Cheesy Grits: More about Adeline Deguizen and her household

Having found Mathilde Dagmar Christensen's brother's baptismal record in the parish register for Frederick Lutheran in Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, Ricki, my guardian angel, went back to the 1880 St. Croix census. There, we found that Adeline/Edlin had moved from Frederiksted in the west end of St. Croix to Peters Farm Hospital, which was indeed a hospital on the south edge of Christiansted, nearer the east end of St. Croix.

Here is the record for Adeline/Edlin now "Adelaide" Deguisee from the 1880 St. Croix census. The image is rather crooked on the page, so I've split it into two pieces:

The left half of the 1880 St. Croix Census
Adelaide Deguizen and family at Peters Farm Hospital.

The right half of the above record. Note that Adelaide is 44, and that
the Iversen boys who were living at home in 1870 no longer live with her. Amanda
Watlington, age 16, is still present, as are Peter and Dagmar, ages 14 and 11 resspectively.
They been joined by two more half-siblings: Christian and Jørgen Bønsøe.

Ricki found several more interesting records. The first was Mathilda Dagmar's confirmation at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Frederiksted (bless you King Frederik!):

Dagmar's name is right at the top of this partial image from the
parish records of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Frederiksted.

The next find was, well, unexpected. If you remember from a few posts ago, Mathilde Dagmar came to the United States via Ellis Island in August, 1893. In December, 1897, she married Frank McCabe, who was also from St. Croix—not merely from the same island, but actually from Frederiksted, where Mathilde Dagmar had lived for quite a number of years. Whether they knew either other before meeting again in NYC is unknown.

In any event, Ricki turned up Frank McCabe's baptismal record from St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in Frederiksted. The ledger, however, is badly faded so a scan of it is extremely difficult to decipher unless it's at a pretty high magnification, which is not what one can do in a blog. And it's in Latin to boot. Nevertheless, it confirmed what the marriage license had told us: Frank's father was John McCabe and his mother was Susannah Ellis.

We hadn't turned up Mathilde Dagmar's baptismal record from Frederick Lutheran in Charlotte Amalie, and I don't remember why. Given Ricki's adeptness at tracking down records, I wonder if that volume was out being microfilmed or was otherwise simply inaccessible at the moment.

But Ricki did find one final and somber record: the record of Adeline Deguizen's death. She died in Christiansted in 1886 at the fairly young age of 49 and was buried in Christiansted's old Danish cemetery in an unmarked grave. Our Mathilde Dagmar was 17 years old when her mother died.

That seemed to be enough for one day. I was exhausted. The next day we would set out to see how many of the places mentioned were still standing.