Edward P. Doherty

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(10-05-2012 08:15 PM)Rob Wick Wrote:  Doherty's wife was named Catherine T. Doherty, and Frederick Hatch does say she was the daughter of Charles Gautier and they were married in 1871. She died in 1921, but the New York Times only has a notice of her death and not a full obituary.

About Doherty's wife, so as not to confuse anyone, I should point out that you had a typo in your post, her middle initial was J not T. Here's the text of that paragraph from the above source (Frederick Hatch, Protecting Lincoln, 2011, p.150):

Quote:Doherty was married to Catherine J. Gautier on November 17, 1871. Her father, Charles Gautier, owned the restaurant in Washington where Booth had met with his fellow conspirators. Doherty's son, Charles J. G. Doherty (?-1939), was his only child.

Apparently she is buried next to her husband at Arlington National Cemetery, with her gravestone corroborating this name. According to an unofficial website on Arlington, I gather this is the info on their graves from the cemetery's registry:

Quote:DOHERTY, EDWARD P
CAPT LIEUT 15TH NY CAV 5TH US CAV
DATE OF DEATH: 04/03/1897
BURIED AT: SITE LOT 690
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

DOHERTY, CATHERINE, J WID OF DOHERTY, EDWARD P
DATE OF DEATH: 02/22/1921
BURIED AT: SECTION W SITE LOT 680
ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY
WIFE OF EP DOHERTY, CAPT 1ST LT 161ST NY CAV 5TH US CAV

I would like to confirm this, but for some reason I can't access the official website of Arlington National Cemetery, nor get their Android app to run either. (Maybe they are blocked from the country where I live?)

If either of these work for anyone else, would appreciate if could confirm the above information from their registry. As I understand from the NPR article I linked above, the graves of Arlington have been photographed. If so, would also appreciate if anyone can share a photo of Doherty's wife's grave, if it is available, as well as an official Arlington photo of Edward's, again should there be one.

About her full name, I have this article from the O’Dochartaigh Clann Association ("Edward Doherty & the capture of John Wilkes Booth", Ár nDúthcas, February 2008, issue 51, p.12-13). They seem to be a genealogical association and right off the bat some of their information doesn't match (1870 for the marriage instead of 1871, 1922 for Doherty's wife's death instead of 1921), so can take it with a grain of salt. But they do mention that her name was Katherine Josephine Gautier. I gather the Katherine vs Catherine is another mistake, but maybe they have the middle name right.

Has anyone encountered her middle name anywhere else?

If Doherty's wife's name was in fact Catherine, the confusion with Katherine would probably because she may have been commonly known as Kate. The 1880 US Census in New Orleans has the couple down as "Ed P Doherty" and "Kate J Doherty", along with son Charles abbreviated as "Chs Doherty".

Quote:"United States Census, 1880", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDX7-PTV : accessed 19 December 2015), Kate J Doherty in entry for Ed P Doherty, 1880.

Does anyone here have access to downloading the image of the actual census page? Apparently you can, but only if "signed-in members of supporting organizations" or "when using the site at a family history center". If not, I'll make a note to go to the center we have here and do it one day.

Speaking of New Orleans, in our family we have a photo of the Dohertys, which isn't dated but inscribed as being from their time there. The full inscription reads "Major E. P. & Mrs. Doherty & Chs J. G. Doherty New Orleans". The inscription was probably done on the receiving end, perhaps by my great-grandmother, which I gather would explain the "Major" bit. Don't think he ever was a major, was he?

   

We have a few more photos of the Dohertys, on one of his wife it is inscribed as "Mrs K. J. Doherty". Again this was probably written on the receiving end, so we may very well have written K because of Kate, without necessarily knowing how her full name was spelled if it was Catherine (or not caring and just wanting to put the initial for Kate).

That photo should be from 1890, as we have another one from same photographer, which is inscribed as being from Edward to his niece ("To Josephine from her uncle Edward. 1890."). Again I don't know when the inscriptions were made, so can't say for certain that the year is accurate. The niece would be Josephine Marcil in Montreal, daughter of Charles Marcil and Maria Doherty, Edward's sister.

   

   

Lastly, we have an even later photo, which to me looks like Edward's wife late in life. It doesn't have an inscription, with my grandmother just noting that it was a Doherty and that it was perhaps taken by the Rembrandt Studio on Westchester Ave, NY.