Fern Street

Fern Street runs east for three blocks from North 7th Street to North 10th Street between Linden and Pearl Streets in North Camden. Much of Fern Street is no longer standing.

Fern Street is probably best remembered for the bar at 800 Fern, known over the years as Clancy’s Cafe, the New Mill Bar & Grille, Stew’s Bar & Grill, and the Fern Grille.

Related: Fern Yearly Formed — 800 Fern Street, December 1910. Clancy’s Cafe — portrait of Mrs. Mary Clancy, proprietor 1933–1949. Hospital Cases — 802 Fern Street, 1956. Charles N. Ackley — 808 Fern Street, 1918. Marriage Licenses — 810 Fern Street, 1938. Chasing Ball in Street Lands Boy in Hospital — 825 Fern Street, 1929. Funeral of John C. Wheaton — 825 Fern Street, 1910. Real Estate — 825 Fern Street, 1955. Man Beaten, Robbed — 825 Fern Street, 1964. Fire at 825 Fern Street — April 3, 1970. Man Charged With Assault — 828 Fern Street, 1917. Exterior — 830 Fern Street, 2005. Real Estate — 840 Fern Street, 1955.

MARRIAGE LICENSES

CAMDEN

George Albert Leary, 21, of 650 Berkley Street, and Ellen Jane Frame, 19, of 525 North Sixth Street.

Joseph C. Rapa, 25, of 606 South Fourth Street, and Margaret R. Schiave, 24, of 220 Royden Street.

Louis Doerr Jr., 22, of 810 Fern Street, and Marian Hawk, 17, of 2904 Buren Avenue.

Roman Bielicke, 20, of 1184 Lansdowne avenue, and Steffie Krystanovicz, 20, of 1077 Van Hook street.

ELKTON

Leon J. Kirk, 23, 934 Carpenter Street, and Ida V. Hope, 36, Oaklyn.

Related: Mrs. Alice M. Brown — 911 Fern Street, 1938. Laxton Family — 914 Fern Street, 1940. Cards of Thanks — Bessing — 919 Fern Street, 1932. 3 Men Are Sent to Jail — 921 Fern Street, 1949. 4 Camden Men Held as Chicken Thieves — 926 Fern Street, 1930. Wed in Penna. — 927 Fern Street, 1935. Archibald Campbell — 927 Fern Street, 1938. Mrs. Bertha E. Campbell — 927 Fern Street, 1940. Husband Is Jailed — 929 Fern Street, 1930. Bishop Family — 930 Fern Street, 1943–1966. Three Win Divorces — 933 Fern Street, 1938. James Maloney — 933 Fern Street, 1909. Camden Incorporations — 935 Fern Street, 1938. Memory of 936 Fern Street.

Mrs. Alice M. Brown died yesterday at her home, 911 Fern Street, of a heart attack, after an illness of several weeks. She is survived by five sons, Edward, Frederick, William, Charles and Howard; three daughters, Mrs. Florence Jordan, Mrs. Rebecca Goldy and Mrs. Edna Albrecht; one sister, Mrs. Jennie Jessup, thirteen grandchildren and three great grandchildren, all of Camden.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday, at Mrs. Jordan’s home, 280 Elm street. Burial will be in Woodland Cemetery.

Three divorces and an annulment were recommended yesterday by Advisory Master Erickson in Camden Chancery Court.

Mrs. Margaret Sheldon, 25, of 210 Ritchie Avenue, West Collingswood, testified her husband mixed a bad temper with drinking and as a result beat her from July, 1931, to March, 1936; when she left him. The husband, Stanley, now lives at 334 Vine Street.

Philip J. Marron, 620 Norway Avenue, Trenton, a traveling salesman, said his wife started an argument over his business trips that lasted three years. Mrs. Georgiana Marron resides at 933 Fern Street, Camden. Marron received custody of their four children.

Mrs. Betty Kushner, 28, of 1164 Empire Avenue, testified that her husband, Harry, 32, of Seventh and Thompson street, Philadelphia, deserted her four years after their marriage.

Mrs. Sheldon, Marron and Mrs. Kushner all won advisory divorce decrees.

An annulment was recommended for Emma Conneen, 23, of 6 Cove road, Merchantville, who eloped with Francis J., 3516 North Twenty-third street, Philadelphia, to Media in October, 1932. They never lived together as man and wife.

CAMDEN INCORPORATIONS

North Camden Young Republican Association: principal office, 940 Linden Street; agent, Sidney Liss. Objects: To advance true principles of good government, to inspire the welfare of the individual members, to promote the spirit of democracy throughout its members, to create a stronger interest among its members toward the Republican party, to create a feeling of sociability and friendship among the members, and to encourage social intercourse among the Republicans of North Camden. Trustees: Sidney Liss, 940 Linden Street; William Kirk, 734 Vine Street; Joseph V. Anderson, 532 Rex Place; Frank Nelson Jr., 921 Vine Street; Wilfred Fournier, 424 Bailey Street; Oliver Guthrie, 935 Fern Street; Charles Johnson, 536 Rex Place.

My name is Janet Jedrzejewski-Bierma, my grandmother was Georgiannia Marron who lived at 933 Fern Street, Camden, N.J. She had 4 children, Joe, Jim, Mary and my mother Grace who was once married to Joseph Zippilli, they had 2 children Loretta and Joseph Jr. and lived at 935 Fern.

After their divorce my mother then met my father Stanislaw Jedrzejewski (though I have been told they never married) we lived at 936 Fern Street and after the death of my grandmother Georgianna Marron we moved into her house at 933 Fern Street, out of that union I was born and my sister Georgianna Sophia Jedrzejewski. I was born 1954 and Georgianna 1957 we moved from Camden in 1965.

Next door to us when we lived at 936 Fern were the Doyles on one side: Mary and Raymond their children Elizabeth, Michael and Patrick on the other side were the Hollidays. Next door to the Doyles was Sherry Martinez don’t remember what her folks names were.

Across the street next to 933 Fern were the Wheelers (John) and on the end by the alley were the Dents. My cousins who lived on Cedar Street knew many of the other people on the street having gone to school with them they were a little older than me. The Bishops, The Gillespies. On the corner was the Linden Baptist Church across from there on the next block was Myra’s it was a sub and candy store and across from there was Ben’s (I think) I know it was another store because we would go in there to get banana fudgecicles.

Janet Jedrzejewski-Bierma, December 21, 2010