The Downeast Shamrock

THE DOWNEAST SHAMROCK SEPTEMBER 2012

The

Downeast A Monthly Journal of Irish Heritage and Genealogy in Maine,

Shamrock

New England, the

Northeast, and Canada

FROM THE EDITOR, 1 QUERIES, 2 NEW MEMBERS, 4 GALWAY SURNAMES, PT. 3, 5 CRIMINAL RECORDS, 8 IN MEMORIAM, 10 OLD PHOTOS (NEWELL), 11 SEARCH FOR CARRIGGS, 12 COUNTY TIPPERARY, 14

PASSENGER LISTS, 15

VOLUME 2, NUMBER 12

PORTLAND, ME SEPT. 2012

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FROM THE EDITOR WELCOME once again to another issue of THE DOWNEAST SHAMROCK, a monthly journal devoted to Irish and Irish American history and genealogy in Maine, New England, the Maritimes, and the Northeastern United States.

Believe it or not, this issue represents two years we have now completed since we began operations in October 2010! This is the final issue of Volume 2. We would like to thank all our members for their continued support. We would also like to remind our readers that beginning next month, we will go online with the newsletter. So those who wish to remain on our snail mail list, drop us a line and let us know! Thanks! Many of our readers have already expressed a desire to either receive the newsletter online or the old-­‐ fashioned way! We are still working on the logistics of this at the present time. We will also continue to print hardcopies of the journal and send them out per request.

We would like to acknowledge all those who have contributed to the journal in various ways over the last two years, both in small and larger ways, but always in lasting ways. These include our Production Director Patricia McBride, who is volunteer extraordinaire and unofficial director at the Maine Irish Heritage Center; our Associate Editor Mary E. Gillan, who purviews each issue; Michael Furey, our member and friend at Ireland’s Crystals and Crafts; Robert Donahue, our first 2

official subscriber; Maureen Coyne Norris, a member, friend, and fellow genealogist at the Maine Irish Heritage Center; Sue DeRoche, who has compiled a database of our members; Michael Connell, curator and friend at the MIHC; and Margaret Feeney LaCombe, friend, member, and fellow genealogist at the MIHC who has given us access to her amazing genealogical database of the Maine Irish.

Others who have helped over the last two years, many by contributing queries, photos, information, and family histories, include Karen Nadeau Norcross, Lawrence A. Barker, Anne O’Leary Hoye, Brien Hoye, Lance DeRoche, Katie Cavanagh Earley, Ann Gorham Mussenden (see page ten), Mary-­‐Ann Bannon Weston, Elizabeth Donahue, Ellen Murphy, William Honan, Suzan Roberts Norton, William David Barry, Ann Dickey Rohland, Paul Greaney, Mary Quincannon Cote, Kate Fulham-­‐ Kelley, Greg Morneau, Margaretmary McCann, William Norbert, Mary Cavallaro, Mary C. Ragan, Michael Connolly, Aongus McCann, and Dr. Cairbre McCann. Forgive me if I forgot anyone! Thanks to one and all for helping to make this an interesting and informative newsletter!

Well, until next time, keep digging and may the luck of the Irish be with you in that often elusive search for our Irish ancestors! Slan go foil (Goodbye for now!).

Slainte, Matthew Jude Barker, Editor, Compiler, Director, mjudebark@gmail.com.

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QUERIES Send us your queries today! You can email them or send them by snailmail. We will print them as space provides. Queries should be to the point, providing as many details as possible, including full names, places of birth, marriage, and death, and all relevant dates. Please remit to Matthew Jude Barker, Editor, PO Box 8421, Portland, Maine, USA, 04104 or email to mjudebark@gmail.com. Thank-­‐you!

198-­‐2 McCORMACK-­‐FORD-­‐FORHAN-­‐ FORDHAN-­‐McCOY

Seek ancestry, desc. of PATRICK McCORMACK, b. about 1828 Ireland, resided St. John, NB, died 1912 Portland, ME; m. 1854 JULIA FORD (HAN) or FORHAN, b. 1833 Co. Kerry, died 1905 Portland, res. 69 Danforth Street. Known desc. is MARY AGNES McCORMACK McCOY, born 1858 St. John, died 1928 Portland. Any help appreciated. Thank-­‐ you.

MICHELLE TUCCI, mthorne1@maine.rr.com.

