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Utilising Your Collateral Relatives to Discover their Townlands of Origin Kevin Cassidy (Guild member 28,689)

Identifying the places of origin for my paternal ancestors was a straightforward process that led me to two parishes in Ulster and unexpectedly to Belfast. No contacts were maintained over the years with my paternal places of origin in Northern Ireland. My paternal grandparents were both born to Irish immigrant couples in the mid-1890s in New York City. Joseph Cassidy junior (1893–1948) was the only child born to a thrice married native of Newry, County Down, and his third wife. Sarah Goodwin (1896–1983) was the youngest child born to a couple from County Tyrone.

Newry native Joseph Cassidy (1849–1928) with his third wife

Civil death certificates revealed that the first Mrs Joseph Cassidy was named Margaret McKeon (c. 1843–1882). Margaret’s 1882 death certificate listed her parents as Felix and Margaret McKeon. Margaret’s daughter, Mary, was born 22 December 1882 and died 28 June 1883. Mary was baptised on Christmas Eve with Michael Cassidy and Ann Reynolds as her baptismal sponsors.

Joseph Cassidy (1893–1948) and Sarah Goodwin The second Mrs Cassidy was Ellen Hart (c. 1855–1889). Ellen’s before they were married 1889 death certificate stated that she was the daughter of James and Ann Hart. Ellen’s daughter, Ann, was born 2 August 1888 Newry, Counties Down and Armagh and died 9 July 1889. Ann was baptised 5 August 1888 with Working from knowns to unknowns, the Cassidy family story Mick Murphy and Kate Hart as her godparents. was examined in late nineteenth-century Manhattan. Joseph Cassidy senior (1849–1928) emigrated from Ulster some time Despite family tradition, neither girl was stillborn. Neither wife in his twenties. He worked as a boilermaker and earned decent had died in childbirth; although Margaret died a week later from wages when he could find work. The family story was that his peritonitis following parturition. Each daughter was baptised. first two wives and their infants had died in childbirth. Bridget Both had one apparent family member as sponsor along with Benson (1853–1933) was his third wife; the name Benson was another sponsor with a non-family surname. originally O’Banaghan. A native of County Sligo, she was 40 when she had her only child. Joseph Cassidy senior was found in the 1880 federal census at 416 East 18th Street, in 1900 at 246 East 35th Street and in the Burial information from Joseph senior’s cemetery records was 1910 and 1920 federal censuses at 251 East 39th Street. This collected. He was buried at Calvary Cemetery in Woodside, NY revealed that he lived with younger siblings named Michael across the East River from Manhattan in Queens. The cemetery (1857–1905) in 1880 and Elizabeth (1854–1928) in 1900. deed was dated 1 January 1883, presumably to bury a family member. The grave is located at Section 12 Range 22 Plot Q Joseph and Elizabeth eventually moved to the East 30s between Grave 1. The cemetery verified that the years of burial in that 1st and 2nd Avenues. Michael and his family moved to the West grave were 1883, 1883, 1889, 1889, 1928 and 1933. This 30s around 10th Avenue. Ordinarily, immigrants remained on supported the family narrative that the first two wives and the east or west side of Manhattan and simply moved north as children died simultaneously. their fortunes improved.

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DIRECTORY OF IRISH FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH Family members recalled that another brother named Patrick Elizabeth Cassidy was buried in a grave at Calvary purchased (1852–1908) had also come to New York. Joseph and Bridget’s by her nephew, Joseph Cassidy junior (Section 60 Plot 32 Grave granddaughter Marian attended Grace Secretarial School in the 17). She had worked as a domestic servant and never married. early 1940s with Patrick’s granddaughter Nancy. Both She died a few months before her brother Joseph senior. There secretarial students were daughters of men named Joseph are three other burials in this grave; Joseph junior and Sarah’s Cassidy. They went home after their first day of class and asked daughter, Patricia Cassidy, aged nine days in 1932, Joseph if there was a connection between their families. They learned junior in 1948 and Sarah Goodwin Cassidy in 1983. Patrick that their fathers were first cousins. The Manhattan Cassidys Cassidy purchased his grave at Calvary in 1890 to bury his were invited to Bayside, Queens to visit the descendants of infant son, Patrick. There were subsequent burials in 1898, 1908 Patrick Cassidy. The Bayside Cassidys included Nancy’s aunt and 1942 (Section 15 Range 23 Grave 6). Mamie and uncles Mike and Frank. Michael Cassidy was buried in a grave at Calvary purchased by Patrick, his wife, Ann, and their children were found in the 1900 his widow in 1905 (Section 28 Range 7 Plot B Grave 17). federal census at 275 Avenue B near East 14th Street. Michael worked as a blacksmith throughout his life. He died Thoroughly checking the census record revealed that Patrick from massive burns. As reported in the press, he ran out into Cassidy and his bride had married c. 1877. Ann had delivered the street from his home at 400 West 32nd Street with his a total of seven children with four still living (Mike, Mamie, clothes on fire, according to the policeman, Officer Carmody. Joseph and Frank) as of June 1900. He answered the officer’s question on how he came to be on fire by stating, “I’ll tell no one but the priest.” This account This family would eventually move to the East 60s of appeared in the 8 May 1905 edition of The Morning Telegraph. Manhattan around 1st Avenue by 1905. Ultimately, they settled No follow up story has been located. in the Bayside section of Queens. Patrick had worked a variety of jobs from labourer to boilermaker. Joseph senior naturalised on 18 October 1880; both he and his first wife became citizens that day. His subsequent brides New York City complained that the 1870 and 1890 federal simultaneously became US citizens when they became Mrs censuses undercounted its population. The municipality was Joseph Cassidy. Based on census records and naturalisation allowed a second enumeration in December 1870–January 1871 laws, it is most likely that Joseph senior arrived on the island of when it criticised the June 1870 census. In 1890, no such Manhattan in 1871. Patrick Cassidy naturalised on 18 approval was granted but to prove its point the NYC Police December 1894. Michael Cassidy never naturalised. These Department was sent out for three weeks in September and earlier naturalisation records did not indicate an Irish place of October to conduct an abbreviated census; address, name, sex, origin for either Joseph senior or Patrick. age. The 1890 federal census for NYC was severely water damaged in the efforts to extinguish a fire in 1921 and ordered Further research in the church registers showed that initially the destroyed by Congress in 1933. Cassidy brothers settled in the infamous Gas House District on Manhattan’s East Side around 14th Street and First Avenue. Therefore, this police census is an excellent census substitute. They worshipped at Immaculate Conception Church and the Joseph senior and his sister, Elizabeth, were enumerated various baptismal and marriage records from 1878–95 shed together at 338 East 39th Street. Their brother Patrick, his wife much light on their extended family based on the choice of and three eldest children were counted at 551 East 16th Street. sponsors and witnesses. No record survived for Michael and his family. Joseph Cassidy and Margaret McKeon wed on 25 November Joseph senior married three times in New York City: in 1878, 1878. John Heffernan and Margaret Walsh witnessed these 1885 and 1892. There are no civil marriage records of these nuptials. Michael Cassidy and Catherine McKeon (1845–1920) events; only the parish marriage registers recorded these nuptials. married on 4 January 1882 with Patrick Cassidy and Rose The information collected was generally sparse; date, names of McGuigan as best man and maid of honour. Both these couple, officiant and witnesses. The 20 December 1885 marriage weddings occurred at Immaculate Conception. record at the Jesuit parish, St Francis Xavier, did provide the names of the couple’s fathers: Michael Cassidy and James Hart. Each of the three Cassidy brothers had a child baptised between Kate Hart, the godmother in 1888, was the maid of honour. September 1882 and February 1883 at Immaculate Conception. Patrick and his wife, Ann Murphy (1854–1942), baptised a Joseph married for the third time to Bridget Benson on 18 May daughter, Mary, on 24 September 1882 with Joseph Cassidy and 1892 at St Gabriel. Bridget’s sister, Maria Benson, was the maid Catherine Cassidy as sponsors. Joseph senior and Margaret also of honour. In August 1893, she was her nephew’s godmother; baptised a daughter, Mary, on 24 December 1882 with Michael again at St Gabriel. The Benson sisters were the daughters Cassidy as sponsor. Michael and Catherine McKeon of Dominick Benson (c. 1816–1901) and Mary Fahy (1845–1920) baptised a son, Joseph, on 4 February 1883, with (c. 1829–1870) of Ballysadare, County Sligo according to Terence and Mary McKeon as sponsors. parent searches on the International Genealogical Index (IGI), FamilySearch.org and at rootsireland.ie. Both women had Margaret McKeon and Catherine McKeon were possibly sisters worked in domestic service as living out girls. Single Irish as they were both daughters of Felix and Margaret McKeon. immigrant women would often work for and live in the homes Catherine was the daughter of Felix McKeon (c. 1787–1864) of their employers. and Margaret Murtagh according to both her death certificate and the almshouse records. She had an older brother, Terence The four death certificates issued by the NYC Department of McKeon (1838–1910), who was her son’s godfather and her Health, when looked at as a group, identified the Cassidy contact person years later when she was admitted to the siblings’ parents as Michael Cassidy (c. 1817–1885) and Mary poorhouse in 1910. Reavey. MacLysaght’s volume, Surnames of Ireland, stated Reavey was a rare County Down name which supported the Terence’s 1867 Emigrant Savings Bank registration provided family tradition for Ulster roots. the names of his parents and his county of origin; Armagh.

