CARTY GENEALOGY
(version 9/24/11)

1. James Carty (McCarty), whose ancestors may have come from Cork County, Ireland, was born somewhere in Ireland about 1782. His father's name is given in at least one vital record as John. James married Elizabeth "Lizzie" Neal (b. c.1780), the daughter of Tudy (Thomas?) Neal, in Ireland and immigrated with her, and three sons, to North America. Other friends and family may have made the voyage with them, but if they did, we know nothing of them.

   They arrived in the United States sometime in the 1820s, as they first appear in the 1830 U.S. Census, which shows James Carty as head of a household in the town of Essex, Chittenden County, Vermont, which sits just east of the Great Lakes port of Burlington, Vermont. James, an older woman, and three younger men are listed as members of the household. Most likely, the family immigrated first to Canada, as the Irish in those days were still subjects of the British Crown, and Canada was an easier point of entry for them than coming direct to the States. They then probably sailed down the Great Lakes to Lake Champlin, and thence to Burlington, which in the 1820s supported one of the largest Irish populations in the United States.

   Many immigrants changed their surnames when they entered the United States, and there is some evidence that James' last name in Ireland was McCarty and that the family americanized it to Carty (Cartey, Carthy) when they arrived here. The fact that the name McCarty, as well as McCarthy, crops up more than once in official records of James and Lizzie's children and grandchildren supports this possibility. Likewise, Lizzie Neal Carty's maiden name in Ireland may have been O'Neil.

   James Carty became a U.S. Citizen in 1836, and his original naturalization papers from the Chittenden County courthouse are still in possession of the family. An 1857 map of Chittenden County shows his younger son Patrick owning a farm in Essex on the other side of the road from James, and the older son Thomas on an adjacent farm a few hundred feet to the west. The 1840 and 1850 census returns also show the Carty families on adjacent farms. Lizzie died in Essex, probably on one of these farms, on Oct. 30, 1857, and James died in Essex on Feb. 9, 1859. Both are buried in Saint Joseph Cemetery, which in those days was the cemetery associated with the old St. Marys Catholic Church in Burlington.

   The connection of the Cartys to St. Marys of Burlington is interesting. The church was founded by Father Jeremiah O'Callaghan (1780-1861) of Cork County, Ireland, who came to the United States in 1823 and was assigned by the Bishop of Boston to Burlington in 1830. This made O'Callaghan the first resident Catholic priest in Vermont, and its first Catholic missionary. It also made St. Marys the first Catholic church in the state, and St. Marys ultimately became the cathedral for the new diocese of Burlington. O'Callaghans's congregation was overwhelimingly Irish, and his flock came from all corners of the state. Thus, even though Burlington was a long wagon ride of several miles, and on the other side of the Winooski River, from the Carty farms in Essex, James Carty's sons were married at St. Marys, his grandchildren were baptized there, and when members of the family passed on, they were buried in St. Joseph Cemetery.

   children - MCCARTY

   Thomas McCarty (c.1803-1887) was born in Ireland about 1803, and came with his parents and younger brother Patrick to the United States. He was probably named after his maternal grandfather. He married Margaret Burke, who was Irish also, at St. Marys Church in Burlington, Vermont on Sept. 11, 1831. He and Margaret settled on a farm in Essex, Vermont adjacent to his parents and his brother, and raised several children. Margaret died in Essex on Oct. 23, 1879, and Thomas passed away there on Nov. 29, 1887. Although we have no record of where they are buried, their graves are probably in St. Joseph Cemetery.

   John Carty, who appears to be the middle son, but his birthdate is not known. Irish custom usually assigned the name of the paternal grandfather to the first born son. However, what little evidence we have seems to indicate that Thomas was the older brother. Little is known about John. He appears in his father's household in some of the early census returns, and he appears with the family in a land dispute heard before the Vermont Superior Court, but that is all.

   Patrick McCarty (c.1812-1887), who follows:

   Maria Carty (c.1836-1850) is shown as a member of James and Lizzie Carty's household during the 1840 U.S. Census, and James and Lizzie are reported as Maria's parents on her death records, when she passed away on June 4, 1850 at the age of 14 years. However, Lizzie's estimated age at the time of Maria's birth is 54, which makes it possible that Maria was actually one of James and Lizzie's grandaughters. Unfortunately, there seems to be no baptism record for her from St. Marys of Burlington to confirm who her parents are. She is buried in Saint Joseph Cemetery where she shares the same tombstone with James and Lizzie.

    

2. Patrick Carty, the son of James Carty (McCarty) and Lizzie Neal, was probably born McCarty, but later changed his surname to Carty. He was born on or near May 18, 1812 in Ireland, and immigrated with his parents and older brother Thomas (b. c.1803) to the United States to settle near Essex, Vermont. He married an Irish girl named Mary A. Collier (b. c.1817) on Dec. 18, 1836 at St. Marys Church in Burlington, and together they raised a family of several children at their farm in Essex, which was located just across the road from Patrick's parents.

   Another family who lived near the Cartys were the four sons of Linus (Linas) and Hannah Buell - Rufus, Alonzo, Harlan, and Hervey - who became related to the Cartys through Alonzo Buell's marriage to Patrick Carty's daughter Mary. Rufus T. Buell, the oldest Buell boy, followed the Gold Rush to California in 1853, and he was followed over the next two decades by at least three of his brothers, and eventually all of the surviving children of Patrick and Mary Carty.