196-­‐2 GRIFFIN

Seeking ancestry & descendants of MARIE E. GRIFFIN of Portland, born in Boston, MA, died in Portland, ME 1981. Resided at 7 Pleasant Street, Portland, with sister NORA H. GRIFFIN. Thank-­‐you, MEGHAN GRIFFIN, meghangriffin33@yahoo.com.

199-­‐2 SHANAHAN-­‐QUINN-­‐PHELAN-­‐ FINLAN-­‐COURNANE-­‐GREELEY-­‐LEE

197-­‐2 McCOY-­‐McCORMACK-­‐BURKE Seek ancestry, desc. of GEORGE McCOY, born 1855 in St. John, NB, died 1939 Portland, ME, m. 1879 MARY A. McCORMACK, b. 1858 St. John, d. 1928 Portland, 9 children, all born Portland, incl.

JAMES, JULIA, MARY “MINNIE” BURKE, & GEORGE McCOY. Thank-­‐you. MICHELLE TUCCI, mthorne1@maine.rr.com

Seek ancestry, desc. of MICHAEL SHANAHAN (1805-­‐1889), b. Tipperary, s/o MICHAEL & JOHANNA, d. Hammonds Plains, NS, m. MARY ANNE QUINN SHANAHAN (1821-­‐1911), 9 known children, born Hammonds Plains, bet. 1843-­‐1860: MICHAEL, JOHN, JOHANNA PHELAN (1847-­‐ 1936), MARY FINLAN, CATHERINE COURNANE, JAMES, DAVID, ELLEN GREELEY, & MARTIN, who m. ANNIE LEE. Any help appreciated. MATTHEW J. BARKER, PO Box 8421, Portland, ME, 04104.

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200-­‐2 SHANNON-­‐SHANAHAN-­‐LEE-­‐HICKEY-­‐ TYLER

Thank-­‐you.

ERIN erintolan@hotmail.com.

Seek desc. of MARTIN M. SHANAHAN/ SHANNON, b. 1860 Hammonds Plains, NS, died before 1900 Boston; m. ANNIE LEE (1862-­‐1900), d/o HUGH, children born 1882-­‐1893 in Halifax, NS & Cambridge, MA: JOHN; JESSIE AGNES (1883-­‐1902), m.

ANDREW HICKEY; JAMES GARFIELD, m.

MARY, 2 children in Halifax 1911; WILLIE; MARTIN (1890-­‐1967), m. CHRISTY TYLER; & MATTHEW J. SHANAHAN/SHANNON. Any help appreciated. Thank-­‐you. MATTHEW J. BARKER, mjudebark@gmail.com.

201-­‐2 CAMPBELL-­‐MIDDLETON

Seek ancestry, desc. of HUGH CAMPBELL (1829-­‐1903) of Ireland and Ellsworth, ME, s/o BARNEY CAMPBELL, & wife LUCY MIDDLETON, b. Ireland. How did they get to Ellsworth? Any help appreciated. Thank-­‐ you. BILL COOPER, 41 Hay Street, Newbury, MA, 01951, b41ccooper@comcast.net.

204-­‐2 NEWELL-­‐FARRELL-­‐WALSH-­‐ FLANAGAN

202-­‐2 TOLAN-­‐McCARTHY Seek ancestry, desc. of CORNELIUS “NEIL” TOLAN, born Ireland, m. HANORA “NORA” McCARTHY (1847-­‐1892), Portland, ME, 1874, later divorced, one known child: JOHN H. TOLAN (1874-­‐1949). Neil had brother DENNIS (1844-­‐1908), who m. several times, had children, incl. CHARLES TOLAN (1874-­‐1923). Any help appreciated.

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TOLAN,

203-­‐2 TOLAN-­‐DUNBAR Seek identity of KATHLEEN DUNBAR (1883-­‐1963), wife of DANIEL H. DUNBAR of Lewiston, ME. Kathleen related (?) and buried with DENNIS TOLAN family in Calvary Cemetery, So. Portland. Any help appreciated. Thank-­‐you. ERIN TOLAN, email erintolan@hotmail.com.

Seek desc., whereabouts of SARAH “SALLY” NEWELL, d/o LAURENCE & MARY FLANAGAN NEWELL of Cloonamore, Belclare, Tuam, County Galway; she m.

JAMES FARRELL, 1852. Did they emigrate or die in Ireland? Any children? Also any info. on her sister MARGARET NEWELL, w/o PATRICK WALSH. Any help appreciated. Thank-­‐you. MATTHEW J. BARKER, mjudebark@gmail.com.

