Lineage profile: Patrick Joseph Nolan (1922–c.1940s)

Core identity

• Name: Patrick Joseph Nolan

• Sex/Gender: Male

• Birth: 17 March 1922, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA

• Death: Killed in action, World War II (exact date and place not yet specified in tree)

• Marital status: Never married

• Issue: No known children

Parents and ancestry

Father

• Name: Matthew J. Nolan

• Life span: 1889–20 January 1929

• Death: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Mother

• Name: Beatrice (Crombie) Nolan

• Life span: 1891–1 June 1989

• Death: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Patrick is a son of Matthew J. Nolan and Beatrice Crombie, part of the Nolan–Crombie line rooted in Minneapolis, with Beatrice’s Crombie ancestry extending into Canadian origins and Matthew’s Nolan line representing the paternal Irish-descended branch you’ve been mapping.

Sibling set

Patrick appears in a large, close-knit Minneapolis sibling group:

• Marian E. Nolan — b. 1914, d. 26 Nov 1996, Hennepin County, Minnesota

• James “Bud” Nolan — b. 1915, d. 1997, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota

• Matthew James “Mutzie” Nolan — b. 1923, d. 2000

• Catherine M. Nolan — b. 1927, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; d. 2008, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Patrick is the third-born son in this sequence, arriving just before Matthew James “Mutzie” and Catherine, and after Marian and James “Bud.”

Residence and life events

Early life

• Childhood residence: Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA

• Family context: Lost his father, Matthew J. Nolan, at age 6 in January 1929, leaving Beatrice a widowed mother with multiple young children in Minneapolis.

Pre-war adulthood

• Residence (1942): Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA

  • Supported by: U.S., World War II Draft Cards, Young Men, 1940–1947 (Ancestry source attached to his profile).

  • This draft card likely provides physical description, employer, and next-of-kin—almost certainly naming Beatrice or a sibling—anchoring him in Minneapolis at the time of U.S. mobilization.

Military service and death

• Conflict: World War II

• Status: Killed in action (KIA)

• Branch/unit: Not yet specified in the current tree facts

• Implications for research:

  • Likely appears in:

    • U.S. WWII casualty lists (Army or Navy, depending on branch)

    • Possible memorials or honor rolls in Minnesota (state-level WWII dead)

    • War Graves or overseas cemetery records if buried abroad, or a memorial marker if remains not returned.

His KIA status places him among the generation of young Minneapolis men whose lives were cut short in the early–mid 1940s, leaving no descendants and shaping the emotional memory of the Nolan family line.

Timeline snapshot

• 17 Mar 1922: Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

• 20 Jan 1929: Father Matthew J. Nolan dies in Minneapolis—Patrick age 6.

• 1942: Recorded residence in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, on WWII draft documentation.

• Early–mid 1940s (inferred): Enters active military service during WWII.

• WWII period: Killed in action; details pending further record identification.

• Post-war decades: Mother Beatrice and siblings live on into late 20th century, preserving his memory within the Nolan–Crombie family narrative.