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DIRECTORY OF IRISH FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH Later that same year he married his wife and had a civil marriage registration. His parents were identified as Felix McKeon and Margaret Murtagh in the civil marriage records. These names were listed again on Terence’s 19 December 1910 death certificate.

The Irish baptismal records at rootsireland.ie indicated that Terence and Catherine resided at Tullyglush (Kane) townland in Tynan parish, County Armagh, in 1838 and 1845, respectively. There is a gap in the records which does not allow a definitive determination as to Margaret McKeon Cassidy’s relationship to the McKeon siblings, Terence and Catherine. If Margaret was their sister then her daughter, Mary, and Catherine’s son, Joseph (1883–1958), were double first cousins.

Joseph senior and Margaret’s daughter, Mary, lost her mother a week after her birth. Mary lived 6 months and died at a neighbouring address. It was likely she died at the home of a wet nurse. Upon closer inspection, the address where she died was the home of her uncle. Mamie McGorry and her seven sons

Patrick and his wife had a Mary (1882–1966) of their own three was the recording of marriage notations henceforth next to the months before the half-orphaned Mary (1882–83) was born. original baptismal entry for a Catholic marrying in a Catholic The elder Mary came to be known as Mamie, married William ceremony. A baptismal notation was to be entered next to the McGorry (1880–1941) in 1910, bore seven sons (1912–24) and marriage registration. This cross referencing system is crucial died in 1966. for anyone searching a Catholic wedding after 19 April 1908. (This includes the Catholic regularisation of marriages conducted outside of Canon law. A civil marriage that was conducted in 1920 might be regularised by the priest in 1933. At this time notations will be made in the baptismal and marriage registers.)

Fortunately, Michael John was married in a Catholic ceremony in 1914 by a priest who was a stickler for the new Canon law rules from 1908 concerning the submission of one’s baptismal details at time of subsequent sacraments including matrimony. He could not provide a baptismal certificate from the Greenwich Village parish where his siblings were baptised. There was a baptismal notation in 1914 next to the parish marriage entry that indicated he was baptised in Armagh. The 1910 federal census record listed him as Irish-born, shortly after his father died.

Patrick and Ann Cassidy’s son, Michael John Cassidy, was born and baptised in Ireland according to just two US records. Apparently, if an official pressed hard enough the pastor or the enumerator could get the honest truth. This showed that a preponderance of the evidence does not necessarily reveal the reality. As the minor child of an immigrant, Michael John was naturalised when his father became a US citizen in 1894.

Mamie Cassidy later McGorry Armed with the names of two sets of parents and a few places in Ireland to check, FamilySearch.org, rootsireland.ie, nli.ie Patrick and Ann Cassidy also had four sons in Manhattan; and irishgenalogy.ie were examined. The parent search Joseph A. (1884–1965), Patrick (1889–90), Edward (1891–98) approach was utilised and the results found that Michael and Francis (1894–1979). Elizabeth Cassidy was a baptismal Cassidy and Mary Reavey had married on 14 January 1844 at sponsor by proxy for her nephew Francis in 1895. All were the Catholic Cathedral of St Patrick and St Colman in Newry, baptised at Immaculate Conception. County Down. They had the following children: Ann (1845–aft 1884), Mary (1847), Joseph (1849–1928), Patrick (1852–1908), No baptismal or birth records was discovered for Mamie’s elder Elizabeth (1854–1928) and Michael (1857–1905). brother, Michael John Cassidy (1880–1949), in Manhattan. Almost all records indicated that he was New York-born but his Griffith’s Valuation listed Michael Cassidy in Newry, County birth was not registered with the NYC Department of Health. Armagh, on Monaghan Row in Ballinlare townland He was not baptised in the Greenwich Village parish where his (www.askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation). Michael was siblings were christened. tracked through the revision books on PRONI’s website (www.nidirect.gov.uk/information-and-services/search On Easter Sunday 1908 the Catholic Church implemented, Ne archives-online/valuation-revision-books). He died there as a Temere, a new set of marriage regulations. One of these changes widower in 1885 with his eldest daughter as informant and still

