Margaret (McGrath) Medlin (1870 - 1901)

Biography

Margaret was born in 1870 in Leitrim Townland, County Longford.^[1][2] She is the daughter of Edward McGrath and Ann McKeon. Maggie McGrath immigrated to the United States and arrived in Boston on 16 November 1885 aboard the S.S. Cephalonia at the age of 18.^[3]

Maggie McGrath on Passenger List

She married Josiah Medlin in Quincy, Massachusetts on 19 June 1890.^[4]The 1900 United States Census records that she migrated to the United States in 1885, and lived next door to Ann McGrath.^[5]

She died in 1901 of pulmonary tuberculosis.^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ “Civil Records,” database with images, Irish Genealogy (www.irishgenealogy.ie).
2. ↑ "Catholic Parish Registers at the NLI", database with images, National Library of Ireland (http://registers.nli.ie/) Granard Parish, County of Longford, Archdiocese of Ardagh; microfilm 04237/09, baptisms, page 13, Margarita McGrath, 1 November 1870.
3. ↑ “Massachusetts, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1820-1963,” database with images, Ancestry (https://ancestry.com) entry for Maggie McGrath, arrived 16 November 1885; citing Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Boston, Massachusetts, 1891-1943, NARA microfilm publication T843, RG085.
4. ↑ “Massachusetts, Marriage Records, 1840-1915,” database with images, Ancestry (https://ancestry.com) entry for Josiah Medlin and Margaret McGrath, 19 June 1890; citing Massachusetts Vital Records, 1840–1911, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
5. ↑ 1900 U.S. Census, Norfolk, Massachusetts, population schedule, Quincy, ED 1056, sheet 20-B, households of Ann McGrath and Maggie Medlin; digital image, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org); citing NARA microfilm publication T623.
6. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FH8P-P2Z : 10 November 2020), Ann McKeon in entry for Margaret McGrath Medlen, 11 Aug 1901; citing Death, Quincy, Norfolk, Massachusetts, United States, Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, Boston; FHL microfilm 004278907.