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Record #2646
Name :
: Catherine CARROLL (1876 - 1906)
  aka : Kate MCDONALD


Father
:
Mother
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BMD and other details
Date of Birth
: 2 Jan 1876

Marriage (1)
: 1896   Spouse/Notes : Charles Henry SHAW
Marriage (2)
:

Date of Death
: 3 Feb 1906   Notes : Childbed Fever
Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Lancashire, Liverpool
Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Quebec, Gatineau, Kazabazua
Sailing Information
Date of Arrival
: 18 Sep 1882
Country
: Canada

Ship
: Circassian

Placement Family
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Homes / Agencys
Institution (GB)
:

Agency
: Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)
NotesA birth registration was found for Name: Catherine Carroll; Date: Jan-Feb-Mar 1876; District: Liverpool; County: Lancashire; Volume: 8b; Page: 197. Mother: Winifred Carroll, father was unnamed.

Winifred Carroll's life was a poignant trail from the Potato Famine of the 1840's in Ireland, to a woman who died 9 years after the death of the daughter she had sent to Canada. Winifred, or Winnie, as she was called, gave birth to 3 children out of wedlock, living all of her life in the slums of Liverpool, well known to be a place of squalor and horrible conditions. Winifred finally married a drunk named Philip Clarke and boarded Catherine with her sister, Ann Carroll, 3 doors down from where Winifred, her husband Philip Clarke and Francis Blake (Catherine's half-brother) lived.

In September, 1882, Catherine Carroll is on the Circassian en route to Montreal, along with 30 other children supervised by Mrs. Yates with the Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protection Society. The month after Catherine left for Canada, Philip was murdered in a bar fight.

Additional information from NorahEllyn:
Father: Unknown
Mother: Winifred Carroll
Spouse: Charles Henry Shaw
Marriage Date: 14 Mar 1896 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Placement Family: Martin McDonald, Hotel Keeper, Ottawa

Catherine next shows up, not as Catherine Carroll, but, it is believed, as Kate McDonald in 1891, living with a Martin McDonald and his second wife, Bridget, who ran the Wellington hotel in Ottawa. Kate Mcdonald (Catherine Carroll was always called Kate to her family) is 15, born in England, and a domestic. In 1893, she is shown as a domestic living at the Wellington Hotel as Kate McDonald. This is NOT absolute--but out of all of the resources and texts, especially that all important 1891 Canadian census, this is the most likely because Catherine Carroll had to be in that part of Ottawa in 1895 to meet her husband, Charles Henry Shaw. She fits the age, birthplace and situation. As Martin McDonald never had any children by his first wife, who died in 1887, this Kate McDonald could NOT be his biological child. Most likely, she was "adopted" by Mr. and the first Mrs. Martin McDonald, which explains very well why she went by Kate McDonald.

On March 15, 1896, Catherine is three months pregnant when she marries Charles Henry Shaw. Her name on her marriage certificate is "Catherine Carroll" and she is shown as having been "brought up in an orphan asylum." Six months later, she gives birth to her first son. Maggie Shaw, Charles' sister, reported the birth and documented that Kate's name was McDonald.

Charles and Catherine Carroll Shaw had six children: Herbert Allan Shaw, born September 24, 1896; Violet Irene Shaw, born October 11, 1898; Harold Gordon Shaw, born October 28, 1900; Clifford Henry Shaw, born January 28, 1903; Milton Franklin Shaw, born November 2, 1904, died January 30, 1905; and Hazel May Shaw, born January 28, 1906.

Catherine lived quietly with her husband, a blacksmith (a good occupation in those days), until she slipped away from childbed fever in February 1906, two weeks after the death of her daughter, Hazel May Shaw. It is such a sad note that her death notice is shown in the Aylwin Methodist Registers on the same page as Hazel's, birth.

Catherine was buried on the 8th day of February, 1906, by the Rev. J. R. R. Cooper. He does not, however, give a place of burial, but Catherine's grave has tentatively been found at the Trinity Methodist Church Cemetery in Kazabazua, Quebec, in an unmarked plot owned by Reginald Shaw, her brother-in-law. 
ContributorsCreated : 2009-01-11 22:21:12 / From original database

Additional Contributions from : NorahEllyn , mollipops1

Last Updated : 2017-01-14 19:43:44 /

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IDNameDOBPlace of birthArrivals & ShipsDest.AgencyFamily links
2646 CARROLL, Catherine1876ENG, LAN, Liverpool Sep 1882 : Circassian CAN Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care) NorahEllyn  
15398 CARROLL, Emily S1882ENG,     Sep 1894 : Numidian CAN Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)  
13041 CARROLL, John1883ENG,     Sep 1896 : Mongolian CAN Unknown Catholic Group  
18660 CARROLL, Joseph1900ENG,     Sep 1911 : Lake Manitoba CAN Unknown Catholic Group  
15990 CARROLL, Martin1880ENG, LAN, Liverpool Jun 1884 : Polynesian CAN Catholic Protection Society  
15399 CARROLL, Mary1880ENG,     Sep 1894 : Numidian CAN Liverpool Catholic Childrens Protective Society (now Nugent Care)  
12089 CARROLL, Reginald Frederick1918ENG,     May 1928 : Ballarat AUS Fairbridge Homes  
18570 CARROLL, Samuel1893ENG,     Apr 1910 : Empress of Ireland CAN Fegan Homes for Boys  
18275 CARROLL, Terrance Clarence1911ENG,     Mar 1920 : Sicilian CAN Barnardos  
7267 CARROLL, William1912ENG, DUR, Durham Sep 1929 : Duchess of Atholl CAN Catholic Emigration Association  
15989 CARROLL, William1875ENG,     Jun 1884 : Polynesian CAN Catholic Protection Society