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Note: , James, Mary Ann, Elizabeth, George and a boy who is reported as having died from a fall from a horse in Ireland. The Workmans, father and mother left Ireland for America aboard the ship "The Suffolk of Aberdeen" or "The Queen of Suffolk", loaded with a cargo of salt, and apparently some passengers, for Mary Ann, who was then only 8 years of age, is said to have taken some tea and sugar from the supplies being shipped by Hugh, in the pocket of her "pinny" or pinafore to some of the women in steerage, for which they "God-blessed her for the kind-hearted lady she was." They were seven weeks in crossing, and landing at Quebec, they struck either some rocks or shoals, for no pilot had come when their sails were first posted. On landing, the rest of the tea and sugar was sold to merchants, and they traveled throughout all of the states of the Union, by carriage and or canal boat, hunting for a place to settle. They came to Picton, and stayed the first winter with a family of Williams at the Creek, then in the spring moved on to Port Hope. From the grave marker for Mary Ann O'Flynn, widow of James O'Flynn, located in Mt. Olivet Roman Catholic Cemetery at Picton, Ontario she is shown to have been 74 years, 4 months, 23 days of age, we calculated her birth date as being 4/29/1809, so it is thought that the Workman's voyage must have been in 1817. James O'Flynn and Mary Ann Workman were married in Port Hope by a Church of England minister, the Rev. Bathen. We gather that apparently there was some disapproval to the wedding on the part of Hugh Workman, and indeed little is known about the parents of Mary Ann. It is believed that they having come from the Northern Ireland were of Protestant faith, and objected very highly that Mary Ann was marrying a Catholic. <<Another version of the previous paragraph>> From some things that appear in various records, some assumptions are drawn, namely that Hugh and Anne Galloway Workman were apparently followers of the Presbyterian faith. In the recording of the 1881 census, Mary Ann apparently inadvertently stated that she had been raised as a Presbyterian, though we know she converted to Catholicism, as it was noted in the two previous censuses in which she was recorded as being of the Church of Rome. Oddly enough when upon her death some four years later in 1885, she was buried in Mt. Olivet Cemetery which is associated with the St. Gregory Catholic Church in Picton and is often referred to as being the "Great Church" accepting only practicing Catholics for burial in their confines. It is also a departure point, in reconsidering the family of James and Rosetta O'Flynn, for we are told that there was apparently a degree of lack of approval on the part of Mary Ann's father, Hugh Workman, and we are assuming that it was indeed this difference in religious beliefs that fostered a great deal of that disapproval. Indeed it seems strange that no mention is made among the children of the family about their Workman grandparents, who it is believed remained in Port Hope until their ultimate demise.
Note: Mary Ann Workman is said to have been born in Londonderry, Ireland in 1809, the daughter of Hugh Workman and Anne Galloway (also of Scottish descent). Their children are reported as having been Jane
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