   An 1857 map of Chittenden County shows the locations of the Carty farms in Essex. All three were located near Indian Creek on a road that identifies today as Lost Nation Road, about one mile north of the juction of Lost Nation with Old Stage Road. Patrick Carty's farm was on the north side of the road, James Carty's was just across the road on the south side, and Thomas Carty was a few hundred feet to the west, on the same side of the road as James. Of course, the original buildings have all been replaced, but the modern locations of the buildings, and the outlines of the fields probably correspond closely with the old ones.

   Patrick and Mary Carty were still alive during the U.S. Census of 1880, which gives their last names as McCarty, and shows them living with sons Patrick and John Henry. Their neighbor and relative Thomas McCarty is listed as a widower. Also, a Chittenden County directory of 1882-1883 shows Patrick and Henry Patrick Carty as partners of a 200-acre dairy farm with 25 cows, and Thomas Carty with his son Thomas, Jr. on an adjacent 75-acre farm. Patrick died in Essex on Dec. 4, 1887, just five days after his brother Thomas passed away on Nov. 30. Patrick is buried in the same plot as his parents in Saint Joseph Cemetery in Burlington, and he shares a tombstone with them. Patrick's wife Mary survived her husband by several years, and came west with her son Henry Patrick to California about 1892. She died in Santa Barbara in 1897, where she is buried in Calvary Cemetery with four of her children, hers being just the 81st name in the burial register of the cemetery.

   children - CARTY

   James Carty was the first born son of Patrick Carty, and following Irish custom, he was named after his grandfather. He was born in Vermont, probably in either Essex or Montpelier, and baptized Dec. 24, 1837 at St. Marys Church in Burlington. He married an Irish girl named Elizabeth (b. c.1843) sometime before July of 1863, when his registation papers for the Union Army draft list him as being married and living in Colchester, Vermont. As far as we know, he was not drafted and forced to serve during the Civil War. Next, the U.S. Census of 1870 shows James and Elizabeth living in Essex, where they were employing his brother-in-law Hervey Buell, and another young man as farm laborers, with James occupation listed as a butcher. He came west to California in the 1870s, possibly after Elizabeth's death, and the U.S. Census of 1880 shows him living as a boarder in Petaluma, California, and working as horse trader.

   He sailed to Honolulu, Hawaii in 1882, possibly to avoid the law, where he met a native girl named Eliza Pemberton (b. Mar. 18, 1847), who had an English father (Jack Pemberton), Hawaiian mother (Ruth Kamehameha), and at least 10 children from her marriage on Jan. 1, 1861 to William George Woolsey (1830-1913). However, Eliza and William separated sometime after the birth of their last child in 1881, and she was living with James Carty by 1887, and had a daughter with him named Marion Carty, who was born in Honolulu on Oct. 10, 1889. Eliza finally divorced Woolsey on April 19, 1890, and she and James married in Honolulu on Aug 29, 1891.

   An 1888 newspaper ad shows James working as a hack (carriage) driver, with hack stands in various parts of the city, and the Honolulu City directories of 1890 and 1892 show him with three to four employees. Next, an 1895 newspaper ad shows him as proprietor of the American Livery and Boarding Stables at the corner of Merchant and Richards Street in Honolulu, just a short distance from the Iolani Palace, and he still appears as owner of this stable as late as 1907. He shows up often often in the Honolulu newspapers between 1888 and 1911, usually involved in one legal dispute or another. The last mention of him involves a dispute, beginning in October of 1911, with Sheriff William Jarett involving the ownership of five horses, with a claimed worth of $872, that James and another man had purchased from the Club Stables. That dispute was later resolved in the Supreme Court of the Territory of Hawaii on Oct. 1, 1912 (Carty v. Jarrett, 21 Haw. 310).

   James' wife Eliza died in Honolulu on Oct. 12, 1911 and is buried in the Woolsey family section of the Kawaiahao Manoa Cemetery, in the hills above Honolulu. Although she died first, the tombstone on her grave is that of James, who was still alive in 1912. Because James does not appear in the Census of 1920, this would put his death sometime between late 1912 and 1920. He is buried in the Manoa Cemetery with Eliza, where his undated tombstone stands over both their graves. Their daughter Marion lived a long life and died under her maiden name of Carty on July 24, 1980 in Waianae on the island of Oahu.

   Unknown child - There is a Vermont death record for an unnamed son of one Patrick McCarthy who died in Montpelier, Vermont at the age of 1 year on Dec. 16, 1839. If this child's father is the same as the Patrick Carty of whom the present narrative concerns, then Patrick and his family may have lived in Montpelier prior to acquiring their farm in Essex.

   John Carty was born about 1840 in Essex, Vermont. There is no baptism record for him from St. Marys Church of Burlington. However, pages 51 and 52 of the baptismal record, covering Jan. 19 to May 15 of 1840, are missing, and it is likely that his record is one of these. He died in Essex on May 26, 1854 at the age of 14 years, and shares the same tombstone in Saint Joseph Cemetery with his parents and grandparents.

   Charles Carty was born in Essex, Vermont, and baptized on Feb. 24, 1839 at St. Marys Church in Burlington. He registered during the Civil War for the Union Army draft in July of 1863, but there is no indication that he was forced to serve. It is possible that he and his brother Daniel avoided the war by coming to California, as the U.S. Census of 1870 shows both of them working with their brother-in-law Harlan Buell (b. c.1843) at a dairy in Santa Barbara County, California. Most likely, it was the dairy at Buellton that belonged to their relatives Rufus and Alonzo Buell.

