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...rary at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary Villanova University Digital Library Philadelphia City Archives Marriage Record Office Free Library of Philadelphia National Archives Mid-Atlantic Region The Historical Society of Pennsylvania The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania The Historical Society of Montgomery County, PA Chester County Historical Society Bucks County Historical Society Delaware

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Monsignor Hugh J. Nolan

Monsignor Hugh J. Nolan was born in Philadelphia on July 8, 1911 to Thomas and Mildred Nolan. After attending Corpus Christ parochial school and Roman Catholic High School, he entered Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary to study for the priesthood in 1929. In the course of nine years, Nolan obtained a

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Parish Mapping Project

...rish boundaries used to look like over various times in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia's past. The main goal of our mapping project is to aid genealogists and other researchers in determining which parish someone most likely belonged. For our project we decided to multiple maps reflecting various points in the

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Irish Catholics and Secret Societies

...House of Representatives of the Fenian Brotherhood, in Joint Convention at Philadelphia, PA, (New York: D.W. Lee, 1868), P005.0145 [4] John O’Neill, “Address. Headquarters, O'Neill's Irish American colonies, 1439 North Twelfth St, Philadelphia, Pa, December 4th, 1876,” P001.1587, https://omeka.chrc-phila.org/items/show/8438 [5] O’Neill, “Address,” P001.1587 [6] MC14: Fenian Brotherhood Collection, https://digital.library.villanova.edu/Item/vudl:24...

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