The nieces and
nephews of Margaret (Woods) Delaney can likely be found ten years earlier -- in
the 1870 U. S. census – under the family number of Peter Woods, 55 years old
and born in Ireland. That would place
his birth somewhere around 1815. [1]
Because these
were nieces and nephews, it is likely that Peter was the brother of Margaret (Woods)
Delaney, even though he appears to be much older.
Peter likely
died in September 1876 and his headstone places his birth in none other than County
Westmeath. [2]
If that is
accurate, Margaret (Woods) Delaney may have been born there too.
So why was “Kate
Cargin” [or Catherine Carrigan/Corrigan – also likely from County Westmeath] listed
under the same family number as Dennis Delaney and wife Margret in 1880? [3]
Did Kate
have some tie to either Dennis or Margaret and did any of these people have
ties to Lawrence Carrigan and/or Mary Murphy – who just happened to marry on
the same day as Dennis and Margaret?
Notes:
[1] 1860 U. S. census, Hartford County, Connecticut, population
schedule, Hartford, Ward 5, p. 32, dwelling 125, family 270, Peter Woods;
digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com
: accessed 18 December 2015), citing National Archives microfilm publication
M593, roll 101.
[2] See “Connecticut, Wills and Probate Records,
1609-1999,” Hartford Probate Court, Administration papers, estate file for Peter
Woods (1876); digital images, Ancestry.com
(http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 December 2015), citing various
“Connecticut County, District and Probate courts.”
Also see
Find a Grave, database and images (http://findagrave.com : accessed 18 December 2015),
memorial page for Peter Woods, Find a Grave memorial no. 133407176. The headstone
photo is not very clear, but one can see County Westmeath as Peter’s place of
nativity.
[3] 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.
