Margaret Katherine Devine

My paternal grandmother was Margaret Katherine Devine, 1889-1947. When Margaret Katherine Devine was born on June 16, 1889, in Cornish, Maine, her father, George William Devine, was 21, and her mother, Sadie Annie Witham, was 19. She died on May 26, 1947, in Newfield, Maine, at the age of 57, and was buried in York, Maine.

1889  Margaret Katherine Devine was born on June 16, 1889, in Cornish, Maine, to Sadie Annie Witham, age 19, and George William Devine, age 21.

1891 Margaret was 2 years old when her brother  William Walter/Winfield Devine was born on August 25, 1891, in Cornish, Maine.

1894  Margaret was 2 years old when her brother   George Witham William was born on May 3, 1894, in Old Orchard Beach, Maine.

1896 Margaret was 7 years old when her brother Frank Luther Devine was born on October 8, 1896, in Cornish, Maine.

1898 Margaret was 9 years old when her half-brother Perley Alfred Archibald was born on December 28, 1898, in Cornish, Maine.

1900 at the age of 11 Margaret was listed on the 1900 census with her mother, Sadie, and her brothers. But her father George Devine was not listed. Sadie was listed as married 13 years making the year she married George Devine 1887, which is estimated because the actual year was 1888.. All the children, including Perlie, are listed as Devine. There is also a Lewis Cook, age 52, living with them as a boarder. In August of 1900 this Lewis Cook married Hannah Lowell the daughter of Oliver Lowell and Deborah Sargent.

1901 at the age of 12 Margaret was adopted by Daniel C Westcott & Hattie Louisa Cobb from Rutland County, Vermont. This information was a family rumor but her 1907 marriage to Frank Fischer confirmed this information. See image below. Margarets mother, Sadie, remarried in March 1901 to Horatio Tripp, they married in Effingham NH and the marriage records states that Sadie was divorced. When Margarets father, George Devine, left the family her mother could not afford to raise the children so they were either boarded out or adopted.

1902 Margarets mother, Sadie, gave birth to Margarets half brother, Harold J Tripp who was born on April 18, 1902, in Porter, Maine.

1904 at the age of 15, Margarets mother, Sadie, gave birth to Margarets half sister Nina M Tripp who was born on September 11, 1904.

1907 at the age of 17 Margarets mother, Sadie, gave birth to Margarets half Angeline Marguerite Tripp who was born on March 5, 1907, in Cornish, Maine. Also in 1907 Margaret married Frank Eugene Fischer in Pittsford, Vermont, on September 14, 1907, when she was 18 years old. Her marriage record shows the adopted parents Dan C Westcott & Hattie Louise Cobb but also shows she was born in Maine. Some of Margarets records refer to her as Wescott/Westcott & some as Devine.

1908 at the age of 19 Margaret gives birth to her aughter Margaret Augusta Fisher/Fischer who  was born on August 5, 1908, in Shrewsbury, Vermont.

1909 Margarets mother, Sadie, gave birth to Margarets half sister Luella Louella M Tripp who was born on July 13, 1909, in Parsonsfield, Maine.

1910 at the age of 21 Margaret gives birth to her son Frank who was born on April 8, 1910, in Brandon, Vermont. Also in 1910 Margaret and Frank Fischer are listed on the census as Frank Fisher age 25, Margaret Fisher age 24, Margaret Fisher age 3, Frank Fisher age 0. It is very common for ages to vary on the census's, this one gives Margarets age as 24.

1911 at the age of 22 Margarets mother, Sadie, gave birth to Margarets half brother Eugene Lowell Tripp who was born on November 1, 1911, in Parsonsfield, Maine.

1913 at age 24 Margaret Katherine Devine lived in Rutland, Vermont, NOT sure is Margaret, she married Frank 1907, affair with Carlton Craig Pease 1914, & married Herman 1915,
directory Listings are:
#1 Fischer, Margaret, teller Trust Co., Proctor
#2 Fischer, Frank, Mrs., bds 39 Grant av

1914 at age 25 Margaret had a affair with Carlton Craig Pease and gave birth to her son Carlton Rockwood born Pease but later took name Johnson, was born on July 16, 1914, in Pittsford, Vermont.
Carlton's birth record lists both names and stated that Margaret was born in Cornish, Maine. She never married Carlton Pease.

1915 Margaret Katherine Devine married Herman August Johnson in Portland, Maine, on April 6, 1915. Hermans residence is listed on record as Worcester Mass but I have not found him in the directories there. Intention filed March 30, 1915, Married by C.H. Davis res Portland, married in Portland.

1916 at the age of 27 Margaret and Herman moved to Vermont, possibly to be closer to her adoptive parents. Margarets daughter Irene Dictoria Johnson was born on February 12, 1916, in Woodstock, Vermont.

1917 at the age of 28 Margarets son Richard Frantz Johnson was born on October 19, 1917, in Woodstock, Vermont.

1920 at the age of 31 Margaret and Herman had moved to Boston, Massachusetts, area. They are listed on the 1920 Boston Ward 11, Suffolk, Massachusetts, census. Herman is listed as a baker in a food shop, this is the occupation that he has always been listed as. Herman A Johnson age 30, Margaret Johnson age 29, Margaret Johnson age 11, Carlton Johnson age 5 age Irene Johnson age 4, Richard Johnson age 2, Auburn Johnson age 0 (this Auburn was born in 1919 and died in 1921).

1922 Margaret gave birth to a son Francis Herman Alburn August Johnson who was born on January 16, 1922, in Jamaica Plain,  Boston, Massachusetts.

1927 was the year that Margarets adopted mother,  Hattie Louisa Cobb Westcostt,  passed away on June 25, 1927, in Rutland, Vermont, at the age of 66. 1927 is also the year that Margaret gave birth to a son Eugene Curtis Johnson who was born on June 29, 1927, in Parsonsfield, Maine. Eugene is my father and his date of birth and birth place is a sorta mystery because his mother, Margaret, went to the Parsonsfield, Maine, town clerk and filed a late birth certificate so that he, Eugene, could enter the Navy. But they put his birth year as 1926 because he was not old enough. His birth record shows that his mother residence was Eggleston Square, Jamaca Plains, which is in Boston where another son was born. And no address was listed for his father, Herman. Eugenes birth record was filed April 10, 1943. And Herman was long gone by then, more about Herman here.

1928 was the year that Margaret's adopted father, Daniel C Westcott,  passed away on May 3, 1928, in Pittsford, Vermont, at the age of 68.

1930 Margaret and 2 of her children are on the 1930 census living with her half brother Harold Tripp, in Shapleigh, York, Maine, listed as: Harold J Tripp age 28, Margaret C Johnson age 41 widowed, Francis J Johnson age 9 born in Massachusetts, Eugene C Johnson age 2 born in Maine.  On September 26, 1930, Margaret gives birth to another son, William Madison Johnson, in Gorham, Maine.

1935 Margaret lived in Parsonsfield, York, Maine, according to the 1940 census. Again she is listed as widowed and sister to head of househole, Harold Tripp, her half brother.

1947 Margaret Katherine Devine died on May 26, 1947, in Newfield, Maine, when she was 57 years old, and she is buried in North Parsonsfiled. The find-a-grave website listed her death date as 1917 which is very incorrect.