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Ellen Meagher (Corrigan)

Also Known As: "Helen"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Hungerford Twp, Hungerford, Hastings County, ON, Canada
Death: June 09, 1878 (36-37)
Greenock, Bruce County, ON, Canada (dropsy, 6 months)
Immediate Family:

Daughter of John Corrigan and Helen of Holyrood Corrigan
Wife of Michael Meagher
Mother of John Meagher; Mary Anne Kehoe; William Francis Meagher; Helen "Nellie" Keating; Elizabeth "Lizzie" Hayes (Meagher) and 3 others
Sister of Peter Corrigan and PLACEHOLDER Ellen Corrigan

Managed by: Brian Alexander Pomykala
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About Ellen Meagher

Ellen was from Kinloss Twp before married. Other Corrigan lives in Holyrood and are in cemetery there.

Note there is a Eliza Corrigan in Greenock, on birth reg March 25 1872 to Bridget Flemming married to Patrick Flemming in Greenock 3 births on registry after Helen Corrigan's birth of James Meagher April 1872 in Greenock - any way related? sisters? cousins? (later project)

1931 Census aging daughters Mary Keating and Nellie Meagher say mother Ellen Meagher born in Ontario. and father born in Nova Scotia,

1878 June 8 death cert for Ellen Corrigan registered by husband Michael Meagher June 29 1878 says she was born in Hungerford Hastings Co. ON

Birth year 1841 derived from age 37 on 1878 death cert.

Note:When Ellen died at 37 in 1878 she left widowed husband Michael Meagher with seven children to take care of and raise from John the oldest just turned 15 to Agnes the youngest just turned 2 years old.

Gravestone has her name with one r Corigan in err and correct death date, plus names of William Francis died June 10 1884 and Marie Agnes Marie died March 19, 1908 (who? siblings? - checking)
https://images.findagrave.com/photos/2016/164/130531850_1465826107.jpg

Aside, lots of Corrigans in Saint Charles Borromeo Cemetery Memorials Read Hastings Co (Ellen born in Hungerford Hastings Co)
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2368239/memorial-search?firstna...

There are also many Meaghers in Saint James Roman Catholic Cemetery in Belleville, Hastings County,
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2338275/memorial-search?firstNa...

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Ellen Meagher's Timeline

1841
1841
Hungerford Twp, Hungerford, Hastings County, ON, Canada
1863
May 24, 1863
Canada
1866
August 1866
Greenock, Bruce County, ON, Canada
1868
1868
1869
September 19, 1869
1870
July 18, 1870
Greenock, Bruce County, ON, Canada
1872
April 3, 1872
at home, Greenock, Bruce County, ON, Canada
1874
June 16, 1874
1876
May 28, 1876
Greenock, Bruce County, ON, Canada
1878
June 9, 1878
Age 37
Greenock, Bruce County, ON, Canada