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PATRICK McCOLLOUGH
/ McCOLLOR b. __/__/1782 In (Londonderry?) Derry, Ireland.d.
__/__/1879 (?) at Solon, ME. at about 97 years old. Patrick is buried in an unmarked grave at Evergreen Cemetery, Solon. m.
__/__/1812 in _______ to BRIDGET BRENNIN (BRENEN/BRANNIN) b. __/__/1794/1796 in Derry, Ireland, d. 11/5/1848
at St. Georges, Canada, at the age of about 53 years. Dau. of BARNEY & KATE MACHLONE BRENNEN.
She is buried in an unmarked grave at the west end (right behind the church) at the Parish St. George de Beauce by Father
Antonio Campeau. Children
of Patrick & Bridget Click on each name to visit their page or go to Lineage Charts page
HERE
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PATRICK
There is much more about Patrick on the history
page of this site. I will pick up here where the history page leaves off, and thankfully credit Clair Nelson's book, cited
below, for much of this information. "Settled"
may be a poor choice of words for this family. Patrick and his wife Bridget moved back and forth between Canada and Maine
repeatedly during the course of their lives. After farming and logging in the area around Solon and Madison, ME for about
ten years (and several children), they packed up and moved to Canada in 1825, so that Barney and Nancy could go to the Catholic
school at St. George. The area in Maine where they had settled had very few Irish settlers, and even fewer Catholics, and,
according to Nelson, Bridget was a devout Catholic. After only a year, they moved back to Madison. After a year in Madison had passed, they made the short move to Solon,
ME in about 1827, where they began farming east of town, in a place referred to as "Parkman Hill". They stayed here
about five years later, they made another short move, this time to Anson, ME. Sometime prior to Michael's birth in late 1836,
they had moved once again to St. George, Canada for the school. They were in Canada for only a year or
two, before moving back to Maine! Back to Madison, where two more sons were born. Moving with ten children must have been
difficult enough, perhaps it was because there were now twelve total, Bridget and Patrick finally, finally, settled in for
a longer stay. After raising their children for about seven years in Madison, they moved yet again, this time with only
the youngest ten children, in 1845. This would be the last move for Bridget. She died there in 1848. Farming became very difficult for Patrick without a wife to take care
of all his children, the youngest of which was still under 10 years old. Nancy was all grown up and married, and raising a
family of her own. Barney, by that time, had already died, a result of being injured during his service in the Mexican-American
War. Two years after Bridget passed, in 1850, he
moved one last time, back to Solon, Maine. Back on Parkman Hill, he continued to farm and to raise his children. After Patrick retired, he moved in with his son, Edward and Edward's
family, where he was said to be active right up to the end. One family story, attributed to Patrick's grandson, Lawrence McCollor,
told of Patrick still ice skating with his grandchildren well after he had entered his nineties! Patrick, a tough old bird, loved to ice skate with the grandchildren,
even into his late nineties. One day, he fell on the ice, and broke his leg or hip. He developed pneumonia soon after, and
died. The exact date is not yet known to me, but it was believed to be in 1879.
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