Name: kane-foltz -- Kane-Foltz-Bell-Higley

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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Josephine V. Kane: Birth: 6 Apr 1881 in Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts. Death: 9 Jan 1975 in Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts

  2. John James Kane: Birth: 21 Nov 1882 in Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts. Death: 8 Nov 1946 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee Co., Wisconsin

  3. Elinore T. (Nelle) Kane: Birth: 10 Apr 1884 in Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts. Death: 2 Oct 1971 in Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts

  4. Mary Martha Kane: Birth: 5 Apr 1886 in Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts. Death: 12 Nov 1980 in Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts

  5. William Patrick Kane: Birth: 24 Aug 1888 in Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts. Death: 16 Oct 1960 in Meriden, CT.

  6. Margaret G. Kane: Birth: 24 Jun 1889 in Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts. Death: Prob Bef 1894

  7. Anne Kane: Birth: 30 Jun 1892 in Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts. Death: in , , Florida

  8. Catherine (Kitty) Kane: Birth: 15 Aug 1894 in Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts. Death: Jan 1989 in prob Crowley, Tarrant Co., Texas

  9. Cecelia Kane: Birth: 8 Apr 1896 in Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts. Death: 2 Dec 1980 in Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts


Sources
1. Title:   Letter - Waterford Heritage Services, responding to several inquiries relating to Keane and Harney
Author:   Michael N. O'Connor
Publication:   Waterford City, Co. Waterford, Ireland 18 Jun 2007.
2. Title:   Death Certificate for Patrick W. Kane, 30 June 1942
Publication:   City Clerk, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, 28 Jun 1996
3. Title:   Death and funeral notices for Patrick W. Kane, died 26 Jun 1942
Publication:   Worcester Daily Telegram and Worcester Evening Gazette, Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts, 27 and 29 Jun 1942
4. Title:   Family lore - "Pelu" Kane
5. Title:   Baptismal Register of Stradbally-Ballylaneen Parish, Co. Waterford, Ireland, 1850-1863, page 33 (John Dowly, Pastor)
Publication:   Stradbally, Co. Waterford, Ireland, 1853.
6. Title:   Declaration and Intent to Become Naturalized of Patrick Keane (Kane) and Naturalization Record
Publication:   County of Worcester, Massachusetts, 1882 and 1885
7. Title:   Final Declaration and Oath of Citizenship of Patrick Keane
Publication:   Central District Court of Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts, 24 Sep 1885
8. Title:   Grave marker and Cemetery Plot Record for Kane Family, St. John's Cemetery
Publication:   Worcester, Worcester Co., Massachusetts, 1996.
9. Title:   1900 U.S. Census for Worcester Co., Massachusetts
Publication:   U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC, 21 June 1900; www.Ancestry.com 1 June 2005

Notes
a. Note:   Patrick was employed for many years as a fireman at the Worcester Steel & Wire Co. After his retirement, about 1920, he worked as a railroad crossing guard at Lincoln Square, Worcester. After his wife's death, he lived with his daughters on the top floor of the house,where he kept his beer under his bed because he liked it at room temperature. In the family, he was called "Pelu," which was said to have been a mispronunciation by one of the children of the word "peeler," when Catherine said that he looked like a peeler in his new blue suit-- peeler being a nickname for a British policeman, after Sir Robert Peel.
  Uncertainty surrounds Patrick's parentage, due to an inability to identify his father and conflicting sources relating to his mother's given name.
  Patrick's mother: Anastasia or Johanna. The mother's name on Patrick's baptismal record is "Anna" or "Anast." Credence is given to this record because it meshes with birth date information given on his Statement of Intent to become a citizen. His death certificate, however, states that his mother's name was Johanna and that was the birth name of his eldest daughter. Waterford Heritage Society and a private researcher both found several children, in addition to Patrick, baptized in Stradbally parish whose parents were John Keane (or Cane or Caine) and Anastasia Harney, as well as the marriage of John Keane and Anastasia Harney in 1841. Also found in the same records was the 1835 baptism of a child named Catherine, legitimate daughter of John Keane and Johanna Harney. It may be that Johanna and the daughter both died, and that John then married Anastasia Harney, possibly a sister. John and Anastasia gave the name Catherine to one of their eldest twin daughters, perhaps following the custom of naming the next same-sex child after one who died. No record other than the baptismal record was located relating to this union of John Keane and Johanna Harney or to the child named Catherine.
  In 1863, Anastasia Harney Keane married John Meara, and subsequently lived in Ballinarid, south of Ballygarran and closer to Bunmahon. All of these places are in Ballylaneen Civil Parish. From this, it is deduced that Patrick's father died while Patrick was still very young and it is likely he moved with his mother, or even lived with other relatives.
  Patrick's father: John Keane. The baptismal records for Patrick's siblings give the family's address as �Ballingarron� or �Ballygarran,� a townland in Ballylaneen Civil Parish, Kilmacthomas Union, only a few miles from Bunmahon and the coast. It is a farming area today and was at that time. There were four John Keanes living in that parish at the time. Griffiths' Valuation shows two of them, a John Keane living in Ballygarran in the 1840s, close to the year of Patrick's birth, and another John Keane living in Templyvrick Townland, near Bunmahon, a copper mining district.
  Tithe Applotment Records reveal that the same acreage was held in 1824 by two families, Wade and Harney. These records strongly suggest that Patrick's parents lived at Ballygarran when he was born in 1853. His Godfather was Maurice Flahaven, another tenant in Ballygarran. We were informed when we visited Ballygarran in 2004, that the present owner's ancestor, a younger �son ne'er-do-well,� had come down from Scotland in the 1850's and purchased the land.
  It appears that several of Anastasia's children both by John Keane and John Meara migrated to Montana and worked the mines there. For whatever reason, Patrick chose to migrate to Worcester, Massachusetts, at about the same time, where he worked, not in a mine but in a wire manufacturing plant. Worcester was a destination for many from Waterford. A young lady named Catherine Butler may have factored in his decision. They were married shortly after his arrival, if not before their departure from Waterford.
b. Note:   BI223
Note:   Certain sources suggest different birth years. The Statement of Intent is probably the most accurate, as it is his own statement. It gives his birth date as 17 March 1853, which fits with the baptismal record. A daughter's birth record and his death certificate both suggest 1852 as a birth year. Other censuses suggest other years but they are not credible as the dates are after the baptismal year.
c. Note:   NF91
Note:   We know from naturalization documents and the 1881 birth date of their oldest daughter that Patrick and Catherine were in Massachusetts by 1880 and were probably married in that year. They both came from Stradbally-Ballylaneen in Co. Waterford, but no record of marriage was found in the church records there. The 1880 census for Worcester shows Patrick living as a single man, a border in the Welch household on North Street in Worcestor, working as a laborer.

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