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The Grogans

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…

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Getting Started

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…