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…
At the risk of harping on a theme, I'm going to write some more about the McCavitts - the family of my great grandmother, Susan McCavitt Hughes. Of Susan's siblings, Mary, Elizabeth and Daniel all went to America. Starting with what we already know, Susan Philomena McCavitt (b.1890 d.1947) was daughter of Bridget Byrne and…
This is where I left off on my search for Susan, my great grandmother, having found a marriage record that seemed to point towards her: The date is January 9th 1917, which is about right, since Granny Curran/Mary was born in 1919. Patrick is a railwayman, his father James is a labourer, and Susan’s sister…
A Curran History 