Notes:

According to his birth certificate, John Joseph McVicker was born on Tuesday, October 6, 1885 in Kirkhills, Antrim Ireland to Margaret Ann McVicker and an unknown father. There are two stories concerning the relationship between Margaret McVicker and John Joseph McVicker. John's daughter, Mary McVicker Youngs, her entire life believed that Margaret was Aunt Maggie, her father's older sister or possibly his great aunt.

The second and perhaps more factual story is based on Johns birth certificate and information that John's daughter Margurite McVicker Campbell learned on a trip to visit the McVickers in Ireland, John was actually the fatherless child of Maggie, who became pregnant with him at the age of twenty-four.

According to the Ireland Census of 1901, both John and his brother James were living with Maggie's father in Kirkhills, Stranocum, Antrim, Ireland in a single room. It can be assumed that Maggie had already left for the US. Maggie's father was seventy-four and a widow according to the census.

Family lore had it that Maggie came to the United States first and worked as a domestic ( a cook) to save up money to bring her brothers, John and James to the United States. At the time John emigrated, Australia was also a destination for the Irish. His choice between the U S and Australia was made by the flip of a coin. John was 20 when he left Londonderry on April 16,1904. He arrived in New York harbor on April 16, 1904.

John McVicker's first job in the United States was with the Euwings (Ewing), who according to Mary McVicker Youngs, owned the Singer Sewing Machine Company. (Research does not show a Euwing/Ewing owning Singer but rather Secor sewing machines.) He trained their horses and spent some time racing them. The Euwings had a summer home in Pond Eddy, New York. It was during his time there that he met Edith Holden (Holdren) whom he ultimately married.

The Euwing's spent their summers in Pond Eddy and their winters in New York City. So after John and Edith were married they followed his job to New York City as this is where the Euwing's were living. It was in while living in New York that Edith became pregnant with their first child. Edith went back to Pond Eddy to have daughter Marguerite.

Some time prior to 1913, John wanted to try farming and Edith did not like living in the city, so they moved to Pennsylvania for a short time. They lived on her parent's, Charles and Estelle Holden's, farm. It was at this home in Scottsville, Pennsylvania that their son, Lee McVicker was born.

In 1914, they were living in Pond Eddy, New York in an apartment. This is where their third child Mary was born. They then moved to Irvington, New York where John was employed at the Burnham Boiler Company. While John worked at the Boiler Company he was also the caretaker for William G. MacAdoo, who was a famous personality during WW I. The McVicker family had a nice home on the MacAdoo estate.

In 1925, John was employed by I.B.M. through the New York office. This job took him to Endicott, New York. At the time, IBM didn't pay well so John went to work for the Endicott Johnson Shoe Company in their Endicott, New York facility working in the tannery. He eventually suffered from "leather poisoning" and developed industrial tuberculosis. Prior to his death, he spent his last two years in the Tuberculosis Sanitarium in Chenango Bridge, New York.

John had a very even disposition and was seldom if ever made. He was kind and loved animals.

John married Edith Lillian Holden 28 Dec 1910, Pond Eddy, New York, USA. Edith (daughter of Charles O Holden and Estelle R Redmond) was born 23 Nov 1892, Silvara, PA; died 11 Apr 1971, Tarpon Springs, Florida, USA; was buried , Vestal, Broome, New York, United States. [Group Sheet]

1. Marguerite McVicker was born 24 Jun 1911, Pond Eddy, New York; died 11 Jan 2001, Holiday, Pasco, Florida, United States of America.
2. John L. McVicker was born 13 Aug 1913, Pennsylvania; died 14 Oct 1964; was buried , Vestal, Broome County, New York, United States of America.
3. Mary Valeria McVicker was born 27 Dec 1914, Pond Eddy, New York; died 15 Oct 2006, New Port Richey, Pasco, Florida, USA; was buried , New Port Richey, Pasco, Florida, USA.

Notes:

Margaret Ann McVicker, also known as Maggie was born in Ballymoney, Antrim, Ireland on August 1, 1861 to John McVicker and Mary Ann (Laverty) McVicker. On May 13, 1892 at the age of 31, Maggie boarded the SS City of Rome in Londnderry, Ireland and headed to New York Harbor. On the ships manifest, she was listed as a domestic servant travelling with several other domestic servanst and farm laborers. She left behind with her parents her two sones, seven year old John McVicker and three year old James Patrick.

In 1920 she was a domestic servant for Jessie Orton and his sister Virginia living in Greenburg, Westchester County, NY. Her last residence was at 21 Beekman Avenue, Mt Pleasant, NY


Buried:
Maggie is buried in the Sleepy Hollow Cemetary, Section 54 Kidron, Plot 2893. Buried there are:
1. Marie McVicker 2/13/1920 (James 1st Wife)
2. James P McVicker 10/17/1938
3.Delia McVIcker 5/26/1972 (James 2nd Wife)
4. Margaret Ann McVivker 10/2/1945
5. Jean (aka Jane) McVicker 8/5/1991.

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

Notes:

There are two John McVickers that were living in the Balleymoney area of Antrim, Northern Ireland at about the time that our John would have been alive

What we know:

John McVicker widow
John MCVicker (b. 1827)
According to the 1901 Ireland Census taken on April 18, 1901 there was a John McVicker, a 74 year old widow who was living in Kirkhills, Stranocum, Antrim, Ireland with two grandsons, John (15 years old) and 11 year old James. Both Johns were listed a s Farm Labourers and James was listed as "scholastic" which I assume meant a student. On a census document entitled "Form B.!. - House and Building Return he was enumerated as sharing a building with another family by the name of Robert Lynass. John, John and James lived together in one room. On the same form there is a Patrick McVicker living with seven people in two rooms.

John McVIcker Charles Street
John McVicker (b. 1827 or 1825)
Wife Mary Ann "Annie" McVicker
According to the 1901 census taken on April 13, 1901 in Balleymoney (Urban), there was a John McVicker living at 59/6 Charles Street with his wife Mary Ann McVicker. John was 74 or 76 and Mary Ann 62. The house is a Private dwelling with eight rooms and four windows across the front.According to the Public Records Officve of Ireland's Wills Index, this John Died June 10, 1902. Mary Ann also left a will leaving "the sum of thirty pounds to the parish priest for masses to be said in public for the happy repose of my soul." She died December 15, 1906

John married Mary Ann Laverty. Mary was born Abt 1839, Ireland; died , Ireland. [Group Sheet]