Shakin' the Family Tree

I'm posting this in case it helps researchers who have roots in Gloucester, MA. The article is sourced to this publication.

ILLEGITIMATE BIRTHS IN GLOUCESTER, MA, 1855 – 1894
The term “illegitimacy” is derived from the Latin illegitimus, meaning “not in accordance with the law.”
A child is considered illegitimate when it is conceived and born outside of the regulatory sanctions of
marriage.

In order to facilitate genealogical research the Gloucester, Massachusetts, City Archive department is in
the process of building a series of data bases of the births, marriages, and deaths that took place in
Gloucester in the last half of the 19th century. As we entered birth information into this data base we
wondered what became of those children identified as ‘illegitimate.’ The following is a result of those
ruminations.

Please note that the figures provided are not conclusive, as during the period 1860 to 1875 the legal
status of the child was only sporadically noted in the official records – an interesting fact in and of itself.

Also, at the time of this survey, deaths were only available in an easily searchable format for the years
between 1851 and 1873. Obtaining the figures from 1874 to 1894 would have consumed more time than
was available to this researcher. Nonetheless, certain conclusions can still be drawn from the easily
obtainable records.

Illegitimate births accounted for less than 1% of the overall births in Gloucester during the thirty-nine
years spanned by the survey, and were equally divided between the sexes (108 boys and 107 girls). This
figure seems extraordinarily low compared, for instance, to the year 2000 when approximately 26% of
all births in Massachusetts were recorded as illegitimate. However, one must take into account various
social factors. Firstly, an exhaustive comparison of marriage dates with birth dates during the survey
years would undoubtedly show that there were many illegitimate conceptions that became legitimate
births by the hasty marriage of the parents; an event much less likely to occur today. Secondly, with the
demise of the “stigma of illegitimacy,” there is a growing trend in the 21st century for unmarried career
women in their twenties and thirties to deliberately have children out of wedlock.

All of the figures collected and cases cited are a matter of public record, but ancestral illegitimacy can
still be a sensitive issue for some. I have therefore only used first names when identifying individuals in
this overview.

There were several long standing and unsupported assumptions about these children and their parents
that we believed the survey would confirm. It turned out that this was often not the case.

Of the 215 illegitimate children born in Gloucester between 1855 and 1894 almost one quarter died
before they were two years old, compared to the city’s overall infant mortality rate of 16%, with the
boys dying twice as frequently as the girls. The most frequent single cause of death was stillbirth, which
at 22% of the deaths was slightly more than that of the general population. The second highest cause of
death was from Cholera Infantum, a fatal form of gastroenteritis occurring in the summer months and
attributed to “hot weather and poor milk.” Not surprisingly, death from Cholera Infantum within the
illegitimate population was twice as high as it was among the overall deaths. On the other hand
dysentery, a disease often associated with poverty, was not listed as a cause of death among the
illegitimate children at all, but was the second highest mortality figure from disease in the general
population.

Here are three cases of stillbirth:
Martha was seventeen, a domestic servant in an elderly widow’s house, when her baby was stillborn. Belle, aged twenty-seven, had been thrown out of her parents house and was living at the Poor House when her baby was stillborn. John was due to appear in court accused of impregnating a woman out of wedlock, but his son was stillborn, and the case dismissed.

And five cases of death from Cholera Infantum:
William’s mother died when he was nine days old from Puerperal Fever and he succumbed to Cholera Infantum eleven months later. John died of Cholera Infantum when he was nine months old and his father died of Phthisis the same day. Georgianna died at sixteen months of age, shortly after her mother got married. Estelle, whose mother was just sixteen, died at the age of five months. Edgar, who had just been adopted, was three months old when he succumbed.