   Charles then returned to Essex and married Ellen J. O'Hara there on July 1, 1874. Her parents, Batholomew and Liza O'Hara were Irish, the same as Charles's parents. Charles and Ellen's son Charles, Jr. was born in 1875, and two years later, a Montpelier newspaper (Argus and Patriot, 5-2-1877) reports that Charles and Ellen left Vermont for California with Albert Wool on April 23, 1877. Next we learn that Charles and Ellen were living in Petaluma during the 1880 U.S. Census, which lists his occupation as a stock (horse) dealer. Possibly he and his brother James, who at this time was working in Petaluma as a horse trader, were partners. Ellen was still in Petaluma during the 1900 census, only this time her husband is given as John Carty. Despite this discrepancy, the evidence indicates that it is still Charles she is with.

   Charles and Ellen next show up in the 1902/03 Santa Barbara City Directory with Charles and his brother Cornelius listed as liverymen with the Fashion Stable on 532 State Street. His residence in the same directory is given as 220 West Arrellaga Street, and a few years later the family is living at 20 East Sola Street. Charles died in Santa Barbara on Aug. 11, 1909, and his estate was settled in probate in the Santa Barbara County Courthouse (case file #7296), with Henry Patrick Carty as a witness to his death. Of note is that several creditors had claims against his estate. He is buried in Santa Barbara in Calvary Cemetery, next to his mother. Ellen remained in Santa Barbara for a few more years, supporting herself as a dressmaker, and she died in San Francisco on April 15, 1927, probably at her son's house. Charles and Ellen had at least three children, who follow.

   • Charles Carty was born in Essex, Vermont on May 20, 1875. He was with his parents in Petaluma, California during the 1880 U.S. Census, but we lose track of him after that.
   • Elizabeth Veronica Carty was born about 1878, after her parents move to Petaluma, California. She was still single, and was living with her brother Robert in San Francisco during the 1930 U.S. Census. Most likely she never married, nor had any children.
   • Robert Clarence Carty was born Sept. 15, 1888 in Petaluma, California. He married Catherine Bourcq, moved to San Francisco for awhile, and died in Santa Clara County on Sept. 4, 1948. He does not appear to have had any children.

   Elizabeth (Betsy) Carty was born in Essex, Vermont and baptized March 27, 1842 at St, Marys Church in Burlington. She is said to have moved to San Francisco, California, but this may be confusion with her niece Elizabeth, the daughter of her brother Charles. The Argus and Patriot, a Montpelier, Vermont newspaper, ran an article in May 26, 1886 that may have been about Elizabeth. The paper reported that, "Mrs. Lizzie Carty Ryan, a native of Essex, now a resident of San Jose, California, and her two sons, have been spending some time on the old homestead. They are to return to their California home in a few weeks."

   Daniel Carty was born in Essex, Vermont, and baptized on Dec. 25, 1843 at St. Marys Church in Burlington. He came west to California and was working in a dairy in Santa Barbara in 1870 with his brother Charles. Because he never registered for for the Union Army draft during the Civil War, despite the fact that he would have been over the age of 20 and therefore eligible to serve in 1864 and 1865, it is possible that he came west to avoid the war. The 1880 census shows Daniel and Cornelius were working together as farmers in the La Patera area of Goleta, to the west of Santa Barbara. He married a girl named Margaret in 1883, and had at least two children named Margaret (Maggie) and Ernest. There may have been another child named David. Daniel, like his brother Cornelius, sometimes went by the name of Carter. He appears to generally been a farmer, and he did not enter the stable business, as did his brothers. He was living in Naples (Long Beach), California in his later years. However, he appears to have died in Santa Barbara on June 7, 1909, as his estate was settled in probate in the Santa Barbara County courthouse (case file #7217), with his brother John Henry and wife Ellen as witnesses to his death. He is buried in the Calvary Cemetery in Santa Barbara, where the cemetery records show him as Daniel Carter.

   Henry Patrick Carty (1845-1925), who was probably born Patrick Carty and later changed his name to Henry Patrick Carty, follows:

   Mary Carty was born Dec. 5, 1847 in Essex, Vermont, and baptized Jan. 1, 1849 at St. Marys Church in Burlington. She came out west to California in the late 1860s where she married Alonzo Wilcox Buell (1836-1911) at the Buena Vista Ranch in Monterey County on Dec. 25, 1868. Alonzo was born in Essex, Vermont, the same birthplace as Mary, on March 18, 1836, and his parents and Mary's parents had neighboring farms located less than a mile apart. Whether Mary traveled to California on her own to meet Alonzo, or whether he had traveled back to Vermont to bring her out to California as his bride is unknown.

   Mary's husband Alonzo had originally come to California with a wagon train in 1857 to join his older brother Rufus Thompson Buell (1827-1905), who had been there since 1853. The brothers in late 1867 purchased a one-fourth interest in the San Carlos de Jonata Rancho, in the Santa Ynez Valley, and started a ranch that eventually became the town of Buellton. When the brothers dissolved their partnership in 1872, Rufus purchased the remaining interests in the rancho (26,000 acres total), and Alonzo purchased the El Capitan Rancho (4,444 acres) from the heirs of Capt. Jose Ortega.

   Alonzo and Mary were very successful raising dairy cattle, sheep and horses, and they became quite wealthy. They held on to the El Capitan Ranch ranch, which they called the Canada Corral Ranch, until 1889, when they sold it and moved to a three-story mansion that they built on a lot covering two and three-fourths blocks of Milpas and Montecito Streets in the outskirts of east Santa Barbara, about five blocks south from Mary's brother Henry Patrick who lived at Aliso and De La Guerra Streets. Alonzo in these later years owned the Victoria livery stable in Santa Barbara, and it is possible that he was involved in partnerships with his in-laws the Carty brothers who had interests in the Potter Hotel and Fashion stables.

