Daughters of Peter HESLIN & Mary JACKSON
HESLIN - JACKSON - KEEGAN - McCABE - BARTLEY
We know next to nothing about our HESLIN ancestry. We know they came from Aughavas, Mohill and we have parents' names & the names of children from them. All other information we're pretty much in the dark on.
Peter HESLIN & Mary JACKSON had 4 children that we know of, all daughters, one of whom, Mary Agnes, is our ancestor. We don't know who Peter or Mary's parents were nor when Peter & Mary married.
We've only been able to find baptisms for 2 of the 4 daughters in the FHL film 1279224 - Baptisms Gortletteragh.
One of the daughters we don't have a baptism for, Mary, we do know her DOB because she married Bartley Thomas aka Bartholemew KEEGAN - see my prior post "John KEEGAN Family Mohill > Rhode Island abt. 1873."
The 2 daughters we have baptisms for are Bridget bapt. 9 Feb 1884 & Sarah bapt. 19 Apr 1888. Mary, as mentioned is our ancestor & we know her DOB which was 28 Oct 1882. Rose, the 4th daughter we know absolutely nothing about other than her name.
Rose & Sarah remained in Aughavas while Mary & Bridget came to the US.
Rose, as mentioned, we know nothing about other than she stayed in Aughavas.
Sarah we know a bit about from a descendant of her son who came to the US. Sarah married on 8 Jan 1917 Mohill to Patrick McCABE (FHL film 1279224). We only know of one son, Bernard who came to the US and stayed briefly in North Providence with his cousin Mary KEEGAN nee HESLIN & her family before he moved and settled in New York City where he married & had a daughter. He died there 12 Nov 1963. We don't know anything else about Sarah.
Bridget & Mary came together to the US in 1904 sailing on the SS Cretic from Queensland on 14 Oct and arriving in Boston, Massachusetts on 22 Oct. They reported on the ships manifest that their contact whom they would be staying with in the US was their cousin, James BARTLEY who lived in the City of Providence, RI.
After a brief stay in RI, Bridget continued on to California settling in San Francisco where she married twice & was widowed twice. We know nothing about either husband beyond name.
Her first husband was Peter SWEENEY. She married 2nd to John KELLY. Bridget had no children by either husband. We don't know when Bridget died other than it was sometime in the 1960's.
To recap Mary from the previous post, she was b. in Aughavas 28 Oct 1882 & d. 3 Nov 1964 in Cranston, Providence Co, RI.
On 3 Oct 1912, she married Bartley Thomas aka Bartholemew KEEGAN in Providence, Providence Co, RI. The lived in North Providence, Providence Co, RI and had 3 daughters & a son. Only one child, a daughter, married. She had 3 children. All married but only one had children, 2 daughters.
We would love to find out more about the HESLIN family Bridget & Mary left behind in Aughavas.