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IRELAND
IRELAND
& Higgins, O'Higgins
31 July 2009
Source: A compendium of Irish biography By
Alfred Webb - Dublin - 1878
Higgins, Bryan, a distinguished physician and chemist, was born in
the County of Sligo about 1737. After obtaining his medical degree he went
to London, where he practised with considerable success. He early devoted
his attention to chemistry, and opened a school for its practical study in
Greek-street, Soho, London, in July 1774. In 1786 he published his best
known work— Experiments and Observations on Chemical Philosophy. Between
1780 and 1790 he appears to have visited Russia, and enjoyed the favour of
the Empress Catherine. In 1789 he obtained a patent for a cheap and durable
cement. On his return from Russia he resumed his chemical lectures. Mr.
Higgins died on his estate of Walford, in Staffordshire, in 1820, aged 83.
His biographer, W. K. Sullivan, who gives a full analysis of his works,
says: " He was rather a speculator than an experimentalist, and many of his
views are, for their time, remarkable for their acuteness and generalizing
character."
Higgins, William, a distinguished chemist, nephew of preceding, was
born in the County of Sligo. He graduated at Oxford, and doubtless received
his instructions from his uncle in the science in which he afterwards became
eminent. In 1791 he was appointed chemist to the Apothecaries' Company of
Ireland, at what was then considered a high salary — £200. In 1795 he was
made Chemist and Librarian to the Royal Dublin Society. He was a man of
peculiar habits and devoid of energy. His style of lecturing was very
quaint, and a number of laughable anecdotes were long remembered of
circumstances the result of this qnaintness. His life was singularly
uneventful: he died in 1825. W. K. Sullivan gives a full account of his
discoveries in chemistry, more especially the law of multiple proportion, in
which he is said to have anticipated by many years some of Dalton's greatest
achievements. Indeed he may be said to have led the way in the discovery of
the atomic
theory.
Higgins, Francis, Archdeacon of Cashel, a High Church clergyman, and
Tory politician, styled by Sir Walter Scott the " Sacheverell of Ireland,"
was born in Limerick about 1670. He was elected a scholar of Trinity College
in 1688, became reader of Christ Church Cathedral in 1691, rector of Gowran
in 1694, and in 1705 was elected to the prebend of St. Michael's in Christ
Church Cathedral. After appearing prominently before the public upon more
than one occasion, he, in February 1707, preached at Whitehall Chapel in
London, a sermon from Revalations 2-3, which created a great sensation, and
caused him to be for a time imprisoned under a warrant of the Secretary of
State. Before his arrest he had preached this sermon no less than six times
in different parts of London. An anonymous pamphlet (supposed to be by
himself) in support of it was burnt by the common hangman at the Tholsel in
Dublin, in July 1707. On his return to Ireland he became involved in
squabbles with his fellow magistrates at Kilmainham, was by the grand jury
presented as a "common disturber of her Majesty's peace;" and on the other
hand was upheld by Convocation as one that " hath both in his life and
doctrines upon all occasions shown himself to be an orthodox divine, a good
Christian, and a loyal subject." After the accession of the house of Hanover
we hear no more of his political doings. In 1725 he was collated to the
Archdeaconry of Cashel. He died in August 1728, and was buried in St.
Michael's Church, Dublin. Dr. Reeves concludes a manuscript notice of him
with the words : "Three sermons, and his Cases were his only productions
from the press, and even these were rather the developments of political
excitement than the expressions of calm consideration or benevolent
feelings."
Higgins, Francis, the "Sham Squire" (born 1750, died 19th January
1802), a Dublin celebrity, who by flagitious means raised himself in
society, became proprietor of the Freeman's Journal, was admitted an
attorney, and acquired a large fortune. Concerning his unsavoury life an
interesting work has been written. He acquired the sobriquet by which he is
generally known, by personating in his early life a gentleman of landed
property, and gaining the hand of a lady, who died of grief subsequently.
Mr. FitzPatrick has established beyond doubt the fact that Higgins was the
betrayer of Lord Edward FitzGerald, for the sum of £ 1,000. He left most of
his property for charitable purposes. He was buried at Kilbarrack, near
Howth, but his gravestone, bearing a fulsome epitaph, has long since been
destroyed.
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and
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Higgins, Mathew James, better known as "Jacob Omnium" was an
Irishman, born about 1810. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, and served
for some time in the army. " He was for upwards of twenty years a constant
contributor to the Times, and is the author of innumerable articles chiefly
bearing on colonial, military, educational, and social reforms, in the
Quarterly and Edinburgh Reviews, the Cornhill Magazine, and other leading
periodicals." In 1863 Mr. Higgins joined the staff of the Pall Mall Gazette.
He died 14th August 1868.
The British quarterly review (1876) By Robert Vaughan
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Source: Essays on Social Subjects. By
Matthew James Higgins (' Jacob Omnium '). With a Biographic Sketch of the
Author by Sir William Stirling - Maxwell. Smith, Elder, and Co.
