Late last month I browsed death and cemetery inscription index cards (FHL films 3101 and 3109 of the HALE Collection) for Carrigans and Corrigans who died in Connecticut.
I found an entry for a Mary Corrigan who died 20 April 1880 and was buried at Mt. Saint Benedict Cemetery in Bloomfield.
The index card referred to a tombstone inscription located somewhere in section B of the cemetery. The lot that Peter Corrigan purchased in 1880 was also in section B: lot North ½ 119, but are Peter and the following Mary buried in the same lot?
Corrigan, Mary, born at Co. Westmeath, Parish Tobber Clare, Ireland died April 20, 1880, age 37
County Westmeath somewhat stunned me. I had hoped to find she was from County Leitrim where William Carrigan was probably born, according to his death record.
But now I have the name of a parish in County Westmeath. I’ve found various spellings of “Tobber Clare", which as far as I know, is about seven miles from a town called Athlone.
Tubberclare
Tubberclaire
Toberclare
I wrote the parish priest. He wrote back with what may be a list of her siblings:
Peter born 17/04/43 son of Patrick Corrigan and Mary Doolin
*Mary born 17/04/49 daughter of Patrick and Mary Doolan.
Margaret 12/06/54
Bridget 12/06/54 twins? of Patrick Corrigan and Mary Doolan.
James 24/04/57 son Patrick and Mary Doolan.
BUT there is also an entry for one *Patrick. Born on 9 Dec 1849, son of Patrick Corrigan and Mary Doolan. Patrick and Mary would only have been 8 months apart, which I suppose is possible if Patrick were born prematurely. And it isn't entirely uncommon that Peter and Mary would have the same birth date: the seventeenth of April.
But no Lawrence in the list.
