MIGGIN(S) from County Meath

[heywood]

Yes, I saw Owen’s death and Kate’s remarriage.

I posted it to show what you say also - how difficult it is with the various families and names in both townlands.

[CiJaNiPa]

Not far. (Tried to post a screenshot of the map but it won't post.) So, even if Owen and Catherine lived in Corballis, he still could have died in Ballivor. Their last two kids could have still been baptized in Ballivor.

So, that means his mother could have been the Alice Miggin who died in Ballivor.

Alice Reynolds and James Miggin had a son Eugene born in 1833... Even though Owen's death and marriage records would have put him at about 1839, all other factors really seem to point to him being the same as the Eugene (1833) with James and Alice Reynolds as parents.

[CiJaNiPa]

Yes, I saw Owen’s death and Kate’s remarriage.

I posted it to show what you say also - how difficult it is with the various families and names in both townlands.

Oops, sorry about that.

[heywood]

Just pointing out that Patrick wa the son of Patrick, not Owen.

[heywood]

I still favour Corballis rather than Ballivor but it is so difficult.
Hope this link works  re Griffiths - Corballis
https://www.rootschat.com/links/01ss4/
There are Reynolds there and several Miggan including Alice Miggan.
There is no James though.

Ballinvor shows just Anne Miggins.

[CiJaNiPa]

Just pointing out that Patrick wa the son of Patrick, not Owen.

I'm looking at a Roots Ireland baptism for Patrick Miggin
Father: Owen Miggin
Mother: Catherine Molloy
Baptism 25 Jan 1896
Ballivor
SPs: Thomas Murray and Catherine Bennett.

But I just realized that the year doesn't make sense. Why would it say Owen...if Owen died in 1888 and she was married to Patrick?

I am SO confused.   

[CiJaNiPa]

And thank you - the link did work. So I see a Thomas Reynolds, and there was a Thomas Reynolds witness at Catherine and Owen's marriage.

I mean, this may sound strange, but the Thomas next to Alice's name is a junior...could Thomas's middle name have been James and he went by that since he was a junior? Haha. I just don't know.

[heywood]

Patrick’s birth
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1896/02185/1826983.pdf

Marriage of Patrick Miggin (father Thomas) and Kate Miggin (Molloy) https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1889/10734/5914039.pdf

[CiJaNiPa]

Decided to look into the Thomas Miggin who married Catherine Reilly in 1877 since he had a deceased father James...

This must be that Thomas: http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Meath/Kildalkey/Ballaghtalion/1620725/
Born in approximately 1841.
Son in the census was born in about 1880.
Looked up James Miggin born in 1880, and exact in that year was a James born to Thomas Miggins and Catherine Reilly. As far as I can tell, that's the only child they had.

Tried to find a death record for Catherine Miggin who may have been Catherine Reilly who died between 1880 and 1901 and came across this:
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1899/05806/4643560.pdf -- the informant was a Kate Reilly. I haven't looked through all the records yet, but this one I will hold onto just in case.

Does this tell me who may have been the father of the Thomas Miggin and/or Owen who had a deceased James Miggin father? Nope! That would make things too easy. 

In looking through Roots Ireland, for Thomas Miggin born in 1841 +/- 5 years, there's 3:
-- in 1841, born to Thomas Miggin and Mary Cusack (Ballivor)
-- in 1843, born to John Miggin and Margaret Walsh (Trim)
-- in 1844, born to Christopher Miggin and Catherine Gafney (Ballivor)

Sigh.

And I don't see *any* Thomas born to James Miggin and Alice Reynolds.