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Note: Cause of Death:<CAUS> PERITONITIS THE FIRST RECORD I HAVE ABOUT JOHN BOYLAN COMES FROM A FAMILY RECORD PAGE FOUND IN AN OLD FAMILY BIBLE. THE ENTRY IS IN BEAUTIFUL CURSIVE. THE ENTRY FOLLOWS:
JOHN BOYLAN
THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT
JOHN BOYLAN AND
ELLEN QUINN WAS MARRIED
ON THE 25TH DAY OF JULY
1863 IN ST. MARYS CHURCH BIRMINGHAM CONN
THE ENTRY IS INITIALED AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE WITH THE FOLLOWING:
by J. F. S
THE INCORRECT USAGE OF THE VERB "WAS," IN THE SENTENCE, IS ORIGINAL TO THE RECORD. I BELIEVE THESE ARE THE INITIALS OF THE REV. JOHN SHERIDAN, WHO WAS PASTOR OF ST. MARY'S CHURCH IN BIRMINGHAM FROM 1862 TO 1866. THE FIRST BORN SON OF JOHN AND ELLEN BOYLAN WAS MY UNCLE PATRICK BOYLAN, WHO WAS BORN ON MAY 18, 1864, AND BAPTIZED BY THE REV. SHERIDAN ON MAY 22, 1864, ACCORDING TO BAPTISMAL RECORDS KEPT BY ST. MARY'S CHURCH. IN ADDITION THERE IS A BRIEF HISTORY OF DERBY IN THE DERBY TOWN HALL WHICH CONTAINS INFORMATION ABOUT ST. MARY'S CHURCH. THIS HISTORY RELATES HOW THE REV. SHERIDAN WAS THE PASTOR DURING THOSE DATES CITED ABOVE.
THIS BIBLE ENTRY IS IMPORTANT TO THIS GENEALOGY FOR SEVERAL REASONS. ONE IS THAT IT IS THE ONLY RECORD IN EXISTANCE THAT DOCUMENTS THE MARRIAGE OF JOHN BOYLAN AND ELLEN QUINN. THE VITAL RECORDS FOR BIRMINGHAM, NOW CALLED DERBY, CONNECTICUT, HAVE BEEN SEARCHED IN PERSON IN DERBY AND THROUGH THE RECORDS HELD BY THE FAMILY HISTORY LIBRARY OF THE MORMON CHURCH. THE MARRIAGE ENTRY IS ABSENT FROM THOSE RECORDS FOR THAT DAY, MONTH, AND YEAR, THOUGH OTHER MARRIAGE RECORDS FOR THE SAME TIME PERIOD EXIST IN THE OLD BIRMINGHAM VITAL RECORDS.
IN ADDITION, THE OLD MARRIAGE RECORDS OF ST. MARY'S CHURCH HAVE ALSO BEEN SEARCHED AND NO ENTRY EXISTS FOR THE MARRIAGE IN THOSE RECORDS, WHICH ARE ALSO COMPLETE FOR THE TIME PERIOD.
IN THE BIBLE ENTRY THE WORD "CERTIFY," IS USED, GIVING THE RECORD A TYPE OF AUTHORITY BY THE PERSON WHO WROTE IT, BECAUSE NO ONE OTHER THAN SOMEONE OFFICIATING WOULD HAVE WRITTEN THE WORD "CERTIFY."
MOST OF THE INFORMATION ABOUT JOHN BOYLAN'S LIFE SO FAR GATHERED, COMES FROM THE BIRTH AND DEATH RECORDS OF HIS SIX CHILDREN. THE FIRST INDICATION THAT HE CAME FROM COUNTY CAVAN, IRELAND IS FOUND IN THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE OF HIS LAST CHILD BORN, ALSO NAMED JOHN, WHERE CAVAN IS MENTIONED AS THE FATHER'S BIRTHPLACE, AND LIMERICK AS THE BIRTHPLACE OF THE MOTHER, ELLEN.
THE NEXT SOURCE OF HIS BIRTHPLACE AND THE NAMES OF HIS PARENTS CAN BE FOUND IN HIS DEATH CERTIFICATE, FILED BY THE ATTENDING PHYSICIAN, DR. SHELTON. IT ONLY LISTS COUNTY CAVAN AS THE PLACE OF BIRTH, WHILE NO TOWN IS MENTIONED. IT ALSO STATES HIS FATHER WAS PATRICK BOYLAN AND HIS MOTHER WAS MARY BOYLAN. THE ABSENCE OF MARY'S MAIDEN NAME IN THIS RECORD HAS MADE IT DIFFICULT TO TRACE HIS TOWN OF BIRTH IN CAVAN, BECAUSE WITHOUT THE MAIDEN NAME OF HIS MOTHER, ANY SEARCH FOR A BIRTH RECORD OF JOHN, AND THE MARRIAGE RECORD OF HIS PARENTS, WILL BE DIFFICULT TO TRACE.
TO FURTHER COMPILE THE JOHN BOYLAN LINEAGE BACK TO IRELAND I HAVE TRIED UNSUCCESSFULLY FOR THE PAST 12 YEARS TO FIND HIS MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME.
THE CIRCUMSTANCE OF HIS DEATH WAS RECORDED IN A NEWSPAPER CALLED THE DERBY JOURNAL FOR OCTOBER 18, 1881. IT STATES: "MR. JOHN BOYLAN, WHO DIED IN THIS PLACE TUESDAY NIGHT WAS A SAWYER AT SUMMERS & LEWIS CABINET WAREHOUSE WHERE HE HAD BEEN EMPLOYED SOME 15 YEARS. HE WENT DOWN TO THE SHORE LAST SUNDAY BUT WAS TAKEN ILL SOON AFTER RETURNING AND GREW VERY RAPIDLY WORSE UNTIL DEATH ENSUED. HE WAS ABOUT 50 YEARS OF AGE AND LEAVES A WIFE AND TWO CHILDREN."
HE IS BURIED IN AN UNMARKED GRAVE IN ST. MARY'S CEMETERY, NOW LOCATED IN ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT.
HIS WIFE WAS ELLEN QUINN BOYLAN. HIS TWO CHILDREN (OF SIX BORN) AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH WERE PATRICK BOYLAN AND MY GRANDFATHER THOMAS.
THE DEATH NOTICE PUBLISHED IN THE SAME PAPER ON THE SAME DAY STATES:
"BOYLAN-IN BIRMINGHAM, OCTOBER 11, JOHN BOYLAN AGED 50 YEARS."
BIRMINGHAM WAS THE OLD NAME FOR DERBY, CONNECTICU
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