CENSUS RECORDS for Gerrity Family Tree
(? indicates I can't make out the handwriting)

1851 Leeds, England
Township of Leeds, Ecclesiastical District of Leeds Parish, Borough of Leeds, Town of Leeds

And here's an entry from the Armley jail in Leeds, 1851 (an MS Word file).  Could it be the John who appears in Scranton in 1870?

1861 Leeds, England
Pat Gerrity obtained these pages from the Mormon Church

39 Middle Row  (This area was located south-west of the Goulden's buildings in an area known as Armley, south of the river Aire and probably about 2 to 3 miles from the Goulden's Buildings.) The last six lines of the above show James Curtis age 30, wife Mary age 24, daughter Mary A age 4, William age 2 and Thomas (10 months?).
The last entry is another Mary (not Curtis) age 20, possible a lodger?
You may click on each of the above pages to see an enlargement (files are large - be patient).

1870 US Census
3rd Ward, Scranton, Luzerne Co, Pa
I doubt these next two are ours, but I have a copy of the census page in my file, so I include them here

Pat Gerrity (person #30 in our Gerrity Tree) has done more research, and in an email Nov'02 said:

Mary,  I believe the John Gerrity and Michael Gerrity you have in the 1870
census, living in the High Works are Thomas Gerrity's (b-1810) brothers.
 Too many coincidences.  In 1861, Michael Gerrity lived in the basement of
#20 Goulden's Building in Leeds.  He has to be a relation.  In 1870 John
Gerrity and Michael Gerrity own property in the High Works, in 1888, the
property owned by John Gerrity is now owned by Patrick Sheridan.  In 1870,
Patrick Sheridan was a lodger in the Pittston home of John Gerritty and in
August of  1871, he was the godfather to John and Anna Walsh Gerritty's
daughter, Bridget Gerritty Dougher.  Anna Gerritty was the godmother.  I
believe this to be Annie Coursey.  Also, in 1898, the property where Johnny
and Mary Gerrity McNulty later owned their store, was owned by John Gerrity.
 This I believe is the John Gerrity from the High Works.  As I said, there
are too many coincidences for me not to come to this conclusion.  Carrying
this a bit further, according to the naming process of Irish families, I
would venture an educated guess to say that our great-great-great
grandfather, was named John and was probably born circa 1785.  Of course
this is all an educated guess but I would stand by it all on one foot.
      Also, I have documents that state Annie Gerrity arrived here in 1871,
as did Sarah Jane according to the 1900 Luzerne County census.  I would
guess that this is also when Thomas and Mary Munley arrived with Winnie.
 Annie was naturalized in 1882, I'm going to check that out and see if I can
get a month in 1871 that she arrived.  The 1900 census states that Thomas
Curtis arrived in 1869.  I will have to check the SS Minnesota again.   The
quest continues.  Talk to you later.  Pat

June, 1880
3rd Ward, Scranton, Pa,  Lackawanna County

An email from Pat Gerrity suggests why Stephen Coursey was with his grandparents:

Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 14:27:26 EST
... I believe Stephen
Coursey's parents were living in Green Ridge at the time on Van Storch
Avenue.  Haven't been able to locate them on the census yet but I do know
that Thomas Coursey lived there and worked in a mine in Green Ridge.  Annie
could have been in the process of moving out due to the trouble between the
two.  It was later on, after Thomas was hurt in the mine in Green Ridge that
he moved back into the Stanton Street house and Annie took care of him.  She
was apparently quite forgiving.  

Fulton St

1900 Luzerne County, Plymouth Township, Pa

1900 Silver Bow County, Montana

1900 Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania
Roll 1420 Book 1, Page 137a

1116 Fulton St

Name	Relation	Date of Birth	Age	No of years married	Place of Birth			Year of immi- gration to US	Years in US	Natural -ization	Occupation
					Self	Father	Mother
Peter Gerrity	Head	Apr 1847	53	28?	Ireland	Ireland	Ireland	1869	31	al?	Coal Miner
Bridget	Wife	Mar 1855	45	28?	Ireland	Ireland	Ireland
Mary	Daughter	May 1877	23		Penna	Ireland	Ireland				Laundress
Agnes	Daughter	Jan 1880	20		Penna	Ireland	Ireland
Thomas	Son	Oct 1881	18		Penna	Ireland	Ireland				Coal Miner
Margaret	Daughter	Mar 1885	15		Penna	Ireland	Ireland				At school
Patrick	Son	Jan 1887	13		Penna	Ireland	Ireland				Day Laborer

All could read/write, spoke English.  Owned their home
Bridget was mother of 7 children, 5 living

1920 Luzerne County, Larksville Borough
Supervisor's district no 8, Enumeration district no 116, 7th Ward