[PW] Ethel Reed Query re-dux

[Towse]

[cc: Donna Halper]

On 6/8/07, Donna Halper <dlh at donnahalper.com> wrote:
> And while I was at the Massachusetts Archives, I confirmed that
> Ethel's mother, Mary Elizabeth (Mahoney), came from County Cork
> Ireland.  Her mum was Catherine and her dad was Patrick Mahoney.  I
> did find a Patrick and Catherine Mahoney on the British/Irish census
> of 1871, but the listing I found did not have our Mary
> Elizabeth.  She seems to have left Ireland around that time, since
> the records from the Archives show that she married at age 19, to
> Edgar Eugene Reed, in Newburyport MA on 2 December 1872.  And Ethel
> was born, as mentioned earlier, on 13 March 1874.  Edgar Eugene Reed
> died in Newburyport on 6 August 1892.  I have had absolutely no luck
> tracking down a date of death for Mary, and you all know I am having
> no luck tracking down Ethel after 1901.  I still get the impression
> that Ethel remained in England-- I wonder if Mary went back to
> Ireland after her husband died... can't prove that one either... sigh...

A Mary Elizabeth Reed of the proper age (age 36yrs 4mo 26d) (bday ~
Jan 6, 1853) died in Manchester, NH, May 2, 1889, but is listed on the
Derry records because she was "brought to Derry for internment."  This
Mary Elizabeth Reed would also have been 19 in December, 1872.

Manchester, NH, and Newburyport, MA, are about twenty-five miles apart
as the crow flies.

Could this be your Mary Elizabeth Reed?

<http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nh/rockingham/vitals/deaths/derry/1889.txt>