Biographical Information:
Margaret was the daughter of Elizabeth (nee Porter) and Charles P. Harrison, artist, of Brooklyn. Charles moved his family from Philadelphia to New York between 1820 and 1822 to 3 Reade Street near the residence of Aaron Burr and Broadway. The home of her childhood, was a refuge for authors and artists of the day such as John James Audubon and John Trumbull.
Margaret's paternal grandfather, William Harrison, was called upon to come to Philadelphia to print America's first banknotes following its independence. He had been the chief engraver for Alexander Dalrymple from 1780 to 1793. Her maternal grandfather, Porter, was a revolutionary soldier under Washington at Trenton and was one of the last living veterans paying tribute to LaFayette in a parade when LaFayette returned to America in 1824.
One of Margaret's paternal great-grandfathers, Elmes Foster, wove the coronation robes of George III. Elmes' wife was the granddaughter of Mrs. Salmon who had owned the wax works of Fleet Street in London. Margaret's brother was the actor, author and artist, Gabriel Harrison. She and her sisters were all fine musicians.
Biographical entries about Margaret's brother, Gabriel, claimed he was a direct descendant of John "Longitude" Harrison.
Source: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography Volume 5, 1894, page 218. New York: James T White & Company
https://archive.org/stream/nationalcyclopae05newy#page/218/mode/2up
At the U.S. Library of Congress there are engravings of Longitude's chronometer.
Source: https://loc.gov/search/?q=chronometer&sb=date
Margaret married Carlos Hernandez y Aloy of Havana, Cuba, on 30 Oct. 1837. The ceremony was performed by Bishop John Dubois who had been born in Paris, France. Carlos had spent time in Paris from 1836 until the spring of 1837 with the family of his aunt, Maria Serafina (nee Aloy) Chauviteau (Memorial# 177516598), before marrying Margaret. The wedding took place at St. Paul's R.C. Church in Brooklyn.
Known children of Margaret and Carlos were Francisca Margaret (Marguerita), Cecelia Eugenia (died 11 Dec. 1910 in Grand View on Hudson, New York), Charles Fabian and Merced Antonia (died 29 May 1870).
Francisca married Charles Lewis Fontaine. Known children were Leila Eugenia (born 13 Oct. 1859), Genevieve, Cladius Herbert, Clara Beatrice, Charles Albert, Walter Lewis (born 15 May 1875) and Sadie.
Daughter Cecelia (aka Cecilia) Eugenia married Adolfo L. Carrillo de Albornoz of Havana, Cuba (d. in Grand View on Hudson on 17 Aug. 1896). Their children were Rosa (aka Rosita, Rosetta, Nina), Maud, Arthur, Mary Margaret, Agnes Cecilia (1877-Jun. 1878) and Genevieve.
Charles Fabian was a landscape artist. He painted among other things: 'Noon in the Pasture', 'Coastal Scene with Rock Formation' (1877) and 'Sunset Over the Valley' (1877). He married Florence Newmann. Their daughter, Constance Josephine (Memorial# 71588450), married Alfred David Lamberton on April 12, 1898 in the Church of the Ascension, on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street in New York City (Source: NY Times of April 13, 1898). Their daughter, Helene (Memorial# 148018929), married Percy Ingalls. Helene was an active golfer. Charles died in 1939.
Earliest records of the Hernandez family include:
U.S. Census of 13 Sep. 1850 Ward 17, New York City
Margaret C. 35, born in Pennsylvania, Francis C. 11, Cecelia E. 9, Maria A. 7, Charles 4 - all born in New York
U.S. Census of 8 Jun. 1860 3rd District, Ward 16, New York City
Chas. F. Hernandez 46, born in the West Indies, Margaret C. 48, Cecelia 18, (recorded as:) Macid A. 16, Chas. F. 14, Chas. Fontaine 26 Clerk, Francisca Fontaine 21, Lela Fontaine 8/12
N.Y. State Census of 5 Jun. 1875 Ramapo, Rockland County, Inhabitants living in the part of the 3rd Election District lying East of the Saddle River Road
Margaret C. 62 widowed, Charles F. 29 Landscape Painter
U.S. Census of 1880 Ramapo, Rockland County, New York
Margaret C. 72
On November 3rd 1888 the Rockland County Journal reported on a parade in Nyack. Although no longer alive, the house mentioned may have been her former residence:
"The procession then countermarched down Broadway to Fifth Avenue, up Fifth Avenue to Jefferson Street, where the houses of Rev. J. M. Van Buren, A. C. Haeselbarth, Cornelius H. Lydecker and Mrs. Hernandez were illuminated."