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DIRECTORY OF IRISH FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH unmarried. No death record has been found for his wife. Mary Catherine housed male boarders as a widow to make ends meet Reavey Cassidy likely died between 1857 when she delivered financially. Her brother lived with her to avoid the look of her last child and 1864 when civil death registration began. impropriety. After Owen McGinn moved out, Catherine remarried to widower, Frank Gormley (1869–1950) in 1903. Initially, no match for Patrick Cassidy and Ann Murphy could He was a wool puller at the slaughter house nearby. They had be found in the 1877 marriage index for Ireland. Persistent one son, Francis Gormley (1905–1959); Sarah Goodwin searching found a potential 1873 entry in the Superintendent Cassidy’s half-brother. This boy was baptised as the child of Registrar’s District of Armagh (volume 11, page 86) for Pat Francis Gormley and Catherine Goodwin with his aunt, Mary Cassidy and Anne Murphy. Upon receiving the records it was Ann Gormley (1867–1952), as godmother; Peter M. Kenney revealed that this Anne Murphy had married Hugh McQaide on was the godfather. Goodwin was his mother’s surname after she 16 September 1873, while the listed Pat Cassidy wed Rose remarried but it was not her maiden name. This is another good Gorman on 18 September 1873 at the Roman Catholic Chapel example of how information might be slightly different than of Keady in County Armagh. Ordinarily, if two individuals have expected. If you are not finding a woman under a certain matching index citations the chances are that they married each surname consider what other last names she might have used other. However, four weddings per page were recorded in her life. providing for the occasional exception to this strategy. Murphy and Cassidy were common enough surnames to create this Catherine Goodwin Gormley christened her Manhattan-born minor false trail. children at Holy Cross (1890, 1892 and 1894) and St Raphael (1896 and 1905). Several McGinn sponsors were selected in Eventually, through further searching of civil marriage records, 1890 (James and Ellen McGinn), 1892 (Owen McGinn) and it was found that Patrick Cassidy married Ann Murphy at the 1896 (Bridget McGinn). It has not been ascertained exactly who Catholic cathedral in Newry on 7 April 1877. Patrick Hunter James and Ellen were but Owen and Bridget were their and Margaret Preston were the witnesses. They had two sons godchildren’s maternal uncle and maternal aunt. (A 17-year-old in Newry. John Cassidy, born and died on 29 July 1879, lived James McGinn was enumerated with John, Catherine and just six hours. Elizabeth Munday was present for both his birth Patrick Goodwin a few months later in the police census – he and death and was the informant on the civil registrations. No was probably too young to be Catherine’s brother James (b. baptismal record was found. Michael John Cassidy was born 1868). Perhaps this James and Ellen were first cousins to on 28 October 1880. Annie Toner was present at and registered Catherine.) his birth. The three registrations said the births and death occurred at Ruddle’s Row in Newry, County Armagh. This Owen McGinn wed Mary Mahoney (1883–1950) in 1902. Mary couple was not listed at Ruddle’s Row in the Valuation records. was 21 years younger than her husband. They would have five Perhaps they resided with friends or relations that were listed. daughters and a son: Johannah (1903–84), Catherine (b. & d. 1905), Margaret (1907–82), Alice (1909–11), John (1912–97) Michael John was baptised at the Catholic cathedral in Newry and Mary (1914–21). Each child was enumerated in at least one the day he was born. His godparents were Patrick Toner and census: federal in 1910 and 1920 or state in 1905 and 1915. Mary Murphy. There was no marriage notation for his 1914 Margaret McGinn’s 1907 birth certificate revealed that Mary nuptials. (The appropriate notations do accompany his bride’s Mahoney McGinn was from County Limerick. Owen worked as baptismal entry in Brooklyn.) a longshoreman.

The family story stated that Joseph Cassidy senior hailed from Owen and Mary McGinn baptised their infants at St Raphael Newry, County Down. Newry is a city in a parish that spans (1903, 1907 and 1912), Holy Cross (1905 and 1914), and St two counties: Down and Armagh. The civil registration events Ambrose (1909). They chose family members as godparents were recorded primarily in Newry District #1 which spanned over the years: Hugh Goodwin in 1905, Patrick and Bridget both counties; births in 1879 and 1880, deaths in 1879 and Mulcahy in 1909, Ellen McGinn in 1912, and Patrick and Sarah 1885. The 1877 marriage was recorded in Newry District #2 Goodwin in 1914. Hugh, Patrick and Sarah were the infants’ which was situated in County Down. paternal first cousins and Bridget Mulcahy was their paternal aunt. It is possible that the godmother Ellen McGinn in 1912 is Newtownsaville, Clogher, County Tyrone, to Belfast the same woman as the godmother Ellen McGinn in the 1890 Catherine McGinn (1860–1911) married her first husband, John baptism record noted above. Goodwin (1860–97), in County Tyrone and bore her first son there. The couple emigrated to NYC around 1890 and left their Bridget McGinn (1866–1925) wed her first husband, Patrick infant son, John, in the care of his paternal relatives in Ireland. Mulcahy (c. 1867–1916) around 1900 according to their 1910 They had several more children in Manhattan before Catherine federal census. No civil marriage record was found for these was widowed. She had both a brother and a sister that also nuptials. No church marriage record has been found yet either. emigrated to NYC. Both married and had issue. Bridget worked in domestic service as a living out girl before her marriage. She was allowed one day off per month. She The widow Kate Goodwin was listed with her brother, Owen attended the baptism of her niece, Sarah Goodwin, one of these McGinn (1862–1926), and her children, John (1888–1978), rare days off, 2 February 1896. Patrick (1890–1954), Hugh (1894–1960) and Sarah (1896–1983) in the 1900 federal census at 554 West 46th Street. Four years after Pat died, Bridget married a man named John The family tradition held that this brother would eventually Meade (1864–1942). Both men were Corkonians. There were move out and marry a much younger woman and raise a family. both civil and church marriage records for the Meade-Mulcahy The family stories also held that the John Goodwin junior had nuptials. The baptismal notations from the 1920 parish marriage only come over to the USA as a young adult and not before registration indicated that Bridget had been baptised at Clogher, 1900. Might the enumerator have asked for the names of her County Tyrone and was the daughter of Patrick (McGinn) (c. children and not verified that the children actually lived in the 1827–1897) and Alice McWilliams (c. 1832–1919). The civil residence? marriage license clearly identified her father as McGinn.

