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My grandparents Charles Sweeney and Margaret Savage were married in January 1905 at the Visitation B.V.M Church in the Kensington section of Philadelphia. Charles, a shipfitter, and Margaret had twelve children who were primarily raised on Mercer Street in the Port Richmond section of Philadelphia.
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RICHARD SAVAGE AND SARAH COUGHLIN
My grandmother Margaret Savage was born in Philadelphia on June 2, 1887 to Richard Savage and Sarah Coughlin. Richard and Sarah met in Philadelphia where they were living next door to each other in the Kensington section. Richard was a weaver as was his father, uncles, brothers, and cousins. Unfortunately, Richard died at an early age from TB no doubt exacerbated by his occupation. Sarah raised her children, ages 6 months to 8 years, on her own while also working in the local factories.
Richard was born in Philadelphia and Sarah was born in West Chester, Chester County located on the west side of the city. Had their parents not emigrated from County Antrim and County Mayo, respectively, Richard and Sarah would probably never had the opportunity to meet let alone get married. Richards's family was North Ireland Presbyterian while Sarah's family was Republic of Ireland Catholic. A family story cites that Richard was disowned by his family when he chose to marry Sarah; however, multiple records show that Richard and Sarah lived with his brothers for some time after his marriage
ROBERT SAVAGE AND MARGARET BALLENTINE
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My great great grandparents Robert Savage and Margaret Ballentine married in the Presbyterian Church in the Grange of Ballyscullion, County Antrim, Ireland. They had ten children, five of whom were born in Taylorstown in the Grange of Ballyscullion. Margaret immigrated to America in 1863 on the ship "Wyoming" with her three children John, Robert and Margaret.
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Robert's passenger manifest has not been recovered but Robert immigrated to America between 1862 where is was recorded in the Griffith's Valuation in County Mayo and 1864 where he was listed in the Philadelphia city directory living with his brother Richard.
Robert and Margaret settled in the Kensington section of Philadelphia.
Five of their children died as infants or young children: Margaret, Robert (elder), Mary, Elizabeth and an unnamed infant. John died at the age of 17 and was recorded as being married but I suspect that is an error. Margaret married Andrew McGill and Richard married Sarah Coughlin. The whereabouts of Robert (younger) and Mary are unknown.
Robert was a weaver in Ireland and became a carpet manufacturer in Philadelphia. In 1872, the building which housed Robert’s carpet manufacturing company was destroyed by fire with an estimated $20,000 in damages and only $16,000 in insurance. The fire was caused by a lamp and nine fire companies arrived on the scene to extinguish the fire.
Robert was recorded as still being a carpet manufacturer 8 years later in the 1880 Federal Census but was listed as a carpet weaver when he died of phthisis pulmonalis in 1885 at the age of 55. Robert was buried in Franklin Cemetery located in the Kensington section of Philadelphia. In 1947 the cemetery was razed and a playground built over it. The interred were supposed to be moved to Evergreen Memorial Park in Bensalem, Bucks County, Pennsylvania north of the city although there seems to be doubt whether the bodies were moved to this cemetery, a different cemetery, or not at all.
Margaret died of apoplexy at the age of 73 and was also buried in Franklin Cemetery.
RICHARD SAVAGE
Robert Savage was born in Ireland to Richard Savage my great great great grandfather. His mother's identity is unknown. Richard has been described in source documents as a pensioner, farmer, solder and tailor.
Records have been found of Richard Savage as a soldier in the 32nd Regiment of Foot which he enlisted in 1813 in Ballymena, County Antrim. In 1815 during the battle of Waterloo, Richard was wounded by a cannon shot in the left hip and was discharged in 1825.
The 32nd Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army that fought in the Napoleonic Wars in France during Richard's enlistment. Richard died in 1863 at the age of 66.
Robert's siblings Mary, John, Francis, and Richard all immigrated to America and settled in the same section of Philadelphia. Everyone in the family was employed in the weaving industry.
