Michael Welch

  General Notes:

Research of K.Kennedy - He emigrated from Ireland and settled in Williamstown, MA before 1857 as one of his children was born there 1857.

In 1880 census Williamstown, MA
Michael Welch age 54 ; born c1826 Ireland; laborer; parents born Ireland
Margaret age 51 born c1829 Ireland; parents b. Ireland
Joanna age 23 ; single; born c1857 MA; dress maker
Mary age 18; born c1862 Ma
James age 15 ; born c1865 MA
His son Michael, now married, was living in own HH with a wife.

Michael married Margaret Mullen, daughter of Patrick Mullen and Agnes Winifred Mac Casey. (Margaret Mullen was born about 1828 in Queens Co. (Leix Co), Ireland and died on 14 Nov 1908 in Williamstown, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.)