Jeremiah Reardon

b. 1840 · Ireland

Born 1840, Ireland

Children include Ellen

Jeremiah Reardon was born in Ireland about 1840. His wife was Mary McNamara. Their daughter Hannah was born in June 1861, and a second daughter, Catharine, in 1862. The family was living at Charlestown, across the river from Boston, when both children died there that winter: Catharine on 12 December 1862 and Hannah, aged one, on 21 February 1863. The town clerk entered both deaths under the names of Jeremiah Reardon and Mary McNamara.

Two more daughters lived. Margaret was born about 1865, and Ellen, later called Nellie, on 21 March 1866 at Charlestown.

By 1880 Jeremiah had moved to Newton. The census of that year found him, aged 40, in Ward Two with Margaret, 15, and Ellen, 14, both at school, and no wife in the household. In 1883 the Newton directory listed him as a grocer at Watertown Street, corner of Adams, in the village of Nonantum, and lived at the same address.

Margaret married a Hartnett and died at Newton Centre on 14 May 1887, aged 22; her death record names her parents as Jeremiah Reardon and Mary. Ellen married Frank Boughan, a Newton painter, in 1891, and spent the rest of her life a few doors from her father's old corner, at 414 Watertown Street.

A Jeremiah Reardon, aged 70, died at Newton in 1902, the son of Patrick Reardon and Johanna Buckley, and was buried at Catholic Mount Auburn Cemetery in Watertown. He may be the same man. The 1880 census makes Jeremiah eight years younger than this man, and no record ties the two together.

Children

Ellen A Boughan 1866-1948

Sources

Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, marriages, Newton 1891, no. 97, FamilySearch ark 1:1:FHSN-J7X; town copy 1:1:Q2ZT-HWKQ.

United States Census, 1880, Newton Ward Two, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, sheet 48C, NARA T9 roll 546, FamilySearch ark 1:1:MHX7-N7Y.

Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001, Charlestown deaths, vol. 13b line 64, FamilySearch 1:1:FHZC-FMS; Massachusetts, State Vital Records, Charlestown deaths, 1862.

Massachusetts, Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910, Newton Centre, 14 May 1887 (FamilySearch index); Find a Grave memorial 97287736.

Newton, Massachusetts, city directory, 1883, archive.org identifier newtonmassachuse00samp.

Charlestown town death records, Hannah Reardon, 21 February 1863, vol. 13b line 64 (FamilySearch 1:1:FHZC-FMS), and Catharine Reardon, 12 December 1862; 1880 census, Newton (1:1:MHX7-N7Y); Newton city directory 1883 (archive.org newtonmassachuse00samp); death of Margaret Reardon Hartnett, Newton Centre, 14 May 1887 (Massachusetts Deaths and Burials); marriage of Frank Henry Boughan and Nellie Agnes Reardon, Newton, 22 June 1891 (1:1:FHSN-J7X; Newton copy 1:1:Q2ZT-HWLF); Massachusetts state death record of Jeremiah Reardon, Newton, 1902, p. 655 (1:1:NWG2-QF9); Find a Grave memorials 112802468, 97287736, 97816692.

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