Marcella Marie Eustace

Marcella Marie Eustace, born 26 April, 1870 (baptized 27 April at the Church of St. Andrew) at Multyfarnham, Westmeath. Her baptismal sponsors were Patrick Ferrall and Catherine Murray. The family was living at the time at Farrow, a townland in Multyfarnham Parish. Raised in Westmeath, she came to the US at the age of 25 and arrived together with her brother John at Ellis Island, New York City on 30 May 1895 onboard the S.S.Teutonic which left from Queenstown (Cobh). She married Frederick Turner McKee (Robert McKee & Catherine Kirkpatrick) on 2 August 1899 at St. Mary’s Church in New Haven. Frederick Turner McKee was born 4 May 1875 at Woburn, Massachusetts. They became the parents of three daughters; Catherine, also known as Kathleen, who died 8 February 1903 of pneumonia at 31 months of age; Marcella Marie, who married William Vincent O’Brien and Esther Frances who married Harold Francis Carberry. Marcella Marie Eustace Frederick McKee died at New Haven, Connecticut on 10 November 1912 of asthma. Marcella resided in Hamden, Connecticut until her death there on 9 August 1955. She was buried at St. Lawrence Cemetery, West Haven, Connecticut with her husband and first and second daughters.

Children of Marcella Eustace and Frederick Turner McKee:

1. Catherine (Kathleen) McKee; born 30 June 1901; died 8 February 1903 of pneumonia at 31 months of age;

2. Marcella Marie McKee; born 5 August 1901; she married Vincent O'Brien on June 19, 1933 in New Haven, Connecticut;

3. Esther Frances McKee; born March 10, 1906; she married Harold Frances Carberry on June 27, 1938 in New Haven, Connecticut.