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DIRECTORY OF IRISH FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH The Mulcahys baptised their sons, Patrick (b. & d. 1902) and The NYC death certificates revealed that Owen Goodwin James (b. & d. 1905) at, respectively, Holy Cross and Sacred (1892–93) was the infant son of John and Catherine Goodwin. Heart. In 1902, they chose Frank Gormley and his sister, Mary John Goodwin’s (1860–97) parents were unknown. The Ann, to be their son’s baptismal sponsors. This was a year Mulcahy baby, Patrick (b. & d. 1902), was the son of Patrick before Frank would marry Bridget McGinn Mulcahy’s sister. and Bridget Mulcahy. Catherine Goodwin Gormley Perhaps, Bridget knew the Gormley siblings back home in (1860–1911) was the daughter of Patrick McGinn and Alice County Tyrone. McWilliams.

In the 1905 NY state census the Gormleys were enumerated at The four members of the Mulcahy family were buried in four 532 West 43rd Street as Frank and Catherine with children John distinct graves throughout Calvary Cemetery. Patrick Mulcahy Gormley (sic), Patrick Goodwin, Hugh Goodwin and Sarah was the child buried in Catherine Goodwin Gormley’s grave at Goodwin. This was especially curious because, while the family Calvary in 1902. James Mulcahy was buried in a non-titled tradition held that the first son was named John, he was born pauper’s plot in 1905 (Section 39 Range 12 Plot L Grave 8). and raised in Ireland and did not visit NYC until years later. In Bridget McGinn Mulcahy purchased a grave for her first 1905, he is erroneously listed with his stepfather’s surname and husband in 1916 when he died (Section 41 Range 31 Plot OO surprisingly listed as working as a farmer while a resident of Grave 16). Bridget McGinn Mulcahy Meade was buried in a Manhattan. Census information can inadvertently collect valid grave her second husband purchased in 1919 to bury his second and useful information along with mistakes. The McGinns wife (Section 50 Range 14 Graves 11/12). Her 1925 death (Owen, Mary, Hannah and Catherine) lived at 543 West 43rd certificate listed her parents as Patrick McGinn and Alice Street. The Mulcahys (Patrick and Bridget) resided at 528 West McQuillan; McQuillan is an alternative version of the 47th Street nearby. McWilliams surname.

The cemetery records at Calvary listed that Catherine Gormley Owen McGinn purchased a grave at Calvary in 1905 to bury was buried in 1911 in a grave originally purchased in 1893 by his infant daughter, Catherine. The address of this grave is John Goodwin. The address of the grave was Section 14 Range Section 32 Range 10 Plot K Grave 10. Subsequent burials were 26 Plot O Grave 6. The interment list showed an infant named made in 1911, 1921, 1926, 1950 and 1984. His 1926 death Owen Goodwin in 1893, a 34-year-old (sic) John Goodwin in certificate erroneously combined his wife’s maiden name with 1897, a Mulcahy infant in 1902 and 47-year-old (sic) Catherine his mother’s given name (Alice Mahoney). Gormley in 1911.

Map of County Tyrone, 1837, with location of Newtownsaville highlighted

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DIRECTORY OF IRISH FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH Additional vital records were found over the years for the Baptismal records were identified for four children from this McGinn siblings. Owen’s 1902 civil marriage certificate McGinn-McWilliams marriage. Their two eldest children, showed that he was the son of Patrick McGinn and Alice Catherine and Owen, were born in January 1860 and March McWilliams. NYC civil records for Catherine, Owen and 1862. Their baptismal entries provide a specific date of birth Bridget from 1911, 1907 and 1920 indicated that they were all which was beneficial for years before civil birth records. The born in County Tyrone. other two McGinn children to have baptismal registrations were from 1864 and 1868. All four listed Newtownsaville as their After the death of his wife in 1911, Frank Gormley eventually residence. The mother’s Christian name was always listed in settled in Connecticut with his married sister, Mary Ann Latin as Alicia, but the surname variants were Maginn, Gormley Jacobson (1867–1952). He naturalised in 1933. Williams and McWilliams. An 1859 marriage record was found Naturalisation applications from September 1906 onward in adjacent Donacavey Catholic parish records in County include much detail about an immigrant’s original home. He Tyrone for Patritius McGinn of Newtownsaville and Alicia made reference to his late wife, Catherine, of Clogher, who had McWilliams of Garvallagh townland. In the 1885–86 Polling died 21 years earlier on his naturalisation petition from 1932. District of Clogher in South Tyrone Division list the following The Gormleys also hailed from Clogher according to name was noted: no. 794, Maginn, Patrick, Tamlaght, inhabitant naturalisation and passport records. occupier, Tamlaght, dwelling house.

