Name |
Catherine "Kate" Mary Copley |
Birth |
Abt 1844 |
Ireland |
Gender |
Female |
Immigration |
30 Oct 1848 |
New York City, New York |
|
Census |
1850 |
Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois |
- aged 11, with brother “Carey” and father Robert
|
Census |
1860 |
New Orleans, Louisiana |
- aged 20, born in Missouri. As "Mary."
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Image | | Transcript | Ln | Hhold | Given | Surname | Age | BirthDate | Gender | Race | Occupation | BirthPlace |
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14 | 3447 | A | Pitard | 24 | 1836 | Male | | Hardware | Louisiana | 15 | 3447 | Mary | Pitard | 20 | 1840 | Female | | | Missouri | 16 | 3447 | Mary | Pitard | 2/12 | 1860 | Female | | | Louisiana | 17 | 3447 | [Amelie [Hacker]] | [Pitard] | 41 | 1819 | Female | | | Louisiana | 18 | 3447 | Norbert | Pitard | 17 | 1843 | Male | | | Louisiana |
ED: Ward 3 |
Census |
1870 |
New Orleans, Louisiana |
- aged 26, as "Kate"; born in Ireland; mother and father of foreign birth.
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Image | | Transcript | Ln | Hhold | Given | Surname | Age | BirthDate | Gender | Race | Occupation | BirthPlace |
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10 | 117 | A | Pitard | 30 | 1840 | Male | White | Hardware | Louisiana | 11 | 117 | Kate | Pitard | 26 | 1844 | Female | White | Keeping House | Ireland | 12 | 117 | Blanche | Pitard | 5 | 1865 | Female | White | | Louisiana | 13 | 117 | Julia | Pitard | 10 | 1860 | Female | White | At Home | Louisiana | 14 | 117 | Louis | Pitard | 2 | 1868 | Male | White | | Louisiana |
ED: Ward 03 |
Census |
1880 |
New Orleans, Louisiana |
- aged 32; born in Ireland as with both parents
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Image | | Transcript | Ln | Hhold | Given | Surname | Relation | Gender | Race | BirthDate | Age | Status | BirthPlace | BirthPlace of Father | BirthPlace of Mother | Occupation | Street |
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24 | 20 | Arthur | Pitard | Self | Male | White | Abt 1838 | 42 | Married | Louisiana | France | Louisiana | Hardware Merchant | Derbigny St | 25 | 20 | Catharine | Pitard | Wife | Female | White | Abt 1848 | 32 | Married | Ireland | Ireland | Ireland | Keeping House | Derbigny St | 26 | 20 | John | Pitard | Son | Male | White | Abt 1863 | 17 | Single | Louisiana | Louisiana | Ireland | At School | Derbigny St | 27 | 20 | Blanche L. | Pitard | Daughter | Female | White | Abt 1865 | 15 | Single | Louisiana | Louisiana | Ireland | At School | Derbigny St | 28 | 20 | Agatha | Pitard | Daughter | Female | White | Abt 1868 | 12 | Single | Louisiana | Louisiana | Ireland | At School | Derbigny St | 29 | 20 | Louis W. | Pitard | Son | Male | White | Abt 1870 | 10 | Single | Louisiana | Louisiana | Ireland | At School | Derbigny St | 30 | 20 | Arthur | Pitard | Son | Male | White | Abt 1872 | 8 | Single | Louisiana | Louisiana | Ireland | At School | Derbigny St | 31 | 20 | Rob't C. | Pitard | Son | Male | White | Abt 1874 | 6 | Single | Louisiana | Louisiana | Ireland | At Home | Derbigny St | 32 | 20 | Rebecca | Johnson | | Female | Mulatto | Abt 1840 | 40 | Single | Virginia | Virginia | Virginia | Domestic Servant | Derbigny St |
ED: 023 |
Obituary |
Obit., Times-Picayune, 19 Sept. 1899, p4:
PITARD - On Monday, Sept. 18, 1899, at 1:30 a.m., Catherine Copely [sic], wife of August [sic] Pitard, aged 55 years, a native of St. Louis, and a resident of New Orleans for the past forty years.
