At the risk of harping on a theme, I'm going to write some more about the McCavitts - the family of my great grandmother, Susan McCavitt Hughes. Of Susan's siblings, Mary, Elizabeth and Daniel all went to America. Starting with what we already know, Susan Philomena McCavitt (b.1890 d.1947) was daughter of Bridget Byrne and…
Lizzie Grogan was Henry Curran’s first wife, before he married Cathleen Poland and mother to Johnny Curran - my great grandfather Topper. I hadn’t done any research on the Grogans, so I jumped in. Lizzie was born in Dungannon in 1872. She died in 1898 in Newry at the age of 25, after a week…
My last post on Granny Curran (Mary Ellen Hughes) led down an interesting but inconclusive path, the story of Mary's grandparents dying young of TB, leaving her mother Susan to live with her uncle/aunt. Susan's marriage details seem a bit off, though, so I went back into my notes to take another look. For a…
Having already worked out that Topper/John Curran had served in the 4th Royal Irish Rifles around the time of WW1, it's been interesting to find that his father, Henry, also served in the Rifles. A reference on FamilySearch.org referred to the British Army Militia Record for 1888, which suggested Henry served in the 6th Battalion Royal…
This is what I have managed to piece together. I am 90% sure that this male line is correct, going back to Henry Curran who was born in 1823, and his wife Elizabeth Wood (b.1821) - almost 200 years. This is pretty good going, I think, given how tough it can be to trace…
A Curran History 