Misc People (Not in Tree)

 This page is for information concerning friends, neighbors and acquaintances that are not part of the family tree.

Robert and Ida Cathcart 

 - An elderly couple who were neighbors of Peg and Cy Higgins on Wicklow Ave. All the Higgins kids called him and his wife Ida ( Nana and Gramps Cathcart. ) . Since 3 of the 4 grandparents of the 7 Higgins kids were deceased this caring couple acted as surrogate grandparents to the Higgins family.   Gramps ( 1880 - 1963) worked in the Navy Yard as a machinist and was a member of the Masons. And coincedently they owned the cottage on Nutting Lake in Billerica years before Cy and Peg bought it.

 1880 Birth Record     Robert Cathcart born in Boston MA

1882 Birth Record      Ida Davis born in Charlestown MA

1901 Marraige Certificate  Robert Henry Cathcart - Ida Blanche Davis

1918 WW I Draft Registration (Robert Cathcart) 

1910 Malden Ma Census   - 3 Rivers Ct  ( no longer exists it was somewhere off Washington St                                                     (near the YMCA)

1920 Medford MA Census    31 Wicklow Ave   -  See next door @ No 33 the  Higgins family                                                                                        ( Ida Cathcart''s sisters family + her father 

1930 Medord MA Census     31 Wicklow Ave

1940 Medford MA Census   28 Wicklow Ave

1950 Medford MA Census   31 Wicklow Ave

1958 Obituary Ida B Davis Cathcart     +   1958 MA Death Index ( Ida B Davis)

1963 Death Record - Robert Cathcart   +  1963 Obituary Robert H Cathcart

Death of their unnamed daughter in 1908   Daughters Death Certificate  Woodlawn Cemetery Everett

Death of their son Robert in 1988  Robert Jr Death Record

 

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 Maurice Walsh    Cy's cousin





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