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NEW MEMBERS

A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR

CEAD MILE FAILTE! (A hundred thousand welcomes!) We welcome aboard the following new members for the month of September 2012. Those marked by an asterisk are members who have recently renewed their subscriptions. Please let your fellow genealogists, friends, and family members know about us so that we can reach as many people as possible. We would like to thank all of you for your continued support!

As we have mentioned in the last several issues, the DOWNEAST SHAMROCK will go online and we would like to hear from you…do you want to receive it online or through snailmail? Due to working out the logistics and other matters, this issue is almost a month late…IT WILL GO ONLINE ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2012…All readers who are online are asked to go to www.maineshamrock.blogspot.com to see this issue…we want feedback as to how our readers like our new format. Many readers have already asked to either receive it via the Internet or by snailmail.

ROBERT “SAM” KELLEY, Scarborough, ME* MAUREEN PATTEE, Portland, ME* PETER GRIBBIN, Portland, ME* ROBERT DONAHUE, Portland, ME* PAUL GREANEY, Kilgill, County Galway, Ireland

Claregalway,

We still have a lot of issues to work out, so bear with us! Our friend Mr. Timothy Gillis, a Portland, Maine journalist and photographer, is helping us with this large endeavor. Thanks Tim!

PATRICK MANNION, Toronto, Canada & St. John’s, Newfoundland*

For more information or to send comments or suggestions, contact the editor at mjudebark@gmail.com. Thank-­‐ you!

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GALWAY SURNAMES, PART THREE This is Part Three of our on-­‐going feature that will explore the surnames indigenous or common to the County Galway.

This series will not feature every surname found in Galway, but hopefully the majority will be treated here. For more information on the following surnames and others, please consult Edward MacLysaght’s THE SURNAMES OF IRELAND (Irish th Academic Press, Dublin, 6 Edition, 1999) or Michael C. O’Laughlin’s FAMILIES OF COUNTY GALWAY (Irish Genealogical Foundation, Kansas City, Missouri, 1998). MacLysaght is still the acknowledged expert on Irish surnames, although he has since passed away.

The entries will usually include a brief background on a given surname, along with various spellings, corruptions, anglicized forms, and other variants. Irish Gaelic spellings of the names can be found in MacLysaght’s work when not recorded here.

(O) CONNOLLY, CONNELLY, CONLEY This name is quite common in County Galway, especially in Connemara. It is also found in Monaghan, Meath, and Fermanagh. It is O Conghaile in Irish and often confused with CONNEELY. A common spelling is 6

CONNELLY; both names morphed into CONLEY in America. CONLY, CONOLLY.

(O) COSGRAVE A surname found also in southeastern Leinster, it is common in Connacht, especially in Mayo and Galway where it is usually spelled COSGROVE. COSGRIFF & COSGRY are variants.

(Mac) COSTELLO, COSTELLOE This surname, derived from Oisdealb, the father of the Norman Gilbert de Nangle, hence Mac Oisdealbhaigh in Irish, is quite prevalent in Galway and Mayo. It is often spelled COSTELLOE in Ireland, but COSTELLO in America. COSTLEY. COSTELLOW. COSTOLLOE. COSTELO.

(O) COYNE COYNE, O Cadhain in Irish (from the Irish for wild goose, cadhan), is a common Galway surname, especially in Connemara where it has also become KYNE and KINE. This name has many other variants, including BARNACLE (a synonym by mistranslation), COEN, and KILCOYNE. Corruptions and variants include COIN, COYN, COINE, KOEN, and COAN.

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(O) CRONELLY

CRAUGHWELL

O Cronghaile in Irish, often spelled CRONLEY and CRONOLLY. Found in Galway and sometimes confused with CONNELLY.

This surname belongs almost exclusively to eastern Galway, where it originally takes its name from the village of Craughwell.

CRAVEN, CREAVEN This surname is common to eastern and northeastern Galway. It is O Crabhain in Irish and sometimes spelled CRAVANE. Although some individuals in a given family spelled the name CRAVEN and CREAVEN (both spellings once seen on one naturalization paper!), the Irish and Irish speakers usually spelled it CREAVEN, while the English and English speakers wrote it as CRAVEN. CREAVAN. CREAVIN. GRAVEN.

(O) CREAN, CREHAN A sept of County Donegal also found in Sligo, Clare, and Galway. O Croidheain in Irish, it is found in Galway usually as CREHAN. CREAGHAN. CREGAN.

