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Caroline Veronica “Carrie” <I>Carolan</I> McGrath

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Caroline Veronica “Carrie” Carolan McGrath

Birth
Franklinville, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
16 May 1946 (aged 62–63)
Olney, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
Plot
Section N Range 12 Lot 24
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Caroline Veronica Carolan married Thomas James McGrath on October 19, 1904, at the Incarnation of Our Lord Catholic Church in Philadelphia. She gave birth to six children, four of whom lived into adulthood. Her son Thomas died when he was 15 years old and is buried with her father's family at New Cathedral Cemetery. Walter McGrath died at birth in 1919.

Her name: Caroline Veronica, daughter of Michael and Anna Carolan, was likely named for her father's sister, Caroline, who was born in 1850, and living with the family in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, that year, just after the Thomas Carolan family arrived in America July 27, 1847, from Ireland during the Great Hunger. Caroline is not found in the 1860 census or beyond, which may indicate that she died.

The name Veronica perhaps came from the new parish the family joined about 1882, Saint Veronica's Catholic Church, 3521 6th Street, Philadelphia. They had been members of Immaculate Conception in Jenkintown, where her parents were married in 1869. They lived in the Philadelphia city limits at Rowlandville by 1882 (death certificate, Martha Carolan, August 16, 1882) and likely changed churches at this time. There was a section of Philadelphia once known as Rowlandville in the vicinity of Tacony Creek (Tookany Creek) and Wyoming Avenue. It was named for the Benjamin Rowland shovel factory located on Tacony Creek.
Caroline Veronica Carolan married Thomas James McGrath on October 19, 1904, at the Incarnation of Our Lord Catholic Church in Philadelphia. She gave birth to six children, four of whom lived into adulthood. Her son Thomas died when he was 15 years old and is buried with her father's family at New Cathedral Cemetery. Walter McGrath died at birth in 1919.

Her name: Caroline Veronica, daughter of Michael and Anna Carolan, was likely named for her father's sister, Caroline, who was born in 1850, and living with the family in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, that year, just after the Thomas Carolan family arrived in America July 27, 1847, from Ireland during the Great Hunger. Caroline is not found in the 1860 census or beyond, which may indicate that she died.

The name Veronica perhaps came from the new parish the family joined about 1882, Saint Veronica's Catholic Church, 3521 6th Street, Philadelphia. They had been members of Immaculate Conception in Jenkintown, where her parents were married in 1869. They lived in the Philadelphia city limits at Rowlandville by 1882 (death certificate, Martha Carolan, August 16, 1882) and likely changed churches at this time. There was a section of Philadelphia once known as Rowlandville in the vicinity of Tacony Creek (Tookany Creek) and Wyoming Avenue. It was named for the Benjamin Rowland shovel factory located on Tacony Creek.

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