Of the 165 surviving illegitimate children, 65 were untraceable (33 of the boys and 32 of the girls),
usually accompanied by the disappearance of the mother. We had presumed that the majority of these
missing women were not Cape Ann natives but ‘incomers’ working and living in town as domestic
servants, and that therefore, with no close family ties within the community, they had simply taken their
children and returned home. This proved not to be entirely true. While 62% of those working were
indeed employed as domestic servants, the number of missing mothers born in Gloucester (22) was
almost equal to the number from Nova Scotia and vicinity (23). The locally born women presumably
had a support system of parents, siblings, aunts and uncles here to assist them, so why they disappear
from the official records (marriage, death and census) is not apparent, and remains an unanswered
question. The following are two such examples:

Esther, the fifth in a family of six children all born in Gloucester, was only sixteen when
she got pregnant. Her father had died almost a year earlier and an older sister was
married shortly after Esther’s confinement. Yet, despite a mother, three sisters and a
brother still at home, Esther and her baby disappear from all records.

Little Frank died when he was three months old. His mother, Emma, was twenty-three
and Gloucester born. Her mother, also Gloucester born, had died six years before, but
her father, four sisters and two brothers were still in town. Yet, after working for a year
as a domestic servant, Emma disappears from all records.

In certain instances the child disappeared from the records but the mother remained in the community,
leading to the supposition that the child had been adopted. But there were only 5 traceable adoptions.
Adoption in Massachusetts, where the first such statute had been enacted in 1851, officially required
judicial approval, consent of the child’s parent or guardian, and a finding that the prospective adoptive
family was of sufficient ability to raise the child. In reality, while consent was usually sought, the other
parameters were seldom adhered to and the records were often incomplete or absent. Sometimes the
adoption was done through the Overseers of the Poor, as in this case:

Alice was six years old and had been living at the Poor House since the death of her
mother two years previously. She was “boarded out” to, and then adopted by, a twenty-six year old single woman called Georgianna. The Overseers of the Poor were “confident that she [Georgianna] would, they judged, [do the] best for the good of the child” and therefore “disposed of her.” At the age of fourteen Alice was still living with Georgianna’s widowed mother and siblings, but Georgianna was no longer with them and
Alice herself disappears from the records soon after.

Sometimes the adoption appeared in the birth record:
Alena’s parents were married eleven days after her birth. It is not apparent why they did
so as it did not legitimize Alena’s birth and she was almost immediately adopted by a
childless couple whose names are appended to her birth record. Not surprisingly Alena’s
biological parents soon parted and went their separate ways. Alena grew up with her
adoptive parents, married a local fisherman and had children of her own.

Sometimes the record of an adoption appears almost by accident:
A couple, Edgar and Sarah, who never had any children of their own seem to have adopted or fostered several illegitimate children. At one time little Freddie, whose mother had just died, was “boarding” with them, before returning to his grandparents’ home. They later ‘adopted’, although no official papers have been found, another little boy who died as their son at the age of three months, and a little girl called Lillian who got pregnant herself at the age of thirteen.

Similarly, with a large and transient population of Canadian fishermen in town we had assumed that the
largest number of the fathers would be mariners from the Atlantic Maritimes. While the majority (43%)
were indeed fishermen, the commonest place of birth, regardless of profession, was in fact Cape Ann
(36%), with the Canadian born men coming in a very close second at 34%.

Those fathers not fishermen were mostly employed in manual labor (36%), but a surprising number
(13%) were involved in such service industries as shops and offices, while 5% fell into the professional
category. Notable amongst these latter were two who later became physicians, and a clergyman.
William was an unmarried twenty-three year old blacksmith when his daughter was stillborn. He quickly left Gloucester to attend college, obtained a medical degree and opened a practice in a nearby town. Apart from a few years as a medical officer during World War I he remained there for the rest of his life and never married.

Thomas was from Nova Scotia and working on the fish wharves in Gloucester before he
also took off for college and earned a degree in medicine. However, he returned to marry
a Gloucester girl (not the mother of his illegitimate daughter) before moving to Boston
where he set up his practice.

Edward was a forty-six year old clergyman when he succumbed to temptation and fathered a child out of wedlock. At the time both he and the child’s mother, Delia, were married to other people. In fact, Edward had been the officiating minister at Delia’s wedding. She apparently became so enamored of him that she left her husband and followed Edward out of town when he moved to a new congregation. Two years later she returned to Gloucester, pregnant and destitute. She stayed at the Poor House until her husband took her back and the baby, a boy, died as her husband’s son a few months later.