CRISHAM: See CLISHAM

(O) CROFFY: An eastern Galway name which is O Crabhthaigh in Irish. CRAFFY.

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CUBBARD: A non-­‐Gaelic name found in the Claddagh area of Galway, probably a corruption of CUTBIRD, itself a corrupt form of CUTHBERT.

CULKIN: originally from County Mayo and said to be a branch of the STAUNTON family. Variants include CULKEEN and MacQUILKIN.

(O) CULLINANE: A name found in eastern Galway and also found in Counties Clare and Tipperary. CULLINAN.

(O) CUNNEEN: Mac Coinin in Irish, it is found mainly in Galway and Clare, where some of the name changed their surname to RABBITT (from the Irish for rabbit, coinin). CUNNANE.

(O) CUNNEGAN: A sept of the Ui Maine, anglicized as CUNNINGHAM according to MacLysaght. See CUNNINGHAM.

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CUNNINGHAM: This Scottish surname has been used in Ireland as the modern form of many Irish surnames (see CUNNEGAN).

Found especially in East Galway.

(Mac) CURLEY: This is Mac Thoirdealbhaigh in Irish and is a variant of TURLEY, which is found in Ulster. Found in Counties Galway and Roscommon.

(O) CURRAN: This surname is found throughout Ireland, especially in Connemara. It is O Corrain in Irish and has also been spelled CURRANE, CURREEN, and CURREN.

(O) CURRY: O Comhraidhe in Irish, it is found in Galway, Clare and Westmeath.

CURRIE. CORRY.

(O) CUSSANE: O Casain in Irish, this name is found in the Ui Maine country of County Galway.

MacDADE: A variant of MacDAID, which is found in Donegal. It is Mac Daibheid in Irish and means son of David.

(O) DALY: O Dalaigh in Irish, it is found in Galway, Clare, Cork, and Westmeath. It is

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often spelled DAILY or DALEY in America.

DAWLEY, DAILEY.

DARCY: This is O Dorchaidhe in Irish and is one of the Tribes of Galway. It is also found as DORCEY, DORCY, and especially D’ARCY.

MacDAVIE, MacDAVY: This family is a branch of the BURKES of Connaught. The barony of Ballymoe in Galway in the 16th Century was known as MacDavie’s Country. See DAVIS.

DAVIS: This is a common Welsh name, but is found in Cork and also in Connemara, where it may be perhaps an anglicized version of MacDAVIE.

(Mac) DAVOCK: Another branch of the BURKES of Connaught, spelled Mac Dabhoc.

DEANE: One of the Tribes of Galway, originally le Den according to MacLysaght.

DEAN.

(O) DEELY: This is O Duibhghiolla in Irish often spelled DEELEY. People of this name all originated in County Galway.

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CRIMINAL RECORDS, PART TWO

25 June 1863 Portland Advertiser

We continue this month with our examination of criminal records as a way of obtaining detailed information on our relatives and ancestors, granting that we had at least one relative who ran afoul of the law, whether we want one or not! As we stated last month, people were often arrested in the old days for trivial reasons and many of these “crimes” are laughable today!

A boy named James Devine was up for committing an assault and battery on another little boy named Thomas Deehan, but the court in kind consideration of his age and inexperience, and of the first time of the arraignment, discharged him, cautioning both father and son to keep “a due guard” on such conduct hereafter.

In this piece we take a look at crimes and “criminals” who were reported in the newspapers of the day. Papers across North America and in Great Britain, Ireland, and Australia seemed to never tire of reporting on the Irish Catholics and their “strange” ways and their alleged crimes.

This was especially common from the 1840s until the early 1900s. The rich details often found in these articles have solved many genealogical mysteries. The samples below were gleaned from Portland, Maine newspapers during the Civil War.

1 October 1863 Portland Daily Press

ROBBERY—Maria Conners, alias Maria Norton, rather a noted character, complained at the police office Tuesday evening that she had been robbed of $60 or $70 by William Larkin and Peter Rooney, two young men residing in Centre street.

According to her story the young men took her out for a ride, got her intoxicated, and then robbed her of the money. Deputy Marshal Hawkes and policemen Merrill and Burnham arrested the young men, and they are locked up for examination.

1 November 1861 Portland Advertiser

Municipal Court: Thursday—Mary Ann Kane was brought up charged with the larceny of clothing from Mrs. Michael Landrigan, and was sent up for 60 days.

