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1825-1981 (Creation)
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- McCullough (family)
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- 1.7 m of textual records
- 11.2 cm of graphic material
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Henry McCullough, son of Henry A. McCullough, native of Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, Ireland, and merchant in Saint John, N.B., married Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Gallagher (1848-1938), daughter of Patrick and Sarah (Mulhall) Gallagher of Saint John on 8 February 1875. They had four children: Frank (1878-1960), Harry (fl. 1920s), Mary (fl. 1908-1958?), and Kathleen (d. 1973). After Henry's death in 1885, Mary McCullough opened a boarding house in Saint John as a means of supporting her family. Her son Frank married Thirza Marie (McManus) (1896-1918), daughter of Jeremiah Brownell and Sarah (Pettipas) McManus, and had four children: Thirza (b. 1919), twins John and Frank (b. 1921), and David (b. 1925). Frank was employed by several British trade companies and worked in the Gold Coast, West Africa, between 1898 and the 1930s. He was also based in Kent and Sussex, England, where his children were educated. His brother Harry married Agnes Quinn, daughter of Saint John merchant P.J. Quinn, and had two children: Henry and Kathleen. Mary McCullough married dentist Dr. J.D. Maher and had one child, Hortense (who married Percival Streeter in Montreal). Henry and Mary McCullough's youngest daughter, Kathleen, married Dr. Charles Burriss McManus (1878-1964), brother of Thiza Marie McManus, from Memramcook, N.B. and had three children: Harold, Burriss, and Sheila Kathleen.
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Charles Burriss McManus (1878-1964), dentist, of Memramcook, N.B. married Kathleen McCullough (d. 1973), daughter of merchant Henry and Mary Elizabeth (Gallagher) McCullough of Saint John, N.B. They had three children: Harold; Buriss F. (ca. 1917-1949, m. Jean and had three children); and Sheila Kathleen (1909-1985).
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Patrick Gallagher (ca. 1803-1873), merchant, born at Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland, married Sarah Mulhall on 1 November 1837 in Saint John, N.B. They had five children: James A. Keough (ca. 1839-ca. 1913), Thomas Ambrose Mulhall (1839-1918), Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) (1848-1939), Philip, Francis (Francey), and Sarah (Sadie), the latter three born around or after the year 1851.
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Consists of family and business records created, accumulated and used by five generations of the McCullough, McManus, and Gallagher families. Consists predominantly of correspondence, including several letters to Mary McCullough from her children and grand-children. Letters from her son Frank McCullough, 1900-1930s, discuss family and community news at home as well as activities, attitudes, and impact of world events in West Africa while Frank was working in the Gold Coast colony. Also contains letters to Sheila McManus from family, friends, and acquaintances; other assorted family correspondence; letterbooks, order and account books of Patrick Gallagher; legal records; scrapbook illustrating clothing and dress, ca. 1920s-1930s; ephemera pertaining to drama and travel; newspaper clippings; and photographs and picture postcards. Other photographs are found with the letters. Records document Irish Roman Catholic society and family life in Saint John, N.B. and Halifax, N.S. for nearly 150 years; early ecomomic and labour history in Saint John between 1825 and the 1860s; British colonial activities in the Gold Coast, West Africa, between 1900 and the 1930s, and Hugh MacLennan's experiences at Oxford University, England, described in his letters to Sheila McManus.
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Donated by Terrence McManus of Halifax (nephew of Sheila McManus) in 1993.
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