Edward left the ministry for a brief time, finding work as a traveling salesman in toiletries, but was once again a clergyman when he died at the age of eighty. The women, having fewer jobs open to them anyway, came closer to our expectations in that the majority of them were menial workers either in private homes or manufacturing firms. But 15% of them were dressmakers, a step up on the social scale, and one was a bookkeeper. Mary was working in the Net & Twine factory when she became pregnant at the age of
eighteen. She married a Gloucester fisherman about two years later and went on to have four more children.
Agnes was from Prince Edward Island and running her own dressmaking business at twenty when she had her daughter. She married an apothecary and also had more children before moving out of town. Alice’s baby probably died at, or shortly after, birth and Alice, who was twenty at the time, never married and worked as a bookkeeper until her father died and she stayed home to care for her mother.

We had also expected that most of the parents would be young people in their teens and twenties. This
did prove to be true with 60% of the mothers and 52% of the fathers being aged between seventeen and
twenty-five. However, 10% of the mothers were under sixteen and 19% of the fathers were over thirtyfive. The youngest girl was fifteen; the youngest boy sixteen. The oldest woman was forty-four; the oldest man sixty-seven.

Eliza was just fifteen when she gave birth to Ida. Ida’s father was just sixteen. Given the young age of her parents it is not surprising that Ida was reared by her maternal grandparents, nor that she named them as her parents when she married.

Youth was not always detrimental to the relationship:
Estelle’s mother was sixteen and her father eighteen. It was, however, true love. They waited three more years before getting married and then remained together through eight more children and into old age.
Most of the older women were probably taken advantage of in that they were often lonely widows. Albion’s mother was a widow with three children at the time of his birth, her husband having died a soldier in the Civil War two years previously. She applied for a military pension but was listed among the Gloucester Paupers several years later. She remained a widow and at the age of sixty-three was a washerwoman taking care of two of her granddaughters.

Some were not widows, just trusting and gullible souls. William’s mother, Clara, was a forty-four year old unmarried woman identified as “simple minded” by the Overseers of the Poor. She had already had another illegitimate child, a daughter, whose father was a married man and the father of five. This child had
been taken in by relatives before she had William, but he was not so fortunate and when he was eight he was sent to the Little Wanderers Home in Boston.

It was often the older men who were taking the advantages.
Joseph’s father was a sixty-seven year old peddler from Nova Scotia, twice widowed and twice the age of Joseph’s mother who was a thirty-three year old widow from Scotland working as his housekeeper. They never married and the peddler died six years later. Then again, sometimes who was taking advantage of whom is debatable.

Sarah was forty-four, a widow and the mother of five when her husband died at sea. She was under the care of the Overseers of the Poor for a brief time, who classified her as “idiotic.” She was, however, smart enough to have an affair with a man half her age (and younger than two of her children) and marry him after the birth of their son. The marriage lasted until her death twenty-five years later.

About one quarter of the parents remained single, with the mother rearing the child within her extended
family or assisted by the Overseers of the Poor (11%). These latter cases often resulted in accusations of
bastardy being brought against the purported fathers (17 cases) because a guilty finding would lay the
expense of maintaining the child on the father, and not on the city or state, as stipulated in a law enacted
in Massachusetts in 1860:
When a woman who has been delivered of a bastard child, or is pregnant with a child
which if born alive may be a bastard, makes a complaint to a justice of the peace or
police court, and desires to institute a prosecution against the person whom she accuses
of being the father of the child, the justice or court shall take her accusation and
examination, in writing under oath, respecting the person accused, the time when and
place where the complainant was begotten with child, and under such circumstances as
the justice or court deems necessary for the discovery of the truth of such accusation.
The justice or court may issue a warrant against the party accused … [and] may after due
hearing require the accused to give bond with sufficient sureties … if the jury find him
guilty … [he] shall stand charged with the maintenance thereof, with the assistance of the
mother, in such manner as the court shall order … No complaint shall be withdrawn,
dismissed, or settled by agreement of the mother and the putative father, without the
consent of the overseers of the poor of the city or town in which she has her settlement …
unless provision is made to the satisfaction of the court, to relieve, and indemnify any
parent, guardian, city, town, or the state from all charges that have accrued or may
accrue for the maintenance of the child. Chapter 72: of the maintenance of bastard children. General Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1860, pp.404-406.

