Family Tree Maker - Tracey/Tracy/Treacy Family

project was built after World War II.
In 1938 he took a diesel engine course at the Hemphill School in Long Island City, NY.
He was drafted into the U.S. Army (Serial No. 32814626) on 24 February 1943 and was discharged on 2
December 1945. His home address at time of entry was 21-51 27th Street, Astoria, Queens. He served in Europe
from 20 December 1943 to 26 November 1945, although where he served is not known (Army records from this
period were lost in a fire in St. Louis, MO, about 1971). Although he is listed as a topographic draftsman, his
discharge papers list his organization as the 185th General Hospital. His highest rank was Technician 5th Grade.
Tom had a problem with drink, which led to a legal separation from Mina in 1957, and later an estrangement from
his family.
Tom's cause of death was cirrhosis. With fellow veterans, including his uncle John Joseph Tracy, he is buried in
Long Island National Cemetery, Farmingdale, NY (Section 2P, Grave No. 527).
More About THOMAS JOSEPH MALONEY:
Burial: February 12, 1971, Long Island National Cemetery, Farmingdale, NY (Sect 2P, Site 527)
Social Security Number: 083-05-5524
Notes for WILLIAMINA GALLAGHER:
Williamina, nicknamed "Mina," was baptized in St. Lawrence RC Church, Greenock, Scotland, on 31 July 1910.
Her paternal grandparents were from Glenties, Co. Donegal, and her maternal grandfather, John Keenan, was
from Bangor, Co. Down. Her maternal grandmother, Annie Burns, was born in Co. Armagh, Ireland, but the
exact location has not yet been found.
She lived in Moffat Street and Hill Street in Greenock, and attended St. Lawrence School.
Mina arrived in lower Manhattan on board the "Cameronia" on May 7, 1929, with her sister Annie and friends
Mary Rooney and Margaret Reed Gillespie. She had to wait on the ship all day until a priest "claimed" her and
Annie. Her mother, Sarah Jane Keenan Gallagher, thought all the Scots met every ship that came in and did not
tell Mary, who had emigrated a year earlier, what day they would arrive. The helpful priest called Mary, who
recruited a boyfriend with a car to pick them up. Mina wanted to stay on the ship and go back to Scotland. She
said she needed a "good cup of tea."
Mina was 5 ft, 3 inches tall and weighed 115 pounds. She had black hair.
She became a citizen of the U.S. on 18 December 1939.
Her pregnancy with her son Thomas (born 25 February 1944) was a surprise because a doctor had told her she
could not have children.
She worked as a domestic, cleaned airplanes for American Airlines at LaGuardia Airport, and worked in a school
cafeteria. For many years she worked at the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in NYC as a payroll clerk,
retiring in 1975 at the age of 65.
After her death from cancer of the liver, Mina was buried 24 February 1978 in Gate of Heaven Cemetery,
Hawthorne, NY, Section 38, Plot 408, Grave 7, under the name "Mina Maloney Layburn". In the same plot are
her sister, Mary Shearer Reed, and Mary's first husband, William Shearer. (Mina married Harold Layburn in
1975)
More About WILLIAMINA GALLAGHER:
Baptism: July 31, 1910, St. Lawrence Church, Greenock, Scotland, no godfather, Annie Keenan- godmother, Wm
Horgan-priest
Burial: February 24, 1978, Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Hawthorne, Westchester, NY
Citizenship: December 18, 1939, 5 ft , 3 in, 115 lbs, Black hair, grey eyes, residing at 508 W. 167th St, NYC
Social Security Number: 131-18-4866
Children of THOMAS MALONEY and WILLIAMINA GALLAGHER are:
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