Maggie McCahon of Kilrea

[rayelder]

I'm researching a Maggie McCahon of Kilrea. She never married and died in the 1960's. She attended Oxford. I'm trying to understand her relationship to a McGilligan family from Swateragh.

[shanreagh]

Do you have an idea of her birthdate or even year?

Assuming her name was short for Margaret? Did she have any other first names?

[rayelder]

Yes, her name was probably Margaret. I don't have a year for birth. I'm checking with family on exactly where she lived.

[aghadowey]

Could this be Maggie's family?

James McCahon, teacher, married 1898 Margaret Simpson, also a teacher-
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1898/10413/5791634.pdf

www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Londonderry/Grove/Lismoyle/1521718
www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Londonderry/The_Grove/Lismoyle/595358

Children: Olive Margaret (10 Feb.1899), James (9 Aug.1900), Albert Edward (4 June 1902), Elizabeth (3 Oct.1904), Sarah Adeline (2 June 1906), Irene Martha (2 Dec.1911), Helen Mary (10 Feb.1914)

McCahon James of 362 Lisburn Road Belfast retired school teacher died 3 May 1956 Administration Belfast 11 June to Olive Margaret McCahon spinster. Effects £735 8s. 2d.

Mid-Ulster Mail (Cookstown), 9 Dec.1916: OLIVE M'CAHON.--Honors in English, French, German, Drawing. Passed in Arithmetic. Algebra. Geometry .

Belfast Telegraph, 24 Sept.1932: Miss Olive M. M'Cahon, 362 Lisburn Road, Belfast (Rosetta Public Elementary School)

[aghadowey]

Roger McGilligan married Jane McCaghey/McCaughey/McCaghy, etc.- could she be the connection to Maggie?
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FPZQ-T2P
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FPMY-BH9
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F56F-4Y4

[rayelder]

Roger McGilligan (About 1835-1916) and Jane McCahon (About 1842-1919) from Tirhugh, Swatragh, County Londonderry are my Great-great-grandparents. We're unclear if Jane's maiden name was McCahon or McCaughey.

[aghadowey]

McCahon and McCaughey can be used interchangeably but the connection to Maggie McCahon may not be through your Jane.