Mr. Higgins was entirely sui generis. He was a satirist and a humorist, but
his satire and humour were of a very peculiar order. He seized the remote
and unnoticed aspect of the thing or the question with 'which he dealt, and
turned it suddenly face to face with the most obvious aspect, suggesting a
certain grotesque departure from the true type in the very features to which
society had most perfectly accommodated itself, and in which very often it
most thoroughly believed. He had a quick fancy, united with rare analytic
and logical powers ; and, besides this, an unusual self-restraint and
reverence for individual character, such as most frequently rendered spite
and narrow ill-nature impossible to him. He was one of the valued influences
which bring social life, in spite of its modern complexities find
disparities, to a unity in its relations with literature ; and in thus
setting forth, in forms suited to the humour of the day, an ideal of social
right
and duty and fairness, he did no slight service. What seems trifling or
whimsical in his methods may, to a great extent, be accounted for by a
wonderful sensitiveness of mental constitution, which led him to forecast
multitudes of objections— the necessary offsetting of individual demands in
a complicated society; but the leading moral aspect of the question he
seldom missed. All this the careful student will find illustrated in the
essays reprinted here. We regret that our space will not permit us to
particularise. Perhaps in nothing was the salient characteristics of his
mind and method seen more expressly than in his treatment of that
institution at which Thackeray also made a decisive blow through the alter
ego of ' Policeman X,' in the ballad of' Jacob Omnium's Hoss.' The
biographic sketch is full of fact and remark, which tempt us to
disquisition. It puts its subject very fully and faithfully before us in
small space, and gathers up 'with rare tact the apparently contradictory
tendencies in his character. There is a dash of grotesquerie, too, when we
read, for example, how Mr. Higgins, being some six feet eight inches in
height, was distinguished from another of the same name, who was six feet
four inches, by the application to the latter of the title,' Little
Higgins.'
the cornhill magazine
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A Few weeks since a life ended which was "so usefully employed for the
public good as to demand some such memorial as we propose to set up for it.
It was an uneventful life, giving much more material for the critic than the
chronicler. Matthew James Higgins was the son of Matthew Higgins,
Esq., of Benown, county Westmeath, who married Miss Baillie, cousin
of the Eight Hon. Henry Baillie, of Red Castle, Invernessshire. His son,
Matthew James, was born at Benown in December, 1810, and was educated at
Eton and New College, Oxford. In 1850 he married Emily, fifth daughter of
Sir Ношу Tichborne, and widow of John Benett, Esq. He died on the 14th of
August last, his wife surviving him, with a son and two daughters. Little
could be added to that meagre chronicle, and nothing of public interest. We
are concerned not so much with Matthew Higgins as with Jacob Omnium.
When Mr. Higgins was first moved to write for the public is not quite clear
; but it must be at least twenty-five years ago since he made certain
contributions to the New Monthly Magazine, which at once attracted
attention. Some of these sketches their author afterwards collected and
printed for private circulation ; and in so doing furnished his friends with
a handy-volume of evidence that he was of the number of born essayists, and
not of those who achieve literary distinction by prudence and practice. His
first efforts—he himself had no over-weening opinion of them—are in
essential particulars as good as his last. They have not quite the same
power, nor do they exhibit that perfect discipline of word and clause which
afterwards gave to "J. O.'s " columns their peculiar military force, and
made of him, in attack, the most formidable penman in English journalism.
But if these his earlier efforts are so far lacking in the comparison, what
they do lack are only such advantages as may be acquired. They have at the
same time all the natural adroitness, all the natural humour and penetration
of his later writings ; and they show beside that what ho particularly
excelled in—the implication of the most pungent meaning in a demure
simplicity of statement—was not an acquirement, but a gift : a remarkable
gift, and one that is rarely bestowed on an Englishman. Altogether, there is
in these sketches the style—the touch, the tone, the happy measure of
thought and word—which distinguishes the real literary faculty from all
imitations, however worthy. Of observation, too, or rather of discrimination
(for that is generally what is meant by the other word), there is abundant
proof. It is therefore probably true, as his biographer in the Pall Mall
Gazette has said, that but for his predilection for the topics of the day,
Jacob Omnium might long ago have secured a place amongst the standard
writers of English. But capability and disposition about different things;
and though Mr. Higgins had remarkable literary faculties, and used them as
if he respected them, he had no merely literary ambition. Ho never wrote to
write an article ; he could not have written simply to produce a book,
however great his confidence that it would be a clever and lasting one. Thus
what is happily called his predilection for the topics of the day appears to
have been his only stimulus to write at all. Even these earlier essay, which
might naturally be expected to display the simply literary aspirations of a
young writer, have the purpose, and the same kind of purpose, which he
afterwards pushed with such excellent effect in the pages of the Times, of
this Magazine, of the Edinburgh Review, and the Pall Mall Gazelle. Thus the
first of them, " Jacob Omnium, M.P., the Merchant Prince," might have been
written after the commercial panic of I860, in castigation of our own
fraudulent directors, and in derision of their splendid vulgarities, then1
bumptious benevolences, and the fatal facility with which they impose upon
people who would be shocked to imagine themselves easy to dazzle or delude.
