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From: "Ann & Moon Wheeler" <>
Subject: [BOSTON] Boston Family Names/ Howe/Doherty/McCarthy/ O'Connor
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:34:10 -0600
It's been a long time since I've posted my family names. Here's what I have
on them -
HOWE - Patrick -1834-5 - March, 1909
b. Co. Galway, circa 1834-5; arrived Boston 1840-42
Parents - Peter/Patrick Howe - Ann Bryant, both b. Ireland
Naturalized, 1876
M. Ellen A[Nellie] Doherty -7 children
Occupation - Machinist/Engineer/Inventor
Worked as an engineer for Isaac Fenno clothing company
Had his own business -Senior partner in HOWE & CLAUSEN, 208 Summer St.
Close friend and political ally of Mayor Pat Collins
Residence - 853 E. Broadway
DOHERTY
John Doherty - b. Ireland
M. Bridget Doherty, b. circa 1815, Ireland
1833 Arrived New Brunswick circa - Dau. Rosanna b.1833
1838 Were in Roxbury, Ma. - dau. Ellen A. [Nellie], b. 1838 [1840 Back in NB
in - son, Patrick, b. August, 1840
1842 Dau. Margaret, b. St. John, Nov.
1845 Son - John, b. - place unk.
1850 Bridget and Children in Boston - Bridget is listed as head of
household -12th ward in census
Young John and Rosanna disappear after this.
1863, Ellen [Nellie] m. P. Howe, Boston - d. Oct. 1912
1868 Patrick - boiler maker, m. Mary A. Ryan, Feb, , in Boston; P. nat. in
Oct., 1868
1870 -Bridget living w/ Howes -disappears by 1880
1870-1880 Margaret - bookbinder - lives with the Howes on E. Broadway for
many years
McCARTHY
Jeremiah, b. Ireland circa 1813
M. Ellen...??
1846 - son John, b. "Cork, Ireland"
1850 - Dau. Kate -b. Boston
1852 - Dau. Margaret, b. May 11, at home on Limerick Pl.
1868 - John naturalized in Oct.
1870 - Census shows Jeremiah, and children living together- no Ellen
Jeremiah listed as "tailor/pressman; John - "jigsawyer"; Kate -
"keeping house"; Margaret - "tailoress"
1870-73 -Sometime between these years, Margaret m. Wm. H. O'Connor
O'CONNOR
William H. - b. 1852 - Middletown, Conn - no records found to this date.
D. Feb. 1890, buried Calvary Cemetery in Boston, May, 1890 [only records are
from Cemetery - Archives can't find a death record]
1870-73 M. Margaret L. McCarthy, place unk.
1873 - Son Bartholomew born and died
1875 -Dau. Mary Ann, b. Dec [Mass. Archives can't find her birth record]
1877 - Son William born
1879 - Son Charles born
1880 - Census - William shown as working as a policeman - BPD Archives have
no record of him.
1883 - Dec. - William and Charlie die 8 days apart of diphtheria. [Family
living on Preble St, S. Boston]
1903 - Mary Ann m. Frederick Howe, in July, in Boston - they live in
Roxbury, then move to 34 Bournedale Rd, Jamaica Plain, where they stay.
1915 - Margaret McCarthy O'Connor dies in Roxbury - buried in Calvary,
Boston
That's the list - if anything clicks with anyone, please let me know.
Ann
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