Mary Ann likes jail life, it would seem, for she was released from a sixty days confinement last week for a similar offence.

20 August 1864 Portland Daily Press Municipal Court: Aug. 10—Michael Conley, for resisting police officers Charlton and Montgomery while they were engaged in arresting a disturber of the peace, was fined $10 and costs, the whole amounting to $13.42, which he paid.

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20 July 1864 Portland Daily Press

14 August 1863 Portland Daily Press

Municipal Court: Barnard Daily, for violation of the Lord’s day, by keeping his shop open, was fined $10 and costs, which he paid.

Supreme Judicial Court: In the case of Thomas O’Neal, indicted with John Jefferds and Martin Ford for compound larceny, in breaking and entering the store of Dennis Conley, and stealing therefrom a quantity of feathers, & c., a nol pros. was entered as to the breaking and entering, as to O’Neal, and he pleaded guilty to the larceny. He was sentenced to one year imprisonment in the County house of correction. J. H. Williams, Esq., appeared for the prisoner.

3 August 1864 Portland Daily Press Supreme Judicial Court: John Collins; keeping a drinking house and tippling shop. Arraigned and pleaded guilty, and paid a fine imposed of $100 and costs.

24 January 1865 Portland Daily Press U. S. Commissioners’ Court: Wm. H. Clifford, Esq., Commissioner. John Sheridan of Portland was yesterday brought before the Commissioner on a complaint that said Sheridan pursued the business of a retail liquor dealer without taking out a U. S. Revenue license. John owned up and said he did not know it was necessary to take out such a license. The Commissioner discharged him upon his paying the costs and taking out his license.

17 April 1861 Portland Advertiser Municipal Court: Tuesday—Henry Gardner was brought up for examination, charged with double voting at the polls in Ward 4, on the 2d day of April, being the time of the Municipal election. The evidence showed that he first voted in his own name, and afterwards came up in a different dress and offered his vote in the name of Thomas McGlinchy, and it was accepted. The prisoner was bound over in the sum of $200 to appear at the July term of the Supreme Court.

James T. O’Sullivan, a substitute broker from Boston, was charged with enticing soldiers, whom he had enlisted at Augusta, to desert. He pleaded guilty, and in default of bail in the sum of $1500, was committed to jail to await the action of the U. S. District Court, Court on first Tuesday of February.

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The above examples shows us just how detailed these articles can be. In next month’s feature we will show how by extracting names and dates from the Cumberland County Jail records you can then look up cases in the newspapers.

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IN MEMORIAM On September 1, 2012, the Downeast Shamrock loss one of our most devoted members and friends in the passing of fellow genealogist ANN GORHAM MUSSENDEN, who passed away after a long battle with cancer at the age of 69.

Ann Elizabeth Gorham was born in Portland on December 22, 1942, the first of four children of JOSEPH and ELIZABETH GREENE GORHAM. All four of her grandparents were natives of Connemara, County Galway. Ann graduated from Cathedral High School in Portland in 1961 and went on to receive a degree in drama and speech from the Leland Powers School of Radio, T.V. and Theatre in Boston in 1964. She was employed by New England Telephone Company from 1966 until her retirement in 2008.

Ann found her calling in union work, following in the tradition of many Irish union workers, including her own parents. According to her obituary in the Portland Daily Press, “Ann found her leadership calling when she successfully helped organize her co-­‐workers in an election to join the Communication Workers of America, Local 1400. She was elected as their vice president and for the next 12 years passionately advocated and fought for fairness for her fellow workers…”

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After Ann retired, she became an avid family historian and genealogist and spent many happy hours at the Maine Irish Heritage Center with her fellow genealogists. The MIHC sponsors a genealogical DNA testing endeavor and Ann was among the first to take a test. As her results came in and in the ensuing months others had their results examined, it was found that Ann was related to a dozen other genealogists who were regulars at the MIHC! Ann, with her unbridled enthusiasm, was elated and tried to figure out how exactly she was related to the others. One of her good friends, Karen Carson Nadeau Norcross, who she had gone to Ireland with a few months earlier, turned out to be a cousin! Ann was unique among us genealogists at the MIHC as all four of her grandparents were from that romantic region of Galway called Connemara. Most of her “matches” also had Connemara roots. Ann donated much genealogical material to the MIHC over the last several years.

Ann will be sorely missed. A celebration of her life was held at the MIHC and the center was packed full with her countless friends and relatives. She is survived by her daughter Erin, her son William F. Mussenden II, and by two grandsons, as well as by three brothers, including our member Edward Gorham. Our thoughts and prayers are with her and her family at this difficult time.

