Alexander McGaw
1830 - 1902 (71 years)
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Name Alexander McGaw [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] - Union Cemetery
Birth 1830 Temblepatrick, County Antrim, Ireland 
Birth 24 Dec 1830 Templepatrick, Co Antrim, N. Ireland [3, 4] Gender Male Christened 1833 [4] Alt. Birth Feb 1833 Belfast, Ireland [10] Residence 1860 Wrentham, North Wrentham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA [8] Residence 1870 Hyde Park, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA [7] Residence Jun 1890 Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts, USA [9] Death 1902 South Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts _CSTAT - Father:Natural, Mother:Natural
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Burial 1902 Holbrook, Norfolk, MA [3, 4] - Union Cemetery
Death 24 Jul 1902 South Braintree, Norfolk, MA [3, 4] Person ID I1048 Septs Last Modified 22 Jun 2024
Father William McGaw, WiMG01, b. Bef 1790, Scotland d. Ireland Relationship natural Mother Mary (or Margaret) (Mcgaw), b. Abt 1790, Scotland d. Ireland Relationship natural Family ID F597 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 Mary Elizabeth Cummings, b. 1835, Wrentham, Norfolk, MA d. 20 Mar 1872, Hyde Park, MA (Age 37 years) Marriage Abt Nov 1852 Milford, Worcester, MA [4] Children + 1. David Andrew McGaw, b. 15 Aug 1853, Medway, Norfolk Co, MA d. 19 Mar 1904, Lowell, MA (Age 50 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 2. Clara Elizabeth McGaw, b. 17 Aug 1857, Wrentham, Norfolk, MA d. 19 Dec 1944, Hollywood, CA (Age 87 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]3. Aiden McGaw, b. Abt 1859 d. Abt 1860 (Age 1 year) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] + 4. Lewis Alexander McGaw, b. Abt 1862, Mendon, Massachusetts d. 9 Mar 1907, Abington, Massachusetts, USA (Age 45 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]5. Jessie Emmaline McGaw, b. Abt 1863 d. Yes, date unknown [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 6. Jennie Isabel McGaw, b. Abt 1866 d. Yes, date unknown [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] 7. Nellie Frances McGaw, b. Abt 1868 d. Yes, date unknown [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] Family ID F831 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 22 Jun 2024
Family 2 Sarah J. Freel, b. 1852, MA d. 1887, Braintree, Norfolk, MA (Age 35 years) Marriage 1876 Boston, Suffolk Co, MA [10] Children 1. William Hamilton McGaw, b. 1 Feb 1877, East Braintree d. Yes, date unknown [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 2. Charles Sumner McGaw, b. 15 Dec 1878, Braintree, Massachusetts, USA d. 5 Aug 1967 (Age 88 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 3. Austin Lindreth McGaw, b. 19 Sep 1884, South Braintree, Norfolk, MA d. Yes, date unknown [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F832 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 22 Jun 2024
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Notes - Arrived in America prior to 1850. Came with brother William J. Bootmaker, Mechanic, Civil War veteran, Dry goods dealer, Baker, Market gardener. Received a pension (disabled?) Lived in Medway and Wrentham MA, eventually moved to Braintree.
Civil War Information obtained from http://www.pacivilwar.com/freepension.html on 30 May 2005: Private, Co B, 42 Mass Infantry. Enlisted from Braintree MA 12 Sep 1862, Discharged 24 Aug 1863 (11 mos, 9 days) with rupture. Listed as living in Holbrook MA.
Military Record: Alexander McGaw (claimed residence in Wrentham), worked as a Machinist. He enlisted in the Union Army on September 3, 1862 [age either 32 or 29] as a Private at alleged age 31 (cf the date he gave in 1870, 1880 and 1900 Census, which is 1833, not 1831). He served in B Company of the Massachusetts 42nd Infantry Regiment (sent to the New Orleans area). He mustered out at Readville, MA on 20 August 1863 discharged with a disability - "Rupture". Source: "Massachusetts Soldiers, Sailors and Marines in the Civil War" Published by Adjutant General 1931-37. He received an Army Pension on June 6 1890.
The Massachusetts 42nd Infantrey Regiment had the following Regimental History:
Battle at Galveston, Texas on 01 January 1863
Battle at Louisiana Fourche Crossing, Louisiana on 21 Jun 1863
Battle at Brashear City, Louisiana on 23 June 1863
Battle on 24 June 1863
In the 1860 Census, he stated he was a Bootmaker. In the 1880 Census he and his wife Sarah and children are shown in Braintree, MA. At that time he was a Dry Goods Dealer, claiming to have been born in Scotland (as were his parents). In the 1900 Census, he is shown as a Shoemaker living at 5 Washington Street in South Braintree, MA (now Route 37 - just south of South Street in Braintree) with his son, Austin L. McGaw (a Farm Laborer). Interestingly, Herbert L. Phillips and Family (Frank Z. Phillips' brother) also live at the same address. He states he was born in Feb 1833 (Note - in the 1860 Census he stated he was born in 1831) in Ireland, that both of his parents were born in Scotland, that he came to the US in 1852 and that he is a naturalized citizen. (See Mary Elizabeth Cummings for a view of the 1900 Census) Vital Records for the birth of his son, Adin Theo. (and other records), state he was born in Belfast, Ireland (as was [brother] William J. McGaw).
After the death of Mary Elizabeth Cummings in 1872, Alexander McGaw (then a Baker) married Sarah J. Freel (or Friel) (age 24 b. So. Braintree, daughter of Daniel and Sarah) in Boston in 1876. She died in 1887 (or 1898) in Braintree.
Alexander McGaw is listed in the 1888 Braintree, MA Directory as a "market gardener" living on Washington Street near the Holbrook town line, South Braintree, and in the 1892 Directory as a "farmer" at the same address.
In the 1900 Census, two of his sons (David and Lewis) both said that he was born in Scotland. Clara E. Phillips and William H. McGaw both said he was born in Massachusetts. But he, himself, states he was born in Ireland.
- Arrived in America prior to 1850. Came with brother William J. Bootmaker, Mechanic, Civil War veteran, Dry goods dealer, Baker, Market gardener. Received a pension (disabled?) Lived in Medway and Wrentham MA, eventually moved to Braintree.
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