William was somewhat of a reprobate. He was arrested for bastardy two days after his son was born, but he married another woman a year later (about one week before their first child was born) and was arrested for fornication along with several others, men and women, in a house of “ill fame” on Hancock Street a few months later.

Martha was from Nova Scotia, a servant living in a boarding house when she got pregnant. Fearful of her support defaulting to them, the Overseers of the Poor persuaded her to accuse her child’s father of bastardy and he was arrested three days after their daughter was born. Despite a steady job working for the Gloucester Water Supply Co., he quickly skipped town and went to Maine.

Lizzie had already spent time in the Poor House so when she found herself pregnant again she accused the baby’s father of bastardy. They were quickly married but her new husband died within a few months and she found herself back in the Poor House with her new born baby.

Annie had Charles arrested for bastardy and the case was “settled” by Annie and Charles getting married a week after their baby was born. However, three years later Charles married again, claiming it to be his first marriage, and Annie disappeared from the records.

Of the remainder, 23 married the other parent of the child, while 36 of the men and 63 of the women
married other people. A few (7 couples) had more than one child together without bothering to tie the
knot, while 4 of the women and 3 of the men had more than one child with more than one partner.
Lena’s parents, Maggie and Daniel, never married but lived together as a widowed householder and his housekeeper for many years and had five more children. They both died within two years of each other leaving “six orphan children, the oldest fourteen and the youngest three.”

For some, two children seems to have been either the magic number or the breaking point. John was a thirty-three year old fisherman boarding at widow Mary’s house when their daughter Edna was born. John and Mary did not marry. He remained a boarder in Mary’s house until the birth of their second child, at which point he moved out. Incidentally, perhaps because of their long-term relationship, this second child was not
registered as illegitimate.

Alex and Mary lived around the corner from each other with their respective families. Their first child was born when Alex was twenty-six and Mary twenty-two, their second three years later. They never married and Alex also moved out of town soon after the second child’s birth while Mary married a man who had boarded at her parents’ house for many years.

Two months before her baby was due Margaret had John arrested for bastardy. She had, perhaps, discovered that he was having an affair with another girl, who was also pregnant by him. Two years later all was forgiven and Margaret and John were married and they had several more children together before John died at sea. Margaret then had another illegitimate child before marrying Frank who was ten years her junior and not her latest child’s father.

Allen was accused of bastardy by Jane, who had a problem with alcohol and was living in the Poor House. Within a year Allen was named as the father of another child by a woman called Belle. He did not marry either of them and was lost from a dory while fishing shortly afterwards.

Every city is divided into neighborhoods that differ, at times dramatically, in their economic and social
condition. In Gloucester the rough, tough, working class area filled with transient fishermen, boarding
houses, bawdy houses and saloons was along the waterfront in the inner harbor, and that is where we
expected to find the largest number of unmarried parents living. This theory was not strictly upheld.
While almost three quarters of them lived in the central part of the town near all the activity, the largest
percentage were in an area several streets back from the gritty waterfront, bounded today by Rte 128 to
the north and east, Washington Street to the west and Prospect and Fair Streets to the south. And it was
in these neighborhoods that two of the women were arrested for breaking a law enacted in 1860 that was
probably intended as a discouragement for abortion, although their transgression did not arise from that.
The law stated:
If a woman conceals the death of any issue of her body, which, if born alive, would be a
bastard … [she] shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by
imprisonment in the jail not exceeding one year.
Any woman indicted for the murder of her infant bastard child, may also be charged in
the same indictment with the offence described in the preceding section.
Chapter 165: offenses against chastity, morality, and decency. General Statutes of the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, 1860, p. 818.

It was a surprisingly light sentence – with some apparent allowance for, and understanding of, the
peculiar and particular circumstances of these women.

