- Various traces of children of Michael McCormack & Catherine [Margaret Catherine/Catherine Margaret] McPhee: John, Peter, Joseph, Bennett, Alexander?, Daniel, Cenerus, .. [note list of chidren from Island Register history excerpt of PEI P&P regarding Selkirk settlers]
P&P: Past and Present of Prince Edward Island, 1906, "A concise review of its early settlement, develpoment and present conditions, written by the most gifted authors of the province", edited by the Hon.'s D. A. MacKinnon and A. B. Warburton. Item #30 at this link on line
- " Mr. [Michael D.] McCormack married Miss Catherine McPhee, of Big Pond, Lot 45, Prince Edward Island. a daughter of Joseph and Jane (McLean) McPhee, the latter a daughter of Capt. Charles McLean, of the British army. To Mr. and Mrs. McCormack were born the following children, namely: Joseph, of San Francisco; John, who is in the United States navy; Charles; Peter, of San Francisco, California; James; Bennett. of New York City; Cenerus, of Brandon, Manitoba; Alexander, of Providence, Rhode Island: Daniel. who remains at home and is engaged in farming and fishing; Mary Ann, of Providence. Rhode Island, and Sarah Jane. at home.
The subject's paternal grandparents came from Uist, Inverness. Scotland, in 1772, and located first at French Fort, where they remained for six years. The McLeans, who are of Scottish nativity, emigrated to Prince Edward Island in 1803 on the ship "Polly." Angus McCormack was the father of the following children: Donald, the father of the subject; James; Michael: Joseph and John. Of these, Donald, the father of the subject, who was born in 1799 and who died in 1874, at the age of seventy-five years. settled at DeGross Marsh, Lot 54, while the others remained at Launching. The subject had one brother. Gregory. who was drowned in young manhood. Donald McCormack married Miss Sarah Macdonald a daughter of Donald Macdonald, of Launching, who was one of the first six settlers at that place, the company including Angus McCormack, the subject's grandfather. Angus Walker, Mr. McPhee, Donald and Roderick McDonald and a Mr. McCormack. a relative of Angus. They all came originally from South Uist, Scotland, and bought six hundred acres of land at Launching in a joint grant and worked it in common, clearing and tilling the soil. In subsequent years the property was divided by mutual deeds of grant." P&P, Pg. 601
- Michael & Margaret Catherine McCormack graves in Boston-Roslindale, Old Calvary Cemetery.
- Michael & Ann McCormick [sic for McCormack?] parents of Mary Coggins in Daniel F McCormack's gravesite at HolyHood,Brookline ... not a sister or daughter ..maybe a half sister or cousin ...Westboro death by epilepsy 1834-1889 ..she is 12 years older than Daniel F McCormack .. cousin or half-sister exlains family oblgation in burial.
Records check in progress as to life of Coggins here marriage etc. NB.. others of the McCormacks went west toward Framingham -- Westboro adjoins and also the site of a hospital. Whether she lived there or was hospitalized there is unknown at this time. At her death she had been transferred to Boston ..death record in Mass Vital Statistics microfilm. record notes one parent PEI born one Ireland born she is also PEI born. She is also noted married.
- Cenerus McCormack b 1839-42? by reference in the P&P of Island Register circa 1860-2 is in Brandon, Manitoba ..Brandon is adjoining an old Hudson Bay Company Trading Post and joins that part of Canada which hosted a large immigration of Scottish immigrants and more by Lord Selkirk of Scotland. Still tracing Cenerus McCormack's record ..meanwhile Brandon --read about it ..romance & the Wheat City ..Cenerus [name is mixed latin-gaelic for 'beloved' or treasured ..as in kept to one's heart or chest] is great-great-uncle .. an older brother of Daniel F. McCormack (b 1846) .. son of Michael & Catherine McPhee McCormack of PEI.
- A great-great-uncle? Peter McCormack still checking ..is possibly the Peter McCormack who with Joseph McCormack was in San Francisco about 1862 ... a death record of a Peter McCormack 1841-1887 .. in the "San Francisco Call" may be his. Still checking for Joseph there is a JC McCormack in the records in San Francisco "Call"
- John McCormack ...was real estate partner of Daniel F McCormack either alone or with cousins McCormack .. and had offices at 43 Tremont Street [later law offices] ..see the McCormack-May page ... [son John?]
From a telephone directory about 1900 --
There is also a listing in Mattapan for a John J. McCormack; Phone: Milton 706-4.
Daniel F McCormack died in 1936 at his home in Mattapan ..and previously lived at 3 Rill Street, Sagamore.
D.F. McCormick (Dorchester horseshoer). No residence given, but the phone was listed as Dorchester 839-1.
