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Owen Boyle was a hackman/driver in New York City, born around 1835; died sometime between 1870 and 1880.
Owen & Ann show up for the first time in the 1860 census for New York City with their son Daniel, age 3/12 (born around March of 1860). In the 1870 census they're living with a Patrick Boyle, policeman (Owen's brother??), and their children Daniel (10), William Francis (the census says 10, though he was actually a couple years younger), Mary (7), John (5), Annie (3) and Kate (1). Family legend is that Owen jumped into the East River to rescue someone and was carried as a hero on people's shoulders to a local pub afterwards but died shortly thereafter of pneumonia. At any rate, he's already deceased by the time of the 1880 census.
William Francis eventually became a police detective (he married Sophie Becker, and they died in Flushing), and Annie ended up marrying Clarence Rice Slocum who was named consul to Weimar and Zittau, Germany, and to the Congo. Their two daughters were named Hope and Florence Slocum (Florence was born in Berlin in the early 1900s).
I don't know what became of the other children, although there's another family story that one of the brothers came in second in the first "New York Mile." I haven't been able to find anything about a New York Mile so that must be a nickname for whatever the event was officially called. Not sure when it was or which brother it was.
William Francis once exclaimed of his ancestors in Ireland that "the Boyles were a bunch of horse thieves!" Heh, that's colorful.
I'd love to track them back to Ireland or to find other descendants!
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