This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Halligan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/IQh.2ACIB/67.1 Message Board Post: Hugh Halligan was my great uncle on my mother's side. I have very little information about him and would like more. He retired as Deputy Chief of the NYFD in 1959 and invented the Halligan Hook or Tool, used all over the world today to break into burning houses.