   Although Mary gave her maiden name in these later years as Carter, she was born Carty. Interestingly, her brothers Charles and Cornelius changed their surname to Carter as well, but their descendants all go by Carty. Mary died on Feb. 15, 1904, and is buried in Calvary Cemetery in Santa Barbara with a simple stone that is inscribed "Mother". Alonzo died Aug. 20, 1911 at the Montecito Hot Springs in Santa Barbara, and is buried next to Mary with a stone inscribed "Father". There is also a cenotaph for him in the Santa Barbara Cemetery erected by his children many years after his death, but Calvary is his acutal burial place. Mary and Alonzo had several children, who are listed below.

   • Hanna Anna "Annie" Buell (1869–1882) was born Oct. 24, 1869. She died April 9, 1882, and is buried as H. Buell in the Santa Barbara Cemetery with her sister Mary.
   • John C. Buell (1871-1877) was born May 4, 1871. He died March 17, 1877, and is buried as J.C. Buell in the Santa Barbara Cemetery with his bother Daniel.
   • Mary Marion Buell (1873-1878) was born June 6, 1873. She died July 30, 1878, and is buried as M.M. Buell in the Santa Barbara Cemetery with her sister Hanna.
   • Jennie Buell (1875–1970) married Albert Maulhardt on Jan 30, 1901 in Santa Barbara. Her second husband was Henry Ostler. She died in Santa Barbara on March 30, 1970 and is buried in Santa Barbara Cemetery in a grave marked by a cenotaph with her father's name on it. However, her father is actually buried elsewhere.
   • Daniel Wilcox Buell (1877-1878) was born Nov. 18, 1877, and died June 30, 1878. He is buried as D.W. Buell in the Santa Barbara Cemetery with his bother John.
   • Elizabeth "Lizzie" Josephine Buell (1879–1946) died without issue in Santa Barbara on Feb. 27, 1946. She lived with her sister Louise and Louise's husband in her parents Milpas Street house, and was known as "Aunt Liz". She is buried near her mother in the Calvary Cemetery in Santa Barbara.
   • Alonzo Vinson Buell (1881–1961) was born March 2, 1881, and married Thyra Louisa Higgins on Feb 18, 1909 in Carpinteria. Thyra, who been born June 26, 1884 in California, died first on Sept. 29, 1955, and Alonzo died Sept 22, 1961 in Santa Barbara as well. Both are buried in Calvary Cemetery in unmarked graves next to Alonzo's parents.
   • Maybelle (Mable) Margaret Buell (1882–1974) married Wylie Cleveland Nielson on Feb. 6, 1907 in Santa Barbara. She died in Carmel on Aug. 10, 1974, and she and Wylie are buried near her mother in the Calvary Cemetery in Santa Barbara.
   • Helena "Lena" Buell (1884–?)
   • Lucy Buell (1886–?)
   • Harold John Buell (1888-1978) was born April 26, 1888. He owned a ranch in Solvang, married Myrtle J. Edsell (1891-1985), and has descendants. He died in Santa Ynez, California on March 18, 1978.
   • Louise Buell (1890-1972) was born Feb. 12, 1890, and married Nicholas James Tompkins (1883-1969). She died in Santa Barbara on Dec. 10, 1972, and is buried near her mother and husband in Calvary Cemetery in Calvery Cemetery.

   Alice Carty was born in Essex, Vermont, and baptized Jan. 19, 1848 at St, Marys Church in Burlington. She died on Sept. 20, 1860, at the age of 8 years and 4 months, of injuries from a fall she took 19 months before. She shares the same tombstone in Saint Joseph Cemetery with her parents and grandparents.

   Jane (Jennie) Carty was born in Essex, Vermont, and baptized Dec. 25, 1849 at St. Marys Church in Burlington. She appears in the Carty household in the census returns for 1850, 1860 and 1870, but that is all that we know about her.

   Cornelius Charles Carty was born Nov. 23, 1860 in Essex, Vermont, and probably baptized at St. Marys Cathedral in Burlington. The Argus and Patriot newspaper of Montpelier ran a story in 1867 telling how six-year old Cornelius survived a backwards fall down stairs that broke his arm so severe that the bone severed his arm muscles. He left Vermont as a teenager to join his brothers in California, and the U.S. Census of 1880 shows him working with his brother Daniel on a farm at La Patera, near Goleta in Santa Barbara County. He eventually settled in Santa Barabara where the 1888 city directory shows him working as a driver for American Steam Laundry. He married Emma Maulhardt (b. 1868), of Oxnard in adjacent Ventura County, in 1891, about the same time that he appears in the stable business with his brother Charles, who for a short time was owner of the Fashion Stables at 532 State Street. Later, Cornelius was a driver for Carty Bros (Henry Patrick and John Henry Carty) at the Potter Hotel Stables, and briefly he was proprietor of the Tally Ho Stables. The City Directory for 1902/03 shows his residence at 1211 Bath Street, and interestingly the same directory shows his last name as Carter, even though he was born Carty. His sister Mary was also giving her maiden name at this time as Carter, and his brothers Charles and Daniel at times went by the name Carter as well, which leads to speculation that they were trying to hide the fact that they were Irish. Cornelius' wife Emma died May 26, 1909, and is buried in the Santa Clara Cemetery in Oxnard. After her death, her sons went to live in Oxnard with their German-born grandmother Doretta (Dorothea) Maulhardt. Cornelius died on Sept. 16, 1931 in Anaheim, California, and is buried in the Ivy Lawn Cemetery in Ventura. He and Emma had two sons, who follow.

