Even though my gg grandfather Edward Higgins was a roofer,
the roofer named John Higgins who lived at Farrell Place (Ward 12, South Boston) in the early 1860s
(See previous post), was not Edward’s brother John who adopted Annie Carrigan~ even though
John the roofer lived in close proximity to a Carrigan family [1].
Why John Higgins the roofer did not adopt Annie Carrigan:
Record
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John
Higgins the Roofer
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Our John
Higgins
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1859
Boston tax record [2]
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Listed
as a roofer at Farrell Place. Owner “Chas
C. Conly.”
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Unknown
whereabouts until 1869.
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1860
Boston tax record [3]
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Lived at
Farrell Place, listed below “Wm Caravan,” also at Farrell Place.
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1860 U.
S. census [4]
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Listed
as a laborer born about 1830 in Ireland.
Listed above a “William Karavan.” 25-year old Ellen is listed in the
household, along with 2-year old Mary Higgins and a five-month old child
named Margaret Higgins. Census day was
1 June. Margaret would have been born about
five months earlier in January.
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1
January 1860 birth record [5]
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Margaret
born to John and Ellen Higgins at First Street. John is a laborer from Ireland. See the location of Farrell Place with regards to First Street in note 5 below.
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1865 MA
census [6]
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John and
Ellen listed with four children: Mary,
Margaret, Bridget, and Catherine.
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1870 U.
S. census
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John and
Ellen listed with five children: Mary,
Margaret, Bridget, Katie, and Anna. [7]
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John and
Margaret Higgins listed with 6-month old Michael J. Higgins in Hartford,
Hartford, CT [8]
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1880 U.
S. census
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John and
Ellen listed with their 10 children.
John’s occupation: Roofer [9]
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John and
Margaret Higgins listed with 8-year old adopted daughter Anna Corrigan born
in Connecticut [10]
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Notes:
[1] See
for example, “U. S. City Directories, 1821-1989,” Massachusetts, Boston, 1878,
entry for Edward Higgins, roofer, at 23 Lark; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed again 19
March 2014), citing The Boston Directory, Boston: Sampson, Davenport, and Company.
[2] See “Massachusetts,
Boston Tax Records, 1822-1918,” valuation book, 1859, Ward 12, page 72; FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org : accessed
18 March 2014). “Charles C. Conley”
appears in land records, in grantor and grantee indexes in Suffolk County, MA, beginning
May 1836 through April 1899 --spanning pages of transactions, but not one
property description mentions Farrell Place.
“Farrell Place: South
Boston, from west First St., southwest, between F Street and Dorchester St;
built over in 1897” from A Record of the Streets, Alleys, Places,
etc., in the City of Boston, (1910), 2nd edition, Street Laying-Out
Department. Google Books (http://www.books.google.com :
accessed 12 March 2014). Also see note 5 below regarding Farrell Place and First Street.
[3] “Massachusetts,
Boston Tax Records, 1822-1918,” valuation book, 1860, Ward 12, page 80; FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org : accessed
18 March 2014).
[4] 1860
U. S. census, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Boston, population schedule, Ward
12, p. 115, dwelling 763, family 889, line 8, John Higgins household; digital
image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com
: accessed 18 March 2014), citing National Archives microfilm publication M653,
roll 525.
[5] “Massachusetts,
Births, 1841-1915,” index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:MM9.1.1/FXHP-CFC
: accessed 18 March 2014), Margaret Higgins, 1 Jan 1860; citing Boston,
Suffolk, Massachusetts, no. 384, Massachusetts Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm
1420996.
Farrell Place was between F and Dorchester Streets (See note 2). The 1865 Boston Directory lists: "Higgins John laborer, house First, bet. F & Dorch." This suggests that John the roofer lived on First Street and Farrell Place, perhaps on the corner. The 1865 directory can be accessed at Boston Streets: Mapping Directory Data (http://bcd.lib.tufts.edu : accessed 20 March 2014), citing The Boston Directory, Boston: Adams, Sampson & Co.
Farrell Place was between F and Dorchester Streets (See note 2). The 1865 Boston Directory lists: "Higgins John laborer, house First, bet. F & Dorch." This suggests that John the roofer lived on First Street and Farrell Place, perhaps on the corner. The 1865 directory can be accessed at Boston Streets: Mapping Directory Data (http://bcd.lib.tufts.edu : accessed 20 March 2014), citing The Boston Directory, Boston: Adams, Sampson & Co.
[6] “Massachusetts
State Census, 1865,” Suffolk County, Boston, Ward 12, dwelling 1996, family
3222, John Higgins household; digital image, FamilySearch
(https:familysearch.org : accessed 18 March 2014), citing Massachusetts
Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 954379.
[7] 1870
U. S. census, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, population schedule, Boston, Ward
12, p. 195, dwelling 846, family 1425, line 8, John Higgins household; digital
image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com
: accessed 18 March 2014), citing National Archives microfilm publication M593,
roll 647.
[8] 1870
U. S. census, Hartford County, Connecticut, population schedule, Hartford, Ward
6, dwelling 989, family 981, line 24, John Higgins household; digital image,
Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com :
accessed again 18 March 2014), citing National Archives microfilm publication
M593, roll 101.
[9] 1880
U. S. census, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Boston, population schedule, Ward
12, enumeration district 688, dwelling 63, family 103, line 14, John Higgins
household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com
: accessed 18 March 2014), citing National Archives microfilm publication T9,
roll 557.
[10] 1880
U. S. census, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, population schedule, Boston,
enumeration district 740, pp. 2-3, dwelling unreadable, line 48, John Higgins
household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com :
accessed 19 March 2014), citing National Archives microfilm publication T9,
roll 559.