The marriage of Carlos and Margaret endured an enstrangement beginning in 1846. Carlos returned sometime between 1857 and the 1860 Census. Margaret had written to Teofilo del Monte on April 1st 1868 informing him that Carlos had died in Paris, France (Source: Letter from Teofilo del Monte to Margaret dated April 17, 1868, Hernandez Collection, St. Lawrence University).
Margaret was the daughter of Elizabeth (nee Porter) and Charles P. Harrison, artist, of Brooklyn. Charles moved his family from Philadelphia to New York between 1820 and 1822 to 3 Reade Street near the residence of Aaron Burr and Broadway. The home of her childhood, was a refuge for authors and artists of the day such as John James Audubon and John Trumbull.
Margaret's paternal grandfather, William Harrison, was called upon to come to Philadelphia to print America's first banknotes following its independence. He had been the chief engraver for Alexander Dalrymple from 1780 to 1793. Her maternal grandfather, Porter, was a revolutionary soldier under Washington at Trenton and was one of the last living veterans paying tribute to LaFayette in a parade when LaFayette returned to America in 1824.
One of Margaret's paternal great-grandfathers, Elmes Foster, wove the coronation robes of George III. Elmes' wife was the granddaughter of Mrs. Salmon who had owned the wax works of Fleet Street in London. Margaret's brother was the actor, author and artist, Gabriel Harrison. She and her sisters were all fine musicians.
Biographical entries about Margaret's brother, Gabriel, claimed he was a direct descendant of John "Longitude" Harrison.
Source: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography Volume 5, 1894, page 218. New York: James T White & Company
https://archive.org/stream/nationalcyclopae05newy#page/218/mode/2up
At the U.S. Library of Congress there are engravings of Longitude's chronometer.
Source: https://loc.gov/search/?q=chronometer&sb=date
Margaret married Carlos Hernandez y Aloy of Havana, Cuba, on 30 Oct. 1837. The ceremony was performed by Bishop John Dubois who had been born in Paris, France. Carlos had spent time in Paris from 1836 until the spring of 1837 with the family of his aunt, Maria Serafina (nee Aloy) Chauviteau (Memorial# 177516598), before marrying Margaret. The wedding took place at St. Paul's R.C. Church in Brooklyn.
Known children of Margaret and Carlos were Francisca Margaret (Marguerita), Cecelia Eugenia (died 11 Dec. 1910 in Grand View on Hudson, New York), Charles Fabian and Merced Antonia (died 29 May 1870).
Francisca married Charles Lewis Fontaine. Known children were Leila Eugenia (born 13 Oct. 1859), Genevieve, Cladius Herbert, Clara Beatrice, Charles Albert, Walter Lewis (born 15 May 1875) and Sadie.
Daughter Cecelia (aka Cecilia) Eugenia married Adolfo L. Carrillo de Albornoz of Havana, Cuba (d. in Grand View on Hudson on 17 Aug. 1896). Their children were Rosa (aka Rosita, Rosetta, Nina), Maud, Arthur, Mary Margaret, Agnes Cecilia (1877-Jun. 1878) and Genevieve.