   • Adolph J. Carty was born, probably in Santa Barbara, on Oct. 17, 1894. He married Margaret Martha Friesen (b. March 23, 1895), moved to Los Angeles, and had a son named Richard Melton Carty, who was born Jan. 3, 1923 in Los Angeles. Adolph died in San Diego, Calif. on March 1, 1967, and Margaret died there Feb. 29, 1980. Both are buried in the Santa Clara Cemetery in Oxnard. Richard died June 29, 1957 and is buried in the Ft. Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego.

   • Edwin Louis Carty was born in Santa Barbara, Calif. on Dec. 4, 1897. His mother Emma died in 1909 when he was 11-years old and he moved to Ventura to live with his grandmother, Doretta Maulhardt. Apparently, he was known as "Nick" in his younger days, but preferred to be called ""Ed" as he got older. He attended the University of California at Davis from 1917-1919, and married his High School sweetheart Doris Corrine McDonnell (b. Oct. 19, 1899) on Dec. 23, 1919. He took up farming, and made a fortune in real estate investments. Later, he became Mayor of the city of Oxnard from 1944 to 1948, Ventura County Supervisor from 1952 to 1965, and served three times between 1939 and 1950 on the California State Fish and Game Commission. He was a close friend and hunting partner of California Governor and Chief Justice Earl Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court. He also narrowly lost the Ventura District Democratic nomination for Congress in 1954. A 1972-73 interview with Ed Carty is on file at the Bancroft Library of the University of California at Berkeley. His wife Doris died in Ventura on March 4, 1987, and Ed died there from a heart attack on Nov. 8, 1990. Both are buried in Ventura in the Ivy Lawn Cemetery. Edwin and Doris had five children, all probably born in Ventura.
     • Elizabeth Patricia Carty was born July, 16 1920. She first married Philip K. Maloney (1920-1973), and after his death she married Lambert B. Loucks (1918-2006) in Ventura on Feb 13, 1975. She died in Ventura on Dec. 21, 2001. All three are buried near Patricia's parents in Ivy Lawn Cemetery in Ventura.
     • Edwin Louis "Bud" Carty was born March 12, 1922, and died as a pilot during WWII on Jan. 3 1944 while on a training flight in the U.S. It is said that his mother's hair turned white overnight when she was given the news of his death. He is buried near his parents at Ivy Lawn Cemetery in Ventura.
     • Robert Charles Carty was born April 27, 1923. Robert married Marie Lamb and has three children - Robert Charles Carty, who was born in Santa Barbara on Oct. 21, 1955, and twins Edward L. Carty and Anne M. Carty, who were born in Alameda on July 12, 1957, and run Carty and Carty Antiques in Montecito, California. Edward and Anne are unmarried. Robert Charles, Jr. has a son Jack, who, should he marry, is the only member of the Cornelius Carty branch of the family available at the present to carry on the family name. Robert, Sr. died in Santa Barbara on Nov. 7, 2006.
     • Douglas McDonnell Carty was born March 25, 1927; and married Catherine Eugenia Glaab. His two sons are Edwin Lewis "Nick" Carty, and Douglas McDonnell Carty, Jr., who has daughters Stephanie and Madelaine. Douglas, Sr. died in Oxnard on Sept. 6, 2003 and is buried in Ventura in the Ivy Lawn Cemetery..
     • Roderick James Carty was born Oct. 30, 1934; and married Clare Friel. He is now a retired farmer in Ventura, and he and Clare have no children.

   John Henry Carty was born July 26, 1864 in Essex, Vermont, and probably baptized at St. Marys Cathedral in Burlington. He married Amelia Klett (b. Oct. 22, 1869) in Santa Barbara, California on April 18, 1894, and they had a son named Jack Estes Carty (b. April 26, 1895), who married Grace Clingman (b. c.1902) and had a daughter in Los Angeles named Mary Ann Carty (b. Aug. 27, 1922). John Henry was co-owner of the Potter Hotel Stables in Santa Barbara with his brother Henry Patrick in 1902/03. His residence at the time was 218 East Haley Street. He died Sept. 11, 1941 in Los Angeles, and Amelia died there on Oct. 19, 1946. Their son Jack also died in Los Angeles on May 25, 1964.

    

3. Henry Patrick Carty, the son of Patrick James Carty and Mary, was born Patrick Carty on November 6, 1845 in Essex, Chittenden County, Vermont, and baptized as Patrick on Dec. 25 at St. Marys Church in Burlington. He appears in the Carty household in the U.S. Census of 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 as Patrick, and it is not until 1882, in a Chittenden County Directory, that he appears as Henry Patrick. However, from that point on, he only appears in the records as Henry Patrick.

   Besides the slight change to his name, Patrick at some point began giving his birthdate as 1848. The Civil War of course began as Patrick approached adulthood, and all able-bodied men 20 years and older, who could not pay someone to take their place, were subject from 1863 to 1865 to be drafted into the army and sent off to war. Many Irish, particularly those in Vermont, felt that the draft unfairly targeted them. Thus, Patrick, who would have turned 20 in 1865, and therefore been eligible for the draft, may have found that by simply changing his birthdate he removed the need to register with the authorities.

   Most of the Carty family had left Vermont for California by the late 1880s, following in the footsteps of their Essex neighbors Rufus and Alonzo Buell. Rufus arrived first in 1853, started a very successful dairy business in Marin County the late 1850s, and later founded a dairy and ranch operation with Alonzo in the southern part of Santa Barbara County. Mary Carty came west when she married Alonzo in Monterey in 1868. Her brothers Daniel and Charles were in California by 1870, when they may have been working at one of the Buell's dairies, but they could have come earlier, perhaps during the Civil War years. James and Cornelius were both in California by 1880, which left only Henry Patrick and John Henry in Vermont to continue raising some 25 or so dairy cows on the 200-acre farm that was probably still in their mother's name.