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OLD PHOTOS

The photo below is of MARY ANNE CAMILLE NEWELL (1887-­‐1975), on the left, and BRIDGET RAPHAEL “DELIA” NEWELL KELLY (1881-­‐1960). It was taken in 1905 in front of 263 York Street in Portland, Maine, their parents’ home. Mary, born in Portland, and Delia, born in Ireland, were the daughters of LAWRENCE NEWELL (1846-­‐1940) and MARGARET GREANEY (1856-­‐1943), natives of Ballintleva, Ardrumkilla, Belclare, Tuam, County Galway, Ireland who came to Portland in 1882 where they had five children: JAMES LAWRENCE, JOHN PATRICK FRANCIS, MARY ANNE CAMILLE, MARGARET WINNIFRED, and LAWRENCE ROBERT NEWELL, the last survivor, who died in 1990, aged 96.

Mary was a longtime stenographer for the Maine Central Railroad offices on St. John Street and the James Bailey Company on Middle Street. She died unexpectedly at her home at the age of 88.

Delia, also known as Dell, was a stenographer for attorney James Connellan and Judge Enoch Foster. She met her future husband, THOMAS FRANCIS KELLY (1866-­‐1920s), a native of Troy, New York, at Connellan’s office. They were married at St. Dominic’s in 1908. Delia and Tom Kelly removed to New York City, where Delia was an assistant manager at a hotel called the SURRY. She returned to Portland in the 1950s and resided at the Newell family residence at 106 Bedford Street. She died in September 1960, aged 79.

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THE

SEARCH

FOR

THE

CARRIGG FAMILY, PART THREE by Matthew Jude Barker

This is the third part of a feature on how this editor hunted down the exact birthplace and birth date of his great-­‐ grandmother ALICE GERTRUDE CARRIGG GILLAN (1868-­‐1955). It is also the story of how, over the last 25 years or more, he has compiled a detailed and rich history of his great-­‐grandmother’s relatives and ancestors.

In this section I will explain how I added several new branches to the Carrigg family.

To begin with, in 1993 I examined a copy of the New England Historic Genealogical Society’s latest edition of THE SEARCH FOR MISSING FRIENDS, IRISH IMMIGRANT ADVERTISEMENTS PLACED IN THE BOSTON PILOT. In Volume Three (1854-­‐1856, Boston, 1993), I was excited to find the following entry:

p. 87 1854 OF WM & MARY CARRIGG, from parish Clondegad, townland of Pitfield, co Clare; when last heard of in September, William was in Kentucky, and Mary was in Elmira, N York, two yrs ago; their brother-­‐in-­‐law John Quin is now in Lasalle, Illinois, and is anxious to hear from them.

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As we mentioned in last month’s issue, these Carriggs resided in Gortnamuck, Clondegad Parish, County Clare; the name in Irish means “field of pigs,” but they changed it eventually to the less offensive sounding Pitfield! So I knew these Carriggs were indeed the children of my great-­‐ great-­‐great grandfather WILLIAM CARRIG (1786-­‐1866) of Gortnamuck. In checking the Clondegad church register again, I discovered that Margaret Carrig married John Quin in 1851. They would have then emigrated soon after, ending up in LaSalle, Illinois.

To speed this story along, by more than ten years, I finally discovered the whereabouts of William Carrigg and Margaret Carrigg Quin in the United States. For many years, especially before such companies as Ancestry.com began to index all the US census records (including, most importantly, 1850-­‐1880), it was very hard to trace these folks, the uncle and aunt of my great-­‐grandmother. A query letter sent to the Illinois Historical Society turned up nothing. And how was I ever to find William Carrigg in Kentucky; I figured he worked on the rivers and could have ended up anywhere!

One day, in 2005 or 2006, I Googled the name William Carrigg, along with Kentucky, and was astonished to find the marriage record of William! He was married in Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky in 1853 to a Anne Costello. The marriage record was found in a book of marriages for that county that was placed

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online. There were many Irish people in Maysville in the 1850s. But then the trail stopped again until I was able to find William’s widow Anne in the 1870 Federal census of Council Bluffs, Iowa! From there I turned my focus to that city and discovered that William had died between 1860 and 1870 (he was in the 1860 Council Bluffs census with his family) and that he and Anne had had four children: Jane “Jenny,” Daniel W., Bedelia/Beatrice, and Agnes. I again became “stuck” with this family and did not actively research it for some time.

