Catherine Ann (O'Neill) Kavanaugh (1870 - 1945)

Born 16 May 1870 in Ontario, Canada

Ancestors

Wife of Jerome Kavanaugh — married about 1895 in Peel Township, Ontario [uncertain]

Died 1945 at about age 74 in Wellington County, Ontario

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Biography

Catherine was the sixth of nine children in the family of James and Mary Ann Nolan O'Neill, and the first daughter. (An older brother died before she was born.)^[1] She grew up on the family farm and attended school in Peel Township in Wellington County.^[2] She was living at home at age 19.^[3]

She married Jerome Kavanaugh when she was about 25, and their first child was born in December 1896.^[4] They raised their family of six children on their farm in Peel township.^[5]

Their daughter Evelyn died in 1919 at age 11.^[6] Three of their children were living with them on their farm in 1921.^[7]

Catherine died at age 75 is buried with her husband and daughter in Drayton Victoria Cemetery, Mapleton, Ontario.

Sources

1. ↑ 1871 Canada Census
2. ↑ 1881 Canada Census
3. ↑ 1891 Canada Census.
4. ↑ 1901 Census of Canada Dist. No. 124 North Wellington, Sub district 8, Peel Township
5. ↑ 1911 Census of Canada, Dist. No. 133 North Wellington, Sub district 6, Peel Township
6. ↑ Evelyn Kavanaugh at Canada's GenWeb Cemetery Project.
7. ↑ 1921 Canada Census