The
following is either all just coincidence or Lawrence Carrigan has some tie to County Westmeath – although he was likely
born in County Waterford.
While reviewing
data I’ve collected on Lawrence Carrigan and his wife Mary (Murphy) Carrigan,
something caught my attention.
Another
couple had married on the same day by the same priest and were listed just
below Lawrence and Mary on the registration page:
Dennis Delaney, age 45 from Ireland, and Margaret Woods, age 25 from Ireland,
married 17 October 1870. [1]
I wondered
if Dennis and Margaret were associated with Lawrence and Mary somehow.
Fast forward
10 years to the 1880 U. S. federal census.
Dennis
Delaney (about 45 years old) and wife Margret (about 45) are enumerated at 51
Front Street with a son named John Delaney, listed as 17 years old – which
would place his birth somewhere around 1863 – before the marriage mentioned
above. [2]
Their ages on
the census record disagree with the ages on the marriage record, and one wouldn’t expect this particular couple to have a 17-year-old son. One possibility is that John was born out of
a previous relationship. [3]
But hold these
conflicts aside for now because what further caught my attention was who else
was enumerated at 51 Front Street in 1880 and at 49 Front Street:
51
Front: “Cargin Kate”, a white female
about 60 years old, born in Ireland, along with two daughters: Kattie (23) and Roseanan (25). [4]
49
Front: “Woods Margret,” 47 with two
daughters and two sons, along with a few boarders including James Woods,
25. [5]
A quick
check of Hartford city directories revealed a “Mrs. Bernard Corrigan” in 1880 listed
at 51 Front (suggesting Bernard had died by then) and a Bernard Corrigan from 1875-1879. [6]
Now switch
back to 1870. One likely candidate for
Bernard pops up in the 1870 census and it is likely that Kate Cargin is the
55-year-old Catherine enumerated with Bernard:
Carrigan Bernard, 80,
laborer, born Westmead Ireland
Carrigan Catherine, 55,
keeping house, born Westmead Ireland
Rose Ann, 18, born
Westmead Ireland
Catherine, 15, born
Westmead Ireland [7]
Notes:
[1] Hartford (Connecticut) Registrar of Vital
Statistics, Town of Hartford marriage Registrations, 1870, p. 241; FHL
microfilm 1,313,873.
[2] 1880 U. S. census, Hartford County, Connecticut,
population schedule, Hartford, enumeration district 12, p. 15 [household
continued from page 14], dwelling 75, family 158, Kate Cargin household;
digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com :
accessed 12 December 2015), citing National Archives microfilm publication T9,
roll 97.
[3] One Dennis Delaney (age 43) is listed in the 1870
census in Ward 5 of Hartford with only three children: Alice (13), Delia (9), and John (7). The absence of an adult female suggests their
mother may have died. See 1870 U. S.
census, Hartford County, Connecticut, population schedule, Hartford, p. 33,
dwelling 129, family 278, Delaney; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12
December 2015), citing National Archives microfilm publication M593, roll 101.
[4] 1880 U. S. census, Hartford, CT., pop. sch., ED 12,
p. 14, dwell. 75, fam. 158, Kate Cargin.
[5] 1880 U. S. census, Hartford, CT., pop. sch., ED 12,
p. 15, dwell. 76, fam. 160, Margret Woods.
[6] “U. S. City Directories, 1822-1995,” Connecticut,
Hartford, 1880, database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12
December 2015), entry for Mrs. Bernard Corrigan, p. 55; citing Geer’s
Hartford City Directory, 1880, Elihu Geer.
For Bernard Corrigan, see Geer’s Hartford city directories (1875) 54,
(1876) 54, (1877) 55, (1878) 55, (1879) 55.
[7] 1870 U. S. census, Hartford County, Connecticut, population
schedule, Hartford, p. 3, dwelling 3, family 19, Carrigan; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 12
December 2015), citing National Archives microfilm publication M593, roll 101.
