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Jan 12, 2023 · Most historians believe William Henry (aka “Billy”) to be Catherine McCarty’s older son. Though many give his birth year as 1859, Billy himself claimed to have been born around 1861, and many intriguing hints point that way.
- Melody Groves
May 17, 2022 · William Antrim. ex-partner's son. About Catherine Antrim. Catherine Devine McCarty Antrim. ORIGINAL NAME McCarty. BIRTH 1829 - Ireland. DEATH 16 Sep 1874 (aged 44–45) - Silver City, Grant County, New Mexico, USA. BURIAL Memory Lane Cemetery, Silver City, Grant County, New Mexico, USA Show Map. PLOT D-E27-14. MEMORIAL ID 2350 · View Source.
- Waterford
- William Henry Antrim
- Waterford
- circa 1829
In 1867 thirty-seven year old Catherine McCarty (now single again) and her two sons, William Henry and Joseph, turned up in Indianapolis, Indiana. She resided at 199 North East Street and it was there she met and began a long term relationship with a man named William Antrim, a twenty-three year old labor and teamster who lived a few blocks away.
September 16, 1874. After being confined to bed for months, Catherine McCarty Antrim dies of tuberculosis. Henry's stepfather expresses little interest in raising the teenage boy, and Henry...
May 7, 2024 · There is clear evidence that his mother's name was Catherine McCarty, although "there have been continuing debates about whether McCarty was her maiden or married name". The most reputable...
Henry McCarty (September 17 or November 23, 1859 – July 14, 1881), alias William H. Bonney, better known as Billy the Kid, was an American outlaw and gunfighter of the Old West who is alleged to have killed 21 men before he was shot and killed at the age of 21.
It can be documented that in 1866 he was living in Marion County, Indiana, with his mother, Catherine McCarty, and his elder brother, Joseph McCarty. Catherine McCarty suffered from tuberculosis, and this may have prompted her to move farther west. In 1873 Billy's mother married William H. Antrim in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
