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Research in Other Countries => United States of America => Topic started by: higginsag on Monday 04 May 20 04:50 BST (UK)
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I would like help to find any marriage, death or probates/wills for Hugh Higgins born in Offaly, Ireland in 1838, emigrated to the United States in 1860 at the age of 22. Thank you. Higginsag.
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Where did he go when he arrived in the US? There are a couple of possibilities in the census, but need to narrow it down.
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What were the parents names ?
Pure guess - could this be a possible ???
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Hugh Higgins - 1838 -1907 ( Born in Ireland, son of John Higgins and Catherine Flynn )
Saint Marys Cemetery Red Oak, Montgomery County, Iowa.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117188745
Catherine “Kate” Ellis Higgins 1843 - 1878
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/189853315/catherine-higgins
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Sandra
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Thank you Sandra and Eileen
I am afraid I had already located Hugh Higgins who died on 21 Sept 1907, married to Catherine. (It was great to see the tombstones tho). There are many pieces to the puzzle. I was following a Hugh Higgins whose parents were Paul and Margaret Madden from Offaly, as he had an older brother Michael (my g.grandfather was Michael who emigrated to NZ). We also knew that Hugh in the States did not have children - well no son anyway. I also believed that my Higgins aunt who was born in 1914 in NZ was a young girl when advice of Hugh's death arrived by letter (which was lost and not replied to) from a lawyer in New York - so his death would have been a later date. I have found another Hugh Higgins married to Catherine Kelly Higgins who had three children, all of whom did not survive infanthood (William, Catherine and Mary-Ellen). But if it were our Hugh, he would be childless but he would have been 48 when his first child was born. I do wish the Irish had given their children second names! I have viewed a large number of census papers. I do not know the parents' names of my ancestors. Thank you again, Higginsag.
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I have found a Hugh Higgins who died in Kings County, New York, in 1912. He was a widower and according to the NY Kings County Estate Files his legatees are all nieces and nephews, two in the States all the rest in Ireland. This fits with what little I know about him, but tells me nothing about him. I would love to find his date of birth and his marriage details. Can anyone help. The nephew ("over 21 years of age") who represented as next-of-kin was a Bernard J Higgins of the Bronx. Thank you, Higginsag.
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If listed, can you outline the names of the rest of the nieces and nephews. I find a Bernard Higgins in the Bronx in the 1920 Census but not in 1910.
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For reference:-
Sandra
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Could be this one: Hugh Higgins - death date could be interment date
Holy Cross Cemetery
Brooklyn, Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, USA Show Map
Plot Holy Name, System CEM, Section HONA, Row 30, Plot 54
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/173196284/hugh-higgins
Sandra
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The legatees in Co. Sligo in the 1911 Irish Census:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Sligo/Coolaney/Rathosey/772959/
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Obit - Hugh Higgins -
The Standard Union
Brooklyn, New York
31 Jul 1912, Wed Page 4
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51795511/hugh-higgins-31-july-1912/
Sandra
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Higgins on Blessington Street, Dublin in the 1911 Census:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/results.jsp?searchMoreVisible=&census_year=1911&surname=higgins&firstname=&county19011911=&county1821=&county1831=&county1841=&county1851=&parish=&ward=&barony=&townland=blessington&houseNumber=&ded=&age=&sex=&search=Search&ageInMonths=&relationToHead=&religion=&education=&occupation=&marriageStatus=&yearsMarried=&birthplace=&nativeCountry=&language=&deafdumb=&causeOfDeath=&yearOfDeath=&familiesNumber=&malesNumber=&femalesNumber=&maleServNumber=&femaleServNumber=&estChurchNumber=&romanCatNumber=&presbNumber=&protNumber=&marriageYears=&childrenBorn=&childrenLiving=
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1910 census Van Brunt St Brooklyn NY
Mary Grimes 28
Nancy E Grimes 4
Frank B Grimes 10
Francis K Verona 13
James A Hopkins 24
Hugh Higgins 84 born Ireland 1826. Baker. Employer. NA. Imm 1880. Single.
Malcomb Mcleod 27
Sandra
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1892 census Brooklyn, Kings (James Hopkins named on this census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQ3V-BW8
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-DTM3-BKV?i=8&personaUrl=%2Fark%3A%2F61903%2F1%3A1%3AMQ3V-BW8
Sandra
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This could be the nephew Paul Higgins -
1910 census Boston Ward 2, Suffolk, Massachusetts.
Paul Higgins born 1887 Ireland. Imm 1898. NA. SoldierUS Army.
Sandra
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Same family in Sligo in 1901:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Sligo/Coolaney/Rathosey/1688159/
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The children in Sligo have the parents named Peter Higgins & Anne McDonagh:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1881/02813/2031986.pdf
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Peter & Anne's marriage in 1871. His father's name is Hugh:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1871/11337/8161277.pdf
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The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Brooklyn, New York
26 Sep 1912, Thu Page 25
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51796303/hugh-higgins-26-september-1912/
The Brooklyn Citizen
Brooklyn, New York
29 Aug 1912, Thu Page 5
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/51796466/hugh-higgins-29-august-1912/
Sandra
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So, this family seems to have been firmly from Co. Sligo. Unlikely to be related to someone from Co. Offaly.
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Thank you Eileen and Sandra for all your time and interest. I did have some of the information, ie. the list of legatees, but you have given me more data. The one puzzle is that this particular Higgins fits for not having any children. He communicated with his brother in NZ in the early nineteen hundreds about an interest in adopting one of his nephews (my grandad) - which did not happen. Therefore, one would think he had a wife (hopefully). Hugh is not a family name on this side of the oceans but your wonderful researchers found a Higgins family in Kilcolman, Offaly, with a son Michael (born on the correct date (1835) for my ggrandfather Michael who came to NZ) and another son Hugh (b.1838) who emigrated to the States on the "Universe" arriving in New York on 31 October 1860 aged 22. Thus I have been pursuing any number of Hugh Higginses. Another son, James (b. 1845) may well have emigrated to the States as well. It's a jolly tricky business! Best wishes, Higginsag.
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Further to my last message I feel I may be more successful following Bernard J Higgins, the nephew of Hugh Higgins, because if I am tracking the right family, he would be the son of the only other brother in Ireland, James. Does this make sense? Thank you. Higginsag.
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Thank you again Eileen and Sandra. Higginsag.