   James, Charles, Daniel and Cornelius became involved in dairy and horse trading ventures in both Petaluma and Santa Barbara, probably with some of the Buells. They also ran cattle and used the Diamond "C" (a capital C in the middle of a diamond) to brand their stock. Most likely, the Cartys, who had grown up on a small-time dairy farm, learned to handle cattle and horses in the employ of their brother-in-law Rufus Buell. There is some speculation from family stories that the oldest brother James, the "horse trader" who eventually moved to Hawaii, may have been in the business in the early days of supplying horses of questionable origin to ventures his brothers were associated with.

   Henry remained a bachelor until he was in his late 30's when he married a neighbor girl, at least 18 years his junior, named Ellen A. Yandeau on Feb. 19, 1889 in Winooski, Vermont. They were probably married in St. Frances Xavier Church, which had recently been built at Winnoski Falls for the French-Canadian Catholics there. Ellen, who had been born Ellen Yandow in Essex in November 19, 1868, was of French-Canadian ancestry, her parents having both been born in Canada, and emmigrating to Essex, probably in the late 1860s. Her father in 1882/83 worked in one of the local sawmills in Essex. Yandow is the americanized version of his surname, which was Guindon when his family first came to Quebec from France in the 1600s.

   Sometime between July 1889 and February 1892, Henry and Ellen sold the Carty farm in Vermont and moved to Santa Barbara, California where Henry and his brother John incorporated as Carty Bros, and ran livery stables. They appear to have started with the IXL Stable at 819 State Street, and after 1902 they ran the Potter Hotel Stables on the northeast corner of Montecito and Chapala Streets, in back of the hotel and just across the street from a giant Phycus (rubber) tree that still stands. Their brothers Cornelius and Charles during this time ran the Fashion Stables at 532 State Street, and their wealthy brother-in-law Alonzo Buell in 1902 was owner of the Victoria Stables, on Victoria Street between State and Anacapa. The 1910 ad above right shows that Henry and John also rented out motor cars. James E. Mason acquired the lease for the Potter Hotel Stables in 1911, after which Henry Patrick appears to have retired, and by the time the Potter changed its name to the Ambassador Hotel in 1920, the Cartys had left Santa Barbara.

   Henry and Ellen by 1902 were living in a house in Santa Barbara at 305 Aliso Street, which today corresponds to the north corner of North Alisos and East De Le Guerra Streets. It was located about 5 blocks northwest of where Henry Patrick's sister Mary and her husband Alonzo had a large Victorian mansion at Milpas and Montectio Streets. Later Henry and Ellen lived in a three-story house at 325 W. De la Guerra. Next, the U.S. Census of 1920 shows Henry and Ellen in Madera, next door to John Henry Carty and his wife Amelia. Shortly afterwards Henry and Ellen were in Fontana, about 30 miles east of Los Angeles, where they had a citrus orchard, and Henry was living in Hollywood when he died on March 18, 1925. Although he died in the Los Angeles area, he was buried in Calvary Cemetery in Santa Barbara next to his siblings Charles, Daniel and Mary. Ellen died in Hollywood on October 11, 1943, and she is buried next to daughter Mamie in Calvary Cemeterey in east Los Angeles. Henry and Ellen had five children who are listed below.

   children - CARTY

   Daniel Carty was born July 16, 1890 in Essex, Vermont, and died one month later on Aug. 16, 1890.

   Mary Edna (Mamie) Carty was born in Santa Barbara, Calif. on Dec. 11, 1892, and married Leon Charles Potter (1889-1942) there sometime between June 1917 (his draft registration date) and the 1920 U.S. Census. Leon was born in New York, and he listed his occupation in 1917 and 1920 as an auto mechanic, whereas Maimie worked as a bookkeeper for the electric company. Later, Leon listed his occupation as an enginneer, and Mamie from 1928 on called herself an auditor. Mamie and Leon must have separated or divorced by 1928 or earlier as Los Angeles County voter registrations show her living with her mother Ellen Carty at 6220 De Longpre Street in Hollywood. She continued to live with her mother and worked as a secretary at the La Brea store of Carty Bros Markets in the late 1930s. When Mamie's mother died in 1942, Mamie continued to live in the De Longpre house for another couple of years until her brother Henry sold the place, and put Maimie up in a hotel in Hollywood, where she died on Nov. 14, 1953. She is buried next to her mother in Calvary Cemetery on Whittier Blvd. in Los Angeles. Interestingly, the birth year of 1893 on her tombstone and in the California Death Index is probably wrong, as it would mean she was born only three months before her brother Henry.

   Henry James Carty (b. Feb. 14, 1894) who follows:

   Daniel Arthur Carty was born in Santa Barbara, Calif on Aug. 1896, and sometime in the 1920s married Agnes Morning Duffy, who had been born in Ireland on Oct. 21, 1898. Daniel and his brother Henry were co-founders of Carty Bros Markets, one of the first supermarket chains in southern California. He died in Los Angeles on May 21, 1937 from appendicitis. Agnes died in Los Angeles on April 27, 1972, and both she and Daniel are buried in Calvary Cemetery in Los Angeles, very close to Daniel's brother Henry. Daniel and Agnes had one son:

