Greetings, I have "Horrigans", also known as "Harrigan", "Horgan" and a bunch of others. I wonder if they are related to your "Horans". I also have Wheltons, which is a variant of "Houlihan" - these are from Cork. I think its difficult to pin down because of the British translators versions of Irish names. All the best, Mary Ellen Searching: Whelton, Horrigan, McCarthy, O'Connor --- gilliananne <gilliananne.thompson@ntlworld.com> wrote: > I've recently spent three days in Dublin searching > for a 'needle in a > haystack' for Margaret, daughter of John and Alice, > Ellise or Ellen > Hourihane born somewhere in West Cork c. 1847. Her > family moved to > Wigan, Lancashire by 1851 where she is the youngest > daughter with > siblings Patrick, Mary, Anne, Rose, Michael & John. > By 1871 they were > all known as HORAN. > > The nearest I found was Margaret daughter of Curly > HOURICAN & Ellen > Tobin of Gorladoo 25th May 1846 in Durras RC > records. I also found a > Margaret d.o. John HOARIHAN & Norri HAURHAN 2nd > January 1848 of Rossmore > in the same parish record. > > Does anyone know if Curly could be a nickname for > John or Norrie for > Ellen? > > The saddest record I found was in Castlehaven & > Myross where the priest > has written in August 1847 'a dreadful year of > famine', and in November > 1847 'all are dying of starvation'. There were very > few births that > year. This put my own fruitless search in > perspective. > > Is anyone else looking for this family? They may be > related to the > Hourihane family who moved to Soth Wales at about > the same time, but I > can't be sure about this. > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.0/304 - > Release Date: > 07/04/2006 > > > > ==== IRL-CORK Mailing List ==== > Threaded archives for IRL-CORK can be found at > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/irl-cork > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million > records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the > world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com