My Haney and Quigg Families from Derry

Wally:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

We are very pleased to hear that you and your wife had a wonderful trip to Ireland.

Can you clarify the religious denomination for the Haneys and Quiggs? If they were Roman Catholic, it will be very difficult to find any church records since the records for Kilrea/Desertoghil start in 1846 and the Errigal/Garvagh records start around the same time.

I checked the 1901 census for Co. Derry (Londonderry at that time) and there were no Haneys in the county and there were 196 Quiggs. I also checked the 1911 census for Haneys and there were 2 listed. Here is the link for the census site.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/

On the same site, they have fragments of 1831 census records and I notice Quigg and Haney households in Co. Londonderry.  I did not see a Quigg household in Carrowreagh but you may want to check it out.

I would suggest that you add a story for Patrick Haney and Patrick Quigg to our XO Chronicles site and possibly  someone will recognize a connection https://www.irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy/ancestor-dat…

Have you considered DNA testing?

Roger McDonnell

  Hello Roger,

     I appreciate the quick and thoughtful reply.  These families were Catholic, so it sounds like this may be more difficult. The spelling of Haney may have been Heaney.

      I have my family trees posted on Ancestry..com, have done their DNA test and learned that I am 38% Irish/Scotch/Welch. It sounds like a good idea to put a story on the chronicals site.

Thanks so much,

Wally Luthet

  Hello Roger,

     I appreciate the quick and thoughtful reply.  These families were Catholic, so it sounds like this may be more difficult. The spelling of Haney may have been Heaney.

      I have my family trees posted on Ancestry..com, have done their DNA test and learned that I am 38% Irish/Scotch/Welch. It sounds like a good idea to put a story on the chronicals site.

Thanks so much,

Wally Luthet

Wally:

Since you took the Ancestry test, you may want to load your raw Ancestry DNA to Gedmatch www.gedmatch.com  Gedmatch is a volunteer run site where you can upload your DNA and see if you match someone who tested with another testing company (and also loaded their data to Gedmatch). It allows you to expand your matching pool.

Roger

Hey Wally,

I was discussing how families tended to intermarry with people from their town in Ireland when they came to the US with a distant cousin and he told me that the Heany family had 13 marriages with his McNichol ancestors in the Philly area in the 1800s. They were from Co. Derry so perhaps you are related.

Joanne