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Re: Searching for Caroline McGee
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 01 May 22 21:11 BST (UK) »
A possible death for Arthur?

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1872/020750/7279771.pdf

No home address given that could help further. Looks like this Arthur likely died at the Workhouse hospital? Age and occupation are a fit with what you have.

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Re: Searching for Caroline McGee
« Reply #10 on: Monday 02 May 22 14:35 BST (UK) »
A possible death for Arthur?

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1872/020750/7279771.pdf

No home address given that could help further. Looks like this Arthur likely died at the Workhouse hospital? Age and occupation are a fit with what you have.

Monica


Monica that looks spot on!!!! Well done!! It definitely looks like Arthur died in the workhouse! What a grim way to go- smallpox  :(
 
I had discovered that Maria’s sister Ann married Robert Cumberland in Belfast and they had also lived at 33 Urney street. ( would there have been room for two families in those tiny houses?)
Ann had several children, the only surviving child was named Maria Cumberland and the family of three ended up emigrating to USA. Maria married William Evans and had several children.
Ann and Robert are both buried in New York. Ann died 1899 and Rober in 1906.

Maria did not emigrate at the same time as her parents. Census records are showing that she emigrated in 1873, which would have made her 1 as she was born in 1872.
Ann and Robert emigrated in the 1880s with a boy called John? ( not sure if this was their child as no birth registration for him).
I am wondering if Maria and Arthur had more children whose births were not registered and who emigrated to the USA, like Maria Cumberland.
So difficult to trace though! Also a note that Maria magee nee Hobson had a younger sister named Caroline who emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1860 and died there 1874.
Many thanks
Liscoole
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Re: Searching for Caroline McGee
« Reply #11 on: Monday 02 May 22 18:06 BST (UK) »

I had discovered that Maria’s sister Ann married Robert Cumberland in Belfast and they had also lived at 33 Urney street. ( would there have been room for two families in those tiny houses?)

Benjamin's bride, Eliza Jane McConnell gave 33 Urney Street as her address didn't she at the time of her marriage on 1 Nov 1880. Benjamin gave 53 Urney Street.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1880/11046/8040618.pdf

The 1877 Belfast Directory shows Robert Cumberland at 33 Urney Street and a possible entry for Eliza's father, a John McConnell, bricklayer, at 71 Urney Street www.lennonwylie.co.uk/tuvcomplete1877.htm

In respect of that possible death for Arthur Magee in 1874, it may well be his. Hard to say without more details...

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Re: Searching for Caroline McGee
« Reply #12 on: Monday 02 May 22 22:24 BST (UK) »

I had discovered that Maria’s sister Ann married Robert Cumberland in Belfast and they had also lived at 33 Urney street. ( would there have been room for two families in those tiny houses?)

Benjamin's bride, Eliza Jane McConnell gave 33 Urney Street as her address didn't she at the time of her marriage on 1 Nov 1880. Benjamin gave 53 Urney Street.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1880/11046/8040618.pdf

The 1877 Belfast Directory shows Robert Cumberland at 33 Urney Street and a possible entry for Eliza's father, a John McConnell, bricklayer, at 71 Urney Street www.lennonwylie.co.uk/tuvcomplete1877.htm

In respect of that possible death for Arthur Magee in 1874, it may well be his. Hard to say without more details...

Monica

Thanks Monica that’s useful information. I’m pretty sure the death registration is Arthur’s.
Imagine coming up to Belfast from cookstown, hoping for work and a better life, then ending up dying in the slums. How sad!
Thanks anyway for all your help!
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