KANE, Thomas ²

   Cause of his death was otorrhea, meningitis and jaundice.³

   Another name for Thomas was KAIN, Thomas.^{1 4 5 6}

  General Notes:

In 1880 when his son Samuel was born, Thomas Kane was a paper mill fireman by occupation.

1881 Census:
Thomas Kain was the head of the household living at 10 Nile Street in the middle district of Greenock. He was recorded as 32 years old and a native of Ireland. He worked as a labourer in a paper mill. In the household lived his wife Mary J. Kain aged 24 years who was also Irish born. Their son Samuel, who was 3 months old and born in Greenock lived with them. There was a visitor in the household, a woman called Margaret Bothwell and her baby Mary Jane (??). Both were born in Ireland. Margaret was 20 years of age and the daughter 2 months old.
Note: the condition of this document is very poor, and it is in places whether on paper or on screen illegible

Thomas and Jane's daughter, Annie Matilda, was born in 1885. In her birth certificate Thomas was recorded as a paper mill fireman.

When his daughter, Margaret, was born in January 1887, Thomas Kain was recorded as a paper mill labourer.

When Thomas Kane died in 1887 his death certificate recorded him as a railway contractor's labourer who was married to Jane Bothwell. His recorded age at death was 27 years. His usual address was 114 Drumfrochar Road Greenock. The certificate did not record his parents as being deceased, and we do not know at present for certain whether this was merely an oversight. However since Thomas died at a relatively young age, it is likely that his parents were still living.

In the 1906 marriage certificate of his daughter Margaret, Thomas Kane, who was deceased, was recorded as a fireman by occupation. In Margaret's second marriage certificate of 1913 Thomas Kane was recorded as a labourer.

In the death certificate of his daughter Margaret in 1948, Thomas Kane was recorded as a general labourer. He was deceased then.

When his son Samuel died in 1950, Thomas was recorded in the death certificate as a papermill stoker. ^{2 4 7 8 9 10 11 12}

  Research Notes:

BURNSIDE, COUNTY DERRY, IRELAND

It is difficult to find anything of Burnside now other than as part of a name in streets and parks in urban Coleraine. Similarly with the parish of Killowen itself, so near to Coleraine that it has been embraced into the outer suburbs as Coleraine expanded.

  Medical Notes:

John Macdougall MD certified the causes of death.

Jane Kane, widow of the deceased, of 111 Drumfrochar Road, gave notice of her husband's death before the registrar at Greenock on 5 July 1887. ³

Thomas married Mary Jane BOTHWELL, daughter of Samuel BOTHWELL and Jane MORTON, on 3 January 1880 in Killowen, County Derry, Ireland.¹ (Mary Jane BOTHWELL was born about 1857 in Ireland and died 25 June 1925 at 5.45 am in 18 Crawford Street, Greenock, Renfrewshire, Scotland ¹³.). The cause of her death was bronchitis and cardiac disease.³

  Marriage Notes:

The Church Marriage Record listed in the database of the Irish Family History Foundation records a marriage between Thomas Kain and Mary Jane Bothwell as having taken place on 3 January 1880. Both parties were recorded as belonging to the Church of Ireland. No specific venue was noted as the place of marriage except the parish name, Killowen, and the county, Co. Derry, but under 'Address' Thomas Kain's entry recorded 'Burnside', and listed for Mary Jane Bothwell was 'Somerset'.

The Church entry also recorded the status of each party being married: 'Bachelor (Previously unmarried' and 'Spinster (Previously unmarried). He was 20 years old; she 22 years old. The names of their fathers were Frederick Kain and Samuel Bothwell. No names were entered for the mothers of the bride and groom. Frederick Kain was recorded as a labourer; Samuel Bothwell was a farmer.

Occupations were noted for the bride and groom: Thomas Kain was a labourer and Mary Jane Bothwell was a servant.

Two witnesses were named. Witness 1 was recorded as Matthew McDougall. Witness 2 was Andrew Kain.
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Note: Coleraine has enlarged since the date of this marriage and some of the place names mentioned are absorbed into the town and suburbs.

Somerset was a townland in Macosquin parish, county Derry.

This quotation gives some information about Burnside, which seems to have been near Coleraine on the Killowen road:

"About the year 1700 the first building, to replace the ancient Church which had been confiscated, was erected. It was known as the " Wayside Chapel," and
was situated at Burnside, nearer to Coleraine than the old " Mass Walk," and quite close to the present site of 'Chapelfield' House, now the residence of Mr. Hercules Hughes. The old Chapel stood on the right-hand side of the road leading from Killowen to Burnside, and a well still marks the spot near to which it was built. The south gable of the building was about 40 feet from this well. When the " Wayside Chapel" was subsequently vacated for the new Church on the present site, the old building was converted by the lord of the soil into four
labourers' cottages. It had never been a very pretentious building, being a plain house, 50 feet long by 16 feet wide, and having a thatched roof."

from Short sketch of the history of the parish church of St. John the Evangelist, Killowen, Coleraine (compiled in 1900 by D. MacLaughlin) ^{5 14}