Mary Ann Gormley Jacobson returned to Northern Ireland for Patrick McGinn died in 1897; his widow Alice McWilliams a visit in 1924. Her passport application detailed that she was McGinn was listed on the death certificate. After the death of born in County Tyrone. She had married her husband on 29 her husband in 1897, Alice McWilliams McGinn received £80 April 1906. When John Jacobson naturalised on 3 October from the administration of her late husband’s effects on 6 March 1912, she naturalised by virtue of her status as his wife. His 1899. She was enumerated in the 1901 Irish census in Shankill application merely listed her as born in Ireland. The passenger parish, Belfast at 23 Clondara Street with her three youngest lists created by her arrival in and departure from the United children (www.census.nationalarchives.ie). She was Kingdom revealed that she was visiting Latbeg townland, enumerated there again in 1911 with two of these children. She Clogher parish, County Tyrone. answered that she had delivered eight children with all eight still living, although as a widow she was not required to provide They were the children of Peter Gormley (c. 1835–1908) and this information and the number was crossed out. This agreed Mary Smollen (c. 1841–1924). Their parents were identified in with what was known about the family between 1860 and 1911. civil marriage records in 1898, 1906 and 1924 for the Gormley siblings: Frank, Mary Ann and Sarah (1870–1942). Their birth Alice died in 1919 and was buried at nearby Milltown Cemetery and baptismal records were found online in the ever expanding (YE-12-B). Her youngest son, John, had died during the flu resources of Irish records. pandemic in 1918. The other two burials in that grave were for women named Elizabeth McGinn and Margaret McGinn that Sarah Gormley McNally married in 1924 and her baptismal were not known to fit the family tree. These details were notation indicated that she had been baptised at the chapel at provided by a diocesan official. The death certificates from Eskra in Clogher parish. There was no marriage notation next 1922 and 1941 showed that they were both wives of Michael to her baptismal entry in the Clogher records. It is possible to McGinn (geni.nidirect.gov.uk). Michael was not living in the find place of origin from friends and neighbours especially family home in 1911. He boarded with a married woman named when they later inter-marry. Elizabeth Shevlin (1865–1922) in Tralee Street. In 1917, he married the widowed Elizabeth Boal Shevlin in Glasgow. The Mary Ann and Sarah worked in domestic service before their Scottish civil marriage record identified his parents’ names as marriages in Mount Vernon, Westchester County, New York. Patrick McGinn, deceased, and Alice McWilliams They appeared in city directories as such and both married in (www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk). Elizabeth Boal Shevlin Mount Vernon. Mary Ann’s 1906 marriage records did not McGinn died in 1922 at 13 Benares Street, Belfast. supply place of origin. Michael remarried to Margaret O’Hanlon (1877–1941) in 1928 Three younger Gormley siblings remained in Latbeg throughout in Belfast; the church register recorded his parents as Patrick their lives: Susan (1872–1942), James (1874–1961) and McGinn and Alice McWilliams. Margaret O’Hanlon McGinn Catherine (1877–99). James married a local girl in 1922 and died in 1941. The Northern Irish civil marriage record had only raised a family. He and his family, including his maiden sister, recorded his father as Patrick McGinn; it did not specify Susan, were counted in the 1939 Registration of Northern whether the father was living or dead. In 1943, Michael married Ireland. Baptisms of these three younger Gormley siblings were again, this time to Jane Cushnahan (1881–1948); again, the civil not found, but all were recorded in the civil birth registers. marriage record did not state whether his father was alive or dead. Jane died in 1948 and Michael purchased a different grave The Irish civil birth registrations transcribed through the at Milltown to bury her (IF-21-B). He was buried in this grave International Genealogical Index (IGI) showed that there were in 1953 as was his sister Alice in 1954. Michael had no six children born to Patrick McGinn and Alice McWilliams biological children. He inherited a sum from Jane and when he between 1864 and 1874: Patrick (1864– ), Bridget (1866–1925), died his effects were given to Bernadette Blair, a married James (1868– ), Ally (1870–1954), Michael (1872–1953) and woman and adopted daughter. John (1874–1918). Despite the fact that Michael married thrice in the Catholic The birth registrations indicated that five were born at Church after 1908, no baptismal notations were recorded along Newtownsaville, a village covering more than one townland with his marital registrations. The baptismal records for Clogher according to notations in a government record. The 1870 birth parish were incomplete between the years 1860 and 1874 when registration for Ally McGinn, fortunately, revealed that the eight McGinn children were born. It was hoped that details Tamlaght was the name of the townland in which their farm was might have been captured when he married in 1917, 1928 and located within Newtownsaville. 1943. Michael is found across the years at 23 Clondara Street,

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DIRECTORY OF IRISH FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH 13 Benares Street and 53 Bombay Street in Belfast directories. Michael, Margaret and Alice McGinn appear in the 1939 Registration of Northern Ireland at 53 Bombay Street. Jane Cushnahan also appeared in the house she lived in as a spinster in 1939 also on Bombay Street.

Tullanafoile, Clogher, County Tyrone, to Hell’s Kitchen The family tradition for Sarah Goodwin Cassidy’s family stated that her parents, John Goodwin senior (1860–97) and Catherine McGinn (1860–1911), emigrated after they married. The name Goodwin was originally McGuigan. They left their eldest son, John junior (1888–1978), on the farm in County Tyrone with his unmarried paternal aunts and uncles. John Goodwin senior died while his youngest child was still quite young. The elder John had a brother who also emigrated and had at least three children: Owen, Thomas (Tommy) and Catherine (Kathleen).

To find out more about these Goodwin first cousins, Thomas Goodwin (1896–1968) was investigated. He lived with his paternal cousins in the 1910 federal census and was identified as the nephew of his late uncle’s widow and her second husband at 594 11th Avenue. Thomas was born 22 February 1896 to Peter Goodwin (c. 1853–1901) and Mary Cunningham (c. 1865–1903). He had both a civil birth record and a baptismal entry. The birth certificate for ‘Male’ Goodwin showed that Thomas Goodwin Mary Cunningham Goodwin had delivered three previous children and now two were alive. Peter and Mary Goodwin son Owen, born on 23 July 1891. The following year he chose were enumerated in the 1900 federal census with three children a Peter Goodwin as godfather for his son Francis Patrick. A at 545 West 49th Street. Their demographic information parent cannot be his child’s baptismal sponsor so this indicated that they had been married ten years and that two of necessitated the existence of a second Peter Goodwin, old the five children born to Mary were now deceased. enough to be a baptismal sponsor in September 1892. Likewise, there must have been an adolescent or adult Owen Goodwin Peter’s year of birth was difficult to determine, ranging from who served as godfather in 1891. 1858 to 1866. His age varied across marriage, census and vital records from 1890 to 1901. He was listed as 30 when he married There was likely a connection but how did these sponsors in 1890; as 35 in both 1891 and 1896 at his sons’ births; as 40 connect to the Goodwin brothers and children? In order to be a in 1898 for his daughter’s birth; as 36 on the certificate of his baptismal sponsor in the Catholic Church in 1891 and 1892 a youngest son’s birth on 19 February 1901. Nine days later on person had to be a Catholic, presumably in good standing and his own death certificate he was recorded as 38 years old. In of a certain age. Confirmation was celebrated earlier in the the censuses he was listed as 30 in 1890 and 35 in 1900. nineteenth century than it is today. The sponsors were likely bachelors or widowers over the age of ten. Peter Goodwin purchased a cemetery plot at Calvary Cemetery in February 1893 (Section 14 Range 27 Plot C Grave 10). The In the 1880 federal census, an entry was found that proved very years of burial in the grave were 1893, 1894, 1901, 1901, 1903, promising. It was also the only such lead. At 610 West 38th 1950 and 1955. Peter Goodwin’s 1901 death certificate Street the Hugh Goodwin family was enumerated. The head of recorded he was the son of Patrick and Catherine Goodwin. household was Hugh Goodwin (aged 38); his wife Ellen (38) Death certificates were found from 1893, 1894, 1901, 1901 and and their children; Margaret (16); Owen (14); Peter (3) and 1903. His sons Francis, Peter and John James all died as infants. Sarah (10 months). Also in the household was a man named His children Owen and Catherine were buried in the grave in Owen Goodwin (35) whose relationship to the head of 1950 and 1955 respectively. household was left blank. The three adults were all Irish-born and the four children were born in NY. In 1891 the two Owens The census, birth, baptismal and death records indicated that would have been 25 and 46 – clearly old enough to be baptismal they were the parents of five sons and a daughter born between sponsors. In 1892 Peter would have been 15 years old – again, 1891 and 1901: Owen (1891–1950), Francis (1892–93), Peter old enough. (b. & d. 1894), Thomas (1896–1968), Catherine (1898–1955) and John (b. & d. 1901). John James Goodwin had a 1901 civil The International Genealogical Index (IGI) revealed that a birth certificate which indicated his mother had delivered five Hugh Goodwin married an Ellen Rafferty in 1872. Since their previous children (Owen, Francis, Peter, Thomas and daughter Margaret was 16 in the 1880 census, it seemed odd Catherine) and four were now living (Owen, Thomas, Catherine that they might have been married only eight years. The Hugh and John). Goodwin family could not be found in either version of the 1870 federal census taken in NYC. There was, however, an The Peter and Mary Goodwin family baptised children at Holy Ellen Rafferty, aged 28, in July 1870 who was listed with two Cross (1891, 1892), St Raphael (1894, 1896 and 1898) and children: Margaret (6) and Owen (4). It suggested that Hugh Sacred Heart of Jesus (1901) parishes. The baptismal records and Ellen had created a blended family with their marriage on provided sponsors names and surprisingly no Goodwin 1 October 1872. The civil marriage details transcribed at the relations were selected to be sponsors for John Goodwin IGI listed that Ellen was the former Ellen O’Brien. Hugh was a senior’s children in 1890, 1892, 1894 and 1896. Peter Goodwin, bachelor and the son of Patrick Goodwin (c. 1813–1893) and on the other hand, selected an Owen Goodwin as sponsor for his Catherine Rogers (c. 1815–1867).

