My Curran Cousins

Mary Doherty (Dooley) Cosgrove (1907-1933) and Mary Rita (Cosgrove) Greene (1928-2005)

Mary Doherty⁴ (Catherine³, John² Curran, Catherine¹ Houlihan) Dooley, was the eldest child of Michael F. and Catherine Z. (Curran) Dooley.  She was born on 15 September 1907 at Lynn, Massachusetts.  Her parents’ residence was 43 Norton Street, Lynn, the home of her maternal grandparents.

Mary’s parents moved often.  By the time she was 19 she had lived in Lynn, Saugus, Braintree, and Abington.  In 1926, she was living with her maternal grandparents again at 43 Norton Street and listed as a student in the city directory[1].

In 1927, Mary married Joseph H. (also Howard J.) Cosgrove.  Joseph was born 17 August 1905 in Canada, the son of Frank and Emma Cosgrove.  He was employed as a steamfitter in a shoe factory.

The couple’s only child, Mary Rita Cosgrove, was born July 4, 1928, in Lynn.  By 1930, the Cosgroves were living first at 148 Liberty Street Suite 3 and later, when the census was taken, at 64 Prospect Street, Lynn.[2]

Mary (Dooley) Cosgrove died at 64 Prospect Street on 19 November 1933 and was buried at St. Joseph Cemetery on 22 November 1933.  The primary cause of death was listed as articular rheumatism and the secondary cause as acute pericarditis. 

Joseph Cosgrove remarried sometime in or before 1935, to Dorothy Arline Platt, born in Lynn, 19 March 1909, the daughter of Samuel Platt and Leah Phillips.  They lived at several addresses in Saugus, and later in Lynn, and in Sebastian, Florida.  Joseph died on 8 June 1979 in Florida, and Dorothy died 14 June 1990 in Massachusetts.

Mary Rita Cosgrove

Mary Rita⁵ Cosgrove (Mary D.⁴ Dooley, Catherine³ Curran, John², Catherine¹ Houlihan) was raised in Saugus, Massachusetts with her stepbrother, Howard Arthur Spofford, son of Dorothy Platt.  He graduated from Saugus High in 1944 and Mary Rita graduated two years later, in 1946.  She married Donald Vernon Greene in 1950 and they had two children[3].  Mary Rita died 15 May 2005 in Sebastian, Florida and was buried 18 May at Fountainhead Memorial Park, Palm Bay.   Her husband Donald died 6 May 2011 at Tilton, New Hampshire and was buried with her at Fountainhead Memorial Park.

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[1] Ancestry.com, U S City Directories, 1822-1995

[2] Ancestry.com, 1930 United States Federal Census

[3] Since these children are living, their names are not included here.