colligan family search

[heatherwalsh]

hello everyone.....i have a william colligan and his wife agnes colligan residing in boness west lothian in 1861. ii am hoping they are my g grandparents.  also i have their son meredeth colligan and his wife mary, living in boness linlithgow in 1856.......would anyone be able, and kind enough to look these people up for me in the 1861 census, so i might be able to see the other members of the households, then see if i can make a connection.......any help would be greatly appreciated...thank you from heather

[MonicaL]

Hi Heather

Are you sure that Meredith was showing as married in 1856? He looks to have been born c. 1855. From 1861:

William Colligan 40, Ironstone Miner b. Ireland
Agnes Colligan 48 b. Ireland
Francis Colligan 14 b. New Monkland, Lanark
William Colligan 11 b. New Monkland, Lanark
Meredith Colligan 6 b. Boness

Address: 45 Newtown, Boness

Monica

[MonicaL]

Meredith and wife Mary in 1891:

Meredith Colligan , Roadman in Coal Mine b. Boness
Mary Colligan 30 b.    Murrayston, Lanarkshire
Margaret F Colligan 12
Agnes H Colligan 9
William Colligan 7
Isabella F Colligan 5
Jemima F Colligan 3
James H Colligan 1

Address: Nos 53 & 52 Flat Row, Shotts Lanarkshire

Monica

[heatherwalsh]

whoops...you are right about meredeth........thank you so much for the look up, it has helped me alot....agnes and william are definatly my great grranparents.    meredeth looks to be the right one as well with his wife mary, they had a son called meredeth as well and he died when he was 4 yrs old. as he is not listed with them, i'll assume he would have been an older child maybe,.....i'll have to do a bit of snooping there.    if you are able could you maybe jump forward to the1871 census for these people to see if anymore children came along ?  i am very gratefu lfor what you have done for me already, i dont want to push my luck......big thank you's sent your way...from heather

[heatherwalsh]

hmmmmm....meredeth colligan and mary colligan (nee hardie), their son meredeth died age 4, west benhar, 13 feb 1889, buried in kirk o shotts..... these are my definate relations......wondering if they are the same as above....

[MonicaL]

There is an entry on the pilot site http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#start for an Agnes Hail Colligan b. 14 May 1881 in Shotts Lanarkshire to Meridth and Mary Hardie. Agnes' birth fits well with that 1891 census entry from earlier (was Meredith's mother Agnes Hail?).

Meredith looks to be the last son of William and Agnes. From 1871:

William Calligan 49, miner
Agnes H Calligan 58
Meredeth Colligan 16 miner
Thos Smith 25 boarder

Address: 87 Muirhead Rd, Shotts

1881 and Meredith married by now:

Merideth Colligan 25, Lab At Iron Mines
Mary Colligan 20
Margaret Colligan 2

Address: No. 72 Benhar Messrs R. Addie & Sons Houses, Shotts

Monica

[heatherwalsh]

yes meredeths mum was agnes hail.........so we must have this right then.... i hope !!!! thank you again for your help.....its exciting

[MonicaL]

Enjoy your research Heather - hope you make lots of great discoveries 

[ScottishShale]

Hi Heather

I am currently transcribing company records from our Scottish shale oil museum collection and have just come across the name Meredith Colligan in a tenancy book as living at No 46 Pumpherston / Work Rows, Mid Calder, West Lothian from 04/12/88 to 04/08/1890.  These houses were owned by the Pumpherston Oil Company to house their workforce of shale miners and oil workers. 

Given that Meredith Colligan is , I think?, an unusual name, and that he worked as a miner in and around the West Lothian area I thought I would just drop you a line, particulary as the dates fall between any census information you may have.

We are in the early stages of our project, some of our transcribed records are available to search on our website  (www.scottishshale.co.uk) at the moment but as I have only just entered Meredith's record just now you will not find it yet.  It may be that we find other records as the project progresses.