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My Haney and Quigg Families from Derry

DerryDesertoghill (Derry)Errigal (Derry)Kilrea (Derry)

May 21, 2018

Hello,

My Haney family left Ireland for Canada in 1829. My Greatx3 Grandparents were Patrick (1797-1860) and Nancy Haney and they sailed to Eastern Canada with my Greatx2 Grandfather Michael (born June 14, 1822 in Londonderry). Another son John was "Born at Sea" in 1829 on the trip over. They, with their expanding family lived in Haneytown, New Brunswick, Canada until around 1874 when most of the family removed to Eureka, Humboldt Co., California.

Michael Haney later married Mary Quigg in Canada, daughter of Patrick Quigg from Desertoghill Parrish, Carrowreagh, and his wife Mary Cain. The Quigg family left Ireland for Canada in the 1850s and then also removed by the 1880s to Humboldt Co., California.

My wife and I just returned from a wonderful 12 days in Ireland including spending time in Londonderry. We spent one afternoon looking for Desertoghill Parish, ending up in the Kennedy Pharmacy in Dunloy where both Pharmasists kindly assisted us, advising that our Quiggs were probably from the Kilrea area where many Quigg families still reside and that there still many Haney families living in the Errigal Parish area. So this is my first attempt to learn more of these families when they lived in Ireland.

If anyone can point me in the right direction t learn more, I would appreciate it.

Thank you,

Wally Luther

Crestline, California

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IrelandXO member

5 replies

Wally:

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!

We are very pleased to hear that you and your wife had a wonderful trip to Ireland.

Can you clarify the religious denomination for the Haneys and Quiggs? If they were Roman Catholic, it will be very difficult to find any church records since the records for Kilrea/Desertoghil start in 1846 and the Errigal/Garvagh records start around the same time.

I checked the 1901 census for Co. Derry (Londonderry at that time) and there were no Haneys in the county and there were 196 Quiggs. I also checked the 1911 census for Haneys and there were 2 listed. Here is the link for the census site.

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/

On the same site, they have fragments of 1831 census records and I notice Quigg and Haney households in Co. Londonderry.  I did not see a Quigg household in Carrowreagh but you may want to check it out.

I would suggest that you add a story for Patrick Haney and Patrick Quigg to our XO Chronicles site and possibly  someone will recognize a connection https://www.irelandxo.com/ireland-xo/history-and-genealogy/ancestor-dat…

Have you considered DNA testing?

Roger McDonnell

 

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

  Hello Roger,

     I appreciate the quick and thoughtful reply.  These families were Catholic, so it sounds like this may be more difficult. The spelling of Haney may have been Heaney.

      I have my family trees posted on Ancestry..com, have done their DNA test and learned that I am 38% Irish/Scotch/Welch. It sounds like a good idea to put a story on the chronicals site.

Thanks so much,

Wally Luthet

 

 

IrelandXO member

  Hello Roger,

     I appreciate the quick and thoughtful reply.  These families were Catholic, so it sounds like this may be more difficult. The spelling of Haney may have been Heaney.

      I have my family trees posted on Ancestry..com, have done their DNA test and learned that I am 38% Irish/Scotch/Welch. It sounds like a good idea to put a story on the chronicals site.

Thanks so much,

Wally Luthet

 

 

IrelandXO member

Wally:

Since you took the Ancestry test, you may want to load your raw Ancestry DNA to Gedmatch www.gedmatch.com ; Gedmatch is a volunteer run site where you can upload your DNA and see if you match someone who tested with another testing company (and also loaded their data to Gedmatch). It allows you to expand your matching pool.

Roger

Castlemore RoscommonIrelandXO Volunteer

Hey Wally,

I was discussing how families tended to intermarry with people from their town in Ireland when they came to the US with a distant cousin and he told me that the Heany family had 13 marriages with his McNichol ancestors in the Philly area in the 1800s. They were from Co. Derry so perhaps you are related.

Joanne

 

 

Joandrum@hotmail.com

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