- 1900 Boston Directory
Daniel F horseshoer 523 Columbia
h[ome] 3 Rill Sagamore
John H blacksmith
John J [43?] Tremont Real Estate h 7 Dorset
- Massachusetts State Death Record
James M Cormack Nov 12, 1871-73 Book 238 Page 205
Lawrence [residence]
James McCormack Age 55 d.Feb 12,1874 Laborer
James & Margaret McCormack Ireland-parents
Rheumatoid Consumption [TB]
Book 265 Page 27
N-B ..these James McCormacks are not the 1874 McCormacks in HolyHood-Brookline ..whose death records are not in state microfilm for the year of their interrment there. [PEI or out of state deaths?
Ditto Henry McCormack ... no death certificate in state microfilm files for year of HolyHood Interrments matching men their age:
Henry McCormack Book 238 Page 205 d.1871
McCormack, Michael[?] Book 483 Page 100
55 years of age PEI born
232 Bowen Street
Parents: Phillip McCormack, Sarah McKinnon -both PEI born
Carpenter
Cause of Death: Heart Dilations, Oedema [sic] of lungs
- McCormack File Directory
- No Michaels or Catherines McCormack match the Michael & Catherine McCormack dates of death and correct age in state files and by their ages.
Michael: Book 258 Page 132, 169 ... Catherine: Book 240 Page 148, Book 265 Page 132
[They may have died in PEI and were re-interred]
- 1920 US Federal Census Boston [Index Card Vol 121 ED 519 Sheet 12 Line 7]
County: Suffolk
City: Boston Street: Wellington Hill House No: 42
Other Members of the Family:
NAME Relationship Age Birthplace Citizenship
Clinton, Elizabeth C. - D - 40 -Massachusetts
Clinton, William - S-L -39 -Massachusetts
McCormack, John - S -38 - Massachusetts
---- , Charles A. - 28 - Massachusetts
[Note- Charles is grandfather of Scott M Connolly, mother of Dorothy; prior census entry for him in this family for 1900 census at Rill Street, Sagamore (Dorchester .. near the Grove Hill Upham Corner neighborhood. In tis census year or next; after WWI service and discharge with the YD, Charles would marry Anne Louise Keefe of Chelsea, Ma; and move to Newton; then to Lexington, Ma where be bought a quadruple lot on North Hancock Street, No.32, off Bedford Street; and live for the rest of his life there .. commuting by train from Lexington to Boston for the New England Telephone Company. Anne Keefe, and he met at the phone company, where she worked s one of the first female telephone operators in Boston -- a position previously reserved, because of danger [?] for men.]
- Daneil F. McCormack ... Blacksmith-Horseshoer
Scott M Connolly's great-grandfather, even while a real estate speculator, began a livery stable and blacksmithng business after he arrived in Boston. His shop at Map here his locaton since 1873>325 Columbia St or AV. near Upham Hill/Grove Hill - map-click; was kept as a business listing at least through 1919. By family accounts, he owend a few livery stables, and likely started his Boston life, ater working a passage from PEI as a blacksmith ..riding the streetcar out to Dorchester in 1867-8.
His blacksmitihing, learned on the McCormack farm in Launching and the outskirts of Georgetown, PEI wher he was born (1846) and raised, may have applied the excellent and superior skills of a legendary PEI blacksmith named Kurcudbright .. who drew his name from that shire in Scotland; and may have introduced young McCormacks; to their masters in the craft to the skill.
More referenced at Island Register.com ..search Kurcudbright
- Anecdote via D.L.Connolly about her father ... As a boy, circa 1895-1915 .. he would help his father at the blacksmith/livery stable he owned by riding bareback in the streets of Dorchester to collect his father's customers horses for shoeing, bringing them back to the stable. Sometimes the customers would pay him in goods of a kind ..baked goods for instance .. and my grandfather would come back with bread or in one case cream-puffs .."profiteroles" ..the first time in doing .. he foregot their nature and stored them is his pockets.
- US Civil War & US Veteran's Census 1890
This census, valuable, because it supplements the destroyed 1890 US Census, list three McCormacks in the Veterans Census returns for Boston. One - Vol 67, p.757 is living at Purchase Street in Boston; and is the name of a McCormack widow receiving a pension for a civil war dead husband.
The second & third are for Daniel McCormack [two of them] both sailors in the Civil War US Navy ... the first served from 1862-1863. The second served from 1863-1866 in the US Navy, and was discharged for a heart problem [heart trouble causedby service] .. address of notice or record - [sic] "Clark, Calif". As a note for reference, while research is done ... Daniel F. McCormack entered Boston as a seaman in 1867 to emigrate to the USA. The Daniel F. McCormack of Michael & Catherine McPhee McCormack -PEI born, was born in 1846, and in 1860-61 had a brother John serving in the US Navy ... and two brothers then in California (San Francisco -Peter & Joseph [possibly JC McCormack]). Note .. these are Boston residents counted in the 1890 Veteran's Census.
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