Richard had 5 children born in Ireland:
➤ Robert married Margaret Ballentine (see above)
➤ Mary married Robert Woods in 1848 in the Grange of Ballyscullion. They had 2 children in Ireland and 3 children in Philadelphia where they immigrated about 1854. They lived in the same neighborhood as her brothers.
After Robert died, Mary remarried in 1867 to John King who was co-owner of the carpet manufacturer Savage and King with Mary's brother Francis. Mary had two more children with John. She died at the age of 83 years old and was buried in the Hanover Street Burial Grounds in the Kensington section of Philadelphia. Her funeral was held at the 12th United Presbyterian Church.
➤ John married Sarah Allen in 1859 in the Grange Presbyterian Church in the Grange of Ballyscullion. They had 3 children in Ireland and 4 children in Philadelphia. John was a weaver like his brothers. When his daughter Margaret was born in Ireland in 1864, John was recorded as living in Washington, North America although no record has been found to corroborate this or to clarify where this was Washington State or Washington DC (more likely).
Sarah immigrated in 1864 with her 4 year old son John and infant daughter Margaret. Her sister-in-law Mary Jane Gregg Savage was also on the same ship with her infant daughter Jane.
John immigrated to America after 1861 and he settled with his family in the Kensington section of Philadelphia. John died at the age of 45 from consumption and Sarah a year later at the age of 45 from typhira fever. They wre both buried in Franklin Cemetery. Their oldest daughter Frances was 17 at the time and their youngest son was 4.
➤ Francis married Nancy Ballentine. Nancy is the sister of Margaret who married Francis' brother Robert. See the Ballentine/Rainey section for additional information.
➤ Richard married Mary Jane Gregg in 1863 in Ballymena, County Antrim. They had one children in Ireland and 10 more children in Philadelphia. Mary Jane immigrated in 1864 to Philadelphia on the ship "Tuscarora" with her infant daughter Jane. Her sister-in-law Sarah Allen Savage was also on the same ship. Five of their children died in infancy. Richard and Mary Jane lived in the Kensington section of Philadephia. Richard was a weaver. He died at the age of 42 from phthisis pneumonia and was buried in North Cedar Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia with his wife, son William and infant grandson.
➤ Jane married Samuel Luke in 1849 at the Registrars' Office in Ballymena. They had one child Sarah. They moved to Scotland where Jane died in Glasgow in 1901 at the age of 62 from cardiac syncope.
➤ Magaret married Robert Savage. See the Robert Savage and Margaret Ballentine section above.
➤ James married Sarah Davison in 1859 in the Grange Presbyterian Church and raised 4 children in the Grange of Ballyscullion and 3 more in Drummaul Parish. James was a weaver. He lived with his brother Robert's family in Glasgow in 1891 but returned to County Antrim by 1879 where he married his second wife Ellen Jane McCord Craig and had one child. He died in Taylorstown at the age of 57 from cancer.
➤ Nancy married Francis Savage brother of Robert Savage husband of Nancy's sister Margaret. They immigrated to America in the early 1860's and settled in Philadelphia in the same neighborhood as Francis' brothers and sister and raised 5 children. Francis was a weaver and co-wner of the carpet manufacturer Savage and King with John King second husband of his sister Mary.
Nancy died at the age of 32 from typhoid pneumonia and Francis died two years later at the age of 41 from tuberculosis. Both were buried in the Franklin Cemetery in Philadelphia. At the time of Francis' death, their two youngest children William and Annie had already died and their surviving children Richard, Robert and Mary Jane were only 11, 9 and 7 years old.
In 1880, Richard was living with his uncle Richard Savage and Robert was attending Girard College in Philadelphia. The whereabouts of their sister Mary Jane is unknown until the birth of her first child in 1908.
➤ Robert married Susan Kerr in 1865 in the Grange Presbyterian Church in the Grange of Ballyscullion. They had one children in Taylorstown and three more in Scotland where they lived in Greenock, Renfrewshire and Glasgow, Lanarkshire. Robert was a wood sawyer. Susan died at the age of 66 from a malignant ovarian tumor and Robert died three years later of gastritis and general debility also at the age of 66.