Annie and Tena were both domestic servants; Annie in a private home on Liberty Street and Tena in a boarding house on Locust Street. Both had been born in Nova Scotia and both were alone, pregnant, and scared. Annie gave birth to her baby in the outhouse and left it there, its cries leading to its discovery by the daughter of the house about an hour later. Tena’s baby was found dead on the back yard ash pile by the boarding house
keeper. Both women were arrested and sent to trial. Annie for attempted murder and Tena for manslaughter. Annie pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of assault but does not seem to have served any time in jail. She kept and reared the child, got married, and had another child a few years later. Tena’s fate is not clear. At her court appearance she was described as being “weak and much agitated” claiming that the “author of her trouble” was one of the boarders in the house who was away at sea. What became of Tena and her absent lover has not been discovered.

Thirteen of the children were reared by their maternal grandparents, and in many cases these grandparents were named as their parents on marriage and death certificates. This may have meant that the children never knew their true parentage, or that they knew but chose to disregard it. Some named their mother’s deceased husbands as their fathers, even when the men referred to had died long before they were born. Others gave their stepfather’s name. Some, who married more than once, changed their minds between nuptials.

Lizzie’s mother died when Lizzie was two months old and she was cared for by her twice widowed grandmother. When Lizzie married she named her grandparents as her parents despite the fact that her grandfather (actually her grandmother’s second husband – so not her grandfather at all) had died five years before she was born.

When Guy was born his mother was Mary and his father unknown. He grew up in the home of his maternal grandparents, John and Jane, and when he married gave his parents as John and Jessie – a not totally accurate rendition of his grandparents’ names.

Both of Estelle’s parents moved out of town soon after her birth and Estelle was reared by her maternal grandparents. When she married at the age of nineteen she named her grandparents as her parents.

Adelle’s parents, Ella and Daniel, went their separate ways and Adelle first lived with her mother and her maternal grandparents Joseph and Elizabeth, and later with an aunt and uncle. When she was twenty-five and working as a domestic servant, she married, giving as her parents her mother Ella and her grandfather Joseph.

The 100 surviving and traceable children appear to have led lives as variable as the general population.
At the time of Josie’s birth her mother was a widow running a boarding house on Main Street and already had five other children. Josie worked there as a table girl until she married a salesman from New York City. Josie and her husband moved closer to Boston where Josie became an interior decorator and her husband had a china and glass store. By the early 1900s they had three children and were able to afford a servant.

Nathan started out his adult life as a fish skinner but had moved out of town and was a garage mechanic by the time he married. He and his wife were divorced about ten years later and he got custody of their daughter.

Albion married when he was twenty-three and had two children. Unfortunately he had a problem with alcohol, being arrested at least four times for drunkenness, and once being sent to Salem jail. He was a menial worker all his life with a variety of jobs: a night soil wagon driver, a highway department employee, a general laborer and a masons helper; and was widowed when in his fifties.

Hattie’s parents were married when she was ten months old but divorced seven years later. Hattie’s mother remarried and Hattie, who had become a dressmaker, continued to live with her mother and step-father until she married a young man who was a wagon driver. Ten years later Hattie and her husband had moved south of Boston where she was working as a forewoman in a “shirtwaist factory,” her husband had become a Life
Insurance agent, and they had a son.

Charles, whose father died in Danvers Lunatic Hospital when Charles was ten and whose mother had a second illegitimate child and married that child’s father, became a successful house painter, got married when he was twenty-one and had thirteen children.

Laurena lived with her mother, her grandmother, her half brother and an aunt. She remained single and became a saleslady working in department and millinery stores.

Chester lived with his mother and then his uncle and worked as a bookkeeper for the railroad and later for a life insurance company. He was in the US Army during the first World War and was twenty-seven when he got married. He and his wife, a teacher, and their children moved out of state before retiring to Florida.

John and George were half brothers. Their mother never married and neither did they. John became a fish worker and George a chauffeur and they continued to live together even after their mother’s death. They died twelve years apart, George first at the age of sixty-one and then John at seventy-eight.

Finally illegitimacy was a family affair for a few. The illegitimate daughters of four of the women grew
up to have illegitimate children of their own. Another four young women followed the example of their
older sisters in having children out of wedlock.

Both Hattie and her mother Mary were illegitimate. Mary was put out to service at the age of thirteen. She had Hattie when she was twenty-three and died four years later of phthisis. Hattie was then taken care of by her grandmother until she also died of phthisis, at the age of twenty-one.

