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From: Sheryl Romasco <>
Subject: Re: [MAWORCES] The Disappearing Katie Quinn
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 10:51:29 -0400
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Joe -
You might try the American French-Genealogical Society in Woonsocket, RI
http://www.afgs.org/

They might be able to answer your questions - or give you suggestions.

Also, the RI Cemetery Transcription page. This is an index of people
buried in RI from early times to about 1900. You can search by name or
you can go to a town and search by where the cemeteries are in a town.
The info is pretty accurate.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/cemetery/index.html

Sheryl


On Aug 9, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Joe Root wrote:

>
> Thanks for the thoughts. I'll follow up with St. Patrick's in
> Providence.
>
> The Rhode Island connection has never been very clear, as the Cranes
> wound
> up in Leominster, and there is no evidence that the Quinn parents came
> over
> from Ireland. The 1880 census in Providence Co. doesn't yield any good
> candidates, and Catherine was living in a boarding house.
>
> Any thoughts on whether her survival was a real possibility, given the
> social and religious environment? Michael had already moved to
> Leominster
> at the time of the marriage, and the marriage was entered in the town
> records. Moreover, he had family there -- there is another large Crane
> family in Leominster, who wound up living right down the street. They
> weren't close enough to trace the relationship at a distance, but
> there was
> some connection there, and I would think that a previous marriage
> would be
> difficult to cover up, and sure to cause a scandal if discovered. What
> think you?
>
> So, I appreciate the brainpower applied to the problem!
>
> Best,
>
> Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:]
> On Behalf Of Lisa Lepore
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 5:17 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [MAWORCES] The Disappearing Katie Quinn
>
> Hi Joe
> Have you searched in Burrillville?
>
> Although there are others, I think they formed later
> than your dates. I would try this one -
> St. Patrick established in 1854
> St. Patrick
> 45 Main Street
> Harrisville, R.I. 02830-1403
> Phone: (401) 568-5600
> Fax: (401) 568-7132
>
> Cemetery: Parish Cemeteries of St. Patrick Church
>
> Parish Cemeteries of St. Patrick Church
> 45 Main Street
> Harrisville (Burrillville), RI 02830
> phone: (401) 568-0568
> Parish: St. Patrick
>
> If she didn't die in RI, maybe she was buried with family in
> Burrillville? There was one Quinn at the St. Patrick Cemetery
> in Burrillville [from the RI Cem. Database]
>
> QUINN MARTIN 1835 - 1887 BU015
>
> HISTORICAL CEMETERY #: BU015
> ST PATRICK'S CEMETERY
> BURRILLVILLE
> CEMETERY HILL RD
>
> This cemetery has been recorded but not checked.
>
>
> I don't know if the following will help much, but the
> RI Cemetery Database Transcription Project also
> has this entry at St. Patrick Cemetery in Providence
> http://www.rootsweb.com/~rigenweb/cemetery/cemetery095.html
> CRANE CATHARINE -
> PV002
>
> unfortunately, no dates for her.....
>
> In addition to Catharine, there are these Crane buried there -
> CRANE ARTHUR -
> PV002
> CRANE CHARLES J -
> PV002
> CRANE HANORA (O'CONNOR) 1796c - 4 MAY 1870 PV002
> CRANE JAMES -
> PV002
> CRANE JOHN -
> PV002
> CRANE JULIA -
> PV002
> CRANE MARY 1831c - 6 MAY 1899 PV002
> CRANE MARY -
> PV002
> CRANE MARY (2) -
> PV002
>
> http://members.tripod.com/~debyns/pv_ceme.HTM#PV002
> HISTORICAL CEMETERY #: PV002
> ST PATRICK'S CEMETERY
> PROVIDENCE RI
>
> Location: 15 ft northeast of DOUGLAS AVE at TEL pole # 55
> 25000 burials with 2800 inscriptions from 1844 to 1979
>
> NOTE: The record book indicates that this Catholic cemetery opened
> April 22,
>
> 1844. The
> first burial was Frederick Conlon who died at the Cranston Print
> Works.
> There were 103
> interments in 1844, 155 in 1845, 144 in 1846 and 213 in 1847. from
> 1844-1889 there were
> 21,136 interments. Only a small fraction of these have gravestones.
>
> This cemetery is 10 acres. Many early Irish gravestones.
>
> This cemetery has been recorded but not checked.
>
> There is a Burrillville Historical society
> http://www.bhps.org/
>
> Lisa
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Root" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 10:33 AM
> Subject: [MAWORCES] The Disappearing Katie Quinn
>
>
> | Having hit a pretty solid brick wall, I would appreciate your ideas
> on
> next
> | steps.
> |
> | Here is the problem:
> |
> | A key person in my early research was my ggf Michael Crane, born in
> Ireland
> | in 1860, came to US in late '70s, lived most of his life at 111
> Cottage
> St.,
> | Leominster. He married Mary Scanlon (also b. Ireland, 1860) in St.
> Leo's
> in
> | 1887. Surprise, surprise - that was his second marriage, a fact
> completely
> | unknown to any survivors (all at best grandchildren, by this point).
> It
> | seems that he married on Catherine (Katie) Quinn in Burrillville, RI
> on
> Apr
> | 14, 1884, which was recorded in the Leominster town records as well
> as
> those
> | of Burrillville. He is shown as residing in Leominster, she in
> Harrisville,
> | RI. The 1880 census shows two entries that are likely these two,
> both
> | living in boarding houses in Burrillville, both working in the
> woolen mill
> | there.
> |
> | Trouble is, that's the last I can find of her. Given the times,
> plus the
> | fact that Mary Scanlon was among the founding members of St. Leo's
> and was
> | indeed a pillar of the church afterward, the overwhelming
> probability is
> | that she died between 1884 and 1887, very likely in childbirth. So
> far I
> | have looked for that event in the NEHGS website, the RI archives, the
> | Leominster and Fitchburg town records. She's not in the cemeteries
> at
> | either St. Leo's or St. Bernard's (Fitchburg). She doesn't show up
> in the
> | online archive of the Fitchburg Sentinel, nor in the extant
> Leominster
> | directories in the town historical society. No information is
> available
> at
> | St. Leo's, and they say that the diocese has no records that would
> bear on
> | the problem.
> |
> | So, I've pretty much run out of places to look. Any ideas?
> |
> | Thanks,
> |
> | Joe in California
> |
>
>
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