➤ Thomas married Hannah Thompson in 1865 and had three children in Gillistown in the Grange of Ballysculliion. After Hannah's death, Thomas remarried in 1869 to Sarah Jan McCallion and raised three more children in the Grange. Willian and Robert moved to Toronto, Canada. Thomas was a weaver and died at the age of 30.
➤ John Doherty married Mary Weson in Ireland and they immigated in the early 1870's to America where they lived in Philadelphia. After Mary's death, John married Sara J Thomas. John did not have children from either marriage. John was a carpet weaver and died at the age of 63 from bronchial pnuemonia.
➤ William married Jane Thompson in the Registrars Office in Ballymena in 1878. William was a shoemaker and. William and Jane lived in Ardnaglass in the Grange of Ballyscullion and were members of the Christian Brothers an order of the Catholic Church in Ireland.
JOHN COUGHLIN AND MARY O'NEIL
My great great grandparents John Coughlin and Mary O'Neill married in St. Agnes' Roman Catholic Church in West Chester in 1854. John immigrated prior to 1850 where he was living with his parents in West Chester. Nothing is known of Mary O'Neill before her marriage.
John bought a 13 acre farm in West Goshen, a neighboring town, where he and Mary raised their 8 children. John died at the age of 43, cause unknown, leaving his wife with 4 children between 1-1/2 and 12 years old including Sarah who married Richard Savage (see Savage section above). John was interred in St Agnes Cemetery which is located in the Catholic section of Oakland Cemetery in West Chester. His tombstone epitaph indicates that he was from Crossboyne Parish in County Mayo, Ireland.
Three years after the death of John, Mary married Thomas Reddy. Fortunately, John had written a will (twenty days prior to his death) and had his farm sold probably knowing that if his wife remarried the estate would become the property of the new husband because married woman were not allowed to own property.
In her husband’s will, Mary was bequeathed “all household goods, kitchen furniture, wearing apparel, etc that may be in the house at the time of my decease”. She was to also receive annual interest from an estate trust; however, if the interest was insufficient, she would also receive an additional $100 annually until her youngest child Catherine was 6 years old.
On her death or remarriage, Mary would receive 1/3 of the estate and $200 each to be placed in trust for his daughter’s Sarah and Catherine with them receiving the full amount on the 21st birthday. The balance of the estate was put in a trust for his sons John and Martin until their 25th birthday.
Mary moved her children to West Chester after the death of John. According to the newspapers, Mary and Thomas Ready had a silent love affair as she looked across the street from her home into the local jail where Thomas was incarcerated for shooting a man. They married in 1878 and moved to nearby Phoenixville.
It is unfathomable what Mary saw in Thomas as he continued to show up in newspaper articles for a variety of crimes eventually dying from an assault himself in 1904. The only record found of Mary after her marriage to Thomas is the 1880 census, two years after their marriage, where Thomas is not in the household and Mary is identified as Coughlin and not Reddy.
The death of a Mary Ready was found in an online index on the Chester County Historical Society website. This Mary was recorded as being 59 years old when she died in 1897 in Phoenixville. There is no corroborating evidence that this Mary was my great great grandmother Mary O'Neill Coughlin Ready.
Two of John and Mary's children died in infancy: Sarah and Agnes and were buried with their father, their grandparents James Coughlin and Mary Trench, and sister Bridget Dunleavy. All of their children were born in West Chester.
➤ James was born in 1855 and never married. He enlisted in the marine corp in 1914. James was a veteran of the Spanish American War, Philippine Insurrection, and WW1. He died in the US Naval Hospital he Philadelphia at the age of 65 from heart failure.
➤ Mary Jane was born in 1858. She married Harvey Brown in 1879 at St Agnes Church in West Chester and was recorded as being a seamstress and a laundress. T. Mary Jane and Harvey had two children and moved to Phoenixville by 1885. Mary Janes died at the age of 72 in Phoenixville from nephritis interstital. Harvey lived until 1942 and never remarried.
➤ John was born in 1863. He died in Reading, Berks Co, Pennsylvania at the age 21 where he was found next to a faulty furnace.
➤ Sarah Gertrude was born in 1868. See Savage section above.
