Time to put your thinking caps back on! As you may recall, I Iocated Margaret Donohue Carlin, Grammy's sister, thanks to a tip from Paul's prodigious memory. In 1920 she was living with her husband, Charles A. Carlin in Scituate. Her mother, our great grandmother, Ellen Donohue was living with them. She was not living with them in 1930 and sometime in the 1930s, Margaret ended up in Mattapan State Hospital. Today, with an hour to spare, I went to Vital Statistics to see if I could locate a death record for Ellen, assuming that she may have died sometime between 1920 and 1930. I also looked for a record for Margaret after 1930. I had no luck with Ellen Donohue between 1920 and1930. Does anyone know if she might have come to live with Grammy after 1930? Nor could I find a death record for Margaret Carlin between 1930 and 1956. I did find their marriage record from 1914. Her maiden name is listed as Donahue, not Donohue and her parents are listed as Nellie and John. (I guess Nellie is a diminutive for Ellen.) There's no apparent maiden name for Ellen since she's listed as Ellen Donahue. By the way, There are six likely spelling variations for Donohue. For example, Grammy's maiden name is listed as Donoghue in her death certificate. This likely means a tedious search through the indices for likely a Ellen Donohue/Donahue/Donoghue/Donaghue/Donahoe/Donohoe. It's also possible that Margaret, as Grammy's younger sister may well have lived after 1956 although the thought of being in Mattapan State for twenty or more years is a pretty horrible thought. At the time of her wedding, Margaret was living at 1518 Columbia Road (a waitress) and Charles (railroad clerk) was living at 524 Broadway. She was apparently married at Sts. Peter and Paul on Broadway (now condos!) which is the same church that Grammy was married in, although she was living in Jamaica Plain at the time. This is strong evidence of those phantom South Boston relatives. Who were they?

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