In Table
1., names and a few statistics were given for
all those who appear to be children of Patrick and Bridget.
Only a few are definitely identified and only four of
theses have been given a separate write-up. The eight
remaining persons have been grouped into this "Other
Children" section. What is available on them follows:
Catherine
Catherine is identified on the gravestone of her father
Patrick. The inscription about her is immediately below
the lines about Patrick that were quoted at the start
of the account of Patrick of Limerick (section 1). The
relevant inscription reads "his daughter Catherine,
died April 18, 1860, 36 yr.". She would have been
born then in 1824, and obviously in Ireland.
Catherine was married at Notre Dame Basilica
on June 7, 1855 to Michael Teehan. Catherine' brother
William and his wife Honorah were witnesses of the marriage.
Catherine would have been 31 then. She died only five
years later. It is somewhat surprising that Catherine
was buried in the Slattery plot but with no indication
that she was married. Perhaps the marriage was very
short-lived for some reason.
Nora
In the 1901 census of By-Ward in Ottawa, Myles Slattery
and his sister Nora were living together in his home
at 85 Clarence St. (Table
4). Nora was further identified as age 60, born
in Ireland in August 1840, a widow and had emigrated
to Canada in 1870.
Further identification of Nora was included
in the 1900 will of Alice Slattery, sister of Myles,
in which she left the balance of her estate after several
bequests to her sisters, Margaret McGee, Nora Newman,
and Bridget Slattery. Clearly then Nora had been married
to a Mr. Newman. She might have emigrated with her husband,
but he does not appear in any Ottawa records. It seems
more likely that she emigrated after the death in Ireland
of her husband. Perhaps her older brother Myles (he
was 77) was among the last of her living relatives,
and as he was single and had his won house, he may have
been happy to have her live with him.
There is no death record or burial site
found to date for Nora in Ottawa. Perhaps it may yet
be round, but until proven wrong it seems likely that
she returned to Ireland and is buried there.
Patrick
Patrick is included in this account only because Joan
Denault recalls hearing that there was a Patrick among
her Slattery ancestors in Ottawa.Unfortunately no record
has turned up concerning him. There is a Patrick listed
on the family gravestone at Notre Dame cemetery who
died in 1901 at age 30. This was the youngest son of
William. It seems unlikely that this was the Patrick
mentioned by Joan Denault, but it is possible.
In Table
4, which lists the persons living with Myles
Slattery between 1851 and 1901, there was in 1871 a
Patrick, age 22, born in Ontario, for a calculated 1859
birth. His identity is a mystery. Until such time as
I have more information, I must continue to include
Patrick in the "uncertain" category of Table
1.
Margaret
This is Margaret McGee, who is identified in the will
of Alice as her sister and beneficiary of one third
of her estate after several small bequests. I have no
other information about her. If she was a sister, not
a sister-in-law, she would have been Margaret Slattery.
If she was a sister-in-law, there is one possibility
that arises from an entry in the obituary of a Mary
Slattery. This is discussed under the heading of "Mary"
below.
Bridget
she is included, like Margaret above, as a beneficiary
of the will of Alice, and as one of her sisters. She
is identified as Brdget Slattery. The only Bridget slattery
who was living in 1900 seems to have been the oldest
daughter of one of the Almonte Slattery's. She was 35
in 1900 and unmarried. But she could not have been a
sister of Alice; she was too young, and had different
parents.
There evidently was a Bridget who was
a sister of Alice, but lacking any other information
she is included in the "uncertain" category
of Table 1.
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Mary
In many ways, Mary is the most perplexing of the persons
who have been included in Table1. In the 1861 census,
there was a Mary, a family member, living with Myles
in 1861, born in Ireland, age 18 (Table 4). She would
have been born about 1843, within the range of births
of Myles and his siblings, close in age to John of New
York. She must have been a young sister of Myles.
About ten years ago I transcribed information
to a notebook from the obituary of a Mary Slattery,
which was in possession of my uncle Louis Grimes. He
must have found it in his deceased mother's papers.
His mother had been Hannah Slattery who had married
John Grimes. Unfortunately I failed to identify Mary
in my notes and my uncle is also deceased. The obituary
was a clipping from a newspaper, but the identity of
the newspaper and date of the write-up are not recorded.
These are ridiculous omissions for someone trying to
assemble information! My only excuse was that at the
time I was working only on the Grimes family.
My notes say that Mary Slattery died in
1894, and that the obituary listed many who had predeceased
her. These were:
Father |
died 1875 |
William, uncle |
died 1885 |
Mother |
died 1845 |
Margaret, aunt |
died 1890 |
Catherine |
died 1860 |
Bridget, niece |
died 1883 |
Julia |
died 1866 |
Mary, niece |
died 1889 |
Johannah |
died 1883 |
Michael, nephew |
died 1891 |
John McGee |
died 1894 |
Willie, nephew |
died 1892 |
Henry, son |
died 1894 |
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May, daughter |
died 1895 |
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Patrick of Limerick died in 1875 which
would identify Mary as his daughter. This would be the
Mary who was living with Myles, who was born in 1843.
Her mother was evidently Bridget, the wife of Patrick,
which is the source of the 1845 death entry for Bridget
in Section I of this story. Patrick's family grave at
Notre Dame cemetery lists Catherine's death in 1860.
She would have been a sister of Mary. Julia and Johannah
appear nowhere in any other records, so I expect that
they were relatives, probably sisters, who had died
in Ireland.
The name John McGee warrants some discussion.
Alice Slattery in her will in 1900 left one third of
her estate to her sister, Margaret McGee, as reported
earlier. I suspect that Margaret was the wife of John
McGee, how had predeceased her. The son Henry and daughter
May in my notes do not identify their parents. Their
deaths at the same time as John McGee, and listed in
the same grouping leads me to guess that they were children
of John and Margaret McGee. There is another possible
scenario. If Mary were married, but listed under her
maiden name in the obituary, then the children Henry
and May could have been hers. If so, who was her husband?
It could have been John McGee, and then Margaret must
have been married to a different McGee, probably a brother
of John. I prefer this theory.
Returning to my obituary notes, it is
clear that William who died in 1885 would have been
her brother and Margaret her sister-in-law, not her
uncle and aunt. I think this was my error and not in
the obituary itself. Bridget, Mary, Michael and Willie
were children of William and Margaret and so are correctly
identified as nieces and nephews.
Until there is more confirmation of some
of my conclusions, Mary is included in the "uncertain"
category of Table
1.
Julia and Johannah
It seems only fair to give these women a small write-up.
In fact, however, all that is known about them is their
mention in Mary's obituary, and my hypothesis that they
were sisters who had died in Ireland.
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