Another Favorite Photo

This is another neat photo in the family. I love the outfits from this era! This photo was taken in 1910 according to the postmark on the card. Since there are palm trees in the back, this must have been taken in a studio. New York doesn't have palm trees. So I assume the car in the background is also a photo backdrop.

My grandmother, Margaret "Pearl" McCann [Kilgariff] (b. 1885) is on the right. On the left is her maternal aunt, Mary "Minnie" Sherlock (b. 1876), and her husband, Michael James "Jim" McCann (b. 1870) is in the middle. They were visiting from Belfast, Ireland.  Minnie is the sister of Teenie, who was in the photo in the previous post.

Minnie and Jim were married in St. Brigid's R.C. Church, in Belfast in 1898. They had a dispensation to be married, but I do not know why. For those who don't know, a dispensation means they had to get special permission from the bishop of their diocese to marry. There may have been some problem such as Jim wasn't Catholic. Or they were related in some way. In the Catholic church you can't marry a first cousin, for instance, without a dispensation.

Minnie's sister Christine "Teenie" was a witness to the marriage, as was Jim's  brother, Daniel McCann. My grandmother's father was from Belfast, but I don't know if this Daniel McCann and my grandmother were related in any way.

Jim passed away in Belfast in 1933. Minnie passed away in Belfast in 1961. They didn't have any children.

Favorite Picture

The giant ladies' hats, the man's straw boater, the Gibson girl clothes and hair!
I love this photo because it's not a studio photo. It's of friends and relations out having a fun day along Main Street, West Farms, which is now an area of the Bronx. The Redmond cousins were Irish-born, but the family emigrated to the US around 1907 and lived in the Bronx. (The Redmond's mother and my grandmother's father were siblings.)

The photo was taken by my maternal grandmother, Margaret "Pearl" McCann [Kilgariff] (b. 1885). Her sister, Mary "Mamie" McCann [Holzmann] (b. 1883) is in the middle of the photo, with the big white hat with flowers. The little boy is their little brother, Charles "Charlie" McCann (b. 1892). Aunt Teenie (b. 1873) is hugging Charlie. Her face is hard to see because of her huge hat. She was the maternal aunt of Charlie, Pearl, and Mamie. She was visiting from Ireland. In the rear are a man named Cassidy; in front of him are cousin Charlie Redmond (b. 1883) and his sister-in-law Anna Tritsch (b. 1889). The man crouching near the front is Charlie's brother, John Redmond (b. 1884). He's married to Anna Tritsch. The two ladies in the front, Marcella Denigan and Marjorie Collins, worked with my grandmother at Western Union. Mamie also worked at Western Union at this time. My grandmother and Mamie were telegraph operators.