My grandmother Zillah May Trewin’s best friend Catherine Mae Roberts, April 1905; they appear together in the 2nd photo from the right.
This is Catherine Mae Roberts, one of my grandmother Zillah Trewin’s best friends from childhood, in April 1905. Catherine was a cousin of the Nixon sisters (Jennie & Louise), about whom I have previously written. From the second photo from the right, in which my grandmother appears with Mae, you can tell they were good chums. Fourteen years after these photos were taken, my grandmother would marry Mae’s cousin William Robert Boles whose mother Sarah was a sister of Mae’s mother Jane. Below is a family tree of sorts in the event one of you wants to see the details. (Anyone who wants to help me fill in some of the blanks, please give me a shout at ‘chipsoff at gmail dot com’!)
I love the smiles. And the hats!!! What were they made of?!
Advertising poster for hats for C.A. Browning & Co., Boston. French, 1904–05. France. Lithograph, printed in color, on paper. Anonymous firm. Poster advertising hats for C. A. Browning and Co., 32 Franklin Street Boston. (In public domain is US — see below *)
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Sunday, March 26, 1905 (Courtesy of Fulton History dot com)
1-William Nixon b. Cir 1802, Ireland, d. 10 Aug 1871, Manhattan, New York, New York +Rachael Millar b. Cir 1818, Ireland, d. Possibly 10 May 1890, Manhattan, New York, New York, bur. Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA |--2-Edward Nixon b. Cir 1839-1845, Ireland, d. Betw 1889 and 1900 | +Anna Bracken b. Aug 1847, Northern Ireland, d. After 1930 | |--3-Jane Bracken Nixon b. 15 Apr 1884, Manhattan, New York, New York, d. | | May 1972, Ocean Grove, Monmouth, NJ | |--3-William Thomas Nixon b. 24 Aug 1885, Manhattan, New York, New York, d. | | Sep 1967, Suffolk, New York | | +Marion Zoller | |--3-George Robert Bracken Nixon b. 12 Feb 1887, Bridgeport, Connecticut | | +May L. Swenarton b. Cir 1889, New Jersey | | |--4-George W. Nixon b. Cir 1914, New Jersey | | |--4-Frank L. Nixon b. Cir 1919 | |--3-Louise E. Nixon b. 22 Jul 1889, Bridgeport, Connecticut, d. Oct 1979, | | Ocean Grove, Monmouth, NJ |--2-Mark Nixon b. Cir 1845, Ireland, d. 28 Mar 1893, New York, New York, bur. | 31 Mar 1893 | +Mary Quaile b. Abt 1846, Derrintober, Drumshambo, Ireland, d. possibly 25 | Nov 1876, Derrintober, Drumshambo, Ireland | |--3-Florence Katherine Nixon b. 25 Sep 1869, New York, New York, d. 21 Aug | | 1944, Porter Hospital, Middlebury, Addison, Vermont | |--3-Evangeline Roberta Nixon b. Sep 1873, bur. 15 Dec 1960, Green-Wood | | Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA | +Joseph Russell Parker b. 29 Sep 1879, d. 1950, bur. Green-Wood | Cemetery, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, USA |--2-Elizabeth Nixon b. Cir 1849, Ireland, d. After 2 Jun 1880 |--2-Jane Nixon b. 28 Dec 1851, Drumkeerin, Co. Leitrim, Ireland, d. 7 Feb | 1938, East Orange, Essex Co., NJ, bur. 9 Feb 1938, Jersey City, Hudson | Co., NJ | +William Elliott Roberts b. 12 Dec 1842, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, | Ireland, d. 4 Apr 1907, Jersey