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Charles M. Boyle (c.1817 - 1897) was from Kincasslagh and married Margaret Dennison, (15/8/1834 - 15/11/1919) a daughter of George Dennison and Afric McGettigan, and niece of Archbishop McGettigan. She was said to be from Cashel, Creeslough. Charles was the son of Michael Boyle. He emigrated to the United States and was a Civil Engineer who worked for a time on the construction of the Pacific Railway fom New York to San Francisco. He settled with his family in St. Paul, Minnesota and was a successful property owner and contractor for the railroads. Unfortunately his business failed during one of the cyclical recessions and he was bankrupted. He returned to Ireland and most of his family followed him. Initially he spent time in Dublin but without much success. He ended his days in Donegal and died at Ballymore, Creeslough on Feb 5 1897 and was buried in Doe Cemetery
On her death cert, Margaret is stated as having been 63 years in the U.S. which would put her year of immigration around 1856. The 1900 Census gives her year of birth as 1833 and year of immigration as 1850. Her death cert says she was 60 years in Minnesota. Round numbers are always suspicious. The Census was filled in by an enumerator and the details of the death cert were furnished by Michael so the accuracy in both cases is questionable. Some corroboration is necessary. We know that Michael J. was born in Pittsburg, Pensylvannia (Death Cert and Census records) so we may assume she spent some time there also (with Charles). In the 1910 Census it looks like she had 9 children of whom 3 are still alive! Her age then (77) gives 1833 as her year of birth.
Margaret returned to the U.S. on her husband's death - to her sons Michael, Charles and daughter Mary - and died in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1919. The causes of death were given as "Senility, Chronic Nephritis and Myocarditis"
Michael A. Boyle (19/4/1856 - 5/2/1941) was a Department Manager in a Wholesale Store and spent most of his career paying off his father's debts which he eventually succeeded in doing. His year of birth from the 1860 census is 1856 (he was 4), from 1920 Census it is 1852; from the 1930 Census it is 1857 when he is described as a Commercial Traveller in Dry Goods. He never married.
Mary E. (1858 - ) held various jobs and eventually became a nurse. She was still single in 1900 (aged 48) and 1920 (aged 61!) and 1930 (aged 72) so it is unlikely she married or had any children. She was still alive in 1941 when Michael died.
Ellen M. (1863 - ) appears on the 1870 Census aged 7 but is not on the 1880 Census so she is presumed to have died sometime between 1870 and 1880.
Charles D. Boyle (1866 - ) was a Salesman in Retail Dry Goods in 1910. In 1920 he was an inmate of Glenn Lake Sanitorium. Interestingly, this record states that his mother and father's mother-tongue was Gaelic.
We know quite a lot about the family because Michael kept a fairly detailed diary, extracts of which were subsequently published
Michael J. Boyle died on Wednesday 5th February, 1941. His obituary appeared the following Friday in the St. Paul Pioneer Press on page 20. It reads:
BOYLE - Michael J., of 315 So. Exchange
St., Wednesday afternoon at St. Joseph's
hospital. Son of the late Charles
and Margaret Boyle. Survived by his sister.
Funeral from the chapel of O'Halloran
& Murphy, 215 W. 6th. at Main Ave.,
at 8:30 a.m. Saturday. Services at the
Cathedral at 9 o'clock. Internment Calvary
So far as we know, Charles and Margaret had no grand children.