Mary Catherine Mc Grane + Hugh Shine, Boston

The following information via Fr Hugh Behan........

Mary Catherine Mc Grane was a daughter of Charles + Mary Anne Mc Grane, born 1886. As a young woman she went to America and married Hugh Shine. They had eight children (Charles,Hugh,John / Jack,Francis William (Bill), Mary, Dorothy, Eileen, and Virginia) and lived in the Boston area.

Sarah Mc Grane (Behan) stayed in touch with Mary Catherine Shine. Sarah never told her mother that Mary died, so they kept up a pretense about that. Her mother, Mary (Travers) had pined for her as she had a sense of loss and found it very difficult to see Mary Catherine head off to America.

Many years later in 1964, Sarah had the same difficulties as she saw her son Hugh (Behan) head off to his ministry in America.