Thomas COSTELLO
Trinity Church, Charlottetown, P.E.I. Christening Records
Death Certificate of Eliza Gray Costello, (FHL#2996-53)
Lulu Costello Death Certificate, (FHL#2607-58)
Ancestral File, version 4.19 - nil
Internet IGI 2006, Jul
1881 Canadian Census Charlottetown Royalty,Queens Twp,Prince Edward Island (FHL#1,375,799), pg 88
Internet IGI, Jul 2007, Nov 2008
1861 Census Charlottetown, Queens, Prince Edward Island, p. 1
New.FamilySearch.org, Feb 2010
Charlottetown, Queens County, Prince Edward Island, Canada: Church Records of the Trinity United Church at Charlottetown
FamilySearch.org/FamilyTree, Jan 2015
FamilySearch.org/FamilyTree, Feb 2016
1901 Canadian Census Charlottetown,Queens Township,Prince Edward Island (Online Census Images @ AutomatedGenealogy.com)
1911 Canadian Census Charlottetown,Queens Township,Prince Edward Island (Online Census Images @ AutomatedGenealogy.com)
She was the beloved by all her family, who knew her affectionately as "Granny." Her grandson, Russell James Byther, immortalized her in a series of cartoons about their relationship when he was growing up. They were published in 2003 by a great-granddaughter, Linda Kay Byther Mathis, in a book entitled Eliza Gay and Other Cartoons by Russell J. Byther. She lived with her younger daughter, Lulu. Lulu worked as a book binder at the Fort Worth Public Library and Eliza, evidently, took care of the three boys, Fred, Jr., Harold, and Russell. Her husband, Thomas Costello, died when their elder daughter, Babe, was only 3. The only information about him comes from Babe, but in a letter dated 9 Dec, 1969, she relates, "I know little of my mother's family and nothing of my father's...It may seem strange to you that I do not know anything of my father's family, but he passed away when I was only 3 years old. Then, too, he had been brought up as a Roman Catholic, but turned Protestant when in his teens, and so did not have mych in common with his family after that." Eliza raised her two daughters alone and in virtual poverty. She served as a domestic servant in Charlottetown, P.E.I. Despite her difficulties, it was said of her that if she didn't have something good to say about someone, she said nothing. The Fred V. Byther family eventually traveled to Fort Worth, Texas, living there for many years. This is where she died in 1953. .
Buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Ft. Worth, Tarrant, Texas Bapt. & Endow. IGI Batch 7300014, Sheet 78, Source Call No. 0822735, Type: Film
He married Eliza Gay Abt 1891 at of Charlottetown, Queens Twp, Prince Edward Island, Canada . Eliza Gay was born at Pownal Twp, Prince Edward Island, Canada 22 Aug 1858 daughter of George Gay and Mary Ellen Stewart .
They were the parents of 2
children:
Lulu Costello
born 7 Jul 1893.
Melita May Costello
born 4 May 1896.
Thomas Costello died Aft 1896 at of Charlottetown, Queens Twp, Prince Edward Island, Canada .
Eliza Gay died 20 Dec 1953 at Fort Worth, Tarrant, Texas .