Nicholas Corrigan : Short Biography

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Nicholas Corrigan 1834

Cloone (Leitrim) County Leitrim

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Nicholas Corrigan is my *3 Great Grandad. His father was Patrick Corrigan and his mother Ellen Carroll. Nicholas had 5 siblings all born in Ireland. His siblings are Patrick, John, Mary, Peter, and James. The family moved to England about 1850 and made their home in Louth in Lincolnshire. Patrick senior died in 1850 in St Mary’s Cemetery, Louth, Lincolnshire, England and was denoted at his death as having been born in 1788 in Ireland but no specifics. His son John registered his death.

The first English Census which details the family is the 1851 Census for Louth in Lincolnshire. Ellen was shown as widowed and they were the only people in the town with surname Corrigan. Three of the brothers Nicholas, James and Peter all did some prison time at Louth jail and all stated that their place of birth was Cloone. Their brother Patrick gave has place of birth on the 1891 Census as Anscairt, Ireland.

Thanks to links provided by Ireland Reaching Out, I have finally been able to locate three of the baptism records for the children Mary, Peter and James at Gortletteragh two denote their place of abode as Anskert. The information also showed that my previous assumptions about Ellen were wrong. I am as certain as I’m ever going to be with this information that Ellen is Ellen Carroll. Of their life in Ireland all I know is that Patrick (1788) was a husbandman as stated on my *3 Great Grandfather’s Marriage Record. Ellen died in 1858 in Louth Lincolnshire and is buried at London Road Cemetery.

Nicholas married a Lincolnshire woman Eliza Willerton from Great Carlton near Louth Lincolnshire. Nicholas and Eliza had ten children. He tried his hand at multiple labouring jobs from farm labourer, to miner to husbandry. Of their ten children : James born 1855 who is my *2 Great Grandfather married a Lincolnshire woman Frances Triffitt. James and Frances seem to have fallen out just before my *1 Great Grandfather’s birth in 1889 and James left, no one knows where because he disappeared all together and so far has not materialised among the rest of the family and no death has been found for him. James and Frances had 8 children of whom their youngest Christopher is my Great Grandfather. Their descendants ended up around Horncastle in Lincolnshire :

Mary born 1857 who is followed as far as being in service and then disappears : Ellen born 1858 who is also followed as far as being in service and then disappears : John born 1860 and married another Irish descendant Mary Ann Blythe, they had 11 children most of whom ended up in and around Grimsby. John died in Louth and is buried at London Road Cemetery : Nicholas born 1862 died aged 2 buried in Louth : Eliza born 1864 married Lincolnshire man Henry Dring they had 6 children most of whom stayed in Louth with one moving to Grimsby : Bridget born 1866 who married Thomas Wilson they had 4 children who mostly stayed in Louth but one moved to Spilsby : Sarah Ann born 1867 Who died aged 1 and is buried in Louth : Nicholas aged 1873 who never married and never had children he is buried in Louth : Thomas born 1877 married Lincolnshire woman Emma Littleover, they had 2 children Thomas and Phyllis who moved to Lincoln.

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Date of Birth	1st Jan 1834 (circa)
Date of Death	4th Feb 1901	VIEW SOURCE
Spouse (First Name/s and Maiden/Surname)	Eliza Willerton
Townland born	Anskert, Cloone
Names of Children	James born 1855; Mary born 1857; Ellen born 1858; John born 1860; Nicholas 1862; Eliza born 1864; Bridget born 1866; Sarah Ann 1867; Nicholas born 1874 and Thomas born 1877. All born in Louth Lincolnshire.
Place of Death	Louth Lincolnshire England
Occupation	General Labourer Coal Miner 1871 census only General Dealer - son John’s marriage certificate.
Father (First Name/s and Surname)	Patrick Corrigan - Confirmed on marriage certificate - Father was deceased at time of marriage and his last occupation was husbandman. Mother Ellen Carroll, baptism records found at Gortletteragh St Mary’s R C for children Mary, Peter and James Originally thought that mother was possibly Ellen Denniny but further research with John Grenham web site and Parish records show that is wrong. Previous info was reliant on information from Leitrim Genealogy but didn’t match properly and wasn’t correct.

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Alice HawrilenkoI am also researching the Carrigan family. My grandmother was Helen (Ellen) Carrigan, daughter of ?Rose Wynne and Philip Carrigan. Rose and Philip were married 25 Oct 1855 at Manor Hamilton. Their wedding record showes that Terence Wynne and Mary Keegan were Rose's parents but it does not list parents for Philip. At this point, by following DNA connections I believe that Philip also descended from a Leitrim family although he and Rose lived much of their lives in Carricknagrow, Killinagh, Cavan. I am still trying to connect him to his family. From what I have found so far three of his children emigrated to the US and settled in the Boston MA area and three remained in Ireland. His son Charles was a schoolmaster at Carrick-on-Shannon National School. The public records I have found so far indicate 6 children although there could be more because thus far in my research the eldest was not born until 1860. Any advice would be gratefully received.

AlicePatricia

Sunday 23rd January 2022 03:29PM

Hello Alice, thank you for your message. I'm not really sure I can offer much advice. Both my husband and I have Irish Ancestry, all pre 1922 when the records building went up in flames, and it's the Irish lines that cause me the most headaches, mainly because there are so many gaps in the records I can never be certain they are 100% correct, especially with the Corrigan name being such a common surname with other derivatives also.

I find 'Roots Ireland' the best Irish record site. I am on Ancestry.co.uk and Find My Past too, but Roots Ireland is definitely more straight forward. I also contacted the Leitrim Genealogy Centre to ask where else I could look. Reading books helps to find places to go. I read a book about the history of Leitrim that had used a lot of Quaker records and Workhouse Records for their sources. So I intend at some point to have a drive over to Leitrim ( I'm in the U.K.) to have a look through what they've got. Most of my relatives would have likely needed the workhouses at some point. It seems Carrick-on-Shannon workhouse and guardians may have kept the most comprehensive records with Mohill being the least comprehensive. It is worth keeping in mind though that some Irish mysteries will remain that way. During the Great Hunger people were just about buried where they dropped, some births were never registered and workhouses utilised mass graves so head stones could be scarce.

I know all of my relatives lived in Cloone because three of the brothers declared their birth place as Cloone on their English prison records during the 1850s. I also know they were telling the truth about being Irish because the English authorities were quite harsh in sentencing because they were Irish and the newspaper has printed their accounts of being in Court. You may find something in the British Newspaper Archive which is available online. Other than than I'm just hoping my DNA profile comes up with something.

I hope that helps

Mandy

FiliusCG1536

Sunday 23rd January 2022 09:20PM

Thank you so much Mandy. I am using roots Ireland and Irishgenealogy.ie as well as ancestry, myheritage and family search. I had an interesting result from my dna. I had a 10 cM match with a Carrigan family who emigrated from Ireland around 1768 to the southern US. My people did not begin coming here until after 1850. They traced their Carrigans to Leitrim and a William Carrigan. Now if I can find the in between folk I'll be happy. Perhaps you will show up on my dna match list? That would be fun.