Catherine Mary (Fulford) McSwiney (1814 - 1850)

Born 15 Oct 1814 in Nassau, Bahamas

Ancestors

Wife of John McSwiney — married 17 Nov 1836 in Nassau, Bahamas

Died 27 Oct 1850 at age 36 in Bridgetown, Barbados

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Catherine (Fulford) McSwiney is part of a Bahamian family.

Biography

Catherine Mary Fulford was the oldest child of Jane Curry and William Gibson Fulford. She was born in Nassau, Bahamas 15 October 1814. She was baptized 10 July 1815 at St. Matthew's Church.

Catherine Mary Fulford married John McSwiney, teacher/adninistrator, 17 November 1836 at Christ Church, Nassau. The couple had five children before her untimely death in Barbados: Jane Ann; Catherine Henrietta, Ellen Maria, Mary Elizabeth, and John William McSwiney. She was 36 years of age.

"On the 27th October, at Bridgetown, Barbados, Catherine Mary, wife of John McSwiney Esq., Stipendiary Magistrate of Leguan, Demerara and second daughter of the late Capt WG Fulford, harbour-master of this port." Bahama Herald, 16 November 1850.

Headstone of the grave of Catherine Mary Fulford McSwiney at St. Michael's Anglican Cathedral: Sacred to the Memory of | Catherine Mary | The Beloved Wife of |John McSwiney, Esquire | Stipendiary Magistrate of British Guiana | Who Departed This Life | October 27th 1850 | in the 36th Year of Her Age.

Sources

St. Matthew's Anglican Church Birth & Baptism Records.

Parish of Christ Church Marriage Records.

Bahama Herald, 16 November 1850.

"Monumental Inscriptions in the Churches and Churchyards of Barbados, BWI," Vere Langford Oliver #505.