Researching Catherine FITZGERALD and family. She was born about 1835 in Ireland; married Patrick DECOURCY, place and date unknown. They produced the following children: Edward, died about 1885, place unknown; George; P R; Mary, born about 1855 in Decatur, Illinois, married Lewis Skelley in 1878, also in Decatur; Margaret born about 1863 in Decatur, IL, later moved to Texas (Houston and/or El Paso), never married; Catherine, born 1868 in Illinois, married Edward Higgins in Houston, TX but both spent rest of life in Decatur, IL; Alice, born about 1877, moved to Texas (Houston and/or El Paso, married Ronald C McDonald in El Paso 1900; John, Hattie, Patrick, Nellie. Please contact me at [email protected]

I am trying to find any information regarding Charles Walter Fitzgerald born June 22, 1876, allegedly Boston, son of Stephen (or Charles) and Mary (Duffy?). He may have grown up on Springfield Street, in the Boston South End. Stephen may have been his father or uncle. Charles W. married Bertha Jordan of Franklin MA and had several children: Charles, Hilda, Gertrude, Marion, Donald and Lester. They lived in Beverly MA, and Charles W. lived as a widower in Danvers MA. He was a machinist, and died in 1959. He was very private about his past, and I can find no Boston birth record (although Boston records are not good at for that period). If any of this sounds familiar, please let me know. Thanks