➤ Martin was born in 1871. He was living with his mother in Phoenixville in 1880 and at the same address as his step-father in 1889. There is no record of Martin after 1889. Some researchers have recorded Martin has having moved to Trenton but all records associated with that Martin Coughlin identify him as having been born in Ireland whereas my great great uncle was born in Pennsylvania.
➤ Catherine the youngest of John and Mary's children was born in 1874. She lived with her mother in Phoenixville until she married in 1892 to Thomas Powers. Parental consent was required since Catherine was 18 when she married. Catherine and Thomas raised their 5 children in Phoenixville. Catherine died at the age of 79 from acCerebral hemorrhage due to hypertensive asteriosclerosis and cardiovascular disease
JAMES COUGHLIN AND MARY TRENCH
James and Mary emigrated from Crossboyne Parish, County Mayo, Ireland to America in the 1840's and they settled in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
James became a naturalized citizen in 1852 in the Court of Common Please in West Chester. He declared his intentions to become a citizen in 1848 so he had to have emigrated from Ireland by 1843 since he would have to be living in the United States for at least five years prior to petitioning for naturalization. The passenger manifests for James and his family have not been found. James was a day laborer.
James and Mary had 6 children born in Ireland who immigrated to the United States as well.
James died at the age of 66, causes unknown, in 1856. Mary lived in West Chester until she died at the age of 95 years old. According to her obituary, she had been sick for a long time. James and Mary are both buried in St Agnes' Cemetery in West Chester.
When Mary died, her real estate was sold for $211.90 with $4.90 received for personal property including bed, chairs, looking glass, table, lamp, stove, carpet and contents of cupboard. Mary’s son James was recorded as the sole executor in her Will but a RE Monaghan was assigned this role after Mary’s death.
➤ Bridget was born about 1813 in Ireland. She married James Dunleavy in Ireland and immigrated to the United States in October 1848 on the ship "Willian Penn" with her son's Michael and Charles and daughters Mary and Bridget ages 10 to infant, respectively.
James emigrated from Ireland in May of the same year. Their son James was born in West Chester about 1850.
➤ Annie was born in the 1820s. She married William Fitzpatrick about 1836 and emigrated from Ireland with their daughters Margaret and Agnes in the mid to late 1840s as their third child was born in West Chester between 1848. William declared his intent to naturalize in 1851 and became a citizen in 1853. William was a gardner. He and Annie had 7 children born in West Chester. Annie died in 1894 about 74 years old. William lived for 81 years when he died in 1903 of kidney trouble.
➤ John was born about 1830 in Ireland married Mary O'Neill in West Chester (see section above).
➤ Jane was born about 1840 in Ireland was was witness to her brother John's marriage. James married John Adam Bauer in 1860 at St Francis Xavier Church, in Jerseyville, Jersey, Illinois. John was from Germany and not a Catholic so it;s not certain how Jane and John met. Jane and John lived in Rockbridge, Greene Co, Illinois and had four children.
➤ James was born between 1838 and 1841 in Ireland. He volunteered to Company G of the Pennsylvania 2nd Infantry were he was a private in 1861. James re-enlisted in 1864 in Florida as a sergeant in the same company. In 1865 he was recorded as having deserted from the army when he was at the Philadelphia Hospital. James was recorded as being 23 years old at the time.
James was the sole executor of his mother's wiil but, when she died in 1885, RE Monaghan was assigned this role. No records have been found of James after his desertion.
➤ Ellen Agnes was born between 1838 and 1844 in Ireland. It was recorded on her death certificate that she was born in Ballindine, County Mayo but no corroborating records have been found yet. Ellen emigrated from Ireland in 1849 with her uncle James Dunleavy, a Michael Coughlin (relationship unknown), and a John Fitzpatrick (relationship unknown).
In 1866, Ellen married John Tobias Bower in Jerseyville, Jersey, Illinois which is same town where her sister Jane was married six years earlier. Ellen and John moved to Missouri where they raised 9 children. Ellen died in Missouri at the age of 79. John never remarried and lived until 1926 where they are both buried in the Midway Cemetery in La Grange.
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