Catharine (Kelly) McSwegan was my 3rd Great Aunt. Catharine’s husband, Thomas McSwegan, was a plasterer. He was seriously hurt on the job in the mid-1890s. He died at the age of 50 from the those injuries in 1895. Catherine had 9 children, 3 of them born after 1890. One born a year before Thomas died….
Category: California Genealogy
Emma (Cabral) Pacheco’s Individual Summary
Emma was the first wife of John “Sailor” Pacheco, my grandfather’s cousin. She grew up in Oakland and came from a large family. Her parents were early immigrants to California having married there in 1893. I’m not sure when Emma and John married. John grew up in Kilauea, but shows up in California records around…
Abandoned in a Strange Land
Fearless Females #14…Newsmakers We all know how difficult it was being a woman in the 1880s. You couldn’t travel alone, you couldn’t vote, and in most places in the world you were seen as second class. What would your experience be if you were a female and alone in America? That’s what happened to my…
Winifred (Kelly) Small’s Individual Summary
I do not know much about Winifred. I have yet to find her marriage date. She died at the age of 31 just after giving birth to her only child. After she died, her daughter ended up with relatives. I am not sure what happened to her husbands. Perhaps he felt he could not raise…
My Great Grandmother Became an Adult at 11
[Fearless Females: Prompts for Women’s History Month, March 11th–Female ancestor who died young…this is a repeat from last year] (Reposting this one from last year. My Great Grandmother was an incredible woman!) My Great Great Grandmother was Margaret (Kelly) Jones. Margaret lived next door to a young man named, Thomas Augustine Jones. They married in…