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Ancestors

Margaret Boughan

1829-1898 · Ireland
Born 1829, Ireland
Died 1898
Children include Francis

Margaret Ryan was born in Ireland about 1829, the daughter of Andrew Ryan and Mary Cavanaugh. She married Francis Boughan, about ten years older, and her first two children, Anna and Patrick, were born in Ireland about 1851 and 1853.

The family emigrated in the mid 1850s. Bridget was born in Maryland about 1856, and from about 1859 the children were born at Providence, Rhode Island: Margaret, Rosa, Francis Henry in November 1865, Mary J. and Catherine. In 1870 Margaret, 45, was keeping house in the first ward of Providence for her husband and nine children.

The family moved on to Newton, Massachusetts. Her son Francis became a house painter there and gave her name as Margaret Ryan when he married in 1891.

She was widowed in 1895 and died at Newton Centre on 27 February 1898, aged about 69. Her death record names her parents and was written under the spelling Bogan. She was buried at Waltham, on the family stone at Calvary Cemetery: "1829 MARGARET HIS WIFE 1898".

Children

Francis Henry Boughan 1865-1909

Sources

Find a Grave memorial 120969237, Francis Boughan, Calvary Cemetery and Mausoleum, Waltham, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, photograph added October 2019.
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, 1870, Providence ward 1, Providence County, Rhode Island, page 182, dwelling 1668, line 36, NARA M593, FamilySearch 1:1:MFFC-M7X.
Massachusetts, State Vital Records, 1638-1927, deaths, Newton, 1898, FamilySearch 1:1:N71M-N8C; Massachusetts, Deaths and Burials, 1795-1910, 1:1:FH8L-F8P.
Massachusetts state death record, Newton, 1898 (FamilySearch 1:1:N71M-N8C; Massachusetts Deaths and Burials 1:1:FH8L-F8P); 1870 census, Providence ward 1 (1:1:MFFC-M7X); family stone, Calvary Cemetery, Waltham (Find a Grave memorial 120969280, photograph 2019); marriage of Frank Henry Boughan, 1891 (1:1:FHSN-J7X).

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