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.
