Person:Katherine Walsh (3)

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Name Katherine Walsh
Married Name Katherine Pigott
Alt Name Katy or Katie _____
Alt Name Aunt Ciss _____
Gender Female
Birth? 1 Aug 1891 Foynes, County Limerick, Republic of Ireland
Death? 5 Mar 1991 Dearborn Heights, Michigan, United States

Katherine Walsh was born 1 Aug. 1891 in the village of Foynes, Ireland, to Edmund (or Edward) Walsh and Elizabeth Shanahan. She immigrated to the United States at some point, settling in the Detroit area of Michigan. Katherine married Peter Pigott on June 26, 1918. They had six children: Catherine, James, Leo, Mary, Theresa, and William. Katherine died March 5, 1991, in Dearborn Heights, Michigan.

References
  1.   Pigott Family Tree, in Ancestry.com.

    The Pigotts are descendants of Katherine Walsh.

  2.   Belding Family Tree, in Ancestry.com.

    The Beldings are descendants for Katherine's sister Mary Elizabeth Walsh. On their family tree they note that Katherine was known to some relatives as "Aunt Ciss."

  3.   Oral history.

    Katherine Walsh's brother John Walsh was this writer's maternal grandfather. Both my mother and one of my aunts have told me they had an aunt on their father's side named Katy or Katie.