I later traced Anne Costello Carrigg, widow of William, and her children in Council Bluffs, especially her son Daniel William Carrigg. I found Daniel’s two wives and his daughter Blanche. But it was not until 2010, when I wrote to the Pottawattamie County Genealogical Society (in Council Bluffs) and searched for Daniel Carrigg on Genealogybank.com, that I really made progress. In fact, I added dozens of new people to the Carrigg tree…

In the end I learned that Daniel W. Carrigg had been married twice, had a daughter Blanche who married and eventually removed to California, and that all three of his sisters married and some had moved away. His obituary gave their residences when Daniel died in 1907 at the age of 52. I also learned that Daniel was quite a character. He appeared in no less than thirty-­‐five newspaper articles in the Iowa and Nebraska area, all found on Genealogybank.com.

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gambling saloons (many were forced to close by the Council Bluffs police), owned and raced horses, traveled extensively, and was known as one of the most well-­‐known “sporting men in the west” when he died.

In October 2010, for a reasonable charge, I received a large genealogical package from the Pottawattamie County Genealogical Society. It contained obituaries of Anna Costello Carrigg, Daniel Carrigg and Luella Byrd Costello, as well as the probate records (very extensive) for Daniel, and the cemetery records for Carrigg for St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Council Bluffs. Perhaps most importantly they sent the death record of Daniel, which stated he had been born in Kentucky, the son of William Carrigg and Anna Costello, both born in Ireland. Anna’s obituary stated she had been born in County Clare as well.

We will explore more of this branch of the Carriggs next month. It is amazing how much can be accomplished these days to construct a family history by using the Internet and genealogy websites, as well as by using old fashioned resources.

It should be stated at this point that the surname Carrigg has been found in the records under numerous phonetic spellings and variations, including Carrig, Carigg, Carig, Kerrigg, Kirrigg, Carrigy, Carrick, Kerrig, Carragg, Caragg, Kerig, Carrier, Karrigg, and so on.

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COUNTY TIPPERARY IRISH Among the more than 1500 items located in the Maine Irish Heritage Center Library are copies of the TIPPERARY HISTORICAL JOURNAL, published by the County Tipperary Historical Society in the 2000s. They were donated by Dr. James F. O’Gorman of Windham, Maine.

These journals are invaluable, as they contain many important and interesting articles on County Tipperary history and genealogy. Among the authors of these articles are Dr. Denis G. Marnane, Damian J. Gleeson, Mary O Drisceoil, Richard O’Brien, Noel Delahunty, and Padraig O Cearbhaill. In 2004-­‐2005, the president of the Tipperary Historical Society was Marcus Bourke. Dr. Marnane is a well-­‐ known historian and author in Tipperary.

To give the reader an idea of what can be found in these great journals, we list below some of the articles.

Tipperary Historical Journal, 2005: “White v. Gill: Tipperary Famine Clearances Revisited in 1863,” by Denis G. Marnane “Forgotten by History: the Life and Times of John Lanigan, D. D., D. C. L., D. S. S., Priest, Professor and Historian,” by James Feehan “Attempted Rising—July 1848,” Brian J. Sayers 15

“Life with the South Tipperary Volunteers, 1914-­‐1921, by Paul Merrigan, from the Bureau of Military History, 1913-­‐21,” by Marcus Bourke 2009: “The O’Glisane (Gleeson) Sept Silvermines,” by Damian J. Gleeson

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“The Threatening Notice in Pre-­‐Famine County Tipperary,” by Daniel Grace

“Saving the Pope: Tipperary’s Contribution to the “Irish Brigade” in 1860,” by Denis G. Marnane

“Fugitives and Flying Columns: The Aftermath of the Fenian Rising in County Tipperary,” by Noel Delahunty

“Tipperary Hurlers, 1895-­‐1900, a socio-­‐ economic profile,” by Tom Hunt

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SHIP

PASSENGER

FOR

MAINE

LISTS AND

CANADA Over a year ago we had a feature on how to trace your Portland, Maine Irish. We referred to the many passenger lists available, especially the lists on microfilm and in original books that are located at the Maine Historical Society. Below we examine more closely some of these invaluable records.

