Ann and John’s oldest daughter, Mary, was born in 1865. Her birth date is confirmed by her baptism records of Immaculate Conception Church.
Mary was in school in 1880 in White Plains, as detailed in the 1880 U.S. Census in White Plains.
As documented in a marriage announcement in The Port Chester Journal she married John William Gagan in June of 1888 at St. Mary’s Church (every other marriage in her family was at Our Lady of Mercy.)
The couple moved to Greenwich and began their family. Their four children included: Mary Ellen (1889), Anna (1894) Stephen (1896) and Irene (1901.)
1900 U.S Census lists them all at 8 Division Street, Greenwich.
1910 Gagans in Port Chester (7 Locust Avenue.)
1920 the family was living apart, John Gagan was in a boarding house in Connecticut and Mary and their children were living in Port Chester on Olivia Avenue.
1922 living at 306 Williams Street, Port Chester
1930 Mary lived with her oldest daughter’s family (Mary Ellen Gagan Hughes) in Port Chester on North Street.
Family stories about Mary and John’s marriage are not happy; it seems that John drank and was removed from the home by his oldest daughter - who pushed him down a flight of stairs - breaking a glass bottle in his coat pocket.
Mary died in July 1935 and John died in March 1938; both are buried in St. Mary’s Cemetery.
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