Margaret’s husband was an eccentric inventor who created the Baddeley Air Ship. She gave birth to at least 10 children. They named their son (the one that connects to my tree) Benjamin Franklin Baddeley, for obvious reasons, I think. Name: Margaret TODD-8666 Sex: Female Individual Facts Birth abt Jan 1847 Gippsland, Australia Residence ca 1874,…
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Catherine (McSwegan) Baddeley’s Individual Summary
Name: Catherine MCSWEGAN Sex: Female Father: Thomas MCSWEGAN-8485 (1845-1895) Mother: Catharine F. “Kate” KELLY-8479 (1851-1921) Individual Facts Birth Nov 1880 San Francisco, San Francisco Co., CA Alt. Name 4 Jul 1895 (about age 14) Kittie MCSWEEGAN Residence 1900 (about age 20) 317 Eighth St.; San Francisco, San Francisco Co., CA Alt. Name 5 Sep 1908…
That’s Old News: Who Names Their Son Benjamin Franklin?
That’s the question I had to answer. One of my distant cousins, Catherine McSweegan, daughter of Thomas McSweegan and Catherine Kelly, married a man named B.F. Baddeley. That “B.F.” drove me crazy. What did it stand for? I researched different records to see if I could uproot his first and middle name. I eventually found…