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Surnames: Cavanagh, Cavanaugh, Barton
Classification: Query
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Gravestone transcriptions from 24 Mar 2002 Middletown, CT cemetery under bridge, behind
St. John's church for Cavanagh:
1. "O Lord have mercy on the soul of Thomas Cavanagh, Co. Wexford, Ireland. Native
of Ballenacoola, Parish of Rasminough, who died Dec. 7, 1860, aged 77 years."
2. Martin Cavanagh - 1814 - 1898. Rosa, his wife 1829 - 1913.
I am searching for ancestral and any other information on James Cavanaugh, who married
Carrie Barton and may have immigrated from Ireland to Canada to Maine. He was on the 1890
Census Vassalboro, Kennebec, ME. Carrie Elizabeth Barton and James Cavanaugh had at least
two children - Charles Alton Cavanaugh (b. 25 May 1880) and Owen Barton Cavanaugh (b. 11
Dec 1882). Stories have it that Carrie brazenly took the train, from Maine, with her
sister, when it was probably an "unsafe" time for women to travel unescorted, to
attend the "Golden Spike" ceremony. More information available.