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Hello all,

I am looking for my ancestors James Corrigan and Catherine Queen (or it could be Queenan or Keenan).

James was born in Co Longford around 1805 and married Brigid Donnelly who was from Ardagh & Moydow parish. They married in Killoe parish.

Brigid's parents were Philip Donnelly & Rose Farrell  

James and Brigid had 2 sons - Patrick and Hugh born 1828 and 1831

Patrick married Catharine Queen(an) after emigrating to Wigton in Cumbria in 1854. The witnesses at this marriage were Bernard and Margaret Farrell also of Ireland - I'm presuming related to Patrick through his grandmother Rose Farrell.

Catharine Queen's father was called Daniel QUEEN and is named on Patrick and Catharine's marriage certificate although I have no trace of him thereafter. Her mother Mary Ann lived with Patrick and Catharine and features on all the England census returns til her death in 1883.In all cases she is shown as Mary Ann QUEENAN.

There may be Mulany connections to this family on the Queenan/Keenan side.

 

Does anyone out there have any information they could share?

 

Best wishes

Pat Varey

Patvnz

Wednesday 23rd Jul 2014, 10:23PM

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  • The name Queenan wouldn't be associated with Co, Longford. The surname is much more likely to be Keenan, Kenna or Kiernan.Have you searched the Tithe Applotments?? I saw a James Corrigan 

    http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/home.jsp

    For the later children you could try http://censussearchforms.nationalarchives.ie/search/cs/home.jsp and 

     

    http://www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml?action=nameS…

    clonbroneyite

    Thursday 24th Jul 2014, 12:16AM

  • Pat:

    I looked at the 1854 Griffiths Valuation head of household listing for Moydow parish in Co. Longford and there was a James Corrigan listed in Barroe townland. There was also a Patrick Farrell who leased land from a James Corrigan in the same townland. Very likely that this is the 1805 James Corrigan.

    www.askabout ireland.ie will allow you to search the Griffiths.

    I also looked at http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/ for the surname Queenan and found that the name was not very common and was found mostly in Co. Sligo with a few records in Co. Mayo. I'm speculating that Catherine came from Sligo. I also went to Roots Ireland and found an 1834 baptismal record for a Catherine Queenan but when I added Daniel for the father or Mary Anne for the mother, the record went away which means that this record was for a different Catherine Queenan.

    Roger McDonnell

     

     

    Castlemore Roscommon, IrelandXO Volunteer ☘

    Thursday 24th Jul 2014, 12:22AM

  • Thank you so much Roger :)   This is an interesting piece of info - as part of this long convoluted story is that I found a Mary Queenan on the 1851 England Census living with a family of Queenans in Yorkshire. There's another young girl living with them surname Mulany. 

    Now when I check the Wigton Cumberland census records for 1861,  I can immediately see Mary Queenan now living with her daughter Catherine and son-in-law, Patrick Corrigan right next door to a family of Keenans !   

    Michael Keenan married Ellen Mulany in Wigton in 1852 and on the 1881 census Ellen gives her birthplace as Co Sligo! A bit of a turnup really as all other entries for the MANY Irish people living in Wigton just says 'Ireland"

     

    So I'm left wondering where on earth Patrick and Catherine met - perhaps it was just in Wigton as they married there, and that would explain the distance between their birthplaces. Without any immigration/manifest lists showing names and dates, that's about all I can come up with

    Patvnz

    Thursday 24th Jul 2014, 07:40PM

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