In Table 1., names and a few statistics were given for all those who appear to be children of Patrick and Bridget. Only a few are definitely identified and only four of theses have been given a separate write-up. The eight remaining persons have been grouped into this "Other Children" section. What is available on them follows:

Catherine
Catherine is identified on the gravestone of her father Patrick. The inscription about her is immediately below the lines about Patrick that were quoted at the start of the account of Patrick of Limerick (section 1). The relevant inscription reads "his daughter Catherine, died April 18, 1860, 36 yr.". She would have been born then in 1824, and obviously in Ireland.

Catherine was married at Notre Dame Basilica on June 7, 1855 to Michael Teehan. Catherine' brother William and his wife Honorah were witnesses of the marriage. Catherine would have been 31 then. She died only five years later. It is somewhat surprising that Catherine was buried in the Slattery plot but with no indication that she was married. Perhaps the marriage was very short-lived for some reason.

Nora
In the 1901 census of By-Ward in Ottawa, Myles Slattery and his sister Nora were living together in his home at 85 Clarence St. (Table 4). Nora was further identified as age 60, born in Ireland in August 1840, a widow and had emigrated to Canada in 1870.

Further identification of Nora was included in the 1900 will of Alice Slattery, sister of Myles, in which she left the balance of her estate after several bequests to her sisters, Margaret McGee, Nora Newman, and Bridget Slattery. Clearly then Nora had been married to a Mr. Newman. She might have emigrated with her husband, but he does not appear in any Ottawa records. It seems more likely that she emigrated after the death in Ireland of her husband. Perhaps her older brother Myles (he was 77) was among the last of her living relatives, and as he was single and had his won house, he may have been happy to have her live with him.

There is no death record or burial site found to date for Nora in Ottawa. Perhaps it may yet be round, but until proven wrong it seems likely that she returned to Ireland and is buried there.

Patrick
Patrick is included in this account only because Joan Denault recalls hearing that there was a Patrick among her Slattery ancestors in Ottawa.Unfortunately no record has turned up concerning him. There is a Patrick listed on the family gravestone at Notre Dame cemetery who died in 1901 at age 30. This was the youngest son of William. It seems unlikely that this was the Patrick mentioned by Joan Denault, but it is possible.

In Table 4, which lists the persons living with Myles Slattery between 1851 and 1901, there was in 1871 a Patrick, age 22, born in Ontario, for a calculated 1859 birth. His identity is a mystery. Until such time as I have more information, I must continue to include Patrick in the "uncertain" category of Table 1.

Margaret
This is Margaret McGee, who is identified in the will of Alice as her sister and beneficiary of one third of her estate after several small bequests. I have no other information about her. If she was a sister, not a sister-in-law, she would have been Margaret Slattery. If she was a sister-in-law, there is one possibility that arises from an entry in the obituary of a Mary Slattery. This is discussed under the heading of "Mary" below.

Bridget
she is included, like Margaret above, as a beneficiary of the will of Alice, and as one of her sisters. She is identified as Brdget Slattery. The only Bridget slattery who was living in 1900 seems to have been the oldest daughter of one of the Almonte Slattery's. She was 35 in 1900 and unmarried. But she could not have been a sister of Alice; she was too young, and had different parents.

There evidently was a Bridget who was a sister of Alice, but lacking any other information she is included in the "uncertain" category of Table 1.

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Mary
In many ways, Mary is the most perplexing of the persons who have been included in Table1. In the 1861 census, there was a Mary, a family member, living with Myles in 1861, born in Ireland, age 18 (Table 4). She would have been born about 1843, within the range of births of Myles and his siblings, close in age to John of New York. She must have been a young sister of Myles.

About ten years ago I transcribed information to a notebook from the obituary of a Mary Slattery, which was in possession of my uncle Louis Grimes. He must have found it in his deceased mother's papers. His mother had been Hannah Slattery who had married John Grimes. Unfortunately I failed to identify Mary in my notes and my uncle is also deceased. The obituary was a clipping from a newspaper, but the identity of the newspaper and date of the write-up are not recorded. These are ridiculous omissions for someone trying to assemble information! My only excuse was that at the time I was working only on the Grimes family.

My notes say that Mary Slattery died in 1894, and that the obituary listed many who had predeceased her. These were:

Patrick of Limerick died in 1875 which would identify Mary as his daughter. This would be the Mary who was living with Myles, who was born in 1843. Her mother was evidently Bridget, the wife of Patrick, which is the source of the 1845 death entry for Bridget in Section I of this story. Patrick's family grave at Notre Dame cemetery lists Catherine's death in 1860. She would have been a sister of Mary. Julia and Johannah appear nowhere in any other records, so I expect that they were relatives, probably sisters, who had died in Ireland.

The name John McGee warrants some discussion. Alice Slattery in her will in 1900 left one third of her estate to her sister, Margaret McGee, as reported earlier. I suspect that Margaret was the wife of John McGee, how had predeceased her. The son Henry and daughter May in my notes do not identify their parents. Their deaths at the same time as John McGee, and listed in the same grouping leads me to guess that they were children of John and Margaret McGee. There is another possible scenario. If Mary were married, but listed under her maiden name in the obituary, then the children Henry and May could have been hers. If so, who was her husband? It could have been John McGee, and then Margaret must have been married to a different McGee, probably a brother of John. I prefer this theory.

Returning to my obituary notes, it is clear that William who died in 1885 would have been her brother and Margaret her sister-in-law, not her uncle and aunt. I think this was my error and not in the obituary itself. Bridget, Mary, Michael and Willie were children of William and Margaret and so are correctly identified as nieces and nephews.

Until there is more confirmation of some of my conclusions, Mary is included in the "uncertain" category of Table 1.

Julia and Johannah
It seems only fair to give these women a small write-up. In fact, however, all that is known about them is their mention in Mary's obituary, and my hypothesis that they were sisters who had died in Ireland.

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