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With grateful acknowledgements to
Lawrence Schroeder.
The Caugheys listed in the Clare Presbyterian Church records
in the 1830s were Hugh, Mary Ann, James, John, Joseph and
Nicholas.
The name was spelled Caghey at that time in the church records
and there were several other variations at that time as well.
Nicholas was the father of John Caghey who married Annabella
Kelly. I do not know the relationship of the Cagheys but they
apparently all arrived in that area in the early 1800s.
John Caghey had children, Nicholas (born 1828), Mary (born about
1830), John, Moses (born 1842), Jane (born 1844), Anna Bella
(born 1846) and James (born 1850). Mary married John Muldragh
and brother Nicholas was apparently a witness. Some of Mary's
family remained in Ireland and others are in New Zealand. The
family in New Zealand is quite large/ Nothing is known of
Nicholas. John was reported to have gone to New Zealand and was
a business
man in Auckland. Jane married married William Wylie. Her
children were in Ireland, Canada, and the United States. Anna
Bella married John Small and her children remained in Ireland.
Nothing is known of James.
Moses married Agnes Larkin. There were eleven children. Four
children remained in Ireland, five went to the United States and
two to New Zealand. Kelly and William Caughey went to New Zealand
and had a total of 10 living children among them. I had 50
second cousins born in New Zealand so there is an extensive
family there with the name Caughey. Three of the children in
Ireland had children. All remained in Ireland. Hugh married
Hannah Kelly, Anna Bella married William Teggart, and Sarah
married James Brown.
Two daughters of Hugh, Sara and Agnes, and two sons of Anna Bella
went to Toronto. Agnes married a Thompson and he was out of work
during the depression and so they returned to Ireland. Agnes is
99 years of age and lives alone in the house Hugh and Hannah
raised their children. Sarah Caughey Brown died young, had eight
children and five of them still live in Northern Ireland. One
child, Jim Brown, still lives on the Moses Caughey farm.
I had about 50 second cousins born from the cousins in Ireland
and
many still live there.
Five children came to the US. Mary Jane was the second child
and James was the third child. The fifth child, Agnes, and the
ninth child, Margaret, and the tenth child, Elizabeth went to the
Philadelphia area. Agnes had a Wylie as a sponsor and she was
the contact for Margaret and Elizabeth.
Agnes was married, divorced, and had no children. Margaret
married Robert Robinson who was born at Rathdonnell. They had
three children with the decendents living around eastern
Tennessee. Elizabeth married David Dornan in Philadelphia. She
died in child-birth. He daughter lived and is living in
California.
James Larkin was born about 1801 and died 1885 at
Mullaghmore. He married Eleanor McElrath. Known children were
John, Hugh, Agnes, Mary Jane, and James Alexander. I have not
found anything about the family of Eleanor McElrath. The only
indication I have that John McElrath and Eleanor were brother and
sister is that James Alexander Larkin and the children of John
were listed as first cousins in the obituaries. John McElrath
was born in Ireland about 1793 and died 1872 in Whiteside County,
Illinois. John married Jane Jackson in Ireland. The family came
to America in 1849 or 1850 and lived near Carlisle, New York.
Then they moved to Whiteside County, Illinois. He had six
children.
James Alexander Larkin (born 1851) and his sister Mary Jane
Larkin
(born 1849) came to the US in 1869 and went to live with the John
McElrath family. Mary Jane married Oren A. Champlin, 1871. They
farmed in Illinois. The family lived later at Aberdeen, South
Dakota. Mary Jane Larkin is an ancestor of Michael Perry. Some
of the family lives in Seattle, Utah, California and other area
of the country. James Alexander Larkin married Florence
Jackson. They farmed in easter, Iowa, returned to Illinois and
later in western Iowa. Around 1890, western Iowa was being
opened up for
settlers. Almost all of the McElrath children moved to the area,
Moville, Iowa and most are buried in the Moville cemetery. It is
the only Moville outside of Northern, Ireland. James Alexander
Larkin moved there in 1893.
James Larkin had three children and one died in California, one
in Ohio, and one in Colorado. There are still McElraths in the
Moville area.
Mary Jane Caughey (born 1868) and my grandfather, James Caughey
(born 1870) came to this country in 1889. They went to live with
James Alexander Larkin in Illinois until they adjusted to the new
country.
Mary Jane married Albert McCune in 1896. They lived in the
Sterling, Illinois area and both are buried there. There were no
children. Albert was a salesman and was quite successful. The
also lived in Chicago for a number of years where Albert worked
for Marshall Field and company for 15 years.
James Caughey was a coachman for the governor of Illinois
for a time and then delivered for the music firm of Lyon and
Healy of Chicago. In 1893 he moved to Moville, Iowa, with James
Alexander Larkin where he farmed north of Moville the rest of his
life. He died in 1950. James married Pauline Summerfield in
1908 and they had four children, two boys and two girls.
My mother, Mary Jane Caughey and her twin brother were the
youngest. My mother was born 1912 and died Mar 1999 at
Holstein, Iowa. She married Alvin Schroeder of Holstein in 1932
and they had four children, two boys and two girls. I am the
oldest born in 1933.
My grandfather had some bad feelings about Ireland for some
reason. He never had a desire to visit or even talk about it.
My mother did not know the names of her grandparents and she had
never met a first cousin. She did not know the names of my
Grandfathers siblings except for two, Mary Jane Caughey McCune
and Margaret Caughey Robinson. I became interested in finding
something about the family and it has been a fascinating
experience.
One interesting note is that my grandfather, James, was dating
Hannah Kelly before he left for this country. In fact, Hugh, his
older brother and Hannah took James and his sister Mary Jane to
meet the ship. It was a few years later that Hugh married
Hannah. I have often speculated that there may have been a
problem there but there is no way to know.
Lawrence