Horrigan family St Pancras

[anderton]

Please can anyone help me researching the above family?  Margaret Horrigan was my great great grandmother, but I'm having trouble finding out much about her family as the name is spelt in so many different ways.  I have Margaret's Birth Certificate stating she was born 1 April 1841, with the informant recorded as the Governor of St Giles Workhouse - implying she was born there?

I'd be very grateful for any help, thanks Anderton

[CaroleW]

Hi and welcome to Rootschat

Is any mother named on the birth cert?  Who did Margaret marry

There is an 1841 entry for a Margaret Harrigan living in Poplar but parents were Samuel & Mary and Margaret was 5mths old.  The 1841 was taken on 6th June so she would only have been 2mths old at that time.

[heywood]

Hello and welcome,
I was just going to post same queries as Carole and was also going to ask what definite information do you have about Margaret (census, marriage etc).
heywood

[anderton]

hi Carole and Heyward
Thanks for your prompt replies - as you can see, I'm new to rootschat but am really impressed that I've had two replies already!

Margaret's Mother is given as Margaret McCanty(?) - best I can do to decipher the surname!  Father is given as Dennis, a labourer, but the strange thing is, as I said earlier, tho I can't decipher his name as yet, the informant re Margaret's birth was the Governor of St Giles Workhouse!?

I'd be grateful for any info at all,

Many thanks and regards

Anderton

[CaroleW]

Hi

Was McCanty her mothers maiden name and her father was Dennis Horrigan?

[anderton]

Yes - sorry Carole I should have made that clear.  Margaret went on to marry a John Shepherd Keho. Thanks

[heywood]

Does her marriage certificate have Dennis as her father too.
I am wondering if the birth certificate indicates Margaret as a single mother or is McCanty (?) a maiden name?

There is a Dennis Horrigan death in St Giles in 1848.

[CaroleW]

No problem

I see her birth was registerd as Harrogan

This is the only entry I can find in 1851 - all children b St Giles

2 Little Earl St St Giles

Dennis Hogan 40  shoemaker b Ireland
Margaret  40  b Ireland
Ellen   14  
Margaret  10  b St Giles
Jeremiah   6  
Cornelius 2  
HO107 Piece 1509 Folio 432 Page 6

[heywood]

Carole - there's a Cornelius Horrigan b 1849 St Giles &c