" Mr. Z. the Eminent Horse- Dealer," and " Horse-Buyers and Horse-Dealers,"
have precisely the purpose of much of " J. O.'s" later work ; and " The Wild
Sports of Middlesex is a perfect example of the way in which his lively
humour, and an irony that dropped like milk and bit like vitriol, were
employed to shame vicious follies out of existence. "The Father of the
Fancy," and ''Animal Magnetism "—the latter a charmingly humourous little
paper—have also for motive that impatience of cruelty to animals which he
constantly manifested to the end of his life : in fine, of the nine brief
papers comprised in the volume, half-a-dozen are obviously not so much the
efforts of a literary aspirant as of a social reformer. From this it would
appear that wo probably lost little by Mr. Higgins's predilection for the
topics of the day ; while our gain in him was that same predilection,
exorcised with a literary skill rarely excelled in our time. The
satisfaction "of pricking a bubble, the pleasure of redressing a wrong or
abolishing an abuse, called faculties into play which otherwise might have
been seldom employed, if at all ; and it was a distinction that marked his
whole character in various ways that he had as ready a hand for a little
abuse as for a great one.
For Jacob Omnium was often engaged in weightier affairs than are generally
included in the phrase " topics of the day ; " and he did other good work
besides what may be done in reviews and newspapers. Thus when the bush
famine was at its worst, Mr. Higgins was amongst those who took the risks of
turmoil, of fever, of overwork amongst the wretched creatures who lay dying
and dead in hundreds of villages ; and there are those who remember still
what industry, what sagacity, temper, and kindness he exhibited in that
trying time and in those dreadful scenes. To which let us add, as an
illustration of Lis readiness to help in all things, little or great, that
at cue time he got himself rnado a parish guardian, in order to try what
might be done by honest and quick-witted gentlemen iu that post, instead of
abandoning the management of parochial affairs and the poor to tradesmen
often ignorant and indifferent, and just as often attracted to parish work
by parish jobbing alone. Another significant fact is that for many years and
till quite recently he was a contented employer of negroes who were
contented with their master. From his father he inherited estates in
Demerara ; these he took care to visit more than once ; and he so ordered
affairs, or affairs were so beneficently ordered for him, that his relations
with his black servants abroad (overseers and all, they were of one colour)
were as comfortable as those with his white servants at home : so he always
declared whenever the question of negro labour was discussed in his
presence. How far he was fitted for the public service in Parliament, his
defeat in 1847 when he stood for Westbury on Peelite principles, and his
determination to make no second effort for a seat, leave us imperfect means
of judging. Certainly he had many advantages for a Parliamentary career. He
was rich and well connected, as the phrase is ; he had a magnificent
presence, engaging
manners, admirable temper ; and his voice was singularly clear and sweet,
with the very note of frankness and courage in it. Whether he had the
special faculty of making speeches is unknown ; but if remarkable lucidity
in conversation, an apt and racy choice of language, sparkle in anecdote,
terseness in narrative, be acceptable evidence, then there is reason to
think that Jacob Omnium might have been an efficient and even powerful
debater. And all these important attributes were added to the sagacity, the
inquiry, the wit and force and polish so abundant!}' displayed in his
writings. With such a character, and such predilections, and such
advantages, it seems scarcely questionable that he would not only have "
succeeded " in Parliament, but would havo done enormous good there. He
himself, perhaps, doubted whether his Labit of lashing out against anything
that to him was a proveable folly or wrong might not bring upon himself too
much personal discomfort in the crowded area of St. Stephen's : all the more
that in such matters he was utterly careless of persons, and could only have
been subdued by party considerations to his own mortification. Besides, men
in office have no 1оте for such critics and reformers аз are mercilessly
regardless of the inconvenience they may cause to particular men or sets of
men, when once their minds are bent upon the exposure of an abuse or the
punishment of an evil ; and of such critics and reformers " J. 0." certainly
was one. The same unflinching temper, joined to a special aptitude and
delight for getting at particulars, would probably have made him intolerable
to the gentlemen of more than one public department which demands precisely
such a head as his ; nor would his inflexibility have been less irritating
for the unfailing courtesy of language and manner which distinguished him.
in personal discussion, as much as his adroitness did. But though be would
have created much discomfort amongst poor-law officials, for instance,
hatred amongst the noble army of guardians, and dread in the minds of
Treasury whips, who cannot endure to have parish people offended, he would
have made of that department of administration a very different and far less
scandalous thing than late years have shown it to he. For Matthew Higgins
was by no means what is called a Quixotic reformer. He was as safe as he was
courageous. It would be as inutli a mistake to think of him as a
sentimentalist as to talk of him as a pigmy. He was, in fact, an eminently
business-like man—cautious, painstaking, and capable of dealing candidly
with facts as well as with men. Without such qualities, indeed, ho could
never have earned so thoroughly as he did the peculiar praise bestowed upon
him, by one who obviously knew him well, m the journal already quoted:—"In
the brilliant and versatile writer, with half-a-dozen controversies on his
hands, not a few of a largo circle of acquaintance found a friend in need, a
counsellor in difficulty, a comforter in affliction. His habit of looking
below the surface and getting to the bottom of things, and his long practice
in weighing evidence of all kinds, often enabled him to settle disputes acJ
effect reconciliations. 'I Let any one acquainted with the world ask himself
what manner of man is commonly chosen by those amongst whom he lives to
settle disputes and effect reconciliations, and he will find in the answer
our own description of Mr. Higgins's character; though of course, those with
whom he had the misfortune to differ. and who generally "got very much the
worst of the difference, may be inclined to dispute its accuracy. Such a man
must have tact, shrewdness. benevolence, candour, and, above all, must have
succeeded in convincing his friends of a clear uncompromising sense of
justice. And of such material was Matthew Higgins made up
;—this, together with his humour and his intellectual force and grace, was
what wo all so long admired - " Jacob Omnium."
