Long Paddy’s eldest son, John McCadden, married Minnie (Mary) Logue in 1910 at St. Bridget's Church, Ballintra. After they were married John and Minnie moved up the road to Meenadreen. They had seven children, Patrick (Packie, 17/10/1911), James (Sonny), Kathleen (9/1926), Theresa (9/1913), Thomas (Tommy, 1914), Anthony (1929) and Edward (Eddie, 7/1923). Two additional daughters died young. The Meenadreen records sow a Mary who died only 9 months old in 1920. Also there was a Philomena born in 1932.
Minnie died quite young in 1934 aged only 44. Several of John and Minnie’s children were quite young still and went to live with relatives. Anthony, for example, went to live with the McCadden’s of Leghoney, specifically John McCadden and his wife Bridget. This supports the view that the McCadden’s of Aghlem and Leghoney were closely related. If long Paddy were the son of Patrick, then John of Meenadreen and John of Leghoney would be 1st cousins. It would not be unusual in those times for 1st cousins to take in children, particularly as John of Leghoney had a relatively small family by the standards of the day. John McCadden of Meenadreen died on the 17th January 1953.
Of John and Minnie’s seven children, four remained unmarried (Sonny, Kathleen, Tommy, Eddie). Theresa and Eddie moved to Glasgow, Scotland. Kathleen entered the religious orders as a nun in Oxford and Anthony moved to Leeds. Tommy lived his later life in a town called Kesh in Co. Fermanagh. Sonny remained in the family home in Meenadreen. He died on the 18th June, 1966. After this, the house and land were sold and from that point there are no more McCadden’s in the townland of Meenadreen. John and Mary’s eldest son, Packie married Rose Kelly in 1949. At the wedding Vincent Breslin served as Packie’s best man. Vincent and Packie were 1st cousins; Vincent’s mother was Cassie McCadden, daughter of long Paddy. After their marriage, Packie and Rose moved to Dublin where they lived most of their lives in Dublin. Rose died in Letterkenny General Hospital after falling ill during a trip home. Packie then remained in Donegal, living with his daughter Mary in Cullionboy until his death in 2001.
The McCadden family headstone can be found in Clar. It lists the family as being from Meenadreen. Although not listed explicitly on the headstone, not all members of the family died in Meenadreen (though all are buried in the grave). Tommy died in the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. Rose (wife of Packie) died in Letterkenny General Hospital. Packie died in Cullionboy. John McCadden’s Minnie is not buried in the McCadden family plot, but rather in her own Logue family plot.
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