JAMES MC CRUDDEN #42 52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS

In January 2014, Amy Johnson Crow of the Ancestry blog No Story Too Small issued the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks Challenge.

 

The premise: write once a week about a specific ancestor. It could be a story, a biography, a photograph, a research problem — any that focuses on that one ancestor. The next week, write about a different ancestor. In 52 weeks, you’ll have taken a closer look at 52 people in your family tree… and maybe learned a little bit more about them in the process.

 

JAMES MC CRUDDEN is my paternal 2^nd Great Grandfather.  He was born sometime around 1820 in Ireland probably Tyrone or Donegal County.  He is the father of Mary McCrudden Mathers who came over to New York in the late 1860’s with her husband William Mathers and never went back to Ireland.  I image it must have been very hard for this father to have his daughter go to another country and never see her again.

 

JAMES MC CRUDDEN married CATHERINE HARVEY and they had 7 children that I have been told about.  I received this information from my father’s cousin Bunny Morris.  Mary McCrudden Mathers was Bunny’s Grandmother. Mary McCrudden Mathers lived with Bunny Morris's family for many years after her husband died in 1903, until she died in 1933.

 

The children of JAMES MC CRUDDEN and CATHERINE HARVEY were –

 

MARY MC CRUDDEN (1844-1933) who married WILLIAM J. MATHERS

ELIZABETH MC CRUDDEN who married GEORGE MULRANEY

THERESA MC CRUDDEN who married DANIEL BOYLE

CATHERINE MC CRUDDEN who married CHARLES CALLEN

ANN MC CRUDDEN who married someone name MC MANUS

THOMAS MC CRUDDEN

WILLIAM MC CRUDDEN

 

I have only found one document that mentions JAMES MC CRUDDEN in Ireland.  JAMES was listed as the deceased father on the marriage certificate for his daughter Mary and her husband William Mathers.  The marriage took place in January of 1864 so JAMES died sometime before that date.  I am also approximating his birth around 20 years before his daughter’s birth which makes it right only if she is the oldest.  I only know her birth date and none of her siblings.

 

I will have to research further into the children of JAMES and CATHERINE MC CRUDDEN to possible find some information about their father.  I don’t know how many of the other children came to America.  In the 1880 census of New York there was an Ann McManus living with the Mathers family and I think that must have been Mary’s sister but I don’t know if she was visiting or staying in New York.

 

 More and more of Ireland’s records are now becoming available on line so I will start looking again for this family of JAMES MC CRUDDEN.