He was a young man when he commenced the kind of work he »e.; born to, and
he carried it on with unabated vigour and pleasure to the last days of life.
His mind was as fresh, as strong, as alert at fifty-eight as it had been at
forty. In the long interval between his first appearance in the New
Monthly Magazine and his association with a knot of kindred spirits in the
Pall Mall Gazette, he wrote first for the Horning Chronicle, speedily making
himself felt there. Afterwards, for more than twenty years, he was one of
the most constant, and certainly one of the most powerful. contributors to
the Times : indeed, it is doubtful whether that journal could boast of
another mind so influential or so useful for its nobler purposes. Ho also
wrote, as we have said, for the Edinburgh Beriar: and his contributions to
this Magazine were frequent. The good that he accomplished in these various
ways was very great. We have only to recall his various
signatures—"Jacob Omnium," " J. 0.," "Paterfamilias," " Civilian," " West
Londoner," " A Belgravian Mother," "A Thirsty Soul," " A Mother of Six," "
John Barleycorn," " Próvidos,"— and a dozen victories over folly, cruelty,
disorder, jobbery, and all manner of mal-administration and abase, are at
once remembered. His first achievement of importance was the abolition of
the Palace Court ; his latest a most necessary and complete revolution of
idea as to what our great public schools are and ought to be. In the
interval there was scarcely a department of Government that had not given
him occasion for unsparing criticism, which rarely failed of its aim ; and
he found many a little fvii in our social affairs for exposure and
abolition. It is very significant of his power and address that Mr. Higgins
succeeded in arresting attention as well under a strange signature as under
one that was familiar. We all know what the prestige of a name and of
success means in matters of this kind. Over and over again Mr. Higgins
proved that no such prestige was necessary for him. As soon as under the
name of "Civilian" he opened fire upon "War Office and Horse Guards, public
retention was fixed upon the quarrel, and " Civilian " was as much applauded
as " J. 0." had been. So it was when ho wrote under the signature " West
Londoner ;" and sо " Paterfamilias " ranged behind him at once a degree of
public support which forced inquiry, spite of the sturdiest opposition, into
the condition and management of our public schools. It is true, no doubt,
that to the initiated in London, to officials, journalists, and club men,
Jacob Omnium was revealed under every dispuse ; but the mass of the public
have no such discrimination :—they eiraply recognized the sound sense,
courage, and justice of " Civilian" or 'Paterfamilias," cheered him on to
the attack accordingly, and in most eases loyally carried him through to the
achievement of his cud.
At length, and after twenty years of intimate labour with the chiefs of the
Times, he quarrelled with that journal. No : that journal quarrelled with
him. There arose an occasion of fatal necessity, in which the Times, in
order to perform with sufficient completeness a change of opinion
imperatively demanded by the humour of the day, had to fall foul of " J. 0."
himself, scorning lu'm as a malignant slanderer for what had been cordially
printed in its own pages. Hurt and astonished, Mr. Higgins asked for an
explanation ; the answer was equally rude and astonishing ; au<l Jacob
Omnium had no more to do with the Times. All this arose out of the famous
Crawley case, in which it may be that Mr. Higgins was wrong, though it is
impossible that the Times should be quite irreproachable, seeing that it
took both sides of the controversy. But whether the Times was first wrong
and then right, or first right and then wrong, about that noisy and most
suspicious matter, its conduct towards " J. O." was entirely indefensible.
As to the merits of the Crawley Court- Martial ease itself we express no
opinion, and as to Mr. Higgins's part in it maintain this only : that few
men are always right in matters of opinion; that " J. 0." was not of the
miraculous few, probably; but that be approached no subject without as
careful an examination of the circumstances as he could make, or with any
other motives than those of honesty and justice.
From what is known of him as a public writer, it might fairly be inferred
that Mr. Higgins was a very busy man ; bustling, perhaps ; or what is called
energetic in aspect, carriage, and manner. In fact, he was precisely the
contrary of this. Above all things a man of society, he very contentedly
spent much of his time аз such men do ; at hie club, in the drawing-room,
reading, riding, lounging in the company of his friends ; and wherever he
appeared, there was seen a well-bred, handsome Englishman, who used to be
known abroad, so little bellicose or cynical was he, as the " Gentle Giant."
