Mary Elizabeth Drugan ^{1 2}

  General Notes:

Some researchers try to show that Mary Drugan married Timothy McDermott in Chicago on 2 Dec 1889. However, there is no proof that the Mary Drugan shown on the marriage license was the same Mary Drugan, daughter of Peter and Ellen Drugan. The 1889 marriage application does not show her birth location nor does it show the names of her parents. In fact, it provides her age as 22 which is an approximate birth year of 1867. That is eleven years prior to the known birth year of 1878 in Wisconsin. It is very unlikely that these are the same person. The only thing positive about this connection is that there was a family of McDermotts that were living in nearby Whitehall, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin with one son named Timothy. But he was born in 1879 which means he would have been only 10 years old when he was married in Chicago.

There is a 1920 US Census record from Chicago which may or may not be the same couple from the marriage record, Timothy and Mary McDermott but the wife's name appears as Margaret born about 1872 in Canada.

Another confusing record is a 1900 US Census record from Chicago which shows a widowed Mary McDermott with 2 children both of whom were born in Nebraska. This Mary shows that she was born in Wisconsin and both of her parents were born in Ireland. This data would seem to match that of Mary Drugan, daughter of Peter and Ellen Drugan. However, her birth date was provided on the census record as Apr 1848 which makes her 30 years too old for the correct Mary Drugan and almost 20 years older than the Mary Drugan shown on the 1889 marriage record.

All of this provides proof that there were several Drugan families living near the Chicago region and just because one was named Mary does not automatically make it the correct Mary Drugan.
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  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1880 US Census in Trempealeau, WI on 1 June 1880. ¹

1880 US Census
Page 29A, District 72, Family 298, Roll 1448
Trempealeau, Trempealeau County, Wisconsin
Elizabeth Dougan..Daughter..4..WI

(Living with parents.)
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• She was buried after 1 June 1880 in the Old Catholic Cemetery in Trempealeau, WI.

Cemetery Internment Records indicate her burial as an "infant" so she probably died soon after the 1880 US Census.
Lot 65, Grave 4

Find A Grave Memorial #100849875
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