Dominic Gangemi of Brookville

DOMINIC GANGEMI
Dominic was a 41 year old Italian immigrant living at Brookville in1930. He gave Italian as his primary language, and he worked at 'odd jobs'. Living with him was a woman named Martha Alick, age 36. She is listed as "married", and has been since she was 25, but her husband does not appear in this house. She was born in New York, as were her parents, and gave her occupation as "housekeeper". I'm not positive if this is the same man yet or not, but in 1920, there is a Dominic Gangemi living on Center Street in Brooklyn, NY. He was 29 at the time, also an Italian immigrant. He worked as a painter in a shipyard, and had immigrated in 1906. (He was not a citizen). At that time he lived with his wife, Martha, age 26. It seems likely that Martha Alick and Martha Gangemi are the same person, though why she gave her maiden name in 1930 is not at all clear. Nor is it clear why someone would move from Brooklyn to the Pine Barrens, although there were a number of Italian families in the Cranberry business by the '30s, so perhaps that had something to do with it. However, Dominic was not employed at any of the Cranberry bogs

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