Ellen McGauley1

F, #3054, b. circa 1803, d. 26 October 1863
Last Edited: 6 Dec 2020

Parents:

Father: Peter McGauley1 b. c 1774, d. 19 Mar 1817
Mother: Mary Roe1 b. c 1777, d. 19 May 1829

Family:

Andrew McCalla b. 21 Sep 1802, d. 20 Oct 1850

Children:

Henry B. McCalla6 b. c 1831
Theodore H. McCalla6 b. 20 Nov 1834
Andrew McCalla7 b. 6 Jan 1837, d. 12 Nov 1839
Ellen McCalla6 b. 9 Oct 1838, d. 18 Sep 1867
Mary B. McCalla6 b. c 1843, d. 25 Apr 1857

Notes

  • Note*: The administration of Mary McGauley, widow of Peter, contains a document signed by "...we the Adult Heirs of Mrs Mary McGauley...Ann Keaugh, Ellen M'Calla, Belinda Lancaster".

    Given that Belinda was, per her baptism, a daughter of Mary McGauley, we can conclude that Ellen must also be her daughter.

    Ellen must have been born by 1811 to be an adult in 1829. But it is likely that she was born before the siblings born in 1805, 1806, 1808 and 1810.

    There are a half dozen or more men named McCalla listed in Philadelphia city directories and censuses of the period who could have been her husband.

    Ellen is most likely the Ellen McGauley listed in the McCalla family bible who married Andrew McCalla in 1829 and died in 1863 at the reported age of 60.

    She is not the Eleanor McCall whose 1831 will names sisters and a brother. [Phila. Will 1831 No. 89, Bk 10, p. 66]1
  • Note: Return of Death in the City of Philadelphia, Physician's Certificate:
    Ellen M'Calla, age 61, married, died 26 Oct 1863, born Philadelphia, resided Pine St. So. 1006, buried 29 Oct 1863 Cathedral Cem.3
  • Note: Phila. Inquirer 29 Oct 1863: McCALLA - On the 26th instant, ELLEN, relict of the late Andrew McCalla, aged 60 years. ...funeral, from her late residence, No. 1006 Pine Street. Funeral services at St. John's Church, Thirteenth…4
  • Note: 1860 US Census, Philadelphia, Ward 13 Garden:
    Ellen 56, b. Penn
    Harry B. 29
    Theodore H. 25
    Ellie 20
    Lizzie Ward 21 domestic5

Citations

  1. [S365] Philadelphia County, Administration of Mary McGauley, Year 1829, File 112. Photocopy obtained from City of Phila. Register of Wills.
  2. [S279] McCalla family, "Birth, death and marriage records of the McCalla family of Bucks (?) County, Pennsylvania" (Historical Society of Pennsylvania call # BR McC). The records are from a bible published in 1859 and given to Mrs. Samuel Morton Zulick (née Mary Hart McCalla, a daughter of Charles McCalla, brother of Andrew McCalla) in 1861. Per a May 2013 email from a McCalla family researcher, Rob Wrenn.
  3. [S360] Philadelphia Board of Health, Collections of The Genealogy Society of Penn.; Philadelphia Board of Health Records; Register of Deaths. FHL microfilm 381246 Vol. 5, May 1845 - Sept 1847.
  4. [S168] GenealogyBank, online GenealogyBank.com.
  5. [S514] US Census, viewed on Ancestry.com.
  6. [S514] US Census, 1850 US Census, Philadelphia, Spring Garden Ward 2, household of Andrew McCalla.
  7. [S151] FindMyPast, online https://www.findmypast.com, "Philadelphia Roman Catholic Parish Baptisms," database with abstracted data and images, FindMyPast (https://www.findmypast.com/transcript and https://search.findmypast.com/record : accessed 6 Dec 2020), baptism of Andream McCalla on 25 Apr 1837 at St Augustine church, Philadelphia; citing Birth, Marriage & Death (Parish Registers), Archdiocese of Philadelphia.