Conspiracy in Canada

[Dave Taylor]

(07-30-2019 10:49 PM)margotdarby Wrote:  Patrick Charles Martin's wife was Mary Ann Timmins from New Oxford (not Oxford) PA, Adams County, b. 29 Aug 1814. Baptized near there at Sacred Heart Basilica, where she married Patrick in 1837. She is listed living with her sister ('Boarding') on the 1880 US Census, age 66. She was mentioned by Patrick's father Charles in the 1842 trial for the 'Cicero' brig affair (newspaper reports), where he said she was from Oxford. No information on her after 1880, no PA death certificate that I can find on ancestry. I can't find any of their children after the Montreal period. I suspect that the family mostly went into hiding under assumed names after 1864.

Forgive me for bumping this after all these years, but I just found that maiden name and church registries.

Margot,

Today I was consulting a booklet called To Make a Fortune: John Wilkes Booth - Following the Money Trail published by the Surratt Society. Inside the booklet is an image I don't recall seeing before of a gravestone in New Cathedral Cemetery in Baltimore which bears Patrick Martin's name. It is an obelisk and on one side of the obelisk are the following entries:

"Patrick C. Martin
Died at Sea 1865

Mary A. Martin
Died July 19, 1892

Margaret
Wife of Col. P. S. Bomus
Died Feb. 4, 1907"

The other sides of the obelisk are not pictured in the image so I do not know what other relatives are listed. From the picture, however, I was able to narrow down where in New Cathedral Cemetery the grave is. Here are the GPS coordinates for the gravestone: 39.287188, -76.685857

Coincidentally the Martin gravestone is located just just a few steps away from the grave of Nettie Mudd Monroe, Dr. Mudd's daughter.

I thought this information would be helpful to you in determining Mary Martin's date of death and burial. Perhaps New Cathedral has more information in their records about Patrick C. Martin as well.