4. | Thomas CALLAGHAN was born in 1816 in Ovens Parish, County Cork, Ireland (son of Denis CALLAGHAN, Sr and Johannah CALLAGHAN); died on 31 Mar 1914 in Marysville, Tyendinaga Twp, Hastings County, Ontario. Notes:
Thomas died on March 31/1914 - he was a widowed farmer at the time.
The informant for his death was D.F. Callaghan
Thomas likely emigrated to Canada in about 1833, along with his brother Murt.
He owned and farmed 80 acres of land in Tyendinaga at Concession 5, Lot 31.
After his wife Bridget died in 1881, Thomas remained for a time on the family farm in Marysville.
Eventually he moved to be with his sons, who had moved to Campbellford, Ontario to work in the new Rathbun mill there.
In 1891, the widowed Thomas was living with his son Denis and daughter-in-law Eliza in East Percy Township, Northumberland (near Campbellford).
Apparently this arrangement did not suit Thomas, as the 1901 census shows him living back on Concession 5, Lot 31 in Tyendinaga, now as a boarder with the family of Denis
and Abbie Callaghan.
Thomas died at home of pneumonia,on 31 Mar 1914.
The Holy Name of Mary Church records his interment, with the following entry:
"Thomas Callaghan, aged 102. On this second day of April, l9l4,I, the undersigned priest inter Thomas Callaghan, the General, in the presence of
his son, Big Din, Little Din, Denis Callaghan, and a Company of the Lonsdale Fusiliers."
It is sad to note that the Callaghan name died out in this familyline within one generation, and the blood is carried now only through the female lines.
Thomas married Bridget DOYLE on 18 Nov 1840 in St Michaels RC Church, Belleville, Ontario. Bridget (daughter of Arthur DOYLE and Mary LOWNSDALE) was born in 1820 in Kilkenny, Ireland; died on 30 Oct 1881 in Marysville, Tyendinaga Twp, Hastings County, Ontario; was buried on 2 Nov 1881 in Marysville, Tyendinaga Twp, Hastings County, Ontario. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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