Re: Carrig/ O'Connor
Posted: Wed Jan 08, 2020 11:33 am
Hi Colleen
Here is a preview of Oceans of Consolation: Personal Accounts of Irish Migration to Australia, by David Fitzpatrick: https://books.google.ie/books/about/Oce ... &q&f=false
Only some pages are available to read, but what’s available show a couple of mentions of a Michael Carrigg. Michael Carrick and his wife (Susan Normile) sailed on board the Monsoon, sometime in the early 1850s (I can’t find the date). I wonder if this Michael Carrigg is a brother of Timothy Carrigg. If you are interested, go to chapter 2, which is entitled “‘Whistling a Jig to a Milestone’: Michael Normile, 1854-65”. The chapter is mainly about the letters written by Michael Normile from the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia, to his family in Caheraderry in the parish of Killaspuglonane. The parish of Killaspuglonane, by the way, is just south of the parish of Killilagh and west of the parish of Kilshanny: http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... lenane.htm
Michael Normile’s letters mention neighbours who also emigrated to Australia and among these is Michael Carrigg, who settled in Queensland. At the bottom of page 54, David Fitzpatrick writes, “He [Michael Normile] remained in close touch with his married sister Susan in Moreton Bay (Brisbane), who had arrived there with her husband Michael Carrigg and their three children only a fortnight after the Araminta reached Sydney”. Fitzpatrick explains that, at first, the Carriggs kept a large hotel in Brisbane and later a boarding-house in Tambo.
There is another mention of Michael Carrigg on page 83: Michael Normile writes in August 1860 that he had received a letter from his sisters in America the previous January which he then sent to his sister Susan Carrigg (nee Normile) in Morten Bay. He says, “Michl Carrigg & family are doing well. I got a letter of late from them. I generally hear from them once a month”.
The letters show that neighbours and relatives availed of a system of sponsorship to enable them to emigrate. Table 2 (pages 58-9) summarises the chain of migration of the neighbours that Michael Normile had been aquainted with when he lived in Caheraderry. He was delighted to see these people coming.
Unfortunately the Lisdoonvarna parish records, which begin at 1854, do not show any records for Michael Carrigg and Susan as they had left for Australia before that date.
Sheila
Here is a preview of Oceans of Consolation: Personal Accounts of Irish Migration to Australia, by David Fitzpatrick: https://books.google.ie/books/about/Oce ... &q&f=false
Only some pages are available to read, but what’s available show a couple of mentions of a Michael Carrigg. Michael Carrick and his wife (Susan Normile) sailed on board the Monsoon, sometime in the early 1850s (I can’t find the date). I wonder if this Michael Carrigg is a brother of Timothy Carrigg. If you are interested, go to chapter 2, which is entitled “‘Whistling a Jig to a Milestone’: Michael Normile, 1854-65”. The chapter is mainly about the letters written by Michael Normile from the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, Australia, to his family in Caheraderry in the parish of Killaspuglonane. The parish of Killaspuglonane, by the way, is just south of the parish of Killilagh and west of the parish of Kilshanny: http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclar ... lenane.htm
Michael Normile’s letters mention neighbours who also emigrated to Australia and among these is Michael Carrigg, who settled in Queensland. At the bottom of page 54, David Fitzpatrick writes, “He [Michael Normile] remained in close touch with his married sister Susan in Moreton Bay (Brisbane), who had arrived there with her husband Michael Carrigg and their three children only a fortnight after the Araminta reached Sydney”. Fitzpatrick explains that, at first, the Carriggs kept a large hotel in Brisbane and later a boarding-house in Tambo.
There is another mention of Michael Carrigg on page 83: Michael Normile writes in August 1860 that he had received a letter from his sisters in America the previous January which he then sent to his sister Susan Carrigg (nee Normile) in Morten Bay. He says, “Michl Carrigg & family are doing well. I got a letter of late from them. I generally hear from them once a month”.
The letters show that neighbours and relatives availed of a system of sponsorship to enable them to emigrate. Table 2 (pages 58-9) summarises the chain of migration of the neighbours that Michael Normile had been aquainted with when he lived in Caheraderry. He was delighted to see these people coming.
Unfortunately the Lisdoonvarna parish records, which begin at 1854, do not show any records for Michael Carrigg and Susan as they had left for Australia before that date.
Sheila