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.