Hello all Doolittle researchers,
There is another Doolittle child of George Doolittle and Catherine (Connor) Doolittle - Honoria Doolittle. I have been unable to find her birth, but it should be in the late 1820s/early 1830s. Honoria married William Darragh (abt 1828-1920) of Wicklow in the 1860's. William is my 2x great-granduncle (brother of my 2x great-grandfather Thomas Darragh). William was a seafarer, captain, master mariner, and later was the owner of several vessels and a shipyard on the Wicklow waterfront (one ship I can think of offhand is "Ocean Maid"). It is possible that Honoria Doolittle's seafaring family sailed on William Darragh's vessels. In reading through these past posts on the Doolittle family, I noted William as a godparent to a child of one of Honoria's siblings.
William and Honoria lived in Summerhill, Wicklow, and had four children, none of whom survived to marry. Children:
William (Willie) 1865-1883 Lost at sea on one of his father's ships. COD: Drowning. Local lore said that William could not swim, and when a "great wind arose, his father tied him to the mast so that he could not be swept off the ship". But when the ship capsized, he was drowned. Sponsors at his baptism were James Riely and Rosanna Wall.
Catherine (Katie) 1867-1888 Baptism sponsors were ? and Maria Doolittle.
Honoria (1869-1871) Baptism sponsors were James Conway and Eliza Neil.
John Arthur (1871-1872) Baptism sponsors were John Flynn and Catherine Morgan.
Honoria Doolittle Darragh died Nov 11, 1911 (age 79, married, wife of sea captain, cardiac disease, grand-niece Katie Kavanaugh present at death).