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Peter Corrigan

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA, United States
Death: December 03, 1911 (78)
Lucknow, Bruce County, ON, Canada (Nephritis (inflammation of the kidney) 4 months, Myocariatis 3 days)
Place of Burial: Holyrood, Bruce County, ON, Canada
Immediate Family:

Son of John Corrigan and Helen of Holyrood Corrigan
Husband of Agnes Dick Corrigan
Father of Thomas Corrigan; Female Corrigan; Agnes D Pearson; Peter Corrigan; Joseph Corrigan and 2 others
Brother of Elizabeth "Eliza" Fleming; PLACEHOLDER Ellen Corrigan; Catherine Cain; Mary Ann Purvis; James Corrigan and 3 others

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About Peter Corrigan

Marriage registration recordation Jan. 14, 1861 says marriage “solemnized [by] J. St. Aubin Priest of Riversdale.”
Note a “Father J. St. Aubin was stationed in Riversdale” also see http://http.wightman.ca/~wts/riversdale/ (Marriage predates first church built in Riverdale in 1865.) Both bride and groom living in Kinloss. Marriage likely performed at log cabin then being built in Riversdale to later that year to become separate (RC) school used for services on Sundays also. “At this time, the only other priest in Bruce County besides Riversdale's Father St. Aubin, was Father Gstir; Pastor of Formosa.” See link.

Witnesses were Eliza Shascass[?] and John Peterson.

Peter mentioned in mother's obit April 13, 1900 as loving then in Holyrood.
Also mention are parents living in Philadelphia two years time he as born,

US records may be able to be checked for his birth and parent's immigration but decennial US Census does mot overlap stay in USA



1901 Census says immigrated from America to Canada in 1835 which is also state birth year,

Living in Kinloss when married in Jan 14 1861
Assume they did not know birthday for death reg and put at age back even years matching death date in err, census better,

Lucknow Sentinel, 1911-12-07, Page 12 Death noted https://pubdocs.huroncounty.ca/WebLink/DocView.aspx?id=1026538&dbid...

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Peter Corrigan's Timeline

1833
March 16, 1833
Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA, United States
1866
April 10, 1866
Ontario, Canada
1868
1868
Ontario, Canada
1871
August 26, 1871
Lucknow, Bruce County, ON, Canada
1874
October 1, 1874
Brant Twp, Bruce County, ON, Canada
1874
1876
May 1, 1876
Kinloss, Bruce County, ON, Canada
1879
January 22, 1879
Ontario, Canada
1911
December 3, 1911
Age 78
Lucknow, Bruce County, ON, Canada