were born in Ireland, not CA.  Timothy seems always to have gone to some length to disguise the fact that he was adopted.

5.  Timothy Hopkins.  1932.  John Hopkins of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants.  Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, CA.

6.  Harold Clarke Durrell.  1936.  "Memoirs of Deceased Members of the New England Historic Genealogical Society." New England Historical and Genealogical Register 90(April): 167-194.  On p. 182:
TIMOTHY HOPKINS, of Menlo Park, Calif., adopted son of Mark and Mary Frances (Sherwood) Hopkins, elected a resident member 6 May 1896 and made a life member 18 May 1896, was born at Hallowell, Maine, 2 March 1859, the son of Patrick and Catherine (Fallon) Nolan, and died in San Francisco, Calif., 1 January 1936.

His father, Patrick Nolan, born at Glenmore, co. Mayo, Ireland, in 1829, came to New England in 1852, settled at Winthrop, Maine, where he found employment in an oilcloth shop and married Catherine Fallon.  In May 1862 he left home for California to seek better fortune in the gold fields.  However, he secured work in San Francisco and sent East for his family, but he was accidentally drowned on the day that they sailed form New York.

Mrs. Nolan, who later married a second time and moved to St. Louis, Mo., found work in the family of Mark Hopkins, the railroad magnate, and in a short time Timothy, now three years of age, was made a member of the family.  On the death of Mark Hopkins in 1878, he was legally adopted by the widow, who married secondly, in 1887, Edward F. Searles, and died in 1891.

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