
Phillip McCauley (1875-1914) is the fifth born child of Bernard McCauley and Anne Kerron. Born near Florence court in Fermanagh County, Northern Ireland, he emigrated to America in 1899. Phillip arrived in American on the ship the Buenos Ayrean in May of that year and came with $10.00 on him. The manifest states he had a place to stay with his brother, Edward. Below is an enlarged copy of his entry in the ships manifest.

Phillip was a bricklayer, mostly working construction in the New York city area and notably, on the construction of the Panama Canal. Upon his arrival in America, he initially lived with his older brother, Edward, and Edward’s extended family, in the Bronx, NY.
Phillip Married Nora Sullivan (1882-1958) and is found in the 1910 U.S. census to be living along with Nora’s widowed mother, Katherine Sullivan, Sister-in-law Lena Sullivan, and the first three of their children, Norrine McCauley, John Bernard McCauley (Bernard in honor of Phillips Father?) and Phillip McCauley. The Family lived at 12 Washington Avenue in Brooklyn NY. Below is an edited copy of the 1910 Us Censes.


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