Edward McIntire's 1854 Naturalization Papers

Edward McIntire/McIntyre (c1806-1818), father of Patrick McIntyre (c1831-1901), applied for Naturalization in 1854. He was living in Johnstown, Fulton County, New York when he was naturalized. He said he had arrived in the US in 1842.

Dolly Purcell located these papers after following an 1867 entry in the Great Register, San Francisco County.

Transcription:

State of New-York} ss.     To the Honorable the County Judge of the County of Fulton:

FULTON COUNTY  }

     I, the subscriber, a resident of Johnstown in the county of Fulton

and formerly a subject of the Government of Great Britain

but now  _______________________________________________

a resident of the United States, sincerely and bona fide wishing to become a citizen thereof, pray your Honorable Court

that I may have the benefit of naturalization according to act of Congress in such cases made and provided.

                Dated, this 4^th day of August 1854

                                                                                                                                Edward McIntire (Signature)

FULTON COUNTY } ss. I Edward McIntire being duly sworn in open

Court depose and say that I am now a resident of Johnstown in the county of

Fulton am aged about 48 years, that I came into the United

States about the year A. D. 1842

and have continued to reside therein until this time—that it has been my intention for more than five years to become a

citizen of the United States, and to renounce all allegiance and fidelity to every foreign Prince, Potentate, State, Sover-

eignty and Power whatever and particularly to the Government of Great Britain.

                Subscribed and sworn to in open Court, this 4^th day of August 1854

Arch Anderson Clerk (Signature)

                                                                                                                                Edward McIntire (Signature)

FULTON COUNTY} ss. WE David McGlochlin & Jacob Hilton

being duly sworn in open court depose and say that we are citizens of the United States, and residents of

Johnstown Fulton County

that we have been acquainted with Edward McIntyre now present for

the last five years, and during all that time he has resided in Johnstown Fulton for

the last five years

and we believe that it has been his intention during that full period to become a citizen of the United States, that he is

a person of good moral character and attached to the Constitution of the United States, and is well disposed towards the

happiness and good order thereof.

                Subscribed and sworn to in open court, this 4^th day of August 1854

Arch Anderson Clerk (Signature)            David McGlochlin (Signature)

                of Fulton County                                             his

Jacob + Hilton

                                                                                       mark


Notes:

• Items in blue in the transcription are written in script on the Naturalization document.
• One wittness, David McGlochlin, has a similar spelling to his last name as a person identified in a communication in the New York Irish Times, McGlauhin. With an Irish accent, I think they would be pronounced very similar. I wonder if there is any relationship?

Source: FamilySearch.org Naturalization Papers 1845-1858, Image 477, FHL film #007782204. Document provided by Dolly Purcell, June 14, 2020.

Mercedes McIntyre Artiga and Ricardo Ayala Artiga Naturalization Papers

Mercedes McIntyre Artiga (1896-1978) although born in San Salvador, was an American citizen due to her father, Bartholomew McIntyre (1854-1924) becoming an American citizen when his father, Patrick (c1831-1901) was naturalized in 1869 in San Francisco, California. Although we have Patrick's naturalization date on several documents, due to the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, it is believed the actual naturalization records have been lost.

Despite Mercedes being an American citizen, the rules at the time of her marriage in 1921 to Ricardo Ayala Artiga (1894-1987) stated that if an American marries an alien, they lose their American citizenship.

So, it became necessary for Mercedes to "apply" to be naturalized since she had "lost" her US citizenship at the time of her marriage. To enlarge the images below, click once on it.

From the document above you can see Mercedes took the oath of allegiance and was sworn in as an American citizen on November 10, 1941.

Her husband, Ricardo (Richard) Ayala Artiga, also petitioned for naturalization in or around 1939. He also was granted American citizenship on June 29, 1942.

Thank you Joanie Zandona for providing these documents.

Ricardo Ayala Artiga (1894-1987), Husband of Mercedes McIntyre

Ricardo Artiga with daughter Betty Jane (Artiga) Hamilton
and  3 grandchildren  L-R) Eve, Marguerite, and Joan - Dec. 1954.
Photo courtesy: Joan Hamilton Zandona

Ricardo Ayala Artiga was born in San Salvador, El Salvador in 1894. He is the son of Romualdo Artiga and Socorro Ayala. 

Ricardo married Mercedes McIntyre (1896-1978), daughter of Bartholomew McIntyre (1854-1924) and Concepción Ramos (d1913) on Christmas Day, 1921, in San Francisco, California














Ricardo's first known trip to the United States is in 1905 when he appears, at age 10, traveling with his older half-brother, Rafael, who is listed as a student. They traveled on the S. S. Newport which had stopped in ports in Central America and Mexico before arriving at the Port of San Francisco. His granddaughter, Joan Hamilton Zandona, remembers hearing her Grandfather was sent to the United States at a young age to be educated. She also believes he attended St. Mary's School for Boys in the Bay area, but no additional information on the school is known.

Ricardo Artiga entry; S. S. Newport  Passenger Manifest, August 25, 1905; in Selected Passenger and Crew Lists and Manifests; Ancestry.com database online (Washington, DC: National Archives), California, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1959. Accessed  on-line January 15, 2016.

In his late teens, he is shown again on a passenger list coming to America, this time he and another half-brother, Carlos, are both listed as students. On this 1913 manifest he states his last permanent address was in the San Francisco area, so he may have been in San Francisco much of the time from 1905 to 1913. The ship the two were traveling on was the S. S. Laramacca, which departed from Puerto Barrios, Guatemala on November 27, 2013 and arrived at the Port of New Orleans on December 1, 1913.

