Genealogy: Family Histories

Pendergast aka Prendergast Family

Compiled and Edited by Michael R. Reilly

Last Revised 05/02/2009

1. ?¹ PENDERGAST

Children of ? PENDERGAST are:

2. i. MICHAEL² PENDERGAST, b. Bet. 1825 - 1826, Ireland; d. 28 Apr 1910.

ii. ANDREW PENDERGAST, b. Abt. 1840, Ireland.

More About ANDREW PENDERGAST:

Occupation: 1880, Blacksmith, own of Lisbon, Waukesha, Wisconsin

2. MICHAEL² PENDERGAST (?¹) was born Bet. 1825 - 1826 in Ireland (Source: Calvary Cemetery Record, Age 86.), and died 28 Apr 1910 (Source: Waukesha Freeman, Michael's obit, May 12, 1910.). He married MARY (ANN) L. LANNON (Source: 1860 Federal Census, Lists her age 21 and as Margaret, not Mary.) Abt. 1862, daughter of WILLIAM LANNON and ANN CRINUHAN. She was born Abt. 1832 in County Louth, Ireland (Source: Calvary Cemetery Record, Age 88.), and died 11 Aug 1920.

Notes for MICHAEL PENDERGAST:

In 1855 there was a PATRICK PENDERGAST in the city of Racine, Racine Co, relative?

1860 Federal Census - Michael Pondergart

Michael P. died at his Milwaukee home, April 28, 1910, age 86. Funeral at St. John's cathedral. Interment at Calvary cemetery. His wife, three sons and five daughters survive him. Waukesha Freeman May 12, 1910

More About MICHAEL PENDERGAST:

Burial: 30 Apr 1910, Calvary Cemetery, Milwaukee, Block 20 Section ? Row 7S

Funeral: Oboyle

Occupation 1: 1870, Farmer, Town of Lisbon, Waukesha, Wisconsin (Source: 1870 Federal Census, July 16, 1870.)

Occupation 2: 1900, Physician

Residence 1: 1860, Town of Lisbon, Waukesha, Wisconsin

Residence 2: 1855, Town of Menomonee, Waukesha county as MICHAEL PENDERGRASS

Residence 3: Apr 1910, 755 Cass St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

More About MARY (ANN) L. LANNON:

Burial: 11 Aug 1920, Calvary Cemetery, Milwaukee, Block 20 Section ? Row 7

Funeral: Oboyle

Residence: Aug 1920, 377 28th St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

More About MICHAEL PENDERGAST and MARY LANNON:

Marriage: Abt. 1862

Children of MICHAEL PENDERGAST and MARY LANNON are:

i. ANN M.³ PENDERGAST, b. Abt. 1863, Wisconsin (Source: Calvary Cemetery Record, Age 80.); d. 20 Nov 1942.

More About ANN M. PENDERGAST:

Burial: 29 Nov 1942, Calvary Cemetery, Milwaukee, Block 20 Section ? Row 7S

Funeral: Oboyle

Residence: Nov 1942, 1223 North 28th St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

ii. MICHAEL H. PENDERGAST, b. Nov 1865, Wisconsin; d. 09 Feb 1932.

Notes for MICHAEL H. PENDERGAST:

Age at death as noted in Calvary cemetery record is 63; doesn't quite match census birth year.

More About MICHAEL H. PENDERGAST:

Burial: 09 Feb 1932, Calvary Cemetery, Milwaukee, Block 19 Section ? Row 234S

Funeral: Brett

Occupation: 1900, Bookkeeper (for brother Thomas?)

Political: 17 Jan 1891, Deputy Sheriff Assistant for Town of Laibon (Source: Waukesha Freeman, January 17, 1891.)

Residence: Feb 1932, 1223 North 28th St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

3. iii. THOMAS J. PENDERGAST, b. Nov 1865, Wisconsin; d. 22 Dec 1936.

iv. MARY JANE PENDERGAST, b. Abt. 1866, Wisconsin.

v. AGNES PENDERGAST (Source: 1880 Federal Census, Age 12.), b. Abt. 1867, Wisconsin.

vi. MARGARET PENDERGAST, b. Abt. 1867, Wisconsin.

vii. CATHERINE "KATE" PENDERGAST, b. Abt. Nov 1869, Wisconsin (Source: 1870 Federal Census, Age 9 mos, Census July 9, 1870.).

viii. LUCY PENDERGAST, b. Abt. 1872 (Source: 1880 Federal Census, Age 8.).

ix. WILLIAM PENDERGAST, b. Abt. 1874 (Source: 1880 Federal Census, Age 6.).

x. SARAH PENDERGAST, b. Abt. 1875 (Source: 1880 Federal Census, Age 4.).

