Pernille H Norby

   Another name for Pernille was Hilda P.

  Research Notes:

1. Birth - WA digital

- only provides "un-named" baby, this 5 May 1910 corresponds with the 1920 and 1930 US Census

NOTE: there may be a descrepancy with date of birth - Port Angeles paper has date as 5 May 1920; Ancestors ... records birth as 1911

Hypothesis: Pernille's (Hilda's) date of birth is 5 May 1910
Information Gathered:
- WA digital archives
- 1910 and 1930 US Census
- Obiturary from Port Angeles paper has date as 5 May 1920
- Obiturary from Port Townsend Leader does not record date of birth
- Tombstone
Conclusion: The most likely consclusion for Pernille (Hilda's) date of birth is 5 May 1910
--- since the 1920 and 1930 US Census was recorded on those dates and most likely the information was provided by her parents. However, this is not conclusively proven since it is known that there are recording errors on the census forms.
---The information provided in the Obituary could be a misprint or based on information provided by individuals without confirmed information and recorded from their memory or beliefs.
--- The WA digital record is likely accurate since it is likely recorded shortly after the birth -- the problem of course is that it does not name the baby; but comparing the births of other children, this would be the Pernille is the most likely possibility
--- tombstone records 1910
--- Ancestors ... records birth as 1911

Further Research: (1) contact or find obit for son or daughter


2. Marriage: Hilda P Norby - Thomas A Maher -- no ages recorded


3. Thomas A Maher -- Seattle Times NOT CONFIRMED

16 Feb 1949 and 5 Aug 1949, articles
- Thomas A Maher is sentenced to prison for 9 months for "abandoment and non-support"
- first article indicates that Thomas A Maher, age 38 <1911> has [been] failing to support his wife and children and that the Seattle Police reported that he has been "...arrested in the skid road for drunkness". The article does not name wife or children, but reports he has a son, age 16 <1933> and daughter, age 2 <1947>


4. Name
1920 Census - recorded as Hilda P
Ancestors ... - Pernille Henrietta
Obit, etc - Penille

5. Hilda

OBIT: 1971 --- Pernille H Tierney [ likely she remarried, sometime after 1949, but no marriage record on WA Digital --- obit of 1971 says, married in 1958 ] +++ actually 3 times - in 1951 to Joseph Blythe (US SSDI shows 3 Joseph Blythe's with last residence of North Carolina, but does not specify Joseph T Blythe

Obit, 6 Dec 1971, page 12, col 4 - Port Angeles Evening News, Port Angeles, Clallam Co, WA

- reports death at age 51 and birth as 5 May 1920 [ this is likely an error ]
- daughter of Mr and Mrs Peter Norby
- married Patrick Tierney in 1958 in Forks [Clallam Co]
- survived by Patrick; one son Patrick Maher of Everett; one daughter Mary Ann McMichael of Maryland; one brother, Karl H Norby of Seattle; two sisters, Inger Mullaney of Grisham, OR, and Peteranne Myers of Portland, OR

Obit, 16 Dec 1971, pa 13, col 1; Port Townsend Leader
- funeral at the Forks on Dec 7;
- died at her home on the Sol Due River near Forks on Dec 4
- born in Port Townsend; school; attended business college in Seattle
- married to Thoms A Maher of Blyn - they resided in San Franciso and Seattle until his death in 1949
- daughter of Mr and Mrs Peter Norby of Port Townsend
- married Patrick Tierney in Key West, FL
- they lived in Oak Harbor [ Whidbey Island ] - she was the assistant manager of the Naval Exchange cafeteria
- moved to Forks - she entered the real estate business
- survived by her husband Patrick Tierney; son Patrick Maher of Everett; daughter Mary Ann Maher of Patuxent River, Maryland; four grandchildren; borther Karl Norby of Seattle and sisters, Inger Mullaney of Gresham OR and Peteranne Meyer of Portland OR


6. Patrick Maher -- son

Port Angeles Evening News, 2 Aug 1968, page 3, col 4
- mother is Mrs Pat Tierney of Forks and the grandson of the late Mr and Mrs Peter Norby of Port Townsend and Marion Vincent of Blyn
- graduated in 1951 from Port Townsend High School [ if age 17 or 18 at HS graduation, birth would be about 1933 - corresponding to point 3 above ]

7. Obit -- Thomas A Maher, 8 Dec 1949

- died in hospital in San Francisco
- 39 years of age, born 24 Jan 1910 in Hoquiam
- spent early life on the Olympic Peninsula; attended school at Port Townsend; graduated high school in Sequim
- married to Pernille Norby on 15 Aug 1930 - they spent several years in San Francisco after their marriage and more recently in Port Townsend and Seattle
- entered military service 14 June 1945 and discharged 18 Jan 1946
- survived by his wife and two children, Patrick F Maher and Mary Ann Pernille Maher


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Pernille married Thomas A Maher on 15 Aug 1930 in Seattle, King Co, Washington, United States ³⁶²⁵.^,3789 (Thomas A Maher was born on 24 Jan 1910 in Hoquiam, Chehalis Co, Washington, United States ³⁷⁹⁵ and died about Dec 1949 in San Francisco, San Francisco Co, California, United States ³⁷⁹⁵.)

Pernille next married Patrick Tierney.

Pernille next married Joseph Blythe.