   • Donal Carty was born in Los Angeles on Oct. 31, 1924. He married first Sara Ann Smith (1933-2006), by whom he had three sons, but divorced her and married secondly on March 14, 1961 in Los Angeles Dolly Marie Divittorio (1921-1984). His third wife Marguerite survived him when he passed away in Bullhead City, Arizona on Aug. 3, 1999. Donal's first wife Sara Ann married secondly a man named Ogren, with whom she had her fourth son, Darryl L. Ogren who was born in San Diego, Calif. on Nov. 24, 1962. Her third husband was Randall Price. The three sons of Donal and Sara Ann follow:
     • Daniel A. Carty was born March 7, 1954 in Los Angeles, California, and married Rena V. Leech. Their daughter Kari Carty was born June 26, 1983. Another daughter Kati Louise Carty was born March 8, 1985, but died the next day. Daniel and Rena are now divorced, and he has remarried.
     • Michael H. Carty was born July 8, 1956 in Los Angeles, Calif. He is not married.
     • Patrick Sean Carty was born August 21, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, and married Allison Oliver c.1988. They had two children, Marlena Elizabeth Carty (b. Dec. 19, 1989 in Los Angeles) and Daniel Brooks Carty (b. Sept. 16, 1994 in Ventura), before they divorced c.1996. Patrick has two other children - Donal (b. c.2000), and Michael (b. c.2004), who has since passed away. Patrick died from a heart attack in Merced, California on Jan. 27, 2011.

   Alice Helen Carty was born in California, probably in Santa Barbara, on May 13, 1903; and married a gold miner named Vincenza (Vincent) Zimmerman. They were living in Colton during the 1930 U.S. Census, when Vincent had a small shaft in the desert near Palm Springs that he mined by himself. Vincent, who had been born in California on Sept. 3, 1896, passed away in San Bernadino County on Feb. 5, 1977; and Alice died without issue in Riverside County on May 1, 1981. Both are buried at Montecito Memorial Park in Colton.

    

4. Henry James Carty, the son of Henry Patrick Carty and Ellen Yandeau, was born in Santa Barbara, California on Feb. 14, 1894, and grew up working in his father and uncle's stables in Santa Barbara. He graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1913 and went on to obtain a teaching certificate in Industrial Arts in 1915 from the State Normal School of Manual Arts at Santa Barbara. Next he taught high school for a short time in Alameda until World War I broke out, when he enlisted in the Army. Assigned to the Signal Corp, which oversaw the early flight squadrons of the army, he spent the war state side training to be a pilot. However, the war ended just as he was about to earn his wings, and he was mustered out a sergeant without seeing action.

   Returning to Alameda, where he taught high school drafting and shop classes, he rekindled a relationship he had started before the war with kindergarten teacher Mary Louise (Minnie) Toombs, whom he married at St. Mary's Church in Oakland, California on Feb. 14, 1920. Henry and Mary moved to Los Angeles, where Henry and his brother Daniel, with the help of their father, started a grocery store in 1923 called Carty Bros Market at 6658 Hollywood Blvd. Just a small store at first, their business grew to become a chain of eight grocery stores in Los Angeles and Hollywood. Their Los Angeles store, which was one of the first southern California supermarkets, was quite large with 9,500 feet² of floor space and an 18,750 feet² parking lot. Daniel died in 1937, and Henry sold all eight stores in 1954 to various competitors, including Top's Markets and Kory's Markets. He died of a heart attack, said to be a complication from a bad tooth, in Los Angeles, California on Oct. 21, 1955 and is buried there in Calvary Cemetery with Mary. His brother Daniel is buried nearby, as are his son William, his sister Mamie, and his mother. Henry and Mary had three children, who are listed below.

   children - CARTY

   Helen Janet Carty was born in San Francisco, California on Jan. 13, 1922 and married Robert Harold Muller (b. Feb. 14, 1922) in Hollywood, California on Dec. 22, 1944. Robert died in Newport Beach, California Aug. 9, 2006 and is buried in Calvary Cemetery in east Los Angeles. Robert and Janet had the following children:

   • Richard Robert Muller was born March 5, 1947 in Hollywood, California and married Susan. He later divorced Susan and married Lee Ann Penny by whom he has two children. Richard and Lee Ann are now divorced as well.
     • Kathyrn Alexis Muller (b. Dec. 6, 1986).
     • Matthew Richard Muller (b. Nov. 2, 1988).

   • Stephen James Muller was born June 24, 1949 in Hollywood, California and married Diane. They have one child.
     • Brandon Robert Muller (b. Nov. 30, 1981).

   • William Harold Muller was born Dec. 20, 1952 in Hollywood, California and was killed in a car accident on April 13, 1973. Bill is buried in Calvary Cemetery in east Los Angeles, near his father.

   • Michael Henry Muller was born on Aug. 1, 1955 in Hollywood, California and married Julie Gensler (b. Mar. 22, 1961) on June 11, 1983. They are now divorced. Mike and Julie have six daughters:
     • Laura Beth Muller (b. Dec. 18, 1985). Laura married Francisco Burgos and lives in Washington state.
     • Janet Rachel Muller (b. Aug 13, 1987).
     • Carrie Ann Muller (b. Jan. 8, 1990).
     • Christie Elise Muller (b. May 27, 1994).
     • Jennifer May Muller (b. June 6, 1996).
     • Elizabeth Jane Muller (b. Jan 6, 2000).

   Robert James Carty (b. July 26, 1929) who follows:

   William Henry Carty was born on Feb. 2, 1932. He died of cancer of the liver on July 4, 1966 and is buried in Calvary Cemetery in east Los Angeles. he married Francine Virginia Williams on Feb. 4, 1956 and had three children:

   • Paul William Carty (b. Dec. 11, 1956) in Hollywood, California. He married Laura in San Clemente, California. Laura has a daughter Morgan from a previous marriage, and together Paul and Laura have a son Paul Carty, Jr. Paul, Sr. died in California in 2007.
   • James Christopher Carty (b. Jan. 10, 1963) in Hollywood, California. He married Joanne, with whom he has two daughters.
   • Shawn Patrick Carty (b. July 13, 1965) in San Fernando Valley, California. He married Heidi, with whom he has a daughter Calista and a son.

