Old and New Immigrants

When investigating my long-gone immigrant ancestors, I often find more immigrants living in the same houses, and filling the same neighborhoods. In this American drama, the set remains the same – only the cast changes. In the small, crowded city of Chelsea, Massachusetts (near Boston), the working class immigrants that were mostly Irish and Russian

New City

Daniel O’Connor moved his growing family to Providence’s Valley neighborhood from Chelsea, Massachusetts in 1915 to work in the huge US Rubber plant just down the hill. He and his wife Kate (McMahon) were immigrants – they grew up in the same parish in Cork City, Ireland. By this time, they had seven of their