Quigley family

[Malcolm173]

Hi

My great grandmother was Rose Anne Quigley, born about 1852 (place unknown).  I’ve just received her marriage certificate which shows that her father was a John Quigley whose occupation was a brewer and whose address was William Street, Londonderry.  Rose married Michael John O’Loughlin (an excise officer) in the chapel of St Columb in Londonderry on 9 April 1872.

I would be grateful for any information about Rose, her father or other members of her family before she married.

Many thanks if you can help.

Malcolm

[Malcolm173]

Just to update this (after 13 years!) in case it helps others researching this family, Rose Anne Quigley was baptised on 26th February 1853 in Londonderry.  Her parents were John Quigley and Mary Boyle, who were married in February 1850 in Londonderry.  Siblings of Rose included:

Ellen Quigley: baptised 18th Oct 1857 (St Columb, Derry)
John Quigley: baptised 21st Sept 1859 (St Columb, Derry)
Joseph Quigley: birth registered 26th Mar 1864 (address: 16 Abbey St, Derry)
Agnes Quigley: birth registered 9th Dec 1865 (address: 16 Abbey St, Derry)

John’s occupations listed on the various birth and marriage registrations of his children include carpenter, brewer and distiller.

As John’s and Mary’s names were so common in Londonderry at the time, it is difficult to identify them from the lists of death registrations.

[Kiltaglassan]

Just adding the link to the 1872 marriage-

Rose married Michael John O’Loughlin (an excise officer) in the chapel of St Columb in Londonderry on 9 April 1872.

Note that one of the witnesses was a Charles Quigley.

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1872/11306/8148476.pdf


KG

[gaffy]

It's very faint, but if you play around with decreasing the brightness and increasing the contrast of the following page from the registers of St. Columb's, Derry, you will see a Charles Quigley baptised on 29 October 1854 for parents John Quigley and Mary Boyle (right page, about 6 entries up from bottom):

https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633058#page/40/mode/1up

[gaffy]

In the following civil registration of a marriage in 1883 at Drumachose RC Church between Michael McCann and Maria Quigley, the bride's father was recorded as just 'Quigley', alive, a distiller:

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1883/10939/5997860.pdf

However, a 'RootIreland' transcript of the church record of the marriage identifies both parents for the marriage participants, namely:
- John Quigley and Mary Boyle for the bride; and
- Michael McCann and Catherine Carroll for the groom.

The transcript also says that the groom's parents were from Eskra, Co. Tyrone and that both witnesses were from William Street, Derry.

Although the above civil marriage registration described Maria as a minor, in the event, I don't think she was, as there was a baptism on 16 October 1861 in the St. Columb's (Derry) registers for a daughter Maria for parents John Quigley and Mary Boyle (left page):

https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633058#page/125/mode/1up

(I couldn't see a later baptism to suggest that the 1861 Maria died.)

[gaffy]

I also wondered about the following Bridget Quigley who married Joseph McCloskey in St. Eugene's, Derry, in 1882, the address for both parties was Wm. St Londonderry, the bride's father was given as John Quigley, carpenter, and one of the witnesses was a Maria Quigley (maybe the one who married Michael McCann the following year?):

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1882/10975/8011947.pdf

Further to the Bridget in that marriage, here's another one for messing around with brightness and contrast - it's a baptism in St. Columb's, Derry, on 23 September 1859, the child's name is definitely Bridget, the mother's name is definitely Mary Boyle, the father's forename is definitely John, for his surname I think I can see a capital 'Q' and tails for a later 'g' and 'y' - I'm guessing this is Bridget Quigley's baptism (top of right page):

https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633058#page/101/mode/1up

[gaffy]

... John Quigley: baptised 21st Sept 1859 (St Columb, Derry) ...

I'm assuming that the above John died (also a John I can see who was baptised in 1851), for another John was born in 1867 in William Street:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1867/03465/2272418.pdf

And a daughter Margaret was born in William Street in 1869:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1869/03373/2236571.pdf



Edited later to add:  While there was a John baptised in 1851 (and died in 1860 - see subsequent post at reply #8), I couldn't find your baptism of a John on 21 September 1859, but I wondered, because the legibility is so poor, could this be the one I mentioned at reply #5 above for 23 September 1859?  (Which is definitely Bridget...) 

[gaffy]

... As John’s and Mary’s names were so common in Londonderry at the time, it is difficult to identify them from the lists of death registrations.

Here's the death of John Quigley (senior)... in Belfast.

Derry Journal of 22 August 1904:  QUIGLEY - August 20, at Belfast, John Quigley, brewer, formerly of William Street, Derry. - R.I.P. His remains will reach Derry by the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway Terminus, Waterside, tomorrow (Tuesday) morning, the 23rd instant, at 9.35 o'clock, for interment in the Derry City Cemetery.  Friends will please accept this the only intimation.

The death registration showed him as a 78 year old widower:

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1904/05621/4581284.pdf

[gaffy]

You can see John's burial record here:

https://www.derrystrabane.com/cemeteryrecords

Once the record comes back, if you click on the 'Grave Location', you will get back all the occupants of that grave, you will see what looks like the daughter Margaret born in 1869 (died 1875), a daughter Mary born and died in 1856 and the son John born c. 1851 (died 1860).  There is also a Mary Quigley who was buried 21 August 1895 and the best match for a death record I can find is the following one - which also took place in Belfast. Mary was described as the 62 year old 'wife of John Quigley Brewer', the informant was a grandson called James Mulhern:
 
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1895/05925/4682629.pdf