City, Hudson Co., NJ, bur. Jersey City, | Hudson Co., NJ | |--3-William Roberts b. 1876, d. 10 Mar 1942 | |--3-Charles Benjamin Roberts b. 9 Aug 1878, Jersey City, Hudson Co., NJ, d. | | 14 Mar 1962 | | +Grace Yates b. 1882 | |--3-Edward Roberts b. 1880, Jersey City, Hudson Co., NJ, d. 22 Sep 1951 | | +Ruth Deming | |--3-Catherine Mae Roberts b. 3 May 1882, Jersey City, Hudson Co., NJ, d. 13 | | Dec 1966 | | +Emory Chenoweth b. 1878 | |--3-Harry James Roberts b. 12 Dec 1886, Jersey City, Hudson Co., NJ, d. 2 | | Feb 1974, Novato, Marin Co., CA, bur. 8 Feb 1975, Cheyenne, Laramie | | Co., WY | | +Mary Elizabeth Baldwin b. 21 Nov 1884, d. 3 Feb 1971 | | |--4-Paul Nixon Roberts b. 30 Jul 1922, East Orange, Essex Co., NJ, d. 26 | | | Jan 1941 | |--3-Herbert George Roberts b. 17 Oct 1888, Jersey City, Hudson Co., NJ, d. | | 19 Nov 1972 | +Ella Marjorie Harrison b. 1892 |--2-Thomas Nixon b. Cir 1852, Ireland, d. After 2 Jun 1880 | +Eliza d. Bef 2 Jun 1880 |--2-Sarah Nixon b. 26 May 1855, Ireland, d. Sep 1938, Dublin South, | Ireland, bur. Kentstown Cemetery, Co. Meath, Ireland | +Edward Boles b. 4 Jun 1855, Fingreagh Upper, Co. Leitrim, Ireland, d. 24 | Oct 1940, Meath Hospital, Dublin, Ireland, bur. Kentstown Cemetery, Co. | Meath, Ireland | |--3-Jane Kathleen Boles b. 7 Jul 1889, Drumkeerin, Co. Leitrim, Ireland, d. | | 5 Jun 1982, Belfast, Northern Ireland | |--3-John James Boles b. 10 Jan 1891, Drumkeerin, Co. Leitrim, Ireland, d. | | Dec 1935 | |--3-William Robert Boles b. 24 Feb 1892, Drumkeerin, Co. Leitrim, | | Ireland, d. 2 Mar 1950, Elizabeth, Union Co., NJ, bur. 4 Mar 1950, | | Evergreen Cemetery, Hillside, Union, NJ | | +Zillah May Trewin b. 11 Jun 1883, Elizabeth, Union Co., NJ, d. 11 May | | 1955, Elizabeth, Union Co., NJ, bur. 13 May 1955, Evergreen Cemetery, | | Hillside, Union, NJ | |--3-Edward Benjamin Boles b. 9 Apr 1894, Drumkeerin, Co. Leitrim, Ireland, | | d. 21 Nov 1970, bur. Clandeboye Cemetery, Bangor, Northern Ireland, UK | |--3-Beulah Sarah Boles b. 9 Apr 1894, Drumkeerin, Co. Leitrim, Ireland, d. | | 1900, co. Leitrim, Ireland | |--3-Mary Elizabeth Boles b. 5 Jun 1896, Drumkeerin, Co. Leitrim, Ireland, | | d. 26 Jul 1928, Cloneen, near Drumkeerin, Co. Leitrim, Ireland |--2-Rachael Nixon b. Cir 1856, Ireland, d. After 1886, United States | +Charles F. Hodgson | |--3-Elizabeth Hodgson b. 18 May 1886, Manhattan, New York, New York |--2-Mary Nixon b. Cir 1858, Ireland, d. After 2 Jun 1880 |--2-Benjamin Nixon b. 2 Aug 1862, Ireland, d. 5 Aug 1939 | +Mary Graham Clark b. 9 Mar 1864, New York, NY, d. 23 Jan 1948 |--2-Robert Nixon b. Jan 1863, Ireland, d. After 1912 | +Blanche Shaw b. Mar 1868, d. After 1912 | |--3-Nixon b. Betw 1891 and 1900, d. Betw 1891 and 1900 | |--3-Dorothy R. Nixon b. Aug 1895 | |--3-Marguerite Nixon b. Cir 1902 | |--3-Margaret A. Nixon b. Cir 1906 |--2-Catherine Nixon b. 3 Jan 1864, Drumkeerin, Co. Leitrim, Ireland, d. After | Oct 1886 | +Charles Hugh Larkin |--2-James Nixon |--2-John Nixon |--2-William Nixon ********************************************************************************
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