Megan Larkin

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Biography

I was born on February 27, 1989 at St Peter's Hospital in Albany, New York, on a Monday (This is probably where my hatred for Monday's began to be honest), to Gregory Larkin born in Troy, New York and Kimberly Rafferty who was born in Albany, New York. I am the younger sister of Jaime Larkin and the older sister of Dylan Larkin. Surprisingly I wasn't born during a blizzard but I'm almost certain there was at least some snow on the ground. From what I was told multiple times by my mother who was already in the hospital with pneumonia, and my father who took the entire week off from Freihofer's Bakery, it was a very interesting time that involved a lot of back and forth between my grandparent's house (where I'm sure my older sister was less than enthused that her only child standing was about expire), and the hospital.

My parents raised my siblings and I in Guilderland, New York a typical suburban town in Upstate New York just outside of Albany. The three of us attended Guilderland Schools, I graduated from Guilderland High School in 2007, and attended Hudson Valley Community College in Troy, New York where I obtained an AAS in Criminal Justice in 2009. I then transferred to State University at New York Albany where I obtained a BA in Criminal Justice and Psychology in 2012.

I got into genealogy after becoming interested in my paternal grandfather's family, since I was only two when he passed away suddenly I have no recollection of him, whatever I knew about that side of the family was limited to information my paternal grandmother had gotten from my grandfather's older sister who by the point my grandfather had passed was getting older and her mind was starting to go.

Whatever my grandfather knew when he was still alive was minimal since his father died when he was seventeen. I knew that the majority if not all of my grandfather's side of the family were buried out of the Purcell Funeral Home in Troy, New York since the wife of Daniel Purcell was the sister of my paternal great grandmother, or Parker Brothers in Watervilet, New York because some of them lived there too.

I knew that his side was obviously Irish and that my great grandmother was born in Canada, but beyond that I had no idea. When I got to college, I would go to my grandmother's after I got out of class and hang out there where we would talk about this. All she kept saying was that the Black family in Canada which was on my paternal great grandmother's side had money, but a Protestant married a Catholic and we never saw the money.

As I was getting into my grandfather's side of the family, my grandmother was getting more interested in hers , since her cousin Boyd had been looking into his paternal line which was her maternal line, The Allendorphs for quite a while. She didn't know much about her side of the family, all she knew was that she swore she was Dutch (She wasn't she was German), Her maternal grandmother had a hotel in Asbury Park, New Jersey where a cousin named Polly embezzled money from (Still haven't found her).

Prior to her passing in November of 2019 which was a huge blow to me since she was quite possibly my best friend, I was granted access to the family tree Boyd made for the Allendorphs, I never got the opportunity to talk to Boyd, since he passed before we could set up a time to go talk to him. My grandmother also gave me multiple pieces of information about her paternal grandmother Ada's family.

Sources

• First-hand information. Entered by Megan Larkin