Nicholas Corrigan

Nicholas Corrigan is my *3 Great Grandad.  His father was Patrick Corrigan and his mother Ellen Carroll.  Nicholas had 5 siblings all born in Ireland.  His siblings are Patrick, John, Mary, Peter, and James.  The family moved to England about 1850 and made their home in Louth in Lincolnshire.  Patrick senior died in 1850 in St Mary’s Cemetery, Louth, Lincolnshire, England and was denoted at his death as having been born in 1788 in Ireland but no specifics.  His son John registered his death.  

The first English Census which details the family is the 1851 Census for Louth in Lincolnshire.  Ellen was shown as widowed and they were the only people in the town with surname Corrigan. Three of the brothers Nicholas, James and Peter all did some prison time at Louth jail and all stated that their place of birth was Cloone.  Their brother Patrick gave has place of birth on the 1891 Census as Anscairt, Ireland.

Thanks to links provided by Ireland Reaching Out, I have finally been able to locate three of the baptism records for the children Mary, Peter and James at Gortletteragh two denote their place of abode as Anskert.  The information also showed that my previous assumptions about Ellen were wrong.  I am as certain as I’m ever going to be with this information that Ellen is Ellen Carroll.  Of their life in Ireland all I know is that Patrick (1788) was a husbandman as stated on my *3 Great Grandfather’s Marriage Record.  Ellen died in 1858 in Louth Lincolnshire and is buried at London Road Cemetery.

Nicholas married a Lincolnshire woman Eliza Willerton from Great Carlton near Louth Lincolnshire. Nicholas and Eliza had ten children.  He tried his hand at multiple labouring jobs from farm labourer, to miner to husbandry.  Of their ten children : James born 1855 who is my *2 Great Grandfather married a Lincolnshire woman Frances Triffitt.  James and Frances seem to have fallen out just before my *1 Great Grandfather’s birth in 1889 and James left, no one knows where because he disappeared all together and so far has not materialised among the rest of the family and no death has been found for him.  James and Frances had 8 children of whom their youngest Christopher is my Great Grandfather.  Their descendants ended up around Horncastle in Lincolnshire :

Mary born 1857 who is followed as far as being in service and then disappears : Ellen born 1858 who is also followed as far as being in service and then disappears : John born 1860 and married another Irish descendant Mary Ann Blythe, they had 11 children most of whom ended up in and around Grimsby.  John died in Louth and is buried at London Road Cemetery : Nicholas born 1862 died aged 2 buried in Louth : Eliza born 1864 married Lincolnshire man Henry Dring they had 6 children most of whom stayed in Louth with one moving to Grimsby : Bridget born 1866 who married Thomas Wilson they had 4 children who mostly stayed in Louth but one moved to Spilsby : Sarah Ann born 1867 Who died aged 1 and is buried in Louth : Nicholas aged 1873 who never married and never had children he is buried in Louth : Thomas born 1877 married Lincolnshire woman Emma Littleover, they had 2 children Thomas and Phyllis who moved to Lincoln.