As has been said of him already. " there were few pursuits in which English
gentlemen commonly indulge with which he had not some acquaintance or
sympathy. He loved literature, art, society, politics, and sport ; " and it
might have been added that he found almost as much pleasure in one as in
another. He Lad ¡i fine taste, a keen discernment for the fitting and the
proper, and he knew well, and well knew how to observe, the measure of
respect due to others. In short, he was in all his social relations what his
constant friend Thackeray would have called a courteous and honest
gentleman.
Such as he was, he died on the 14th of August of the present year, the
fifty-eighth of his existence. His decease was sudden in this regard, that
it was quite unexpected from the general condition of his health. For Borne
time, indeed, he had been troubled with rheumatism, and it was noticed by
some whoso regard for him made them particularly observant, that he showed
now and then a certain depression of spirit, not altogether to] be explained
by the apparent state of his health. Maybe he recurred to the common
experience that men of his gigantic suture —he was six feet eight inches
high—do not often attain to very old age ; and that this gave importance in
his mind to what otherwise would have seemed an inconsiderable derangement
of health. And up to this tinii>. too, he had maintained a remarkable degree
of vigour. His hair has become almost white—at fifty-eight—but his clear
grey eyes, the freshness of his face, his free gait, and, more than all, the
unhampered play of his thought and the sparkle of his language, were such
tokens as are found in men twenty years his junior : and not always then.
Gigantic as was his form, it had not to the last any sign of infirmity. On
the contrary, it baJ so much the look of youth—of youth even—that its fine
proportions would have graced a man of thirty. In this apparent vigour of
body, in this unquestionable freshness and vigour of mind, he died—through
incautious bathing during the dangerous heats of our last summer.
Having come to that statement, we have little heart even for panegyric. well
deserved as it ie. He died : and the Times recorded his death in three or
four simple lines, sternly repressive of every symptom of regret.
Books by Mathew James Higgins AKA "Jacob Omnium"
The Real bearings of the West India question...
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Essays on social subjects. With a memoir by sir W. Stirling Maxwell
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30 April 2009
Hi,
I am looking for any
descendents of:
Michael and
Catherine Higgins
(nee Cain/Kean/Kane)
of Tuam, Co Galway.
Their children were
all born there.
Their children were:
Honor b 1830
Anne b 1832 m
Thomas Kelly
in
Macclesfield, UK
immigrated to
Australia
Bridget b
1834
Catherine b
1836 m Thomas
Carrick in
Macclesfield, UK
immigrated to
Australia
Thomas b 1838
Sarah b 1840
Michael b
1842
Anthony b
1842
I am seeking
information about
the siblings of Anne
and Catherine
(I have full details
of their children
and descendents).
Regards,
Prue Greene
pgreene1 AT
bigpond.com
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19 Oct 2008
Higgins' from County Sligo, Ireland
Hello, I'm trying to find more on my great grandfather
William Higgins b. 1851. The earliest information I have is
the 1901 Ireland Census. He lived in Burriscarra, Co Mayo, Ireland
with his wife Mary (45), James P
(19 - My grandfather, Mary Ellen (16 emigrated?),
Katie (13), William (10 -
emigrated to New York and became a policeman??), Maggie
(7) and Barbara A (4).
William was born in County Sligo and I'm trying to find where in
Sligo. He had a brother who went to Dublin and may have been a stone
mason - his name may have been Michael but I'm not sure. Any help
will be greatly appreciated.
Dominic Higgins
dhiggins64 AT gmail.com
.............................................
20 Aug 2008
A submission of
Grainne
Furbank of his ancestors from Glenravel, County Antrim, Ireland
If any one
connects to any of these people,
Grainne would love to
hear from you at
g_furbank AT yahoo.co.uk -
John Higgins m Mary McMullen
(1800 -1879)
John -m - Kate O'Loam (?) ----- John's teacher in Ballymena
Daniel - m- Elizabeth O-Boyle ----- Mary m Jimmy McCann
Patrick m Margaret Butler
John m Mary Miskelly
Ellen m Charlie McDonnell
Kate single
Elizabeth m Henry McQuillan
Daniel m Mary Anne Fyfe ~~
James married twice
Maggie Fyfe
Mary O-Rawe
Big Patrick -m- Ellen McAuley ----- Johnnie
Mary (1)
Patrick (3)
Frank
Alex (4)
Jamie (5)
Rachel
Barnie (2)
Catherine -m- John Delargy -------- Mary
Ellen
Rosetta m Alex McQuillan
Charlie
John
Kate
Dan
Elizabeth
Margaret
Mary -m- ? Dogherty ------Mary Catherine who married ? McDonnell of
Rasharkin
1.
Mary Higgins m Patrick Carey -----------Dan
Nellie
Patrick
Hugh
Mary Catherine
Charlie
Johnnie
2
Barnie Higgins married twice * poss. Bernard on
your list
Catherine O-Boyle. ----------Kate m ? Casey
b) Mary Anne McQuillan ------ Patrick
Alex
John
Jim
Frank
Mary (Mrs Cassidy)
Ellen (Mrs McAuley)
Rachel
Bridget died in childhood
Elizabeth (Mrs Kearney)
3.
