ROBERTSON, Jane ^{2 3 4 5 6}

   Other names for Jane were CANAVAGH, Jane,⁹ CAVENAHG, Jane,^{10 11 12} ROBERTSON, Janet,¹³ ROBERTSON, Jean ^{1 7} and ROBINSON, Jane.^{14 15}

  General Notes:

The birth certificate of Jane's son, Robert, in 1855, recorded that he was her first child. She was aged 19 years and had been born in Glasgow.

Jane Robertson was recorded by the 1861 census living with her husband and three children at 102 Possil Road Maryhill. Aged 25 years, she had been born in Glasgow. Her children were aged from 5 years to 2 months.

John and Jane Cavenahg [sic] were recorded living in Cranberry, Venango, Pennsylvania, by the US census of 1870. Both were recorded as aged 28 years old, John as born in Ireland, Jane as born in Scotland. They had five children: Robert, 11 years, John, 9 years, Barney, 7 years, Mary, 3 years, and James aged 7 months. The older children were recorded as born in Scotland, the younger two, Mary and James, as born in Pennsylvania. John worked as a coal miner, and Jane kept house.

In 1880 the "Canavagh" family were living in the township of Fairview, in Butler, Pennsylvania. The US census of that year recorded Jane as the mother keeping house for her family of six children, four of whom had been born in Pennsylvania. Jane herself was Scots born, as were her parents, and she was recorded as 40 years of age, two years younger than her husband, though previously their ages were usually the same.

No more has been found of Jane Robertson or Cavanagh after the 1880 census return. ^{9 12 16 17}

  Research Notes:

THANKS

Patrick's People is very grateful to Mary Murphy for generously making available information from her own research. ⁸

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Arrival: from Liverpool aboard Louisiana, 13 October 1865, New York City, New York, USA. ¹⁸

Jane married John CAVANAGH, son of Michael CAVANAGH and Mary CAMPBELL, on 18 September 1854 in St Mungo's RC Parish, Glasgow, Scotland.¹ (John CAVANAGH was born about 1836 in County Armagh, Ireland ^{16 19 20} and died about 1886 in Petrolia, Pennsylvania, USA ⁸.). The cause of his death was work accident.

  Marriage Notes:

Roman Catholic Records
St Mungo's parish Glasgow
Marriages

"1854
John Cavanagh
Jean Robertson
were duly married by me on the 18th day of September 1854 in presence of Hannah Gallacher & Stephen Kennedy
(signed) Archd Chisholm"

Note:
"Fr Archibald Chisholm came to Fort William in 1839 and remained there until 1846. He was born in Srathglass in 1816 and studied at Lismore until it closed in 1828. He studied for a year at Acquhorties and Blairs but during his final studies in France his health broke down. He was ordained at Blairs in 1839. After ordination he came to Fort William but was another of those who was transferred to the industrial south - this time to the city of Glasgow. He was the first parish priest of St Alphonsus in the Calton and built St Mungo's, Townhead. He remained in Glasgow for the rest of his priesthood and died at Dalbeth Convent in 1869."

from The Story of St Mary's Parish Fort William ^{1 21}