Annie’s mother was a thirty-seven year old widow whose husband had died at sea ten years before. Her father was a married ex-naval officer with a young son. When she was fifteen Annie also had an illegitimate child – a son called Harry – before she married a fisherman from Maine. She did not have any more children.

Kate gave birth to an illegitimate daughter when she was twenty-one. Four years later her sister Mary, aged twenty, had an illegitimate son. Kate got married but Mary went on to have a second illegitimate son before marrying a French fisherman.

Charlotte was described as a “simpleton and intemperate” by the overseers of the Poor House where she was frequently sent despite having a fully employed husband. Her children sometimes accompanied her, and two of her daughters, Henrietta and Lizzie, were described as “idiotic.” Lizzie had three children out of wedlock, none of which appear to have survived infancy. Another of Charlotte’s daughters, Arabelle, who also went by the names Annie and Mabel, had an illegitimate child when she was nineteen.

When Mary was twenty-one she was working in a net factory and she and her one year old illegitimate son Henry were living with her widowed mother, her brother, her twentyseven year old sister Elizabeth and Elizabeth’s illegitimate son John. Elizabeth had another child a few years later and ended up in the Poor House suffering from “paralysis.” She and her children remained there for four years.

Some just kept having children:
At the age of twenty-six Annie was a seamstress living with her parents, two brothers, an aged aunt and her three illegitimate children: Waldo aged seven, Amy aged four and the baby John.

Another Annie had four illegitimate children, three before and one after a brief marriage that had ended with the death of her husband. Her first was born when she was twenty and the last when she was thirty-two.

Life was not easy for these children and their mothers but, at the risk of romanticizing them, I believe
that Polly Garter, in Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood, speaks for many of them, especially for the repeat offenders, when she says: "Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies. And where’s their fathers live, my love? Over the hills and far away … you’re no better then you should be, Polly, and that’s good enough for me."

