Thanks, Joseph. I have done that. That is how I know the little I do. They have no record of her after she left in 1866. Janet On Feb 10, 2012, at 2:36 PM, Joseph Martin wrote: > Hi Janet, > > Here is your first BEST BET. Contact the Sister of Charity in Emmetsburg. They should be able to tell you a good deal about her. > > http://www.thedaughtersofcharity.org/ > > > Joseph Martin > Romeoville, Illinois > > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Janet Cassidy <caiside@comcast.net> wrote: > I need suggestions. > > I am researching a woman named Rose (Rosa/Rosanna) McCaffrey, born Ireland about 1839. She married in Chicago in 1872 to Bernard J. (aka John) McDermott, and died in 1917. > > I think she may be the same Rosanna McCaffrey who was a daughter of Thomas McCaffrey and Rosa Stinson/Stevenson, who lived in Franklin County NY. She is mentioned in her father's will (he died 1872) as living in Chicago. Oddly, she appears in NO census records with the family, not even the 1850 when she would have been 11 yrs old. Her parents first emigrated from ireland to Canada, then about 1848-49, moved down into NY state. > > She MAY be the same Rosanna McCaffrey who was from 1862--1866 in the Daughters of Charity of Emmitsburg, Md., and who nursed Civil War soldiers at Satterlee Hospital. > > If these are all the same woman, I am trying to figure out where she was from the time her family came to Canada and the U.S. until 1872. I'd love to find her in Chicago in 1870, but have not yet. Was she working as a nurse? In another Order of sisters? On her own? > > Any ideas for where to look next are welcome! > > Thanks, > Janet C > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COOK-CO-IL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > -- > People are funny. They want the front of the bus, the middle of the road, and the back of the church. > > >