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Surnames: Carrigan, Chaffin
Classification: Query
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4NI.2ACEB/374
Message Board Post:
Looking for information on CHAFFIN's in Maury Co., TN with reference to the following census entries:
1850 Maury Co., TN, Dist.21
Chaffin, B. 69 m w, farmer, VA
Chaffin, Elizabeth 53 f w, VA, deaf
Chaffin, Wm. 20 m w, VA
Chaffin, Melissa 17 f w, TN
Chaffin, James 14 m w, TN
CARRIGAN, Tabitha 5 f w, TN
**note** an Elizabeth J. Chaffin mar. James D. Carrigan, in Maury Co., TN on 29 July, 1843 (bdsm. Henry Johnson). This is the only Chaffin/Carrigan connection I have found to date.
1860 Maury Co., TN, Dist. 22, Springhill
Chaffin, Banister, 80 m w, VA
Chaffin, Melissa 23 f w, TN
Chaffin, James 24 m w, laborer, TN
CARRIGAN, Tabitha 16 f w, TN
Maize, James A., 30 m w, VA
The following entry may be the Wm. Chaffin from the 1850 census entry above. Note that both households contain a 16 yr. old Carrigan girl.
1860 Williamson Co., TN, East Subdiv., Franklin POB
Chaffin, William 29 m w, Switchman, VA
Chaffin, Eliza 25 f w, TN
Chaffin, Mary 4 f w, TN
Chaffin, Henry 1 m w, TN
CARAGIN, Mary 16 f w, TN
If you have additional informtation on this family that may help solve the question of a connection between the Chaffin and Carrigan surnames, please contact me at gkcarrigan(a)aol.com or reply to this message. Thanks in advance. KC