Stephanie Buck, Gloucester City Archives Volunteer, 2012
CHILD’S NAME
?, ?(f) 10/29/1866
Adams, ? (f) 10/3/1893 stillborn
Allen, Florence B. 3/3/1884
Almore, Frederic Gardner 1/5/1869
Anderson, Charles A. 11/7/1889
Anderson, Hattie 4/21/1881
Anderson, Mary 9/28/1857
Andrews, Bessie C. 9/18/1885
Baker, ? (f) 8/2/1889
Barrett, ? (m) 5/6/1891
Barter, ? (m) 6/1/1880
Bartlett, Adelle 3/22/1880
Bigwood, George C. 12/7/1889
Black, Geneva 12/16/1855
Blatchford, ? (m) 7/6/1869
Bray, Walter B. 12/20/1887
Brown, ? (m) 10/22/1858
Brown, Josie G. 4/22/1886 see Garrett
Burke, Sarah A. 10/3/1885
Burns, Minnie 11/28/1884
Cameron, Joseph 6/18/1880
Canfell [Canfield/Campful/Riley], John J.
10/2/1879
Cantrell, Arthur R. 5/19/1889 see Galant
Car, ? (m) 9/14/1866 residents of S. Danvers
Carlton, Mary A. 12/10/1888
Carter, Willis F. 1/1/1880
Caton, Madeline Mary 12/17/1893
Clapenburg, [Catherine?] (f) 1/28/1893
Clark, Alice M. 6/7/1886
Clark, John H. 12/10/1877
Clements, Edgar L. 6/29/1882 [born in
Lawrence]
Coakley, Daniel E. 5/3/1880
Collins, Mary A. 4/20/1868
Collum [White], Charles 4/4/1858
Connors [Thompson], Lizzie W. 8/19/1882
Cook, George 12/14/1884 see Randall
Cook, Grace G. 6/11/1877
Cronin, ? (m) 12/16/1892
Crowell, Helen May 8/22/1892
Cummings, Kate A. 9/22/1878
Daggett, Lottie [Charlotte] L. 1/26/1888
Dailey ?(m) [Edwin H.] 7/27/1876 see Dowling
Daley, Gertrude May 11/25/1891
Davis, ? 11/6/1884
Davis, Elizabeth (twin) 11/12/1858
Davis, Estella 10/14/1856
Davis, Mary (twin) 11/12/1858
Day, Charles A. 8/21/1883
Day, William 11/4/1884
Decost, ? (m) 4/13/1888
DeLourie, Martha J. 11/24/1884
Dennen, Fred 4/16/1880
Dennison, Caroline (twin) 1/4/1875
Dennison, Charles (twin) 1/4/1875
Dexter, Adeline 11/14/1891
Dexter, William Henry 10/15/1868 see Hanson
Dolliver, Frank E.W. 8/25/1879
Donahue, ? (f) 9/10/1888
Dorsey, George 12/7/1882
Doty, Edna 10/4/1888
Dowling [Dailey] ?(m) [Edwin H.] 7/27/1876
Duclow, Lewis H. 11/24/1879
Duley [Stevens], Georgianna [Mary J.] 5/10/1880
Eason, Sarah W. 4/17/1882
Ellery [Friend], William S. 4/6/1878
Ellis, Elsie 3/3/1882
Ellis, Nathaniel 1/22/1883
Emerson, ? (m) 12/22/1893
Enos, Manuel 6/22/1884
Flood, ? (f) 9/16/1885
Francis, Ida 10/3/1867
Frazier, Mary J. 5/30/1879
Freeman, Robert [3rd] 8/3/1857
Friend, Lena A. 12/6/1879
Friend, William S. Jr. 4/6/1878 see Ellery
Furbush, Josephine 9/25/1856
Galant [Cantrell], Arthur R. 5/19/1889
Garrett [Brown], Josie G. 4/22/1886
Gill, Rosa 12/29/1891
Gorman, Chester Leo 8/4/1893
Grant, William Henry 9/13/1893
Gray, Joseph H. [Henry] 1/7/1879 see Nelson
Greenleaf, Edith 7/24/1880
Griay, ? (m) 8/7/1883
Grimes, Simon A[lexander]. 8/16/1883
Grover, Edith A. 12/10/1878
Guare, James Daniel 7/9/1892
Haley, Laurena M. 7/29/1885 [illeg. erased]
Hanes, ? (f) 6/14/1888
Hanson [Dexter], William Henry 10/15/1868
Hastings, Annie 11/8/1878 see Mayo, Lizzie A.
Herrick, ? (f) [Alice?] 11/16/1890
Hickman, ? (m) 11/4/1889
Hillier, ? (f) 9/30/1859
Hodgkins, John E. 12/21/1875
Horton, Ernest Francis 12/31/1893
Howe, Mary E. 8/22/1882
Irving, Francis Michael 2/8/1893
Johnson, ? (m) 10/7/1893 stillborn
Johnson, Ruth 1/12/1893
Joice, Mary E. 11/16/1869
Kehoe, Daniel 11/24/1893
Kelly, Addie G. 12/4/1890
Landry, Alena [Lena] J. 10/9/1883
Lane, Florence M. 3/30/1881
Lasey, Augustus B. 11/17/1884
Lengner, Maud M. 10/24/1880
