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| John Gordon Marmion and wife Elese |
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| In the Baptismal Records for San Fernando Cathedral is written: "Maria Catharina Lockmar" was born Aug 6, 1842, the legitimate daughter of Antonio Lockmar and Apollinaria Trevino. God parents: Tomas Addicks and Maria Trinidad Soto." Father Calvo baptized the child and signed the book. It was dated Sept 22, 1842, on page 82, and was baptism # 726. Kate's father died when she was very young and Apolinaria remarried Francis P Giraud, who was the first city surveyor and architect and a Mayor in San Antonio. |
| San Antonio, TX |
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| Panorama of San Antonio |
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| James Roger Marmion was born in Clonallan, Warrenpoint, County Down, Northern Ireland. Kate Lockmar, was born in San Antonio ,Texas and decends from one of the first 13 Canary Islander Colonists in San Antonio. |
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| James Richard Marmion |
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| Charles F Marmion |
| James R. Marmion
Catharina A. Marmion children: James Richard Marmion Louis Santiago Marmion George Marmion Isabella Marmion John G Marmion Harry Lawrence Marmion Alfred Raphel Marmion Charles Francis Marmion |
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| click to enlarge pictures of (some of)The Children of James and Kate: |
| James Roger Marmion & Catherine Lockmar |
| James immigrated in 1835, and he grew up in New Orleans and Pass Christian MS. He worked with his mother and father on thier trips to Mexico as a clerk comming to San Antonio sometime in the 1850's, possibly after 1855 since all of Catherine's sons built her a cottage in Pass Christian. He was listed in the 1860 census as a merchant with quite a bit of money. James and Kate lived at 638 Soledad San Antonio, Texas all of thier lives.. He joined the Alamo Rifles, ,and then at the outbreak of the Civil War, joined the Trans Mississippi as a Capt. He lead Marmion's artillery. He eventually became a marine and was second in command of the cotton clads in the Gulf at Matagorda. At the end of the war he returned to San Antonio and his family .He was a wholesale liquor dealer. and operated the Commercial Saloon w/ Wm. Prescott." There's a reference to him in "I Remember" by Maria W. James. Then in 1880 he was Postmaster of San Antonio. He was rather politically active. All of James and Kate's sons graduated with engineering degrees fron St Mary's in San Antonio. They had minning intrests in Mexico until the government confiscated them. The San Antonio City Directories of 1891-94 show the following: J.R. Marmion (James and Kate's son), civil engineer, living at 638 Soledad, 1893; at the same address we see J.G. (John Gordon), 1893 and 1894, Harry Marmion, 1893-94, and Alfred R.Marmion 1894, three of his sons. |
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| Luis Santiago Marmion |
| Little known fact- The Town of Angelton Texas is named after Kate Lockmar Marmion's sitster- Adelina Lockmar Angle, wife of G.W. Angle who at the time of it's nameing was mgr of the Velasco RR. _____________________________________________________________________________________ |
| __________________________________________________________________________ in the book With the Makers of San Antonio: Genealogies of the Early Latin, Anglo ... - by Frederick Charles Chabot reguarding this family there are some errors: the most notible of which is James's birthplace which is Clonallan, Warrenpoint County Down Northern Ireland. An ancient Marmion and Murphy place. Also Kate's name is listed a Catlina, it it Catarina...the Austrian version of Catherine. |
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| Read about Kate's Father Anton Lockmar |
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