Mary Margaret (McGowan) Donlon (1834 - 1895)

Born 1834 in Ireland

Wife of John Donlon — married before May 1856 in Ireland

Descendants

Died 19 Feb 1895 at about age 61 in Dublin, Alameda, California, United States

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Biography

Mary “Margaret” McGowan was born in 1834 in Ireland, and died in 1895 at Dublin, California.^[1] Margaret married before 1856, John Donlon, a farmer, born in 1832 at Cashel Parish, County Longford, Ireland. He passed away in 1899 in Dublin, Alameda, California.^[2]

“John Donlon left Ireland, arrived in New York, stayed there a number of years, took a ship to the Isthmus of Panama, crossed that by mule, took another ship to California and settled in Dublin.”^[2]

Children of John Donlon and Margaret Mary McGowan

John and Margaret had the following children:^[2]

1. James Augustine 1856–1912; born in New York
2. Mary Ann 1859–1927; born in New York
3. May Maggie, b. 1860; born in California
4. Elizabeth, b. 1861, California
5. Thomas Francis 1864–1924; born in California
6. Kate, b. 1866, California

Sources

1. ↑ Livermore Herald Newspaper: Barbara Bunshah Index http://www.l-ags.org/obits/obits_all.html
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} Livermore-Amador Genealogical Society. The Livermore Roots Tracer. Vol. 36, No. 1, February 2016 The Donlon Families in Alameda County By Mary Caroline Chunn, pp 6-9 : accessed 9 Jun 2022

• "United States Census, 1870", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN6D-RFB : 28 May 2021), John Donlon, 1870.
• "United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6GG-4LJ : 13 January 2022), John Donlon, Murray Judicial Township, Alameda, California, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
• Oral histories given by Nazarene Donlon and her brother, Peter Donlon recorded by the Museum of Ventura County http://venturamuseum.org/