Ancestors

Margaret Eleanor Varley

Margaret Eleanor Boughan was born at Newton, Massachusetts, on 30 May 1897, the second child of Francis Henry Boughan, a house painter, and Ellen Agnes Reardon, called Nellie. The family lived at 414 Watertown Street, Newton. Her elder sister Gertrude was born in 1894; after her came Francis, who lived less than a year, Katheryn Virginia in 1901, Genevieve, Ellen, another Francis in 1907 who died of burns at four, and Arthur Robert in December 1909. Her father died in May 1909, when she was eleven, of lead poisoning, the painter's disease, and her mother raised the family on Watertown Street.

On 10 November 1925, at Newton, she married Edwin Clement Varley of Waltham, an Army veteran of the war. They made their home at 89 Taft Avenue, Point Shirley, in Winthrop. Their son Edwin Pierce was born at Brighton in 1927; David A. and Pauline Frances followed. At her son Edwin's wedding in 1953 she wore beige lace over pink with a corsage of pink sweetheart roses.

Her husband died in January 1966. Margaret lived on at Taft Avenue, and died on Sunday, 11 May 1975, while visiting her daughter Pauline in New Jersey. The notice in the Boston paper read: "In Winthrop, Point Shirley, May 11, Margaret E. (Boughan), beloved wife of the late Edwin C. Varley. Devoted mother of Edwin P. of Madison, Conn., David A. of Norwell and Pauline F. Houlihan of New Jersey. Sister of Genevieve Hatch of Acton, Mass. Also survived by 12 grandchildren." The funeral was from the Maurice W. Kirby Funeral Home, 210 Winthrop Street, with a Mass at the Church of the Holy Rosary, Point Shirley, and graveside prayers by Father O'Leary at Winthrop Cemetery, where she lies with her husband under the stone "VARLEY Edwin C 1893-1966, Margaret E 1897-1975."

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Researched October 2026. Cite: Heirology, "Margaret Eleanor Varley (1897-1975)", https://heirology.com/ancestors/margaret-eleanor-varley-1897-1975-46297b.