The friends and acquaintances of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral on Tuesday Morning, Sept. 19, at 10 o'clock from her late residence, 1830 Carondelet street, between St. Andrew and Felicity streets. |
Death |
18 Sep 1899 |
New Orleans, Louisiana [1] |
Notes |
- Her marriage certificate, on 2 June 1859, says that "Before me, the undersigned, Third Justice of the Peace for the Parish of Orleans, Personally Appeared Mme. Widow Pitard, Who in the presence of the undersigned Witnesses, declared that she give her consent to the Marriage of Kate M. Copley, her adopted daughter, a Minor age 19 years with Arthur Pitard."
The Widow Pitard would presumably Arthur's mother Amelie Hacker Pitard (the only other possibility is Madeline Koenig, the wife of Arthur's deceased uncle Augustine, who is unlikely). How she was adopted is a mystery; this is the only place she is identified as such.
Also, her age here seems old; censuses after 1860 give a birth date of abt. 1843. In the 1860 census she is aged 20, named "Mary," born in "Mo." (Her birthplace in her obituary is in St. Louis.) In 1870 she is 26, as "Kate," and born in Ireland, with her mother and father of foreign birth. In 1880 she is aged 32, born in Ireland as with both parents.
Her oldest child, John, was 17 in 1880, which puts his birthdate when she was 15. This is likely to be wrong, as several of her children's approximate birth dates in 1880 seem to differ by a few years from the birth records. The 1880 census would place her birthdate as 1848, and the 1870 census records her as 26, which places it at 1844.
I've seen that she's descended from the painter John Singleton Copley. If it's so, he must be a pretty distant relation, since the painter was born in 1738 in Boston, MA, and she was born in Ireland.
See the Who's Who in Mississippi and Louisiana entry for her son, Robert, a well-known violinist.
The connection to Dr. Robert G. Copely the immigrant from Ireland as her father has one bit of pretty hard evidence: on the 1848 ship's manifest, Dr. Robert Copley is accompanied by a 5-year old “Kitty Copely.” There is also a 6-year old Corey Copely. This would make him a famine immigrant.
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Person ID |
I182 |
Last Modified |
30 Dec 2023 |
Spouse / Partner |
Arthur Pitard, Sr. b. 18 Aug 1835, New Orleans, Louisiana d. 28 Jun 1912, 1839 Carondolet St., New Orleans, Louisiana (Age 76 years) |
Marriage |
Jun 1859 |
New Orleans, Louisiana [2] |
- certificate obtained on 2 June 1859.
|
Children |
| 1. Mary Pitard b. Abt Jun 1860, New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 2. John Pitard b. Abt 1863, Louisiana |
+ | 3. Blanche Marie Elizabeth Pitard b. 12 Jun 1863, New Orleans, Louisiana d. 29 Nov 1941, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana (Age 78 years) |
+ | 4. Julia Cecile Pitard b. Jul 1864 d. 2 Feb 1919, New Orleans, Louisiana (Age 54 years) |
| 5. Louis Octave Pitard b. Abt 1869, Louisiana d. 25 Feb 1901, New Orleans, Louisiana (Age 32 years) |
| 6. Arthur Pitard, Jr. b. 27 Jun 1870, New Orleans, Louisiana d. 26 Dec 1906, Elwyn Training School, Middleton Twp., Delaware Co., Pennsylvania (Age 36 years) |
+ | 7. Robert Copley Pitard b. 11 Oct 1873, New Orleans, Louisiana d. 9 Nov 1953, Jackson, Hinds Co., Mississippi (Age 80 years) |
+ | 8. Agatha Pitard b. Aug 1876, Louisiana d. 23 Aug 1919, New Orleans, Louisiana (Age 43 years) |
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Family ID |
F125 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
Last Modified |
30 Dec 2023 |