Martin Tighe (Tigue)

 

Do you know much about their emigration? The dates, the reasonwhy they left, who they may have travelled with?..etc..Generally more information was given atthe port of arrival rather than the port of departure. If you knew which city they arrived at (e.g.Liverpool, New York, etc.), this could be a good place to find more information. -And perhaps evenfind out an exact place of origin. Ellis Island:http://www.ellisisland.org/search/passSearch.asp Castlegarden:http://www.castlegarden.org/ US National Archives/Immigration info:http://www.archives.gov/research/immigration/ The Boston Pilot; From October 1831 through October 1921, the Boston Pilot newspaper printed a?Missing Friends? column with advertisements from people looking for ?lost? friends and relativeswho had emigrated from Ireland to the United States. This extraordinary collection of 40,743 recordsis available here as a searchable online database, which contains a text record for each ad thatappeared in the Pilot. http://infowanted.bc.edu/  The next thing you could do is find the counties and places in Ireland your family names are mostprevalent. Look at the website http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/ and perhapssomething will match some other clue you may have found elsewhere? If nothing turnsup ? it is advisable to try different variations of the spellings of the names. If you have a possiblefirst name you could try the Irish Census 1901, 1911 at www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ or the landvaluation record called Griffiths Valuationhttp://askaboutireland.ie/griffith-valuation/index.xml 

 

Hi!  I have a TIGHE connection from Mayo that I have not researched yet - a ggg-grandmother, Mary TIGHE (b: abt. 1820).  What I do know about Mary is that she married Patrick LOFTUS.  One of their children, Anthony LOFTUS (my gg-grandfather) was born about 1844.  He married Bridget FLYNN (not sure if this happenned in Ireland or PA).  Their oldest child (my g-grandmother) was born in 1869 in Pittston (Lackawanna County), PA and the rest of her six siblings were born in Scranton.  In the obituaries for both Anthony and Bridget, it states that they were from "Mygownaugh, County Mayo" (Moygownagh).  This is one branch of the family tree that I haven't researched much yet - TIGHE, LOFTUS, & FLYNN - although I have gathered quite a bit of information on the Loftus family over the years.  From what I have learned so far, Mary Tighe LOFTUS and her husband stayed in Ireland. If you think your Martin and my Mary might have a connection, feel free to get in touch.  Kim (katcm61 at yahoo.com)

I sent you an E -mail, Thanks for your info!
Colleen

I appreciate all the tips. With an immigration of 1847 I believe he may have come through Canada. I cannot find him in Castle Garden records and he arrived too early for Ellis Island. It is my belief that he may have travelled with a group from his area in Mayo as it was during the Famine and that they all settled in the Scranton Pennsylvania area and found work in the coal mines.

Unfortunately I have no record of siblings or parents. Ironically, there is a street in Scranton named Tighe.

There was a Martin Tigue in Aughamore near Ballyhaunis in the mid 1800s. Some of his descendants now live in Levallyroe, Ballyhaunis. Later members of this family were connected to Cardinal D'alton.

Do you know the names of Martin & Anne's other children? If so, were you able to track them after Martin's death?

I've been tracking Tigh(u)e's in Pittston for some time now.  One family in particular.  My gr-gr-grandfather was James Tighe, son of John D. Tighe -- suppoedly of Carbondale, PA

James (b.1865) is the oldest of his siblings by 9 years (an unusual gap) and it  has been rumored that he was 'adopted'.  I suppose it's likely he was taken in by relatives.  

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UPDATE:  Disregard my previous statement. I already have Martin & Anne in my tree.    One of their children, Martin, married  Catherine Connell and they had several children.  You likely know this already, but if not please contact me and I will share with you what I have.

Martin Tighe who married Catherine Connell is my great uncle. My grandmother Matilda Tighe Cooney was his younger sister. Are these Tighe's (Tigue) your relatives as well?  He had an older brother James who lived in Pittston. Would like to compare notes.

Colleen

Colleen,

I'm not directly related to Martin Tighe and family ...well not yet anyway : )     

I can definitively say that 'my' James Tighe is not the son on Martin & Anne.  Though they were born within a year or so of each other.  'My' James married Elizabeth Hughes.  I'm not 100% sure who James's biological parents are, but that's a long story.  

Martin & Anne are in my tree because they are connected to (in a roundabout) way to another Flynn family from Pittston that I have been researching.

Feel free to email me -- we can compare notes.

mflynn7 {a.t.} gmail.

-Marty

Hello!  Just discovered this website and posting...have been searching family roots via my father - Robert Tighe's ancestors.  His father was John Tigue, born 1878 or thereabouts and died in 1932...my father's family were all from Scranton.  John may have been a son of one of Martin and Anne's children...?  John  married Louise Evelyn Whelan and they had 9 children.  A mystery to our family is the change in spelling of the name...my father's older siblings used the Tigue spelling, while my father and others used Tighe.

Any information on Martin and Anne's children would be most helpful!

Thank you - Kathleen Tighe Gaye

I know what you mean about the spelling of Tighe/Tigue! In my research it seems to change back and forth from census to census. My great uncle James Tighe was Tigue in 3 census reports and then from 1930 was Tighe and it stayed that way. In one census prior to that his was Tigue and his brother Martin was Tighe. I have found the same with my grandmother Matilda Tighe, many of the old Pittson directories just give Tigue for all.

With all that said it seemed my bunch settled on Tighe. The info I have is Martin Tighe married Ann Healey in 1853 in Scranton. They settled in the Sebastopol area of Pittston. Martin was killed in a mine accident in1875 leaving Ann with 5 surviving children. Bridget, Martin, James and Matilda.

I do know that James had a son named John(1900-1967) who raised his family in Scranton.

Happy to share more info if you like! Do you have any idea where they came from in Ireland? I feel certain it was the North Mayo area. 

Colleen

 

 

Your grandmother Matilda's brother, Martin, may have been my grandfather (John's) father...we (my sister's and I have been undertaking this research), know his name was Martin and he married a Margaret Burke...tho, you noted that your great uncle Martin married a woman by the name of Catherine Connell - ?  So maybe this isn't the same Martin??

Do you know anything about your great uncle's children?  Martin and Margaret had five children...Bridget, Martin (another one!), John (my grandfather), Michael and Mary.

In researching family history in America, what have you found to be the most fruitful sources?  We are piecing together family knowledge, trying to get church records and county records.

Yes, Mayo County seems to be the the starting point for us, too...

Kathleen

Martin Tighe, my great uncle who married Catherine Connell, had 3 children, Mary, Martin and Paul. I am sure there would have been more but he was killed in the mines in 1918. Don't see a direct connection with your Martin but what is very interesting is that a Burke family lived very close to the Tighe's for years. My great Aunt Mary Cooney married Peter Burke from there and I think he had a sister Margaret. Wonder if that could be your Margaret Burke.

I got a lot of great Tighe info from Bob Tighe about ten years ago. He really answered a lot of questions for me. His grandfather was James Tighe. I belong to Ancestry which is a great resource to use as well as interact with others. I know the Burkes I just mentioned were from Sligo.

Colleen

 

Re spelling of Tighe/Tigue. I've seen what appears to have been McTigue in a Mayo parish register: 1875 marriage of Michael McTigue and Mary Loftus. (Witnesses Edward Gillespie & Ellen Walsh.)