    

5. Robert James Carty, the son of Henry James Carty and Mary Louise Toombs, was born in Los Angeles, California on July 26, 1929. He married Jean Alice Harris (born April 23, 1931) in Hollywood, California on June 21, 1952. He and his brother William built apartments in Southern California for a few years, then he moved to the Suisun Valley in Solano County, California in 1963, where he runs a vineyard named Bella Vista Ranch. Jean died Jan. 10, 2011 at the ranch and is buried nearby in Rockville Cemetery.

   children - CARTY

   Thomas Alan Carty was born in the Staten Island Hospital in New York on March 25, 1953. He married Kimberly Ann Evans (b. July 17, 1953) on July 28, 1979 in Oakland, California. They have the following children (all born in Sacramento, California):

   • Meredith Helena Carty (b. Sept. 28, 1982). Meredith married Brian Christopher Tilton (b. Dec. 30, 1981) on Aug. 8, 2008. They have two childrem - Dylan Rose Tilton (b. July 31, 2004) and Crosby James Tilton (b. July 12, 2010).
   • Thomas Chadwick Carty (b. July 7, 1984).
   • Evan Alexander Carty (b. Aug. 6, 1988).
   • Garrett Alan Carty (b. Sept. 26, 1991).

   Kenneth James Carty was born in Coronado, California on Dec. 10, 1954 and married Coralie Bouchard (b. Dec. 1, 1959) in Fairfield, California on Sept. 8, 1979. They have the following children (all born in Fairfield, California):

   • Kaila Alexandra Carty (b. Aug. 23, 1987).
   • Cameron Ian Carty (b. Aug. 31, 1992).

   Robert "Bud" James Carty was born in Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Hollywood, California on Jan. 30, 1956 and married Jeanie Hill (b. Oct. 31, 1953) aboard the Sitmar cruise ship "Fair Seas" in San Francisco Harbor on Sept. 10, 1983. Bud and Jeannie are divorced. They have the following children:

   • Jade Landon Carty (b. Nov. 3, 1990 in Fairfield, California). Jade has a daughter, Mia Lynn Hannum-Carty, who was born Dec. 19, 2008 in Napa, California.
   • Bron Justin Carty (b. Feb. 4, 1995 in Napa, California).

   Janet Louise Carty (twin of Jane), who follows:

   Jane Alice Carty (twin of Janet) was born in Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital in Hollywood, California on Dec. 31, 1956 at 5:02 P.M. (Janet was born at 4:57 P.M.). Jane married Donald Albert Klotz (b. Nov. 11, 1954) at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Fairfield, California on July 4, 1980. They have the following children (all born in Vallejo, California):

   • Andrew James Klotz (b. Nov. 10, 1987).
   • Sara Elizabeth Klotz (b. June 23, 1990).

    

6. Janet Louise Carty, the daughter of Robert James Carty and Jean Alice Harris, was born in Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital in Hollywood, California on Dec. 31, 1956 and married Michael Sidney Clark (b. Aug. 5, 1953), a geologist, at Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Fairfield on Aug. 31, 1980.

   children - CLARK

   Jennifer Louise Clark was born at Lutheran Hospital in Wheatridge, Colorado on Feb. 6, 1982. Jennifer married Curtis Humphrey (b. Aug. 10, 1980) on Aug. 16, 2003 in Bakersfield, Calif. They have two sons - Zachary Michael Humphrey, who was born Sept. 9, 2007 in Nashville, Tennesse; and Daniel Glenn Humphrey, who was born Nov. 18, 2009 in Huntsville, Alabama.

   William Sidney Clark was born at Lutheran Hospital in Wheatridge, Colorado on Oct. 16, 1985.

REFERENCES:

1. Child, Hamilton, 1882, Gazetteer and Business Directory of Chittenden County, Vermont, for 1882-83. Also available at Google Books.

2. Feeney, Vincent E., 2009, Finnigans, Slaters and Stonepeggers: A History of the Irish in Vermont, Images from the Past, Bennington, Vermont, 242 p.

3. Photographs, newspaper clippings, and Santa Barbara City Directories housed at the Gledhill Library (Santa Barbara Historical Museum), and Sahyun Library (Santa Barbara County Genealogical Society)

4. Recollections of Robert Henry Carty.

5. Tombstone Transcriptions and Cemetery Records for the Calvary Cemetery, Santa Barbara, CA; Ivy Lawn Cemetery, Ventura, CA; St. Joseph Cemetery, Burlington, VT; and others.

6. US Census Records, 1830-1930 and Vermont Vital Records, which are online databases available on Ancestry.com, and Familysearch.org, as well as the California Birth, Marriage and Death Indexes, and the Social Security Death Index on the same websites.

7. Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Society, 2005, Marriages of St. Mary Cathedral, Burlington, Vermont, 1830-1930, 792 p. (available at their website at www.vt-fcgs.org)

8. Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Society, 2006, Baptisms of St. Mary Cathedral, Burlington, Vermont, 1830-1858, 607 p. (available at their website at www.vt-fcgs.org)

9. Vermont French-Canadian Genealogical Society, 2009, Baptisms of St. Mary Cathedral, Burlington, Vermont, Baptisms 1858-1936, 664 p. (available at their website at www.vt-fcgs.org)

by Janet & Michael Clark