My aunt, Patricia McCauley Matthews, was describing her memories of traveling with her mother and father Bernard McCauley (III), accompanying him to a train that would take him to the west coast and off to fight in World War II.  On the way they visited Susan Carraher. This would be the aunt who Bernard stayed with when he was released from the Orphanage.  Gathering at the house that she believed was in the Bronx, close to the Hudson River.  When she walked into the room, one of her relatives exclaimed, “She has the hair of Agnes”!  Agnes McCauley (1883-1957) must have had a head of fine, red hair.  In previous posts we have identified Agnes in the 1901 Irish senses as 16 years old and her occupation was that of a domestic servant.  The Florence court estate, being only one mile away, and considering the family lived in a very rural location, I speculate that Agnes McCauley worked in domestic service to the Earl of Enniskillen.  While she remained in that area for most of her life, she appeared to have visited her siblings in the United States on a least two occasions.  

I found documentation of one visit, in the form of a passenger manifest on the ship Astoria.  Agnes’s name is on this document and shows the steamer leaving Londonderry in Northern Ireland on February 18, 1905, and arriving in New York on March 2^nd, 1905.  The manifest also indicates she was going to stay with her sister Susan McCauley Carraher at 208 East 44^th Street in Manhattan.  This fact is supported in the 1905 NY Censes.  The Carraher’s had not started their family yet as the censes entry only lists Susan and James Carraher.  As I have not been able to locate a marriage document for the Carragher’s I know from this document they were married before 1905.  The visit comes four years after the death of Agnes and Susan’s father Bernard McCauley (I), and their mother Anne Kerron McCauley was still alive living on New Tate Road, Fermanagh Northern Ireland.

We may never know all the reasons for the visit.  Was it to celebrate Susan and James’s marriage? To see if Agnes wanted to permanently move to the United States?  There were other family members to visit with as well.  Edward McCauley would be married to Nora and living with the Phelan family in Brooklyn. Edward would be a patrolman in the NYC police department. Patrick McCauley married Sarah Fenlon and runs a construction company and has four girls. Phillip McCauley would be married to Nora, working as a bricklayer, and living in Brooklyn.

At the time of this visit Catherine McCauley Anderson was living in Clearwater, Minnesota.  I am not sure of Ellen McCauley’s location or Bernard McCauley (II).  Bernard did visit Edward in 1904 but may have returned to Ireland to keep the farm going.  I have a more definite date of immigration for Bernard as 1906.

ABOVE: February 18, 1905, Travel Manifest heading. Below Agnes’s manifest entry 1905.

I could not find a definite date of Agnes’s return to Ireland, but on the travel manifest for 1909 she indicates she previously had visited the United States in 1905 and returned to Ireland in 1907.  The August 1909 travel manifest for her indicates that Agnes is traveling to Brooklyn to stay with Edward McCauley at 692 DeGraw Street in Brooklyn NY.  Her occupation is listed as Dressmaker and Millner, a hat maker.  The ship manifests for the 1909 trip are below.