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Bushwick Village

I've never heard of this name for what appears to be a section of South Toms River, on South Main Street, but the 1920 census enumerator referred to it that way in the Berkeley census. It's listed as an 'unincorporated village' Eventually I plan to transcribe the census for this 'town', but for now here are the names of some of the families who resided there in 1920: Gardner and Sarah Smith Job Hand Gustave Hockaway Howard Hans Leslie Smith Charles P. Horner Jefferson and Anna Thompson Brazilla Luker Leroy and Lydia Evernham Mary Cotten Edith and Arthur O'Hare William A. Chamberlain Harvey and Rose Irons Joseph and Mary A. Walton Bessie Borden Several of the older children of these families worked at a shirt factory, presumably somewhere nearby. The census lists about 2 1/2 pages of names, about fifty homes, in this village in 1920.