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DIRECTORY OF IRISH FAMILY HISTORY RESEARCH It took several takes looking at this to figure out how he could Owen’s connection to the Goodwin brothers remains unknown. possibly be related to John and Peter. Hugh was several years He was godfather to sons of Hugh and Peter Goodwin in 1874 older than both. Might he be a half-brother or a second cousin? and 1891, respectively. He lived with Hugh Goodwin in 1880. Since all three men were sons of Patrick, it eliminated the In 1884 Owen and Peter Goodwin shared an address at 604 likelihood that they were first cousins. Might he have been their West 37th Street. Peter and Owen were both still at this address full brother? If Hugh were the eldest and John the youngest, an in 1886 when Peter declared his intent to become an American individual mother could have delivered both. They were all sons citizen. Owen and Peter Goodman (sic) were registered to vote of Catherine. Was Catherine Rogers mother to all of them? at 552 West 43rd Street in 1892. These men lived in the Hell’s Kitchen neighbourhood on the West Side of Manhattan along with many other natives of There is also a connection with John Goodwin. Owen and John County Tyrone. They worked as wagon drivers or teamsters. Goodwin were listed at 546 West 46th Street in the 1892/93 city directory. The 1896 city directory would list John at 550 West It took many years to find the Goodwin-Cunningham nuptials. 48th Street – an address where Owen Goodwin was registered Peter Goodwin married Mary Cunningham on 6 July 1890 at to vote from in the fall of 1894. Much circumstantial evidence St Paul the Apostle just north of Hell’s Kitchen. John Treanor suggests that he was at least a first cousin or more likely a and Catherine Kelly were the witnesses. The parish marriage brother. There is no definitive proof from family lore or a record record listed his parents were Patrick Goodwin and Catherine that identified his parents’ names. He named his only child Ann Rogers. Peter was the full brother to Hugh Goodwin and, Elizabeth Goodwin (1882–83). The paternal grandparents of therefore, Hugh and John were also full brothers. No civil Hugh, Peter and John were named Owen and Ann Goodwin. marriage record was filed with the Department of Health. Hugh Goodwin and Ellen O’Brien had a first child that was not In the 1890 police census, the constables found that Hugh recorded in the 1880 census. Their son, Patrick, was born in Goodwin lived at 647 West 46th Street with his children, Peter 1874 and was baptised at St Michael with Owen Goodwin as and Sarah. Newlyweds Peter and Mary Goodwin lived a block godfather. Patrick died in 1876 and was buried at Calvary in a away at 546 West 46th Street. John senior, Catherine and infant, grave purchased by his father at that time. His mother was Patrick Goodwin, lived around the corner at 660 11th Avenue. buried there in 1890 and his sister Sarah’s infant daughter, Ellen Flaherty, was the last burial in July 1901 (Section 1W Range 7 The 1890 police census and the 1890 voter registration records Plot D Grave 18). for Manhattan are extremely well paired. The census was conducted from late September to mid-October. Voter Hugh Goodwin was buried at Calvary in a grave purchased four registration records were created immediately following in weeks earlier in June 1901 by a man named Martin English anticipation of the November elections. If a vital record was (Section 33 Range 2 Plot K Grave 16). It took a lot of digging also created in this timeframe, the three records census, voter to reveal that Martin was the second husband of Hugh’s and vital, together would perfectly identify where a family stepdaughter, Margaret Rafferty Moons English. Margaret was resided in that small window of time. No 1890 census entry recorded as Rafferty in 1870, Goodwin (sic) in 1880, Moons in survived for Owen Goodwin. However, he was a registered 1890 and 1900 and English in 1905, 1910, 1915 and 1920. Be voter that fall and resided at 556 West 38th Street. Hugh and mindful that surnames of females are very likely to change over Peter were registered voters at the same addresses where each the course of their lives. was enumerated. When FindMyPast’s Catholic Heritage collection came online Owen Goodwin wed Elizabeth O’Connor (c. 1853–1888) at St many answers were revealed. Margaret Rafferty Moons English Francis Xavier parish on 27 February 1881. This couple had a (1864–1920) married twice: to butchers Arthur F. Moons daughter in 1882, Ann Elizabeth, who died in 1883. Patrick (1859–94) in 1881 and Martin English (c. 1857–1908) in 1900. Duris was both best man and godfather in 1881 and 1882. She bore eight children between her two marriages – in 1882, Mother and daughter are buried together in a grave at Calvary 1884, 1885, 1888, 1890, 1894, 1901 and 1903. Calvary Cemetery (Section 11 Range 11 Plot P Grave 4). Cemetery was the final resting place for this family. Margaret died in 1920 and is buried with her first husband and their Owen became a naturalised citizen on 24 October 1881. Hugh children (Section 7 Range 5 Plot B Graves 9/16). Once naturalised on 24 October 1882 and Peter naturalised on 13 considered a possible Goodwin godfather based on his October 1888. John senior never became a US citizen. Owen erroneous appearance in the 1880 census under his stepfather’s voted regularly and lived frequently on West 37th Street. He surname, Owen Rafferty (1866–95), died young as a bachelor. last appeared in the 1892/93 city directory at 546 West 46th Street. One of Owen’s final appearances was the 7 March 1895 In 1902 Peter F. Goodwin (1877–post 1912) married Martha edition of Brooklyn’s Daily Standard Union. He was living at Acker with the ceremony conducted by the pastor of Martha 46th Street and 11th Avenue when he fell from a truck he was Memorial Reformed Church. He disappears from the record driving while intoxicated on Park Avenue at 78th Street. He after 1912. The couple had no children. He was likely the Peter fractured his skull and was taken to Presbyterian Hospital. Goodwin who served as godfather for Francis Goodwin in 1892.

