MRS. CATHERINE MALOUGHNEY.

Summary

Brief obituary for **Mrs. Catherine Maloughney** (= Catherine Chatham Maloughney, Tish Maloney's mother). Died at her home **501 West Daly street, Walkerville**, on **20 April 1916** ("yesterday"), aged 57 (= b. ~1859). ## CONFIRMED THE CHATHAM-SISTERS HYPOTHESIS This is the **definitive primary-source proof** of the Catherine Chatham Maloughney = Mary Chatham Kelly = sisters hypothesis that had been held at family_confidence 50 across the archive. The obit's survivor list names "**six sisters, Mrs. Mary Kelly, Mrs. Nellie Dennison, Mrs. James Stafford, Mrs. James Brennan, Mrs. Margaret Sullivan and Mrs. Josephine Lee, all of Butte.**" **Mrs. Mary Kelly** = **Mary Chatham Kelly** (m. John Kelly; mother of Agnes Kelly Murphy who married JJM (d. 1938) on 19 Oct 1908). The 1908 Kelly-Murphy wedding cluster, the 1940 Mary Chatham Kelly obituary, and now this 1916 Catherine Maloughney obit all triangulate to a single Chatham-sisters cohort of seven (including Catherine): - Mary (Chatham) Kelly — d. 1940 Los Angeles; survived 1916 by 24 yrs - Catherine (Chatham) Maloughney — d. 20 Apr 1916 (this obit) - Mrs. Nellie Dennison - Mrs. James Stafford - Mrs. James Brennan (= probably Mrs. Agnes Brennan of the 1940 Mary Kelly obit's surviving-sisters list) - Mrs. Margaret Sullivan - Mrs. Josephine Lee Reconciliation with the 1940 Mary Chatham Kelly obit's surviving sisters (Mrs. Nellie Tracy, Mrs. William Pascoe, and Mrs. Agnes Brennan): - **Mrs. Agnes Brennan** = **Mrs. James Brennan** of 1916 (Agnes is her given name; James is her husband's; consistent) - **Mrs. Nellie Tracy** = **Mrs. Nellie Dennison** of 1916 (re-married after a Dennison-widowhood, OR Tracy/Dennison drift — likely remarriage given the 24-year gap) - **Mrs. William Pascoe** does NOT appear in the 1916 list — either a sister-in-law (Pascoe relation), a later marriage of one of the 1916 sisters, or a Chatham relative not named in 1916 (e.g., a niece treated as "sister") - Three of the 1916 six (Stafford, Margaret Sullivan, Josephine Lee) all predeceased Mary 1916-1940 ## CONSEQUENCE: Tish Maloney and Aggie Kelly ARE first cousins via Chatham mothers Catherine (Chatham) Maloughney was Tish Maloney's mother. Mary (Chatham) Kelly was Aggie Kelly Murphy's mother. They are sisters. Therefore **Tish Maloney and Agnes Kelly Murphy are first cousins** — confirming the existing-archive hypothesis at family_confidence 95+. This anchors the JJM-Tish friendship beyond mere social tie: Tish was already family-by-Chatham to Aggie before JJM married into the Chatham side via Aggie in 1908. The family's framing of Tish as JJM's "best friend" (Dan Murphy's note in the 1994 Sagebrushers booklet; the 1907 diary itself lists him without comment) is consistent with Tish being JJM's wife's first cousin. ## SURVIVING CHILDREN (4) - **Tish** (= Patrick "Tish" Maloughney, b. ~1883 Michigan, JJM's best friend) - **John** (= John Maloughney, miner, in existing archive) - **Olive** (= Olive Maloughney, clerk, in existing archive) - **Catherine** (= Kate Jr / Catherine Jr Maloughney, in existing archive — the 1906 Butte City Directory had her as "Kate," obit names her as the formal "Catherine") No husband listed (Thomas Maloughney had predeceased her — he was "wid Thomas" in the 1906 Butte directory, so dead pre-1906). ## ADDRESS **501 West Daly street, Walkerville**. The 1906 Butte City Directory had the family at 421 North street, Walkerville; they moved to 501 West Daly by 1916. West Daly is a Walkerville arterial near the AOH-Walkerville-mining cluster (and the same street the 1908 Kelly-Murphy wedding's bride Agnes Kelly lived on at her parents' home 412 West Daly — literally a block from Catherine Maloughney's home).