Charles Fabian was a landscape artist. He painted among other things: 'Noon in the Pasture', 'Coastal Scene with Rock Formation' (1877) and 'Sunset Over the Valley' (1877). He married Florence Newmann. Their daughter, Constance Josephine (Memorial# 71588450), married Alfred David Lamberton on April 12, 1898 in the Church of the Ascension, on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street in New York City (Source: NY Times of April 13, 1898). Their daughter, Helene (Memorial# 148018929), married Percy Ingalls. Helene was an active golfer. Charles died in 1939.
Earliest records of the Hernandez family include:
U.S. Census of 13 Sep. 1850 Ward 17, New York City
Margaret C. 35, born in Pennsylvania, Francis C. 11, Cecelia E. 9, Maria A. 7, Charles 4 - all born in New York
U.S. Census of 8 Jun. 1860 3rd District, Ward 16, New York City
Chas. F. Hernandez 46, born in the West Indies, Margaret C. 48, Cecelia 18, (recorded as:) Macid A. 16, Chas. F. 14, Chas. Fontaine 26 Clerk, Francisca Fontaine 21, Lela Fontaine 8/12
N.Y. State Census of 5 Jun. 1875 Ramapo, Rockland County, Inhabitants living in the part of the 3rd Election District lying East of the Saddle River Road
Margaret C. 62 widowed, Charles F. 29 Landscape Painter
U.S. Census of 1880 Ramapo, Rockland County, New York
Margaret C. 72
On November 3rd 1888 the Rockland County Journal reported on a parade in Nyack. Although no longer alive, the house mentioned may have been her former residence:
"The procession then countermarched down Broadway to Fifth Avenue, up Fifth Avenue to Jefferson Street, where the houses of Rev. J. M. Van Buren, A. C. Haeselbarth, Cornelius H. Lydecker and Mrs. Hernandez were illuminated."
The marriage of Carlos and Margaret endured an enstrangement beginning in 1846. Carlos returned sometime between 1857 and the 1860 Census. Margaret had written to Teofilo del Monte on April 1st 1868 informing him that Carlos had died in Paris, France (Source: Letter from Teofilo del Monte to Margaret dated April 17, 1868, Hernandez Collection, St. Lawrence University).
Biographical Information:
Margaret was the daughter of Elizabeth (nee Porter) and Charles P. Harrison, artist, of Brooklyn. Charles moved his family from Philadelphia to New York between 1820 and 1822 to 3 Reade Street near the residence of Aaron Burr and Broadway. The home of her childhood, was a refuge for authors and artists of the day such as John James Audubon and John Trumbull.
Margaret's paternal grandfather, William Harrison, was called upon to come to Philadelphia to print America's first banknotes following its independence. He had been the chief engraver for Alexander Dalrymple from 1780 to 1793. Her maternal grandfather, Porter, was a revolutionary soldier under Washington at Trenton and was one of the last living veterans paying tribute to LaFayette in a parade when LaFayette returned to America in 1824.
One of Margaret's paternal great-grandfathers, Elmes Foster, wove the coronation robes of George III. Elmes' wife was the granddaughter of Mrs. Salmon who had owned the wax works of Fleet Street in London. Margaret's brother was the actor, author and artist, Gabriel Harrison. She and her sisters were all fine musicians.
Biographical entries about Margaret's brother, Gabriel, claimed he was a direct descendant of John "Longitude" Harrison.
Source: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography Volume 5, 1894, page 218. New York: James T White & Company
https://archive.org/stream/nationalcyclopae05newy#page/218/mode/2up
At the U.S. Library of Congress there are engravings of Longitude's chronometer.
Source: https://loc.gov/search/?q=chronometer&sb=date
Margaret married Carlos Hernandez y Aloy of Havana, Cuba, on 30 Oct. 1837. The ceremony was performed by Bishop John Dubois who had been born in Paris, France. Carlos had spent time in Paris from 1836 until the spring of 1837 with the family of his aunt, Maria Serafina (nee Aloy) Chauviteau (Memorial# 177516598), before marrying Margaret. The wedding took place at St. Paul's R.C. Church in Brooklyn.
