Posted By:	Moira MacQuaide
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	Subject:	Re: WILSON - Co. Carlow & Co. Laois, Ireland - to New York City 1922
	Post Date:	June 09, 2007 at 09:50:37
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	Forum:	Carlow, Ireland Genealogy Forum
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My great grandfather John McQuaide married Harriet Maria Wilson in about 1854. Her father was Michael Wilson, a merchant in Carlow. John and Harriet lived in Carlow Town and had 7 children (may have been more but 7 survived). Harriet died in 1879 of TB. Her sister Elizabeth Wilson moved in with John, I guess to help look after the children (my grandfather was only 4 when his mother died), and she was still there in 1901 according to the census. John McQuaide had a Stationers shop in Dublin Street, Carlow and was also Registrar of Marriages and Stamp Dealer. He was a town councillor for a while too. When I visited a few years ago I found a Wilson grave in the churchyard of St Mary's Church in Carlow. I don't know if these are the same family as yours, but it is quite possible.