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Ireland (Historical Counties) => Ireland => Westmeath => Topic started by: Ferg28 on Tuesday 08 March 11 22:05 GMT (UK)
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Hi
I'm looking for any information on Edith Mary Riggs, born 1884 in Mullingar. She is on the 1901 census working as a drapery apprentice in Connollys, Earl Street, Mullingar but I can't find any record since that date. Any help, much appreciated.
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Church of Ireland Parish Register for Mullingar
marriage:
1890 Nov Chrystal, William Riggs, Annie
ditto births:
18?4 Jun Riggs Edith May parents John Annie
marriage:
1883 Apr Riggs, John Snowe, Annie looks like their mariage if so.
Is this the same person?
Riggs is a very unusual name - see that there is still family in Mullingar up to 2008.
Connollys shoe shop was still going in the 1960s
so it might be worth a letter to the Westmeath Examiner as there are possibly living family around:
The death has occurred of Roslyn BROWNE, (née Riggs) of St. Brigid's Terrace, Mullingar, Westmeath
Removal from Gilsenan's Funeral Home this Tuesday evening at 6pm to the Cathedral of Christ the King, arriving at 6.30pm. Funeral tomorrow, Wednesday, after 10am Mass to Ballyglass Cemetery.
Date published: Tuesday, February 12, 2008
A few to be found by Googling "Riggs Mullingar" In 1911 there are only 28 individuals of this surname all living in a small area round Collinstown and Castlepollard, so chances are any Riggs in the Mullingar area is a relative of Edith May Riggs.
As she was C of I, the parish might be a good place to email.
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Edith Mary Riggs birth registered Mullingar Jun qtr 1884 3 275
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Can you give a bit more background info? is she Church of Ireland, did she marry, have children etc.?
Are those her parents in the C of I register?
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I have just come across this discussion and notice a reference to my late mothers death notice - Roslyn Browne. There is a little history in the Riggs family Castlepollard and Ballynacargy involving a split in the family when my ancestor married a Catholic and changed religion, this apparently resulted in him being disowned. Further info available if required
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would browned please contact me about the rift in the riggs family of castlepollard
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Hi bill ryan
welcome to rootschat
browned has not been on line since 2011 but if their email is still active should get a notification of your post. Also once you have posted three times you can converse by Private Message (PM).
Many records have become available online in the last few years
With regard to the original person-
Birth record of Edith Mary RIGGS on May 01 1884 LINK (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1884/02689/1990609.pdf)
Her parents John RIGGS & Anne SNOWE m Apr 24 1883 LINK (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1883/10935/5995941.pdf)
Her father died within a month of her birth on May 23 1884 LINK (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1884/06314/4810546.pdf)
Her mother Annie RIGGS remarried a William CHRYSTAL on Nov 11 1890 LINK (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1890/10718/5907461.pdf)
1901 census LINK (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Longford/Longford_No__1_Urban/Killashee/1555925/)
1911 census LINK (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Longford/Longford_No__1_Urban/Killashee_Street/651382/)
at house 1 in Killashee Street (Longford No. 1 Urban, Longford)
In 1911 Annie states she had seven children of which six were alive
There are six CHRYSTAL children named - she also had
Eveline CHRYSTAL on Apr 06 1897 who died on Apr 23 1897
She obviously counted only the children of her second marriage
Annie CHRYSTAL formerly RIGGS nee SNOW(E) died in 1936
LINK (https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1936/04794/4289145.pdf)
Edith Mary RIGGS on 1901 census LINK (http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Westmeath/Mullingar_Urban/Earls_South_Side/1783527/) at
house 10 in Earls South Side (Mullingar Urban, Westmeath)