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Descendants of Timothy DUGGAN and Judith KEEGAN

LaoisAghaboe (Laois)

Hello,

I am trying to trace relations of Timothy DUGGAN and Judith/Judy KEEGAN. They were married sometime before 1796. They had several children:

  • Margaret (bap. 1796)
  • Honor (bap. 1799) (may have died prior to 1845)
  • Anne (bap. 1801)
  • ?Mary (bap. 1805)
  • Andrew (born abt 1810)
  • Judy (date unknown, poss abt 1803)
  • Minny (date unknown)

The baptisms noted above are from the Aghaboe Roman Catholic Parish registers.

Andrew DUGGAN was convicted of larceny in 1845 and transported to Tasmania. He later married in Melbourne and then moved to NZ. Andrew's death notice referred to him as a "native of Burrows-in-Ossory, Queen's County, Ireland"[sic].

I have no further information on any of the girls. I have found a possible match for Judy being committed as a "dangerous lunatic" in April 1859, but can't confirm it is the same person.

Any further information on this family, or suggestions for further research areas,would be greatly appreciated.

Lisa

IrelandXO member

3 replies

Dear Lisa

Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out and thanks for your query.

As you can see from the link below the Roman Catholic records for Aghaboe begin in 1795. There are some gaps however, notably between 1830 and 1838.

http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/fuses/rcparishmaps/index.cfm?fuseaction=showidrecords&CityCounty=Laois&parish=Aghaboe&churchid=966

You could begin your search by checking for marriages for the above named children on www.familysearch.org or www.rootsireland.ie (a subscription site) to see if you can find any record of your Duggan ancestors.

Best of luck with your search

Clare Doyle

Genealogy Support

IrelandXO member

Hi Lisa,

I am a relative of Andrew Duggan whose son Timothy Duggan was my great grandfather. Timothy would perhaps have been named for Andrew’s father who was also Timothy. My great grandfather Timothy had the distinction of being the first male child born in Alexandra in New Zealand where I live today. I have a newspaper article about Timothy who grew up in a gold mining area and later owned a general store which his son Ted (my grandfather) later took over. Ted was married to Barbara and they had four children - Stan, Nola, Ian (my father) and Murray. Stan and Murray did not have children and my brother Hamish Duggan in Melbourne has two daughters so the Duggan name from Ted’s line will stop with us. Jenny Collier nee Duggan 

JenD

I can’t seem to upload the newspaper article about Timothy Duggan. Will try again another day. 

JenD

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