He was born to Irish immigrants in Renovo, Pennsylvania. He came to Buffalo as a young man working the trade of a boilermaker. Among his seven siblings, he had a sister who was a nun and a brother who was a professional baseball player. His wife Mary died at 27 from tuberculosis. Through his two children, Harry and Joseph, he left a legacy of generations that carry on. He was our great grandfather Henry B. Mattimore, and here is some of his story….
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My mother was never wild about the fact that our surname Mattimore was actually derived from Mattimoe, also occasionally spelled without the āeā as Mattimo in Ireland. She grew up a Mattimore after all, so THAT was the name! She reluctantly assumed that somehow the name of our immigrant ancestor, Michael, changed from Mattimoe to Mattimore when he arrived, either due to an Ellis Island misspelling or a change at some later point.
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For some time now I have been trying to figure out a good way to share information about our Mattimore family ancestry. There is a Mattimore Family group on Facebook, but too many family members are not on Facebook, and those of us who are often have a love-hate relationship with it. Some other forum seemed appropriate, so I decided to start this blog. It is meant as a place to share stories, photos and documents about our Mattimore family and related genealogy research.
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