Records show that Anne and John baptized their first five children at Immaculate Conception Church. Anne and John baptized include: Maurice (May 1858), Thomas (January 1860; John (September 1861); Mary (October 1865); and Ellen (September 1868). I find no record of Stephen (who my grandmother identified as John’s twin)
Church of the Immaculate Conception, originally on 14th Street and approximately a 20 minute walk from where the Nolan family lived, was established in 1855. The congregation was largely Irish and Italian immigrants.
Dedicated in 1858, within twelve years the church had to be expanded and a school was established. In its exterior appearance the old Immaculate Conception parish was a typical Victorian parish church of that day, with a facade in a kind of Italianate Gothic.
The Church today is not the original; the current building was built in 1943.
The first five of the Nolan children were baptized here; after the family moved to White Plain, the remaining four children were baptized at St. John's the Evangelist in White Plains.
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