Known children of Margaret and Carlos were Francisca Margaret (Marguerita), Cecelia Eugenia (died 11 Dec. 1910 in Grand View on Hudson, New York), Charles Fabian and Merced Antonia (died 29 May 1870).
Francisca married Charles Lewis Fontaine. Known children were Leila Eugenia (born 13 Oct. 1859), Genevieve, Cladius Herbert, Clara Beatrice, Charles Albert, Walter Lewis (born 15 May 1875) and Sadie.
Daughter Cecelia (aka Cecilia) Eugenia married Adolfo L. Carrillo de Albornoz of Havana, Cuba (d. in Grand View on Hudson on 17 Aug. 1896). Their children were Rosa (aka Rosita, Rosetta, Nina), Maud, Arthur, Mary Margaret, Agnes Cecilia (1877-Jun. 1878) and Genevieve.
Charles Fabian was a landscape artist. He painted among other things: 'Noon in the Pasture', 'Coastal Scene with Rock Formation' (1877) and 'Sunset Over the Valley' (1877). He married Florence Newmann. Their daughter, Constance Josephine (Memorial# 71588450), married Alfred David Lamberton on April 12, 1898 in the Church of the Ascension, on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street in New York City (Source: NY Times of April 13, 1898). Their daughter, Helene (Memorial# 148018929), married Percy Ingalls. Helene was an active golfer. Charles died in 1939.
Earliest records of the Hernandez family include:
U.S. Census of 13 Sep. 1850 Ward 17, New York City
Margaret C. 35, born in Pennsylvania, Francis C. 11, Cecelia E. 9, Maria A. 7, Charles 4 - all born in New York
U.S. Census of 8 Jun. 1860 3rd District, Ward 16, New York City
Chas. F. Hernandez 46, born in the West Indies, Margaret C. 48, Cecelia 18, (recorded as:) Macid A. 16, Chas. F. 14, Chas. Fontaine 26 Clerk, Francisca Fontaine 21, Lela Fontaine 8/12
N.Y. State Census of 5 Jun. 1875 Ramapo, Rockland County, Inhabitants living in the part of the 3rd Election District lying East of the Saddle River Road
Margaret C. 62 widowed, Charles F. 29 Landscape Painter
U.S. Census of 1880 Ramapo, Rockland County, New York
Margaret C. 72
On November 3rd 1888 the Rockland County Journal reported on a parade in Nyack. Although no longer alive, the house mentioned may have been her former residence:
"The procession then countermarched down Broadway to Fifth Avenue, up Fifth Avenue to Jefferson Street, where the houses of Rev. J. M. Van Buren, A. C. Haeselbarth, Cornelius H. Lydecker and Mrs. Hernandez were illuminated."
The marriage of Carlos and Margaret endured an enstrangement beginning in 1846. Carlos returned sometime between 1857 and the 1860 Census. Margaret had written to Teofilo del Monte on April 1st 1868 informing him that Carlos had died in Paris, France (Source: Letter from Teofilo del Monte to Margaret dated April 17, 1868, Hernandez Collection, St. Lawrence University).
Margaret was the daughter of Elizabeth (nee Porter) and Charles P. Harrison, artist, of Brooklyn. Charles moved his family from Philadelphia to New York between 1820 and 1822 to 3 Reade Street near the residence of Aaron Burr and Broadway. The home of her childhood, was a refuge for authors and artists of the day such as John James Audubon and John Trumbull.
Margaret's paternal grandfather, William Harrison, was called upon to come to Philadelphia to print America's first banknotes following its independence. He had been the chief engraver for Alexander Dalrymple from 1780 to 1793. Her maternal grandfather, Porter, was a revolutionary soldier under Washington at Trenton and was one of the last living veterans paying tribute to LaFayette in a parade when LaFayette returned to America in 1824.
One of Margaret's paternal great-grandfathers, Elmes Foster, wove the coronation robes of George III. Elmes' wife was the granddaughter of Mrs. Salmon who had owned the wax works of Fleet Street in London. Margaret's brother was the actor, author and artist, Gabriel Harrison. She and her sisters were all fine musicians.