Patrick m Sarah McAllister
Patrick had a pub in Waterfoot died aged 35 I think
Sarah was from upper Glenarm teacher at Kilmore School Glenariffe
A ) Mary (MRS McNeill - Glenarm)
B) Nellie Mrs McKinley Ballycastle
C) Daniel reared in Ligamonagh by his aunt Rachel went to St Malachys
College
D) Frank reared in Ligamonagh as above
John died young
James married a Scotswoman had a hotel in Dublin
A. Mary Higgins m Alex McNeill (Glenarm) - Maura married living in Wales
Kathleen staying with Pauline
Sean
Hugh
Sheila married Tony Lawlor from Dublin living in Glenarm
Pauline living in home pub in Glenarm
Nuala married living in England
B. Ellie m Archie McKinley - Gerard m Bernadette Cassidy
Fr, Vincent - Falls Road - Rasharkin
Malachy married lives in Belfast
Patrick Joseph a vet lives in Castlebellingham
C. Daniel m Elizabeth Kelly * Marcella born 1924 my mother
Both were doctors lived in London Pamela born 1926 Doctor married a
doctor
Fr.Daniel born 1928/9 died 1996
Richard James married 4 children born 1930 died 1998
D. Frank Higgins m Molly Gallagher Frank Doctor in Mirfield Yorks
Both were doctors Molly doctor died in Dublin in 1980s
This were my grandparents my grandfather was born in Waterfoot in 1888
he and his brothers were brought up by their Aunt Rachel IN Ligamonagh,
his father died in his mid 30s an alcoholic, they were educated at St
Malachy-s College and both trained as doctors at the National University
in Dublin now University College Dublin, the only place a catholic could
attend at the time. Frank was the Medical Officer for Port Vale Football
Club. He lived in Hanley Stoke on Trent in 1930 -40s .
James Higgins the youngest brother was not talked about by my
grandfather my mother feels that this was to protect him so he wouldn-t
be arrested and that he spent a lot of time in the early years of the
20th century in danger. We do not know what became of him. Only that he
had a pub or a hotel outside Dublin.
4. Alex m Mary Anne Mckay (Loughiel) ---- Lizzie
Mary - poor Clare nin
Ellie
5. Jamie m Mary Laverty , Patrick m Bella Carey
Mary - single
Frank m Maggie Carey
John m Kathleen Osbourne (Glenbush)
~~Daniel Higgins m Mary Anne Fyfe , Danny m Annie O-Neill
Seamus m Brigid Dickson
Mary m Charles Kerr
Peg m Robert McNeill
Elizabeth - single
John - single
Eileen m John McKenna
Alphonsus m Madge Carey
[Alex m Mary Anne McMullan
TWINS [Paddy m Nellie Mcbride
Philomena m Cahil O-Donnell
Henry m Celia Hardy
Vincent m Mary McRynolds
Stella
The daughter of Elizabeth and Henry McQuillan drew up alot of this
family tree in about 1988 she was a nun in Ealing at he time.I was added
to by Anne Fyfe who filled in various gaps, I taught in the same school
as her daughter Una at one time. I have very few dates but will attempt
to fill in gaps or answer question. My mother is in her mid 80s and her
memory is not very good and she gets confused I have asked her to look
for any photos she might have.
I hope you find this useful/ and interesting.
Grainne Furbank g_furbank AT yahoo.co.uk
............
http://www.loughman.dna.ie/dublin1850/xdubdir39.html#Higgins
1850 Dublin Ireland
Directory
Higgins E., 19 Arran St East (boot and shoe maker)
Higgins Frederick, 8 Lower Charlemont St (mariner)-listed
as Higginson in street listing
Higgins James, 105 James' St (merchant)
Higgins John, 15 Nassau St (ladies' shoe warehouse)
Higgins John, 8 Duke St (whip maker)
Higgins John, 26 New Bride St (corn factor)
Higgins John, 7-9 Lower Kevin St (dealer in hay)
Higgins Joseph, 216 Great Britain St (whip manufacturer)- listed as J.
Higgins Joseph and Sons, 29 College green and Clonmel (seed merchants)
Higgins Mrs., 28 Wicklow St (dressmaker)
Higgins Michael, 38 1/2 Lower Charlemont St (dairyman)
Higgins Patrick, 68 Manor St (coach maker)
Higgins Timothy, 3 Frederick lane South (tailor)
. . . . . . . . .
