Hi Heywood
Witnesses on the marriage cert for Patrick & Mary Ann Cox were John Riley and Ellen Cox. Have had no joy with the Riley name... Ellen Cox could be Mary Ann's sister or mother (or some other relative...) Ellen Cox (Mary Ann's sister) married a Donnelly...
The Gegan/Geagan name (Michael's 2nd wife) I remember my grandmother talking about... known as 'Old Mother Gegan' she apparently terrified my grandmother (b1910)who as a small child used to hide under the table when she visited and couldn't be coaxed out... she smoked a clay pipe and had a fearsome face/character...my grandmother held that view well into her nineties... Now, whether Michaels 2nd wife was 'this Gegan', who knows... but seems a bit co-incidental...
As I rack my brains, I cannot ever remember my grandmother talking about her grandfather Patrick Farrell when she was recalling childhood memories and stories, so it could be he was deceased by the time she was born or shortly after... (she knew of his existence and that his wife died young, but I don't recall anything else...)
I can see a death record for a Patrick Farrell b1856 who died 1909 in Manchester...but it could be a long shot and not uncover any useful information...
Lisa