In its time

• Copper boom1882–1917
• First World War1914–1918

People

• Catherine (Chatham) Maloughney (b. ~1859 Michigan; d. 20 Apr 1916 Walkerville age 57; Tish's mother)(as printed: Mrs. Catherine Maloughney)
  role: subject · family confidence: 95 certain

  Catherine (Chatham) Maloughney, Tish's mother. Obit definitively proves she was a sister of Mary Chatham Kelly via the named six-sisters survivor list. Family confidence upgraded from 50 → 95. Born ~1859 per the age 57 at 1916 death. Died 20 Apr 1916 at 501 West Daly street, Walkerville.

• Patrick "Tish" Maloughney (1883–1958; "Tish Maloney" in print; JJM's best friend by family tradition; Chatham cousin of Aggie Kelly)(as printed: Tish)
  role: surviving son · family confidence: 95 certain

  Surviving son. Cousin-via-Chatham relationship to JJM now confirmed.

• John Maloughney (Tish's brother; Butte miner 1906)(as printed: John)
  role: surviving son · family confidence: 25 candidate

  Surviving son per the 1916 obit.

• Olive Maloughney (Tish's sister; Butte clerk 1906)(as printed: Olive)
  role: surviving daughter · family confidence: 25 candidate
• Kate Maloughney Jr (Tish's sister; Butte clerk 1906)(as printed: Catherine)
  role: surviving daughter · family confidence: 25 candidate

  Named formally as "Catherine" in this 1916 obit; same person as "Kate" Maloughney in the 1906 Butte City Directory.

• Mary (Chatham) Kelly(as printed: Mrs. Mary Kelly)
  role: surviving sister · family confidence: 100 certain

  Sister of Catherine (Chatham) Maloughney = mother of Agnes Kelly Murphy = JJM's (d. 1938) mother-in-law. Definitive Chatham-sisters link.

• Nellie (Chatham) Dennison Tracy(as printed: Mrs. Nellie Dennison)
  role: surviving sister chatham · family confidence: 75 strong
• Mrs. James Stafford (née Chatham; first name unknown)(as printed: Mrs. James Stafford)
  role: surviving sister chatham · family confidence: 75 strong
• Agnes (Chatham) Brennan(as printed: Mrs. James Brennan)
  role: surviving sister chatham · family confidence: 95 certain
• Margaret (Chatham) Sullivan(as printed: Mrs. Margaret Sullivan)
  role: surviving sister chatham · family confidence: 75 strong
• Josephine (Chatham) Lee Pascoe(as printed: Mrs. Josephine Lee)
  role: surviving sister chatham · family confidence: 75 strong

Places

• Butte, Montana (primary)
• Walkerville, Montana (primary)
• Anaconda, Montana (source)

Themes

• Irish American community
• Obituary
• Death

Story threads

• The Pat-and-Ellen Murphy household — Butte 1887 to LA 1980

Tags

• #Source primary family
• #Evidence corroborating
• #Direct family
• #Book chapter material

Source type

obituary

Related sources

• 1906-_butte-city-directory_maloughney-cluster-walkerville(unresolved)
• 1909-11-03 — Silver Bow County Marriage Register — Marriage of Patrick 'Tish' Maloughney + Margaret L. Scully — 3 Nov 1909 St. Mary's Butte (Chatham connection)
• 1908-10-24 — The Butte Miner, p.14 — Wedding Bells.
• 1940-05-30 — The Montana Standard, p.5 — MRS. MARY KELLY, EX-WALKERVILLE RESIDENT, TAKEN
• 1907-07-25 — The Sagebrushers — Jim Murphy's Travelogue through Yellowstone National Park, Told in His Own Words — The Sagebrushers — JJM's diary of the July-August 1907 Yellowstone Park trip

Open questions

• Mrs. William Pascoe (1940 Mary Kelly obit surviving sister) — does NOT appear in 1916 list. Either a later Chatham sister marriage, a Pascoe sister-in-law treated as sister, or a niece. The Pascoe-Chatham-Llewellyn cluster in the existing archive should be cross-checked.
• Mrs. Nellie Dennison (1916) → Mrs. Nellie Tracy (1940)? Most plausible remarriage interpretation given the 24-year gap and the same first name + sister status.
• Mrs. James Stafford, Mrs. Margaret Sullivan, Mrs. Josephine Lee — all alive 1916, all not on 1940 surviving-sisters list, so each predeceased Mary Kelly 1916-1940. Worth surfacing their obits in any later Anaconda Standard / Butte Daily Post obituary pass.
• What's Catherine Chatham Maloughney's MAIDEN-CHATHAM parents? Same parents as Mary Chatham Kelly's parents (per the GEDCOM: John A. Chatham b.1829 Avoca + Catherine Ryan b.1835) — but the GEDCOM may only have Mary's branch and need to be extended to include Catherine's sibling relationship to her.