Convicted Roscommon
County
https://sites.rootsweb.com/~irlros/criminal_files/criminal_h.htm
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Surname
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Other
Names
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Age
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Sex
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Place
of Trial
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Trial
Date
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Place
of Imprisonment
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Crime
Description
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Sentence
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Ship
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Petitioner
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Relationship
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Document
References
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HIGGINS
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MICHAEL
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28
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M
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Co. Roscommon
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27/02/1849
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Newgate prison
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Burglary
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Transportation 10 yrs
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TR 11, p 91 CRF 1851 h7
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25 |
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HIGGINS
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MICHAEL
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25
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M
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Co. Roscommon
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23/02/1836
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Rape
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Death recorded commuted to transportation life
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TR 1, p 192 CRF 1836 H 1
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26 |
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HIGGINS
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MICHAEL
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0
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M
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Co. Roscommon
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28/02/1849
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Burglary
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Transportation 7 yrs
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LORD DALHOUSIE 00/04/1852
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TR 9, p 142
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27 |
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HIGGINS
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MICHAEL
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0
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M
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Roscommon
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CRF 1836 Misc94
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28 |
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HIGGINS
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THOMAS
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0
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M
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Co. Roscommon
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27/02/1846
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Demanding Fire Arms
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Transportation 7 yrs
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02 June 2003
Griffith Index for County Tipperary
http://www.cmcrp.net/Tipperary/Griffith35.htm
| |
|
|
District |
Parish |
Townland |
| Higgings |
Catherine |
|
North
Riding |
Thurles |
The
Quarry |
| Higgings |
John |
|
North
Riding |
Thurles |
Stradavoher
Street |
| Higgings |
William |
|
North
Riding |
Thurles |
Garryvicleheen-Garryvicleheen
Street |
| Higgins |
Edward |
|
North
Riding |
Templemore |
Templemore
Town - John's Lane |
| Higgins |
John |
|
North
Riding |
Templemore |
Templemore
Town Pigfoot Lane |
| Higgins |
Thomas |
|
North
Riding |
Thurles |
The
Quarry |
| Higgins |
William |
|
North
Riding |
Thurles |
Garryvicleheen-Street |
. . . . . . . . . .
25 February 2003
http://www.online.ie/news/viewer.adp?article=1957241
Former
Chief Justice Tom O'Higgins dies
25 Feb 2003
Former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald has paid tribute to
former Chief Justice Tom O'Higgins, who died overnight
at the age of 86.
Mr O'Higgins, a former Fine Gael Minister for Health
and Judge at the European Court, is survived by his
wife, Terry, seven children and 30 grandchildren.
Mr. Fitzgerald said his former colleague was a warm and
intelligent politician, lawyer and judge both in
Ireland and in Europe.
. . . . . . . . .
The
Public Register or Freeman's Journal was established in
September 1763 and ran until 19 December 1924. It was a liberal
newspaper until Francis Higgins, who was in the pay of Dublin
Castle, gained editorial control in 1783. This page, dated 23 June 1798
contains Government notices and declarations relating to the 1798
Rebellion.
http://www.nli.ie/co_newsp.htm
. . . . . . . . . . .
SURNAMES OF COUNTY MEATH
by Noel French
http://meath.local.ie/content/28271.shtml
HIGGINS
The
Higgins family originated as a branch of the O'Neills in the midlands of
Ireland. Don Ambrosio O'Higgins, the Viceroy of Peru is reputed
to have been born at Summerhill. Ambrosio's son, Bernardo O'Hiogins.
is known as the Liberator of Chile, in which country a province is
called O'Higgins in his memory. The main street of Santiago also
commemorates him and is known as Avenida O'Higgins. Bernardo was
virtually dictator of Chile from 1818 to 1823 having led its struggle
for independence from Spain.
Although F.R.
Higgins was born in Mayo, he held a special love for the Meath area
and was one of the Boyne Valley poets. Higginsbrook just outside Trim
was the family's ancestral home and Higgins often resided there while
Managing Director of the Abbey Theatre. Another O'Higgins, this time
Brian, was also a writer in the Irish language. Brian O'Higgins,
a native of Kilskyre, was an active promoter of the Irish language in
this century. Having taken part in the Easter Rising in 1916, he was
elected to represent West Clare in 1918.
. . . . . . . .
http://www.augustinians.ie/galway/history/hhh.htm
Galway
| Surname |
Christian
name |
Address |
Date of
Death |
Date of
burial |
Next of
kin |
Remarks |
Location |
| Higgins |
B.
(Mrs) |
Grattan
Road |
|
12/09/1974 |
|
|
|
| Higgins |
Christina |
7
Grattan Road |
22/01/1995 |
|
|
CONN
records only |
|
| Higgins |
Marie |
|
29/08/1973 |
31/08/1973 |
Nora
McKiernan, Frenchville (Daughter) |
|
|
| Higgins |
Patrick |
Claddagh |
|
-/-/1967 |
Stephen
Higgins, Grattan Road (Father) |
|
|
| Higgins |
Peter |
|
22/10/1943 |
|
Peter
Keegan (Uncle) |
Peter
Keegan's grave (Register) |
- |
| Higgins |
Stephen |
|
06/11/1940 |
|
Stephen
Higgins |
(Register) |
145 |
. . . .
. . . . . .
Barristers Profiles
http://www.lawlibrary.ie/searchbarrister/
Mr
Damien Higgins (1999)
Mr
Padraig O'Higgins SC (1975)
Mr
Paul O'Higgins SC (1977)
Ms
Irene O'Higgins (1987)
Mr
Michael Liam O'Higgins SC (1987)
Mr
Micheal P O'Higgins (1990)
. . . . . . .
Longford
Federation
Moydow
Guild
Marcella
Higgins, who died in August 1999, was a towering figure in Community
leadership, her causes were farming and woman.
