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Research in Other Countries => United States of America => Topic started by: bullfrog1995 on Tuesday 17 April 12 03:53 BST (UK)
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I never knew, and neither did my parents, or their parents. It just so happened that I am named the same name as my great-great-great-great grandfather Jeremiah Devine.
When I contacted a distant relative, she gave me his name, and the information she knew about him, which was not much. I have been trying and trying to track Jeremiah down and learn as much as I can about him. I was wondering if anyone here may be able to find anything new, as another pair or two of eyes always helps :)
Jeremiah was born in Ireland in about 1843 in Ireland. He came to Nova Scotia and married Mary Harriet Gough. My ancestor, their daughter, Margaret Ann Devine was born January 17, 1865 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Margaret had a brother John, who is assumed to have been born around 1872, according to a death certificate for John.
Without knowing many of the details inbetween, Jeremiah ended up in Boston, Massachusetts in 1893. According to cemetery records, he is burried at Mt. Benedict Cemetery, West Roxbury, Massachusetts beside his wife Mary. From the cemetery records, he was burried on November 28, 1893. Mary, his wife, died in Boston years later on April 13, 1904.
I do not know much about what happened inbetween his years in Nova Scotia, and his death in Boston years later. I was wondering if any of you experts may be able to find more information, or point me in the direction of how to obtain more information of the man for which I share the same name.
I thank you all for the time you put into research,
Jeremiah
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https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/NWZG-YF4
- his death gives his parents as John and Mary nee Castigan.
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/census-1871/index-e.html
- you can find the family in 1871 here (look for Margaret as Margret Devine, aged 6, in Halifax).
They are listed with three children - Margret, 6, Mary, 5, and John, 2
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1893 Boston city directory
Devine, Jeremiah, laborer, home 165 Centre, Rox.
I don't see any definite matches for him or his wife in Boston city directories before or after that.
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Thank you for this information.
Upon looking at the death certificate, it says that Jeremiah died on June 9, 1893. Which, I would have thought reasonable, yet, the burial records for his cemetery state he was buried in November, 5 months after his death. Strange, isn't it?