Daniel McCavitt was a little trickier to track down at first. I found U.S. immigration papers that give his birthdate as July 15th, 1898. He was still in County Down for the 1911 Census, as were his sisters Rose and Maggie, although Maggie was to cross the Atlantic herself soon thereafter. The Census official took…
[Note: for some reason I did not publish this post, but I've forgotten why. Maybe I was barking up the wrong tree, so bear with me if that's the case. I need to get back into the Maggie/Willie story and finish it up. Did Maggie die in 1934?? I found their marriage record -in Annaclone,…
Elizabeth "Lizzie" McCavitt was one of the 8 McCavitt children born to James and Bridget in the years spanning 1883-1895. Her younger sister Mary -my great-grandaunt- left County Down and settled in Chicago as a young woman. Elizabeth's emigration story also takes her to the United States, but she ends up in the West, in…
A Curran History 