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- The Golden Wedding Anniversary of a County Carlow Couple -
Mary Whelan Ward and Michael Ward from Bagenalstown Parish,
County Carlow celebrate their Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary on
November 23, 1936 in Joliet, Illinois. They immigrated to
America, Mary between 1883 and 1884 and Michael in 1885. They
met in Joliet, Illinois and were married there, at St. Mary's Carmelite
Roman Catholic Church, on November 23, 1886.
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- Young Mary Whelan Ward, born circa 1864, the daughter of
Patrick Whelan of Grange, Co. Carlow and Mary Walshe Whelan from
Aughabeg-Corries, Bagenalstown Parish, Co. Carlow. The
photograph was taken either shortly before she left Ireland or
shortly after she came to America, sometime between 1883 and
1884.
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- Mary Walshe Whelan, born in 1839 at Aughabeg-Corries
(Bagenalstown Parish) Co. Carlow, the daughter of Patrick Walshe
and Margaret Sheehan Walshe. The photograph was taken about 1896
in Joliet, Illinois, USA, when she came for a visit to America
and to attend the baptism of her grandson, John James Ward, the
son of her daughter, Mary Whelan Ward. Afterwards she returned
back home to Ballyknockan-Fennagh (Bagenalstown), Co.
Carlow. Ireland
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- Mary Walshe Whelan, born circa 1839, in Aughabeg-Corries
(Bagenalstown Parish), Co. Carlow. After being left widowed by
her first husband Patrick Whelan of Grange, who she married in
1863. She married a second time in 1872, to a man also named
Patrick Whelan from Ballyknockan-Fennagh (Bagenalstown). This
photograph was taken circa 1896 during a visit to her daughter
and son-in-law, Mary Whelan Ward and Michael Ward in Joliet,
Illinois, USA.
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- Mary Whelan Ward, the daughter of Mary Walshe Whelan,
Aughabeg-Corries (Bagenalstown), Co. Carlow and Patrick Whelan,
Grange, Co. Carlow, and her husband, Michael Ward, the son of
Mary Flaherty Ward and Patrick Ward, along with the two eldest
of their five children, Patrick and Joseph; photographed circa
1890 in Joliet, Illinois, USA. Mary Whelan and her future
husband Michael Ward, although living near each other in County
Carlow, met and married in Joliet, Illinois, in 1886, where a
number of Carlow people had begun to settle in the latter part
of the nineteenth century.
