Patrick and Susan Foy 

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Patrick Foy (1890 - 1981) first moved to England where he sought work while living with an aunt.  He returned to Ireland and then emigrated to the USA 27 April 1913.     Patrick was mentored by Paddy Murray, working first as a ticket taker on the elevated railroads, then following Paddy Murray into the Police Department.  He retired from the police department in the early 1950s, and worked as a transfer agent for several Wall Street firms.

Patrick married Susan Orwell (abt 1890 - 1932)  a young lady from County Cavan who came to the USA in 1910..  Susan was a nurse who worked with Cecelia Foy.  The couple had five children.  Susan died of cancer soon after the birth of the fifth child.

At the time of the 1920 census, Patrick, Susan and their first child were living in an apartment at 62 West 98th Street in Manhattan.  They soon moved to a private home at 111-27 41st Avenue in Corona, a section of Queens adjacent to Flushing Meadows, the site of two World's Fairs (1939 ad 1962) and now the home of the US Tennis Open held in September each year.

Patrick and Susan are buried in St John's Cemetery, Queens NY along with their eldest child, Patrick Joseph.

Patrick Joseph Foy (1919 - 1999) attended LaSalle Academy in New York City.  Upon graduation from LaSalle, he qualified for City College, which at that time was very competitive.  He left after one year, joined the Army Air Force, and spent World War II in England as a pilot for B-24 bombers.  After discharge from the Army, he immediately started work for Eastern Airlines and remained there until his retirement.  Joe did not marry, but was very devoted to family.  He became the unofficial family photographer, and researched the Foy family origins by interviewing Mary Foy and others in the 1950s.  This web site owes much to Joe's early work.

Peter Aloysius Foy ( 1922  -   1964) won a scholarship to Regis High School, a Jesuit school in Manhattan which only takes scholarship students.  Upon graduation from Regis, Peter attended State University at Farmingdale on Long Island, which at that time was an agricultural school.  He then transferred to Cornell University, where he met and married Ruth Brown after both graduated.  The couple operated a farm first in Cortland and later in Livonia, New York, near Rochester and had  six children: Virginia, Patricia, Eileen, James, Elizabeth and Monica.   When Peter died in 1964, his brother and sister, Joseph and Eileen,  took special interest in Peter's family.  Peter Aloysius died inLivonia and is buried in St. Michael Cemetery, Livonia NY.

Kathleen Foy  attended Hunter College at that time a competitive institution in Manhattan, NYC.  She graduated from Hunter and received her masters degree in sociology from University of Michigan.  She wound up in Hawaii, where she worked for the school system and the department of social services until her retirement.

Eileen Foy graduated from Julia Richman High School in the east side of Manhattan.  She went to work as a clerical assistant with a large firm.  She soon gravitated into the computing field, where she supervised data entry and data verification for many years.   She married Edward Zysk, a graduate of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute with a masters degree in chemistry.  Ed specialized precious metals in low temperature physics, working for  Engelhard Industries in New Jersey.  The couple started their housekeeping in Patterson, NJ, but later moved to Livingston NJ, where Eileen still lives.  The couple had no children.

Monica Foy (1929  -  1999) graduated from Cathedral High School in Manhattan and studied at Katherine Gibbs Secretarial School.  By her late twenties, she was the secretary for the president of GMAC in Manhattan.  Her health deteriorating, she followed her sister Kathleen to Hawaii, where she became the secretary for the president of a television station.   She died in Hawaii and is buried there.

most recent revision:    30 June 2007