Here's something from our cousin [email protected] In a message dated 1/15/00 7:58:00 AM, [email protected] writes: >Michael, > >Keep up the good work. You recently had someone request census information >on a John G. Ragan of Illinois. My great grandmother, Agnes Regan Gibb, >apparently had a brother by that name, who would have been born in Illinois. > Their father's name was Hugh Ragan (1829-1877). In the case of this family, >the name was as often spelled RAGAN as REGAN. > >The "History of Mercer and Henderson Counties (Illinois)", H. H. Hill and >Company, Publishers, Chicago, 1882, has the following biographical sketch: > "HUGH REGAN (deceased), late of Henderson county, was born in County Down, >Ireland in 1829. He was principally reared on a farm, receiving a fair >common school education. On March 16, 1851, he left his native home and >sailed for America in the ship Corinthian, commanded by Capt. Dyer, and >landed at Oquawka (Illinois) April 8 of the same year. He at once set >to work with a view to making for himself a home, and soon after bought >a farm of 160 acres, the N.W. 1/4 of Sec. 28, T. 10, R. 4, where he lived >till the time of his death, May 1877. He left besides his wife, Rosa (Gibb) >Regan, six children: Agnes, wife of John Gibb, Eliza J., wife of David >Gilliland, Mary, wife of Frank Mathews, Annie, John G. and David G. They >are an interesting family." > >The 1860 U. S. Census entry for Hugh Ragan and his family does not list >John G. or David G., so I presume they were born after that time. > >I have some unsubstantiated family notes that indicate that John G. might >have been married to a Mollie, and might have had at least two children >by the names of Eddie and Goldie. > >I have been interested in John G. as a possible means of learning more >about his parents and sister. Perhaps someone on the list or your earlier >correspondent has some light to shed. > >J. Arthur