Re: lost child If the original Thomas was from Ireland, then I can give you some samples from my own family. Nearly every Catholic family named their first daughter Mary. Elizabeth was also a family name and all of my Elizabeths went by Lilly, Lil, Lizzie and Lillith. Children of Catholics often adopted using their confirmation name in place of their baptismal names. Your Lilly could have gone by Mary, Maggie, Maura, Mollie, Molly, or Mimi, any of the Elizabeth nicknames or by a sacramental name. I would check the 1880s census and the 1900 census for how she is listed there. Accurate first names never seemed to be requisite then. Just a thought. On Oct 23, 2013, at 1:00 AM, irl-kerry-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Lost one child (Patricia Jensen) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2013 15:46:17 +1100 > From: Patricia Jensen <reachpatricia@optusnet.com.au> > Subject: [IRL-KERRY] Lost one child > To: Irl-KERRY-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <9AFD50C3-1C1B-403A-956D-F0D47803243E@optusnet.com.au> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > I wonder could any one on the list help me find one of my grandfathers daughter's > Story is Thomas Jennings Fawkner arrived into Portland Maine 20 March 1863 aged 21 on Norwegian b 1841 Clovelly Devon > Some two years later he married Annie McBride from Ireland? married in Portland > > They had two daughters" Lilly" Mary Elizabeth Fawkner b 1872 all records for her state b Boston 1872 as yet no birth found?? > Then in 1875 Annie gave birth to another daughter Margaretta b 3 May 1875 in Portland Maine > I have this birth from Family Search > While in USA Thomas Fawkner became a deep sea diver before that a sea man > By 1878 Lilly {Mary E] is back in Falmouth Cornwall with Thomas parents Matthew a Coast Guard and Elizabeth Jennings Fawkner > Grand parents in FAlmouth died about two years later > > In next 5 years Lilly also arrives into Sydney Australia where her father Thomas had arrived 1879 after I presume going back to England with Lilly > I have never been able to get a birth certificate for" Lilly" Mary Elizabeth b Boston > > But I cannot really put the other girl Margaretta to bed as I can find nothing on her after her birth date > except with mother and sister entering entering Boston on ship "China" where Margaretta is listed as infant > > Where they had been I do not know Could have just come from Maine to Boston > > I have had a lot of help over the years from friend "The other Cheryl" on this list > Cheryl found records in Boston that Annie gave birth to a still born son James in Boston 1877 > > I do not know if mother Annie also died then or what happened to Margaretta Fawkner > On these records of the death of James a lot of children were dying at that time in Boston seemed like some thing was raging then > > So do not know if Margaretta died then or what happened to her > The child James is buried on Lovelly's Island in Boston Harbour all I can think is perhaps Tom was doing work there as a diver at that time > But what happened to Margaretta??Mother Annie McBride Fawkner > > Thank you all for reading this long long tale > Trish in Sydney where bush fires are burning in the Blue Mountains and on the Central Coast above Sydney > So many have lost their homes.Heart breaking > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the IRL-KERRY list administrator, send an email to > IRL-KERRY-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the IRL-KERRY mailing list, send an email to IRL-KERRY@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of IRL-KERRY Digest, Vol 8, Issue 177 > *****************************************