One challenge will be to wade through the maze of a common Irish
name like Mary Murphy, but the greatest challenge will be to make connections
between records with very little starting information.
The starting information at this point is: Mary Murphy probably lived in Hartford prior to her marriage to Lawrence Carrigan in Hartford in October of 1870 [2].
Now there were several other Mary Murphys in Hartford County, Connecticut who shared the same biographical characteristics of what I know about Annie Carrigan’s mother: She was born most likely in Ireland between 1840 and 1850 to unknown parents; she may have died in 1876 (See my previous post There’s Something About Mary).
The starting information at this point is: Mary Murphy probably lived in Hartford prior to her marriage to Lawrence Carrigan in Hartford in October of 1870 [2].
Now there were several other Mary Murphys in Hartford County, Connecticut who shared the same biographical characteristics of what I know about Annie Carrigan’s mother: She was born most likely in Ireland between 1840 and 1850 to unknown parents; she may have died in 1876 (See my previous post There’s Something About Mary).
And what if Mary wasn’t even living in Hartford County? What if she wasn’t even living in Connecticut
during the enumeration of the 1870 census?
Yet what if she had lived
in Connecticut on census day, and what if she had lived in Hartford, where she
married Lawrence Carrigan in October of 1870.
Maybe there’s a way of drawing that out.
As indicated in a previous post, I've narrowed her down to two possible people in the census in Hartford (if she had lived in Hartford). One was a domestic servant in the household of Philo L. Ives, and the other had an unknown occupation in the household of Maxwell Potter.
As indicated in a previous post, I've narrowed her down to two possible people in the census in Hartford (if she had lived in Hartford). One was a domestic servant in the household of Philo L. Ives, and the other had an unknown occupation in the household of Maxwell Potter.
Notes:
[1] Presented on 23 March 2013 at the Irish Genealogy
Seminar at NEHGS, jointly hosted by the Irish Ancestral Research Association
(TIARA) and NEHGS.
[2] Lawrence and Mary were married on 17 October 1870 in Hartford, Hartford County, CT at St. Patrick’s Church. The marriage record states Mary’s residence was Hartford at the time of marriage, therefore she probably lived in Hartford for an unknown amount of time prior to 17 October 1870. See Hartford Vital Records, Town of Hartford marriage Registrations for the year 1870, p. 241; FHL microfilm 1,313,873.
[2] Lawrence and Mary were married on 17 October 1870 in Hartford, Hartford County, CT at St. Patrick’s Church. The marriage record states Mary’s residence was Hartford at the time of marriage, therefore she probably lived in Hartford for an unknown amount of time prior to 17 October 1870. See Hartford Vital Records, Town of Hartford marriage Registrations for the year 1870, p. 241; FHL microfilm 1,313,873.
