Provided by Dominic E. Noel. He maintains an excellent website with Westmoreland County Migrations and PA Catholic Genealogy
If your line was of the Catholic faith in the early 1800's
then their
records will be at St Vincent's near Latrobe, PA called Sportmans
Hall
at that time. There was a James in the 1800 census of Mt Pleasant
Twp,
Westmoreland Co and he was a contributer to the building fund
at St V's.
in 1810 a little before your time line.
My Grand Uncle's son married a Mary Philomena Maguire. These
were
in the group that went to Davenport, Iowa in 1835 from Westmoreland
Co.
Provide by Gina Kirkland. She is best known for her excellent
work on the Derry
Area Historical Society and the Westmoreland
County History & Genealogy WebRing
We have a historically famous (well at least he's famous
around here)
person named James McGuire...which is more than likely the same
man
mentioned in the 1850 census that you mentioned.
I wonder if maybe you could be Catholic...only because of this.....
In 1822, Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church was built of logs
in the woods,
about 2 miles from where I live today. It was built for Catholic
farmers in the area who had to make an all day trip to nearby
St.
Vincent Archabbey in Latrobe, PA. The land for the church was
donated
by James McGuire from his farm. I believe he had a daughter named
Anne.
The church had no name and one evening Anne dreamed of a lady
telling
her to name the church as such.
Ann McGuire is to have married John Donohoe in this church
and they had
nine children. She was to have been buried there as well.
Mt Carmel Cemetery is no more but I have a list of burials...I
just have
no clue when this list was compiled....the names connected to
McGuires
are: (I wrote these as they are spelled on this sheet)
Mrs. Anna D. (McGuire) Donahue
Mr. J. Donahue
Mr. James McGuire
Mrs. James McGuire
John McGuire
There are also several Garrigan's listed as well as Hayden's,
Flowers',
Brannigan's, Bridge's, and Kennedy's.
Michael, s/o Thomas Brown & Eleanore McGuire. Born 3/28/1832;
bapt,
4/15/1832, SS Simon & Jude Church, Blairsville. Sponsors:
Gullielmo
Brown & Eleanor Lindsay. (from: Baptismal register SS Simon
& Jude
Church)
MCGUIRE Jas. Jr. s/o Patrick of Derry Twp. d Tues. May 23d aged about 21 yrs.
McGUIREs:
Francis 7-071 1883
James 4-506 1864
James 5-027 1865
Jane 2-339 1835
Jane 7-343 1885
Josiah W. 9-048 1893
Maria L. 5-239 1868
Martha 2-155 1826
Patrick 1-421 1817
Patrick 2-033 1821
Robert 1-327 1813
Samuel 6-383 1879