She was
a loyal member of Longford Federation for many years, during the late
1980's and early 1990's, she was a candidate for national president
and sought a nomination for Seanad Eireann later.
Marcella
was secretary of Longford Agricultural Show for twenty-five years and
carried out her duties at the show just a week before she became ill.
Marcella
and her Husband, William, raised a family of three girls and
nine boys, one of whom Fr. Tom predeceased her. "
. . . . . . . . . .
Alexander
Higgins and his wife Mary
http://world.std.com/~ahern/higgins.htm
Alexander
Higgins married a woman named Mary. Two different sources in the
McAteer family history indicate that the Higgins family was from
Glenravel in County Antrim in what is now Northern Ireland. Glenravel
is only a few miles as the crow flies over the top of the mountain
above the house where Elizabeth McAteer was born at Killougagh
in Cushendall. Unfortunately, there is a gap of several years in the
parish records for that area and the record of the marriage of
Alexander and Mary and the baptisms of children, have not yet been
found. There are still Higgins living in Glenravel, however, and
further research may yet unearth a connection. The proximity of the
family homelands suggest that John Edward Higgins and Elizabeth
McAteer may have been acquainted before they emigrated to America.
Elizabeth's name has not yet been found on a passenger list, but oral
history says that she came to Somerville, Massachusetts after John had
emigrated there. [More
- Off Site]
Higgins
Lineage Page!
http://members.aol.com/bhiggins/higgins.html
Our
Higgins line begins with Luke Higgins, of County Mayo, Ireland,
born about 1808. He married a girl named Mary (surname unknown)
and they had six known children:
Michael
born about 1836 in County Mayo, Ireland
Luke born September 15, 1844 in County Mayo, Ireland
John born about 1846 in County Mayo, Ireland,
married Maria McElinn January 19, 1881
Mary born about 1850 in County Mayo, Ireland,
married Martin King Feb. 19, 1870
Bridget born about 1851 in County Mayo, Ireland,
married Thomas Cleary April 28, 1881
Catherine born about 1856 in County Mayo, Ireland,
married Edward Baynes October 27, 1875
[ Additional
lineage - Off Site]
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Wiley
G. Higgins
http://www.talweb.com/redlimey/gene/higgins.htm
Reports of Wiley G. Higgins birth are mixed. One report shows
him being born 26 Aug 1799 in Ireland, then immigrating to New York and
migrating to Indian Springs, GA. However the more reliable stories
show him born on 24 Aug 1799 in Laurens County, SC and later migrating
to the Indian Springs area. The copy I have seen of the family Bible
was a poor copy and the DOB could have been either 24 or 26. POB was
not listed in this document. In either instance in Indian Springs on
11 Jul1 821 he married Hannah
Newton (possible first name of Ann, 1805-1873, born in either
GA or Scotland). In 1839 the family moved again, this time for the
final move to Macon County, GA. They had eleven children:
-
Elizabeth
(b. 06 Oct 1822, m. William Shealy)
-
Martha
(b. 24 Oct 1824, m. Aug 1842 Lewis Marion Peters)
-
Margaret
(b. 31 Dec 1826)
-
Francis
(b. 22 Dec 1828)
-
Wiley
Jr., (b. 01 Feb 1831)
-
Hannah
Melvina (b. 24 Apr 1833, m. Oscar
Fitzallen Peek,
9 children)
-
James
(b. 12 Dec 1835)
-
George
(b. 05 Feb 1838)
-
Missouri
(b. 29 Feb 1840,
m. 5/16/1858 Jasper N. English,
believed brother of Thomas)
-
Eliza
B. (1842-1908,
m. 1858 Thomas English (1835-1907),
believed brother of Jasper)
-
Mary
(b. 02 Feb1 845,
m. 2/22/1866 J. M. McCommon)
[Additional
lines - Off Site]
RESOURCES
IRELAND
ON SITE
Ireland
and WWI
The
Leitrim-Roscommon
1901 Census Search
Inquiries
Related to Ireland
from
National Archives database titled Famine
Irish Passenger Record
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1
04/02/1849
06/14/1849 |
2
06/14/1849
09/17/1849 |
3
09/17/1849
01/12/1850 |
4
01/12/1850
06/05/1850 |
5
06/11/1850
10/02/1850 |
6
10/02/1850
03/27/1851 |
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7
04/14/1851
05/28/1851 |
8
05/28/1851
09/06/1851 |
9
09/06/1851
02/18/1846 |
10
03/16/1846
10/05/1846 |
11
10/27/1846
04/08/1847 |
12
04/10/1847
07/06/1847 |
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13
07/06/1847
01/29/1848 |
14
02/25/1848
07/03/1848 |
15
07/05/1848
11/07/1848 |
16
11/07/1848
04/05/1849 |
17
04/05/1849 09/25/1849 |
18
09/25/1849 08/19/1850 |
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19
09/02/1850
-03/22/1851 |
20
03/22/1851-
08/07/1851 |
21
08/15/1851-
10/29/1851 |
22
10/30/1851 01/15/1847 |
23
01/18/1847
08/26/1848 |
24
08/28/1848 03/12/1849 |
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