Owen Goodwin was a registered voter later that fall at 506 Sarah Goodwin Flaherty (1879–1904) bore three children to her Eleventh Avenue where it intersected with West 40th Street. His husband, Jeremiah Flaherty (1872–1913), in their six-year application to vote was recorded on 25 October 1895. He was marriage; Jeremiah (1899–1939), Ellen (b. & d. 1901) and listed as being 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing 160 pounds. He Patrick (b. & d. 1902). Their son Jeremiah later resided with his had grey hair. He did not cast his vote on 5 November 1895 that half-aunt Margaret Rafferty Moons English and was buried with year. Every other voter in his building did cast his vote. No his grandfather, Hugh Goodwin. follow up stories have been found. No death certificate has been discovered. He was not buried with his wife and daughter at Ellen O’Brien Rafferty Goodwin’s first marriage was in 1861. Calvary. Her first husband, John Rafferty (1839–70), was a grocer and

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Thanks to microfilm indexes for Irish civil registrations of marriages, it was found that John M’Guigan (the Irish form of Goodwin) had married his bride, Catherine M’Ginn in 1888 in Clogher Superintendent Registrar’s District, County Tyrone. The full transcription was obtained in the mail. His father was listed as Patrick McGuigan, Tulnafoil. His father-in-law was Patrick McGinn, Newtownsaville. (Irish civil marriage registrations do not record the name of the mother of the bride or groom.) Both fathers were farmers and neither was listed as deceased. The localities mentioned indicated that the families lived at Clogher parish. It was fortunate that the family preserved the knowledge that Goodwin and McGuigan were synonymous. These records can be searched online at The McGuigan farmhouse at Tullanafoile www.irishgenealogy.ie. (1898–1955) was sent to live with her uncles, aunts and cousin Surviving baptisms for Clogher parish do not begin until 1856 at Tullanafoile (the official spelling of Tulnafoil) when she was and no McGuigan or Goodwin baptism could be found for 11 years old. Peter. It is likely that Peter was born before 1858, the earliest year of birth indicated from his paper trail in the New York Passenger lists record Katherine Goodwin arriving in records. There was an 1860 christening for John Goodwin, son Londonderry aboard the Furnessia on 15 June 1909; she is of Patrick Goodwin and Catherine Goodwin. He lived at listed as an Irish female aged between one and 12. Later records Tulynafoil which was almost identical to the Tullnafoil from show her returning to the United States aboard the Transylvania the 1888 marriage record. on 30 March 1935. Her last address in the United Kingdom was Tulnafoile, Eskra, Omagh, County Tyrone. She arrived at New Bernard McGuigan, brother of Hugh, Peter and John senior, York on 8 April 1935. Her intended address in the USA was married in 1891 in Eskra chapel in Clogher parish. The church 9405–120th Street, Richmond Hill, NY. This was the home of register recorded that on 10 February 1891 Bernard McGuigan, her brother Thomas. Her passport application in the early 1930s Tulnafoile, son of Patrick McGuigan and Catherine McGuigan was very helpful as it included copies of her father’s death married Anna Treanor, Eskra formerly Anna Donnelly daughter certificate and naturalisation records along with her own birth of John and Mary Donnelly; the celebrant was Fr William and baptismal certificates. The birth certificate for ‘Female’ McKenna and the witnesses were Bernard Slevin and Catherine Goodwin showed that her mother had delivered four previous McCusker (letter of 21 July 1998 from Rev. Terence Connolly children (Owen, Francis, Peter and Thomas) and three were PP). Bernard’s wife and infant stepson died in a fire just weeks now living (Owen, Thomas and Catherine). after the wedding. A newspaper account ran in the 24 April 1891 issue of the Tyrone Constitution. The uncles and aunts at Tullanafoile died before Catherine returned to the USA. In 1921, Patrick Goodwin died with his Now that a place of origin for the McGuigan/Goodwin and McGinn families was known earlier research was conducted. The revision books helped zero in on death dates for the male leaseholders and then narrow the search based on whether they were widowed or married at time of death. The 1885–86 Polling District of Clogher in South Tyrone Division list showed #675 McGuiggan Patrick, senior, Tulnafoile, rated occupier, £12 0s. 0d., house and land. Catherine Rogers McGuigan died in 1867. Her widower Patrick Goodwin died in 1893. The family used the two forms of their surname interchangeably from the 1820s through to the 1930s across both civil and church records.

John Goodwin junior (1888–1978) was enumerated in both the 1901 and 1911 Irish censuses at Tullanafoile townland with his never married paternal aunts Ann (1846–1930) and Sarah (1850–1925), bachelor uncle Patrick (c. 1848–1921) and widowed uncle, Bernard (c. 1855–1933). In 1901, he was listed as John Goodwin. Ten years later the family was listed as McGuigan. In 1911, a 12-year-old female relative, Cassie McGuigan, who was born in America, is recorded. This fits exactly with the family tradition that the orphaned children of Peter and Mary Goodwin were first taken in by friends and Passport of Catherine Goodwin (1898–1955), born NYC, relations at some point. Eventually their daughter Catherine lived in Tullanafoile (1909–35), then NYC (1935–55)

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First Edition Ordnance Survey map, 1830s, showing location of Tamlaght and Tullanafoile townlands, Newtownsaville

