Dear Masuffol subscribers, I am fairly new to this website, and as such, do not fully understand how it works. That said, I would appreciate any help in trying to learn anything about a Catherine Kidney who lived in the section of Boston now the site of the South Station, on Cove Street and / or Cove Place, at least in the 1853, when she placed an advert in the Boston Pilot Newspaper's ' Missing Friends " columns, looking for her brother , William Kidney from Kinsale, Parish of Clountead, County Cork, Ireland. He was supposed to have immigrated sometime in 1849 ( into Boston ?) and then , presumedly, moved to New Hampshire. On Oct. 1853, Catherine Kidney,address No. 9 Cove St., Boston, purchased a plot in the North Cambridge Catholic Cemetery, and interred one Ellen Kidney, 49. I do not know if she was Catherine's sister, mother, aunt or cousin. On the same day, an adjacent lot was also purchased by Mr. John ( and wife, Catherine [ Devine ] ), then of Charlestown, Mass. In the 1850 Boston Census there is listed ( # 280 ) Patrick Kidney, age 35, b. IRE Wd 2, his wife, Catherine,( m.n. unk ) age 25, b. IRE, and a son, Dennis, age 1 , b. Mass. In the 1860 Census, ( Hs # 354 ), husband, Patrick , is not listed, although Catherine, ( presumedly a widow ) now 35, and son, Dennis, now age 11, are listed. They are then living in Wd 12. On August 19, 1860, Catherine Kidney ( m.n. unk ) married one Jeremiah Donovan, a laborer, age 34, second marriages for both, at St. Peter and Pauls RC Church in South Boston, not far from the Ward 2 area of Cove Street. Witnesses were John Gleeson, a clerk at Federal St. cor High St., Boston and of So. Boston, and Ann Murphy, a widow, of Federal St., Boston. What is of particular interest to me is a possible Kidney family connection to my great grandfather, John Donovan, of County Cork, Ire; and his wife, Catherine [ Devine] Several years ago when I was asking my mother about our family tree on her side, she said that she recalled the name KIDNEY being mentioned, but did not know the connection, if any. Just recently, by some great act of Providence, I quite by accident came across a listing in the City of Quincy Death registry for May 22,1863, the names of John and Catherine Donovan, ( East Quincy, later called Wollaston ) for a stillborn infant, who was buried ' at Cambridge, Mass.'., John and Catherine [ Devine ] were married at St. Peters Church, Concord Ave., West Cambridge, Mass., on May 9th, 1858. Among their wittnesses were a James Donovan and Johanna O'Connell. Father Mannassas P. Daugherty presided over the wedding. John Donovan was then listed as a blacksmith. They may have been living in West Cambridge, later renames as Arlington. He may have worked for the, then, newly established horse street railway, shoiing horses. In 1861, while living in Charlestown, they had their first child, a son, named Jerimiah W. , on Feb. 24, 1861. He was baptised at St. Mary's Church. Sponsors were Denis Devine and Margaret Donovan, possibly related to both John and Catherine. Sometime soon after the birth of their son, they removed to Quincy, where John was employed as the / a blacksmith for the newly established Quincy Horse Railway that ran from the Penn's Hill area to Neponset and later to Field's Corner, Dorchester. They lived in the , then, unpopulated section of Quincy, later to be named Wollaston. His house was adjacent to the car barns on " the Turnpike , " now called Hancock Street, opposite Fenno Street, now. After the demise of the Horse Street Railway in 1868, John removed to the sparsly populated section of north Quincy, then called Atlantic. He then purchased a small lot in the Neponset Village area and established himself a blacksmith- horse shoeing stand there, retiring in the 1890's, the stand then being operated by his son, Jeremiah, and also along with a new son in law, Patrick Murphy, from Macroom, Ireland, who married their daughter, Catherine. Catherine Donovan died in 1892, at age 62 years. John survived till age 85 years, dying in 1910. He was then " the oldest resident in Atlantic section of Quincy," and was descibed as " a pioneer blacksmith for the old horse street railway." I pursued this lead with the Archdiosces of Boston Archives at Brighton and was stunned and pleased to find the citation of the purchase of the cemetery lot at West Cambrige Cath. Cem., next to the Kidney family plot, by John ( and Catherine ) Donovan. For some unknown reason, if I correctly understand the historic document, the infant was interred in the Kidney family plot, not the Donovan plot. Nevertheless, here was my first confirmation that there was some kind of connection between the DONOVAN and the KIDNEY families. I cannot discount, nor can I affirm , that the Jeremiah Donovan who married Catherine Kidney ( m.n. unk ) in 1860, is or is not related to my great GF, John. There was no shortage of ' Donovans ' around back then, at least not in Boston, and more than a few were named John and Jeremiah. I have hit a dead end with Catherine (m.n. unk ) Kidney Donovan, as well as for Jeremiah Donovan, and Catherine's son, Dennis. I also do not have citations on the death of Patrick Kidney, sometime prior to 1860. Of course, I have no information about Jeremiah's late wife ( name unk ), either. This is my only thread, so far, as to the possible connection of these two families. I would be most grateful to anyone who might provide me with any further information about these people, eg, when and where they lived, died, appear in later census, etc. I hope this information is of more help than bother to anyone who will kindly follow up on this request. Thankyou in advance, Sincerely, Joe Chetwynd Pembroke, MA