Re: looking for other CADIGANs
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Re: looking for other CADIGANs
10/17/00
Jack:
No need to concern yourself...I am well aware of the blood issue. My Father was diagnosed late in life with what was termed "welder's disease"...he had an abundance of red blood cells that was only kept in check with 2 - 3 packs a day of Lark's and an occasional glass of beer.
Boston Connection:
My Father had two aunt's called the "Boston Aunt's" who lived in the Dorchester area...I have been to the cemetery where they are buried about 10 years ago. Neither ever married. Aunt Anna (JoHanna) and Catherine were at onetime house manager's for Gen. Patton. They were both dead by 1964. My father went to Boston as the "power of attorney" and was mugged while there. He never trusted an attorney called "Lynch" who was overseeing the estate. It was there in 1960 that he first understood the Cape Clear connection and had to make a trip to Cape Clear as part of the estate process to settle on some land that was being sold as part of the process.He returned to Cape probably 5 times after the last time in 1982 prior to his passing. The aunt's made a fortune and lost most during the stock market crash. My brother Pat is a Dr. in Miami and a few years ago he was treating an eldery man from Boston who ran a 1st class hotel in Boston and after a few days he asked Pat if he had any relatives in Boston and went on to describe the catering that he arranged for these 2 ladies for the General...
His father was John Cadogan...who came to the States in 1895. I have letters he had written back to Cape Clear from Chicago where he had an aunt living who was married to a man named Burke. My grandfather was a Queenstown Pilot. The majority of the sailing ships passing either way between the UK/Europe and the US would stop at Fastnet Light house and signal for a pilot who would either sail east to the Azores or West into any of the UK ports and some European. He sailed the Great Lakes and eventually settled in Buffalo where there was a collection of Irish (some Cape - Cotters and Sullivans) and became part of Buffalo's Irish Navy. He died in 1920 after falling into Buffalo harbor in February while refueling the lake boats harbored in for the winter. He lingered in the hospital and died at 4 am on May 28, 1920
I've been to Cape 4 times last returning in 1989
My father passed away at 4 am on May 28, 1984...the exact same primary and secondary causes of death on the certificate as his own father.
The Cadogan's on Cape were both Catholic and Protestant. My grnadfather's sister MaryAnne married a Denis Cadogan who was a protestant. They eventually owned (3) 3-masted schooners one of which sailed to New Foundland and the US under a Captain Dan Cadogan who was my grandfather's brother.
All of my father's generation are dead.
There are only (2) Cadogan's left in the UK/Ireland who are 1st cousins...Fr. Donal Cadogan and his sister Breda O'Leary...these are Captain Dan Cadogan's children and more precisely were my Father's 1st Cousins
I could go on longer but need to go
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