Does anyone have knowledge of a Canavan/Canovan/Canavin family in Roscommon? My ggg aunt Eleanor Margaret Barrett, born ca. 1864, married a Steve Canavan, and they emigrated to Chicago (according to family lore) and my grandmother went to live with them when she had to leave Ireland as an orphan ca. 1904.
Appreciate any info anyone might have.
Thanks!
Drury Wellford
Can you provide your grandmother's approx year of birth and her name? Thanks.
Hi Patricia,
My grandmother:
Margaret Ann Drury
26 February 1892
Buckhill, Teevenacreeva, Roscommon
Best,
Drury
Not sure if you have this information…
Margaret’s mother, Catherine Drury,
Died of phthsis, 21-Oct-1892
21
Parish FRENCHPARK
Address: Teevnacreeva, Co. Roscommon
Status: Married
Occupation : Farmer’s wife
Informant Drury Peter, Teevnacreeva
See: https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_retu…
Your Margaret’s father, Peter Drury, remarried in 1894 to Bridget Lavin:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_re…
RootsIreland lists births for five of their children:
Drury Patrick 1895 Co. Roscommon
Drury Bartholomew 1896 Co. Roscommon
Drury Mary 1898 Co. Roscommon
Drury Catherine 1899 Co. Roscommon
Drury John 1901 Co. Roscommon
In the 1901 Irish census Peter Drury and family are shown at:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Roscommon/Buckhill/Tee…
In 1901, Margaret Ann Drury, age 9, was living in the same townland, with her grandparents:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Roscommon/Buckhill/Tee…
By the time of the 1911 Irish census, Bridget Drury was a widow with six children in the household. Her youngest child was 7.
See http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Roscommon/Buckhill/Tee…
I hope this is helpful.
Thank you, Patricia!
I did not know that Peter Drury remarried and had more children. Very interesting!
I always heard he had died in London when my grandmother was about 7 and after the last of her grandparents died she was orphaned and had to emigrate to stay with an aunt, Eleanor Barrett Canavan, in Chicago.
I will click on the links you attached.
Cheers!
Drury
Peter Drury died in 1904:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_retu…
Your grandmother would have been 11 or 12 at that time.
When your grandmother went to Chicago, did she continue to live there? When did she get married? To whom and where? Thanks.