Daniel McCavitt was a little trickier to track down at first. I found U.S. immigration papers that give his birthdate as July 15th, 1898. He was still in County Down for the 1911 Census, as were his sisters Rose and Maggie, although Maggie was to cross the Atlantic herself soon thereafter. The Census official took…
[Note: for some reason I did not publish this post, but I've forgotten why. Maybe I was barking up the wrong tree, so bear with me if that's the case. I need to get back into the Maggie/Willie story and finish it up. Did Maggie die in 1934?? I found their marriage record -in Annaclone,…
Elizabeth "Lizzie" McCavitt was one of the 8 McCavitt children born to James and Bridget in the years spanning 1883-1895. Her younger sister Mary -my great-grandaunt- left County Down and settled in Chicago as a young woman. Elizabeth's emigration story also takes her to the United States, but she ends up in the West, in…
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…
I've done a lot of digging -on and off, over the years- into the Curran side of my family history and thought it about time to start to share what I have found out, collated, re-discovered. So, with no particular reason to do so, I begin with Thomas John -Topper, Johnny- Curran (1894-1970) and his…
A Curran History 