Ricardo Artiga entry; S. S. Saramacca Passenger Manifest, November 27, 1913; in Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1903-1945; Ancestry.com (Washington, DC: National Archives), Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Record Group # 85. Accessed online January 15, 2016.

In June of 1917, Ricardo registered for the WWI US Draft as an Alien. At the time he was living at 301 Haight Street, San Francisco, California and was working as a clerk in a dairy delivery company on 19th Street in San Francisco. He was single and described as being short with a medium build, brown eyes and black hair.

"U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917," digital image by subscription, Ancestry.com (http://ancestry.com : accessed  January 15, 2016), Richard Ayala Artica, No. 88, Draft Board, San Francisco, San Francisco County, California; citing Selective Service Registration Cards, World War I, NARA microfilm roll Roll: 1544256; Draft Board: 09.

He married Mercedes Ramos McIntyre on December 25, 1921 in San Francisco. Joan Zandona recalls hearing from her mother that Mercedes and Ricardo were "matched up" as there were very few, if any, other Salvadorian families in the area.

Ricardo Ayala Artiga and Mercedes Ramos McIntyre marriage certificate, December 25, 1921, unknown repository, unknown repository address. Married by Peter Bennett, Catholic Priest, San Francisco, California.  The copy image of the document has been cropped and the church location information is missing. Document received from Joan Zandona, January 15, 2016 

They had one daughter, Elizabeth (Betty) Jane Artiga, born February 16, 1923 in San Francisco. At the time of Betty's birth they were living at 79 Del Mar Street in San Francisco. When reviewing the birth certificate below, it became apparent Elizabeth Jane's name had originally been written differently. One story Joan heard was Ricardo may have wanted to call her "Carmen" but Mercedes wanted a more American name. In any event, the edit was done on the original birth certificate, so we probably will never know what name was first written down.

When Betty Jane was born in 1921, Ricardo was employed as a bookkeeper for Gantner and Mattern, a swimwear manufacturer. In 1932, Gantner and Mattern was the first company to produce a topless swimsuit, the Wikie, for men! At this time, it was still considered indecent in many places for a man to swim without a tank top. Ricardo worked at Gantner and Mattern until it was liquidated in 1958.

Elizabeth Jane Artiga, California birth certificate no 1161 (19 February 1923), Department of Public Health, Vital Records, California. Image provided by Joan Zandona, September 18, 2013.

On June 29, 1942, Ricardo Ayala Artiga was granted U.S. citizenship. At the time they were living at 2337 Chestnut Street, Apt. 4, in San Francisco and he was 49 years old.

Ricardo Ayala Artiga, Naturalization record index card, Petition# 61499; AR# 4499989, (June 29, 1942); National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC. Image provided by Joan Zandona, January 13, 2016.

It is interesting to note, Mercedes, who was an American citizen at birth by virtue of her father's American citizenship (Bartholomew became a citizen when his father, Patrick, was naturalized in 1869), lost hers when she married Ricardo. This loss stemmed from the laws between 1907 and 1922 which said any female citizen who married an Alien lost her citizenship. Since Ricardo and Mercedes married in 1921, this was true for Mercedes. She reapplied and was granted citizenship in 1941, several months before Ricardo.

Mercedes McIntyre Artiga, Index to petition, no. 55941; AR# 4281434,  (November 10, 1941); San Francisco, U. S District Court, California.  Image accessed Ancestry.com, June 30, 2012.

Joan relates Ricardo and Mercedes relocated, in 1967, to Guadalajara, Mexico to retire. A few years later Mercedes was diagnosed with breast cancer and they moved back to San Francisco. Ricardo then returned to Guadalajara and Mercedes stayed with her daughter in the US where she died in 1978.

Ricardo married a second time to Raquel Grower Haro who was of Mexican descent. Betty Jane, her husband Martin Snipper, Joan, and her husband Larry Zandona, all flew to Guadalajara in 1981 and visited with Ricardo and his new wife. They also met Ricardo and Raquel's young son.

Before his death, Ricardo lived at Maria Benitez 366 in Guadalajara. He died of a stroke on February 23, 1987 at the age of 94 and is buried in Guadalajara, Mexico.

Ricardo Ayala Artiga entry, Death Certificate, no. 68163, dated February 24, 1987, Civil Registration, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Image provided by Joan Zandona, January 13, 2016.

Sources:
Documents provided by Joan Zandona, granddaughter of Ricardo Ayala Artiga and Mercedes McIntyre, and Ancestry.com. 
Information on Gantner and Mattern from the Vintage Fashion Guild:  http://vintagefashionguild.org/label-resource/gantner/. 
Information on citizenship: National Archives - http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/1998/summer/women-and-naturalization-1.html
Group photo: courtesy Joan Zandona

Patrick McIntyre Naturalization Date

As mentioned in a previous post, most federal and county documents that were archived in San Francisco, were destroyed during the 1906 earthquake.  It is believed this happened to the court copy of Patrick's naturalization papers.

However, Dolly Purcell found an index of nationalizations.  If I remember correctly, she couldn't remember the actual source when she shared it with me.  Regardless, it does list the date of naturalization and it is the same date as Bartolo McIntyre indicates on his request for passport in 1920.

????: 8789
Name: McIntyre, Patrick
Nativity: Ireland
When Naturalized: 19 Aug 1869
When ????: 18 Nov 1926
Recorded: Book W, Page 320

It is possible one of Patrick's children needed proof of naturalization and brought a document to the San Francisco District Court and this is an index of whatever was presented in 1926.

Image courtesy: Dolly Purcell