Livingston, John H. 5/27/1881
Lorenzen, Ida Alberta 9/16/1893
Lovett, ? (m) 2/13/1888
Lowey, Lillian M. 11/3/1890
Lufkin [Stacy], George August 4/9/1868
Lufkin, Annie 10/8/1877
Lufkin, Leona 12/4/1878 see Moore
Lurvey, ? (m) 6/4/1891
Maguire [Riley], Mary 4/23/1881
Maguire, Alex 5/18/1878
Malayson, ? (m) 9/24/1893
Malone, ? (m) 3/6/1881
Martell, Hattie[Harriet] 10/8/1891
Mayo, Lizzie A. [Annie Hastings] 11/8/1878
McClain [Wilson], ? (m) [Gertrude] [f] 4/21/1876
McDonald, ? (m) 4/21/1893 born Beverly, MA
McDonald, ? (m) 8/15/1881
McDonald, Joseph A. 10/27/1881
McDonald, Mary 5/29/1882
McEachern, Joseph F. 10/19/1882
McFadden, Earnest M. 5/4/1878
McGee, ? (m) 11/18/1857
McIntire, Lillie Francis (m) 7/13/1885
McKennon, Stella M. (m?) 8/9/1884
McLean, Henrietta 3/30/1885
McLean, Samuel E. 2/1/1885
McLellan, Janette [Josephine] 2/19/1880 see
Peoples
McLeod, Charles C. 7/22/1885
McQuarie [Symonds], ? [Estelle] 6/16/1883
Miller, ? (f) 11/5/1882
Miner, David Henry 11/28/1892
Moore [Lufkin], Leona 12/4/1878
Morris, Lillian B. 4/25/1884
Morrison, Annie May 9/1/1893
Mullen, ? (f) 6/19/1891
Muller, Maud 4/19/1869
Murphy, ? (f) 12/6/1885
Myers, Thomas A. 12/12/1878
Neal, ? (m) 1/4/1886
Nelson [Gray], Joseph H. [Henry] 1/7/1879
Norris, ? (m) 1/27/1882
Olsen, William 5/29/1877
Pakala, Mike 11/28/1892
Parker, Lillian 11/9/1884
Parsons, Gertrude 11/19/1889
Parsons, John 8/6/1890
Parsons, Mary E. 3/4/1885
Peoples [McLellan], Janette [Josephine]
2/19/1880
Peoples [Peeples], Ada 7/6/1891
Phelan, ? (m) 2/15/1880
Pool, ?[Amy B.] (f) 3/28/1876
Powers, Albion [Alvin] 7/26/1868
Powers, Henriette 3/21/1881
Pulcifer, Frank 3/4/1855
Quarrie, ? (m) 12/21/1889
Randall [Cook], George 12/14/1884
Rankin, Earnest V. 3/28/1881
Ratalla, Amos 12/3/1882
Richardson, ? (m) [Lester Warren] 11/22/1878
Riggs, Carrie E. 4/21/1887
Riley, John J. 10/2/1879 see Canfell
Riley, Mary 4/23/1881 see Maguire
Roberts, Ellen Arva 11/17/1892
Rogers, Guy B. 1/20/1881
Rust, William 10/10/1878
Ruth [Weeks], Theresa 5/23/1882
Sella, John 10/5/1889
Shackelford, Mabel 1/27/1880
Shehan, Alice 4/2/1891
Sherman, ? (m) 10/22/1859
Silva, Minnie 12/16/1882
Simmons, Oliver Anderson 10/7/1892 born
Tewksbury
Smith, ? (m) 7/10/1878
Smith, Nathan 6/6/1889
Snow, [Mary Ellen] [1/?/1873]
Stacy, George August 4/9/1868 see Lufkin
Steele, Charles 1/1/1874
Steele, Willie 2/23/1878
Stevens, Georgianna [Mary J.] 5/10/1880 see
Duley
Story, Eva M. 11/4/1883 see Torey
Symonds, ? [Estelle] 6/16/1883 see McQuarie
Tailor, Mary E. 6/15/1884
Tarr, (f) 5/15/1875
Tarr, Eva M. 11/4/1883 see Torey
Thompson, Lizzie W. 8/19/1882 see Connors
Titus, Edward A. 1/9/1881
Torey [Tarr/Story], Eva M. 11/4/1883
Trumbull, Winifred 7/10/1885
Tucker, ? (m) 11/4/1892 stillborn
Turner, Katie Ellen 8/23/1893
Verge, Harold F. 5/26/1890
Waggott, Estelle 1/12/1878
Weeks, Theresa 5/23/1882 see Ruth
Welch, James 1/1/1893 born McLean Hospital
Westerly, Charles E. 1/17/1856
Wheaton, Ernest R. 3/8/1885
White, Charles 4/4/1858 see Collum
White, James 5/20/1888
White, Willie O. 3/23/1889
Wilkins, Laura G. 5/24/1889
Williams, ? (m) 9/4/1884
Williams, Annie L. 4/18/1868
Williams, Antone J. 11/5/1884
Williams, Harry E. 11/11/1883
Wilson, ? (m) [Gertrude] [f] 4/21/1876 see McClain
Witham, Harry 7/2/1884
Wolf, Estelle 3/4/1881
Yokla, ? (m) 3/21/1890