brother Bernard present at death. In 1925, Sarah Goodwin died, to Ralph H. Reid of Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal, Solicitor, the again with Bernard present at death. In 1930, Anne McGuigan Attorney of the widow. (Ltd) £170.’ This refuted the story that died with her nephew John McGuigan present at death. Lastly, when John senior’s widow asked her in-laws to sell her interests in 1933 Bernard Goodwin died with his nephew John Goodwin in the farm, she was denied. Clearly, she obtained legal counsel present at death. This showed that the family continued to use and her husband’s estate. On 10 April 1935 an administration both the Irish and English forms of their surname was filed at Londonderry for Bernard Goodwin otherwise interchangeably in record-keeping through to at least 1933. The McGuiggan of Tullanafoile, County Tyrone; John Goodwin, family in Northern Ireland today utilises the McGuigan version farmer, received £24. exclusively. The American branch of the family utilised only the Goodwin surname from as early as 1872. John Goodwin junior visited New York for a few months in his early twenties. On 28 August 1909, two months after the arrival Anne, Patrick and Sarah McGuigan/Goodwin tried to avail of his first cousin Catherine Goodwin in Ireland, he departed themselves of the Old Age Pension after 1908 when they Londonderry aboard the Furnessia and landed in New York on attained 70 years of age. The initial searches of the 1851 Irish 7 September 1909. His uncle, Pat Goodwin, was his contact census at Tullanafoile proved fruitless for Anne and Patrick. person in Ireland, at Tullnafoyle (sic), Eskra. He was going to When their sister Sarah applied she added a request to check see his mother, Mrs Goodwin, at 594 11th Ave., New York. (At the census return for the adjacent townland, Kilnaheery. Her this point she had been Mrs Francis Gormley for six and a half parents were enumerated at Kilnaheery and had married in years; her street address was correct.) 1833. Sarah was found and listed as one year old in the 1851 Irish census. Anne and Patrick re-applied with the request to After only 11 months in the United States, John junior check Kilnaheery. Patrick provided details that named his disembarked from the Furnessia at Londonderry on 26 July grandparents as Owen and Ann Goodwin or McGuigan. The 1910 as John McGuigan. Ironically, while he lived in Manhattan clerk crossed out Goodwin leaving McGuigan and listed that during the 1910 federal census, he was not enumerated. He was this couple had married in 1813. erroneously counted in both the 1900 and 1905 American census records despite living in County Tyrone. This child, once Anne McGuiggan, 87, died at Tullanafoile in 1864 with Owen left behind in Ireland, married in Tyrone and raised a son, McGuiggan as informant and present at death. Owen Goodwin, Michael McGuigan (1916–95). John junior and his family were 80, a widower, died in 1869 with Patrick Goodwin as informant listed as McGuigan in the 1939 Registration of Northern and present at death. Anne was listed as five in the 1851 Irish Ireland. Death notices were found online for both John and his census according to the search officer. Patrick did not have an wife in 1978 in local Tyrone newspapers. Their son has living age indicated but there are notes next to his name. descendants.

Checking administrations in Ireland revealed the following: Conclusion ‘Goodwin, John, (478), 23 November 1898, Admin of the This is an attempt to show how much of a family’s story can be personal estate of John Goodwin late of 618 11th Ave., New learned utilising all the branches and Irish, British and York, USA., Workman, d. 24 December 1897, granted at Dublin American sources. Some Ulster residents like Hugh Goodwin

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Peter (McGuigan) Goodwin is the lynchpin that helped tie this all together. Peter did not leave any record trail in the Irish records. He was apparently born and baptised before 1856 which explains why he did not have a baptismal entry in the church register nor a birth registration in the civil records. His 1901 civil death record listed his parents as Patrick and Catherine Goodwin. His 1890 church marriage registration recorded his parents as Patrick Goodwin and Catherine Rogers. Peter’s daughter was sent to Ireland in 1909 to be raised by her paternal relatives after her parents died in 1901 and 1903. Catherine Goodwin was identified as Cassie McGuigan in the 1911 Irish census at Tullanafoile townland. Peter was never identified with the McGuigan moniker but this 1911 record did list his daughter as McGuigan.

Gleaning the bits and pieces of information from the American, Irish and British records, one discovered that Hugh, Peter and John Goodwin were the sons of Patrick McGuigan/Goodwin The McGuigan plot at Eskra Cemetery and his wife Catherine Rogers. They were born and raised at Tullanafoile townland, Clogher parish, County Tyrone. They left not a single bit of evidence in County Tyrone that they were had at least four other siblings; Anne, Patrick, Sarah and ever there. It is only by tracking him along with his siblings in Bernard. America that his Irish story can be discovered. Hugh Goodwin named his parents as Patrick Goodwin and Catherine Rogers in One last bit of family lore to investigate is that Sarah Goodwin several records from 1872 to 1926. No American record Cassidy was related to Joseph Cardinal MacRory (1861–1945), identified his Irish county of origin. No Irish records survive former Catholic Archbishop of Armagh. The English form of that list Hugh with his parents or siblings. his surname is Rogers. The cardinal was born in 1861 at Ballygawley, County Tyrone. This locality is just under seven John McGuigan/Goodwin senior’s paper trail revealed that his miles north-east of Clogher. The cardinal’s parents, Francis surname was interchangeable between the Irish McGuigan and MacRory and Rose Montague, had ten children. It is likely that the English Goodwin. His Irish marriage record and Irish there are surviving descendants that could match living baptismal record reveal his parents to be Patrick descendants of Catherine Rogers McGuigan Goodwin, if there McGuigan/Goodwin and Catherine Goodwin. He resided at is a familial connection. New Records on PRONI’s Website Gillian Hunt

The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) has period than school pupil registers. These were applications recently added a number of free resources to its website. These made to the Commissioners for National Education, most are tithe applotment books, 1823–37; school grant-aid commonly for the salary of an assistant teacher or for the application forms, 1832–89; Hansard Official Reports of the repair or building of the school. They also can contain Northern Ireland Assembly, 1998–2016 and photographs by inspectors’ reports as well as the applications and are A. R. Hogg for Belfast Corporation, 1912–15. particularly useful for those who had ancestors who were teachers. They are also helpful in building up a picture of life The tithe applotment books predominantly record those in the past as they describe the school, the number of pupils, renting land so generally do not cover urban areas, or those in the state of the school building and the names of teachers, the countryside renting only a house and no land. They list pupil monitors, trustees and sometimes lists of local landholders by townland and parish and will also list the size inhabitants who supported the application. These are also of the portion of land rented and amount of tithe to be paid; available now through PRONI’s electronic catalogue. some books may contain some additional information such as descriptions of the quality of land. The National Archives of Finally, the Hogg Photographic Collection contains images of Ireland (www.nationalarchives.ie) has the tithe records for the buildings and streets in Belfast (some named) in the 1910s. Republic of Ireland available online and now PRONI has Some of the photographs include inhabitants standing outside made available those for Northern Ireland through their houses although these individuals are not named. This is a electronic catalogue. Using the eCatalogue one can search fascinating collection for those who had ancestors living in using the townland or parish or browse using the reference Belfast at that time as it shows what the streets and buildings FIN/5/A and view full scans of the records online. looked like. The images focused on those areas in Belfast which were to be affected by various improvement schemes The school grant-aid application forms date from the such as road-widening and house demolishment. These can be beginning of the national education system in Ireland in the downloaded from PRONI’s eCatalogue under references: 1830s and in many instances survive from a much earlier LA/7/8/HF/3 and LA/7/8/HF/4.