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Gaffigans, John and Maggie
The information contained on the Gaffigans, including Agnes B. Gaffigan when she was a little girl, will be found in the following documents.
See U.S. 1900, CA, SF, E.D. 78, Sheet 9A, at the 3008 25th Street, San Francisco address:
This census record also reports John Gaffigan’s arrival in the U.S., as 1867, at the age of 10.
The births of most of the children are listed in the Call Index, an index of newspaper announcements. The marriage is not listed, but the given age of the oldest child, Arthur, makes it likely that the marriage took place about 1879.
The parents appear in the California Death Index [CADI]: Margaret Gaffigan, d. 14 November 1915, SF, 57 {1858}; and John Gaffigan, d. 18 July 1938, in Contra Costa County, at age 85 {which would make his birth date as 1853, 1857}.
Most of the children can also be located:
Given Middle Married M-maiden F-name Born Died Co. of Death
Arthur Gaffigan 19 April 1880 26 July 1953 San Francisco
Albert Gaffigan 23 Oct. 1882 10 Apr. 1951 San Francisco
John Amos Kreenan Gaffigan 31 Aug. 1884 23 Aug. 1946 San Mateo
Mary
Aggie [Agnes] Bridget Carroll Crennan Gahigan 15 Sept. 1888 9 July 1958 Los Angeles
Catherine Lillie Petty[1] June 1891
Clara Aug. 1899
In 1910 U.S. Census, the family is located at 105 Diamond.
John has not been located in U.S. Census of 1920.
But in 1930 census, he was indexed as John Faffigan [sic] as a boarder at 269 2nd Street in SF, San Francisco. He reported himself as being 76 years old {giving his birth date as1854, not 1853 or 1857}; while widowed, he married at 21 {1878 – using his 1900 Census year of birth}, arrived U.S. 1866, and his occupation was a printer.
The 1890 San Francisco Great Register of Voters lists a John Amos Gaffigan, 34 {another discrepancy giving his date of birth as 1856}, birthplace was in Scotland; his residence at that time was 713 Valencia St, San Francisco.
When the U.S. 1870, California, SF, 10th Ward, 4th Precinct, at pg. 119 is compared we find that: Mary Gaffigan [35, b. Ireland, laundress], Thomas Gaffigan [13, b. Scotland], John Gaffigan [11, b. Scotland] reside in the household of James O’Connell [40, b. Ireland, bookseller]. It is possible that this is an early record of John.
It is also possible that these are the persons who arrived at New York, 1 July 1867, aboard the Iowa, o/o Glasgow because the ship’s manifest lists: Mary Goffigan [age 35, born in Ireland], Thomas Goffigan [age 8, born in Ireland], and John Goffigan [age 6, born in Ireland]. The problem is with the age, however, because this would make his birth date as 1861. Alternatively, the age could be wrong in the manifest.
A passenger list for the S.S. Cameronia, Document 62, No. 60, manifest line 0017, page 0376, which left Londonderry (Moville) on 15 August 1914 bound for Ellis Island which arrived 23 August 1914, lists John Gaffigan as returning to the United States. It also indicates that he was naturalized as a U.S. Citizen on 8 July 1879 in San Francisco before Judge {Pennie}, at the age of 21.
There are no U.S. 1860 or U.S. 1870 records in California for a Margaret Kreenan, Creenan or Crenan.
But there was in 1870 where she is listed a Maggie Gaffigan in California Census Roll, 79_76, Family History Film 1254076, page 164B. John Gaffigan was shown as being 23 years old, born in Scotland (1857), with his mother and father being born in Ireland.
However, there is a record for a Margaret Kiernan in U.S. 1870, California, San Francisco; she was 12 at that time {1858}. She was the daughter of Catherine Kiernan [age 44, born in Ireland]. This would probably be the Catherine Kiernan identified in the voting records of 1860 as it dates to 1828. There were other children: Mary [14], Annie [10] and Agnes [6], all born in California.
In U.S. 1860, California, San Francisco, 10th Ward, pg. 74 there appears: Philip Kiernan [x-Kairnen, 36, b. Ireland], was married to Catharine Kiernan [age 32 {1828}, b. Ireland]. They had children: Mary C. [5], Margaret F. [2], Anne M. [1], all born in California.
There are Call Index records for Philip Kiernan, 49, who died in 1869 {b. in 1820} and Katherine Kiernan, 50, whose death was reported in 1878 {giving her a birthdates of 1828}, whose death was reported in 1878 {giving her a birthdates of 1828}.
Unfortunately, the 1861 census data was in a TIF and does not correspond to anything like english to me. It was found on Ancestry.co.uk according to one of the people that responded. It was about Patrick Gaffigan, born about 1822 in Ireland, and the registration district was 597, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, and it was Morton's Back Land (2).
John and Thomas were shown as household members (along with Mary) and they were given as age 2 for John and age 5 for Thomas.
The birthplaces given was Scotland for the two boys in the census data for them, but some of the census data is missing due to the 1906 Earthquake and Fire in San Francisco. Both the 1880 and 1900 census have John born about 1857, while the 1910 shows that he was born in 1858.
Hope this will help. jj