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Subject: Re: Day Family
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 21:09:20 EST

Kelly,
According to the vitals I have (catholic deaths to 1851) there are the
following deaths:
June 24, 1844: Mary Ann Day, female 2 months 27 days old, of Dropsy of Brain.
child of Michael & Hanna Day
April 6, 1846: John Day, male, 11 months 5 days old, of Cough. child of
Michael & Hanna Day
February 26, 1847: Martin Day, male, 1 year 6 months old, no cause listed.
child of Michael & Johanna Day
John and Martin have estimated birth dates that indicate they are not
siblings (3 months apart). The date of death or age could be off and they may
be brothers (twins or not). Even one or both of the parents names could be
wrong. Mabey a monument will help.
As each of these deaths occurred before St. John's Cemetery was
established, they were buried in what we call Tatnuck, the town called it Catholic
Burial Ground from 1844 to about 1849. I wonder if you have information about
other Tatnuck burials, as there are no records (yet found) of the many burials
that took place there. Also, do you know of any in that family that were
buried at St. John's? Other families are believed to have bought plots at St.
John's somewhere down the line, and there are Tatnuck monuments scattered in St.
John's. I don't know if the remains were moved or just the stones. You see,
Tatnuck was small and could not grow, gradually it slipped into a state of
disrepair. In 1907 the remains and the (last?) couple stones were moved to St.
John's. People may have been moving stones throughout the second half of the 19th
century. Knowing when a stone was likely moved may help us learn more about
Tatnuck, a subject that has a few of us up here busy.
Any info on deaths St. John's (>late 1847 or early 1848 to present) or
Tatnuck (1835 to 1907) would help, I will use it to help you.
There was a Patrick Day and Ellen McGrath acted as witnesses for the
marriage of Michael McGedia to Mary McHugh or McKue on Dec. 19, 1848.
Hanna Day and "A. Mooney" witnessed the marriage of Mary Day to
Patrick Coffey on Oct. 2, 1847. Mary and Patrick Coffey can be found in the 1850 &
1860 census (ward 4 in each).
Patrick Day married Elizabeth King on March 23, 1849. Fr. Gibson was
the only "witness." Any Millbury, Mass. connection? I thought Mooney was from
Millbury, I know there were Kings there.

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