The RMS BOHEMIAN, a passenger steamship that arrived in Portland Harbor for many winters and that struck a ledge and sank off Cape Elizabeth on February 22, 1864, with the loss of 42 mostly Irish emigrants, has extant passenger lists at the MHS. For instance, Capt. Robert Borland (the master when the ship sank) sailed the vessel into Portland in April 1862 with many Irish emigrants. These included John Burrows, age 32, labourer, born Ireland, his wife Adela, age 30, children Jane, 10, Agnes, 8, Susan, 7, George, 5, and Samuel, 3. They were “to inhabit Canada.” This is found in Collection 949 at the MHS. Other Irish emigrants on that trip included Catherine Byrne, age 30, and daughter Kate, age 8, who were going to settle in the United States, and servants Martha Kerr, 21, Pat Gordon, 25, Catherine M. Weight, 24, and Biddy Weight, all of whom were going to settle in Canada.

John Ward, 18, a grocer, and Cornelius 16

O’Connell, age 40, a laborer, were going to settle in the U. S. These passengers, important to know for all researchers, will not be found in the Passenger List section on Ancestry.com.

Other examples following:

include

the

On May 16, 1862, Patrick Kyne, a 25-­‐year old Irish laborer, arrived in Portland onboard the SS NEW BRUNSWICK, which had first stopped in St. John. He intended to settle in Portland and the city charged the master .50 cents for him to land. On June 13, 1862, the same ship carried Mary Donahue, 24, who was to settle in Portland, as well as James Curran, 20, Margaret Flaherty (“Flarhaty”), 20, James Healey, 20, Thomas Casway, 18, Mark Huran, 25, and Patrick Kerr, 20.

Some of these passengers were on their way to Canada.

The SS NEW ENGLAND came here in October 1862 and brought many emigrants, including Pat Harkins, 24, to Portland, and Mrs. “Flarity” and her four children, who would also settle in Portland. In November, the vessel brought Portland-­‐bound Catherine Donahue, 36, and her children Mary, 10, Catherine, 9, Hannah, 7, Micheal {sic}, 5, and James, 1.

As any researcher can see, these records are invaluable and should be searched (unfortunately they have not been transcribed and thus are not

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indexed), especially if you have not been able to find your emigrant ancestor in other databases. The Maine Historical Society’s holdings include passenger lists from the early 1840s until the 1890s. We will have more on this subject in future issues.

ST.

DOMINIC’S

RECORDS,

PORTLAND,

MAINE At last, the MAINE IRISH HERITAGE CENTER, the old ST. DOMINIC CATHOLIC CHURCH on State Street in Portland, Maine, will have available for researchers copies of some of the old baptismal and marriage registers. Our friend and fellow genealogist Kathy Bolduc Amoroso, who has County Galway ancestry, digitally copied some of these records ten years ago and has recently donated them to the MIHC. Thanks Kathy! Considering that the Diocese of Maine is now charging $50 an hour (!!) to look up a family in the Catholic Church registers, we are indeed lucky to have access to some of the earliest Catholic Church records in southern Maine!

These records include marriages, 1842 until 1908, and baptisms, 1842 until 1880. The marriages will be available in November or December 2012. Baptisms will be available at a 17

later date. Hopefully, eventually, we will have access or copies of all the Catholic Church records for Portland from 1842 until at least the 1920s. We will have more on this subject in a later issue. Stay tuned!

PHOTO ON COVER The photo on the cover is of MICHAEL J. CADY of Portland, Maine, taken about 1890. He appears here in his Montgomery Guards uniform; these guards were an Irish-­‐American militia group who became part of the Maine National Guard in the mid-­‐1890s. Mike was a sergeant of the champion drill squad of the guards. Mike Cady was born in Portland in 1866, the son of Galway natives Patrick E. and Celia J. Clancy Cady. He was a janitor and sexton at St. Dominic Church in Portland for thirty years and retired about 1930. He died in Portland at the home of nephew Raymond Cady (22 State Street) on March 2, 1939 at the age of 72 and was survived by two brothers, retired deputy police chief Stephen H. Cady and John W. Cady, and by one sister, Margaret, wife of Judge Joseph E. F. Connolly (cousin of John Ford). We have his genealogy in our files if anyone is interested.

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Portrait of my great-­‐great grandfather

Who am I?

This is a tintype photo of THOMAS GILLAN (1827-1893), probably taken in the late 1870s.

Tom was a resident of Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia. He and his wife Mary Anne Deighan raised eleven children, including James Gillan, great-grandfather of Matthew J. Barker.

I was the head of Catholic Schools in mid 1900’s…

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