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….
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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…
The Remarkable Jones Women
At the age of 39, Thomas Augustine Jones found himself a widow with two teenagers and three daughters under the age of 10 to raise. It was 1889, and San Francisco was still somewhat of a wild city. Not exactly the best place to raise children, yet he did it, and they turned out to…
Josephine (Jones) Pohley’s Individual Summary
My Great Aunt, Josephine (Jones) Pohley) was born in San Francisco in 1870. She was the first child of Thomas and Margaret (Kelly) Jones. She survived the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. The Pohley’s were said to be the only ones in the Jones family whose house survived. I have yet to search all the city…