Biographical entries about Margaret's brother, Gabriel, claimed he was a direct descendant of John "Longitude" Harrison.
Source: The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography Volume 5, 1894, page 218. New York: James T White & Company
https://archive.org/stream/nationalcyclopae05newy#page/218/mode/2up
At the U.S. Library of Congress there are engravings of Longitude's chronometer.
Source: https://loc.gov/search/?q=chronometer&sb=date
Margaret married Carlos Hernandez y Aloy of Havana, Cuba, on 30 Oct. 1837. The ceremony was performed by Bishop John Dubois who had been born in Paris, France. Carlos had spent time in Paris from 1836 until the spring of 1837 with the family of his aunt, Maria Serafina (nee Aloy) Chauviteau (Memorial# 177516598), before marrying Margaret. The wedding took place at St. Paul's R.C. Church in Brooklyn.
Known children of Margaret and Carlos were Francisca Margaret (Marguerita), Cecelia Eugenia (died 11 Dec. 1910 in Grand View on Hudson, New York), Charles Fabian and Merced Antonia (died 29 May 1870).
Francisca married Charles Lewis Fontaine. Known children were Leila Eugenia (born 13 Oct. 1859), Genevieve, Cladius Herbert, Clara Beatrice, Charles Albert, Walter Lewis (born 15 May 1875) and Sadie.
Daughter Cecelia (aka Cecilia) Eugenia married Adolfo L. Carrillo de Albornoz of Havana, Cuba (d. in Grand View on Hudson on 17 Aug. 1896). Their children were Rosa (aka Rosita, Rosetta, Nina), Maud, Arthur, Mary Margaret, Agnes Cecilia (1877-Jun. 1878) and Genevieve.
Charles Fabian was a landscape artist. He painted among other things: 'Noon in the Pasture', 'Coastal Scene with Rock Formation' (1877) and 'Sunset Over the Valley' (1877). He married Florence Newmann. Their daughter, Constance Josephine (Memorial# 71588450), married Alfred David Lamberton on April 12, 1898 in the Church of the Ascension, on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street in New York City (Source: NY Times of April 13, 1898). Their daughter, Helene (Memorial# 148018929), married Percy Ingalls. Helene was an active golfer. Charles died in 1939.
Earliest records of the Hernandez family include:
U.S. Census of 13 Sep. 1850 Ward 17, New York City
Margaret C. 35, born in Pennsylvania, Francis C. 11, Cecelia E. 9, Maria A. 7, Charles 4 - all born in New York
U.S. Census of 8 Jun. 1860 3rd District, Ward 16, New York City
Chas. F. Hernandez 46, born in the West Indies, Margaret C. 48, Cecelia 18, (recorded as:) Macid A. 16, Chas. F. 14, Chas. Fontaine 26 Clerk, Francisca Fontaine 21, Lela Fontaine 8/12
N.Y. State Census of 5 Jun. 1875 Ramapo, Rockland County, Inhabitants living in the part of the 3rd Election District lying East of the Saddle River Road
Margaret C. 62 widowed, Charles F. 29 Landscape Painter
U.S. Census of 1880 Ramapo, Rockland County, New York
Margaret C. 72
On November 3rd 1888 the Rockland County Journal reported on a parade in Nyack. Although no longer alive, the house mentioned may have been her former residence:
"The procession then countermarched down Broadway to Fifth Avenue, up Fifth Avenue to Jefferson Street, where the houses of Rev. J. M. Van Buren, A. C. Haeselbarth, Cornelius H. Lydecker and Mrs. Hernandez were illuminated."
The marriage of Carlos and Margaret endured an enstrangement beginning in 1846. Carlos returned sometime between 1857 and the 1860 Census. Margaret had written to Teofilo del Monte on April 1st 1868 informing him that Carlos had died in Paris, France (Source: Letter from Teofilo del Monte to Margaret dated April 17, 1868, Hernandez Collection, St. Lawrence University).
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NOV. 14, 1887
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