IRL-CORK-L Archives

Archiver > IRL-CORK > 2006-04 > 1144547567


From: Mary Ellen Rossi <>
Subject: Re: Hourihane, Hourahan, Horan New to list
Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2006 18:52:47 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <000201c65b59$1eb4f330$1702a8c0@mrfp4cxs08nhbu>


Greetings,
I have "Horrigans", also known as "Harrigan", "Horgan"
and a bunch of others. I wonder if they are related to
your "Horans". I also have Wheltons, which is a
variant of "Houlihan" - these are from Cork. I think
its difficult to pin down because of the British
translators versions of Irish names.
All the best,
Mary Ellen
Searching: Whelton, Horrigan, McCarthy, O'Connor

--- gilliananne <>
wrote:

> I've recently spent three days in Dublin searching
> for a 'needle in a
> haystack' for Margaret, daughter of John and Alice,
> Ellise or Ellen
> Hourihane born somewhere in West Cork c. 1847. Her
> family moved to
> Wigan, Lancashire by 1851 where she is the youngest
> daughter with
> siblings Patrick, Mary, Anne, Rose, Michael & John.
> By 1871 they were
> all known as HORAN.
>
> The nearest I found was Margaret daughter of Curly
> HOURICAN & Ellen
> Tobin of Gorladoo 25th May 1846 in Durras RC
> records. I also found a
> Margaret d.o. John HOARIHAN & Norri HAURHAN 2nd
> January 1848 of Rossmore
> in the same parish record.
>
> Does anyone know if Curly could be a nickname for
> John or Norrie for
> Ellen?
>
> The saddest record I found was in Castlehaven &
> Myross where the priest
> has written in August 1847 'a dreadful year of
> famine', and in November
> 1847 'all are dying of starvation'. There were very
> few births that
> year. This put my own fruitless search in
> perspective.
>
> Is anyone else looking for this family? They may be
> related to the
> Hourihane family who moved to Soth Wales at about
> the same time, but I
> can't be sure about this.
>
> --
> No virus found in this outgoing message.
> Checked by AVG Free Edition.
> Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/304 -
> Release Date:
> 07/04/2006
>
>
>
> ==== IRL-CORK Mailing List ====
> Threaded archives for IRL-CORK can be found at
> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/irl-cork
>
> ==============================
> Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million
> records added in the
> last 12 months. Largest online collection in the
> world. Learn more:
> http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx
>
>


__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com

This thread: