William Murro McNamara (1821 - 1887)

Born 1821 in London, England, United Kingdom

Descendants

Died 6 Mar 1887 at about age 66 in Visalia, Tulare, California, United States

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Biography

William Murro McNamara served as an officer in the British navy and later emigrated to the United States. He was the son of a hemp merchant in London, and born in that city at No.; 9 Gloucester place, and entered the navy immediately after graduation from Sedgely Park College. Upon crossing the ocean in 1848 he proceeded direct to Illinois and located on one hundred and sixty acres og government land in Cook county, where he transformed a tract of virgin soil into a productive and profitable dairy farm. At Favville, Kane County, February 6, 1854, occurred the birth of his only son, Theaddeus and on the old preemption claim he spent many useful, profitable years, but eventually sold the tract in order to remove to California. Close to Visalia he bought a tract of land and established a country home. On that place he died March 6, 1887, at the age of sixty-five years.

His wife, who bore the maiden name of Bridget Mary Keating, was born in Tipperary, Ireland, where her father, Patric Keating, engaged in mercantile pursuits prior ot his emigration to the United States and his settlement among the pioneer farmers of Kane county in the vincinity of Elgin.

William Murro McNamara was born in 1821, in London, England, United Kingdom. He married Bridget Mary Keating on 6 December 1850, in Kane, Illinois, United States.^[1] They were the parents of one son, Thaddeus. He lived in Visalia, Tulare, California, United States in 1880. He died there on 6 March 1887, at the age of 66.

Sources

1. ↑ "Illinois, County Marriages, 1810-1940", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KFL2-NDL : Sun Mar 10 05:52:07 UTC 2024), Entry for William McNamara and Bridget Keating, 06 Dec 1850.

• History of Kern County California, page 221, by Wallace Morgan, 1914.