 

3. THOMAS J.³ PENDERGAST (MICHAEL², ?¹) was born Nov 1865 in Wisconsin, and died 22 Dec 1936. He married EMMA M. ?. She was born Abt. 1875 (Source: Holy Cross Cemetery Record, Age 85.), and died 02 Jul 1961.

More About THOMAS J. PENDERGAST:

Burial: 24 Dec 1936, Holy Cross cemetery, Milwaukee, Block 8 Section ? Row ? Lot 37 Grave 1

Funeral: Brett

Residence 1: 1900, Milwaukee Ward 8, Wisconsin living with brother Michael

Residence 2: Dec 1936, 1209 South Layton Blvd., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

More About EMMA M. ?:

Burial: 05 Jul 1961, Holy Cross cemetery, Milwaukee, Block 8 Section ? Row ? Lot 37 Grave 2

Funeral: Becker

Residence: Jul 1961, 2642 North 84th St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Child of THOMAS PENDERGAST and EMMA ? is:

i. THOMAS J.⁴ PENDERGAST, b. Abt. 1913; d. 01 Jun 1988; m. BERNADINE A. ?; b. Abt. 1922 (Source: Holy Cross Cemetery Record, Age 76.); d. 09 Dec 1998.

More About THOMAS J. PENDERGAST:

Burial: 04 Jun 1988, Holy Cross cemetery, Milwaukee, Block 8 Section ? Row ? Lot 37 Grave 3

Funeral: Schmidt/Bart

Residence: Jun 1988, 2460 North 96th St., Milwaukee, Wisconsin

More About BERNADINE A. ?:

Burial: 12 Dec 1998, Holy Cross cemetery, Milwaukee, Block 8 Section ? Row ? Lot 37 Grave ?

Funeral: Schmidt/Bart

Residence: Dec 1998, 13325 Watertown Plank Rd., Elm Grove, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Michael Pendergast once owned Willow Springs Mobile Home Court property

Posted: Apr. 21, 2009, Living Sussex Sun

By Fred Keller, Sussex Village Historian

Michael H. Pendergast, a member of the Irish community that settled in the Lannon area and along Town Line Road in Lisbon, once owned the land where Willow Springs Mobile Home Court stands today on McLaughlin Road, 1½ blocks west of Town Line Road and Highway 74.

According to the "Waukesha County 1894 Portrait and Biographical Record," Michael was the son of Michael and Mary Pendergast, who were both born in Ireland. A relative of William Lannon, the village's namesake, Mary lived in Lannon when she met her future husband.

A member of St. James Catholic Church, the elder Michael bought 160 acres immediately north of today's Willow Springs Mobile Homes on land that later served as a quarry (now owned by Halquist Stone Co.). He later bought some more land on today's Mill Road that protruded into what is now the Silver Spring County Club golf course.

The couple parented nine children, three sons and six daughters: Anna, twins Thomas and Michael H., Jennie, Agnes, Kate, Lucy, William and Sallie, who lived only four years, dying in 1881. In 1894, eight were still alive.

Though Michael received only a short primary school education himself, he educated his eight surviving children at great expense.

Thomas went to the Lannon-Willow Springs school, then Carroll College. He studied medicine at the Chicago Medical College, graduating in 1893 as a surgeon before moving to Milwaukee

Jennie and Agnes also went to Carroll College, as did William, who trained as a teacher at Northern Indiana Normal College of Valparaiso.

Born Nov. 30, 1865, just as the Civil War ended, as H. M. Pendergast, Michael H. was reared to take over the family farm, but he still received a complete grade school education that led to three years at Carroll College and, afterward, a job teaching in Waukesha schools for five terms (one-third of a school year).

He then managed his father's farm and expanded it southward another 111 acres.

Just like his father, Michael H. was a Democrat, casting his first presidential vote for Grover Cleveland. He took a keen interest in politics, serving eight two-year terms as Lisbon's elected town clerk and as the (Willow Springs) District School's elected clerk for many years.

He also served as a Waukesha County Sheriff's deputy under Sheriffs Charles Deissner and Chris Gaynor.

As he entered old age, Michael H. sold his farm to Ed McLaughlin, who, with his former wife, Dorothy, a teacher, raised a pack of kids in the big old farmhouse. When McLaughlin had had it with farming, he started the Willow Springs Mobile Home Court, but then sold if to investor-managers.

Ed and his kids are major landowners in Sussex-Lisbon today.