Michael John Haggerty
M, #5, b. 4 January 1939, d. 15 December 2011
Parents
Biography
- Birth: 4 January 1939; Vancouver, British Columbia
- Death: 15 December 2011; Vancouver, British Columbia
- Reference Number: 1
- Note: Michael John Haggerty, late of Vancouver, passed away peacefully at St. James Cottage Hospice, Vancouver, December 15, 2011. Mike’s career in theoretical physics included being a member of the research team headed by 1977 Nobel Laureate, Ilya Prigogine. In recent years he was retired to Vancouver, where his many friends included those in his walking clubs.
Mike was predeceased by his parents, Bill and Irene Haggerty, and sister Robin Pretious.
The family is grateful for the care and support provided by the staff at Vancouver General Hospital and the Cottage Hospice, and by those who visited Mike during his hospital stay.
A celebration of Mike’s life will be held at The Gallery in Artisan Square, Bowen Island, Tuesday, December 20, from 3 to 5 p.m. No flowers, please. Those who wish may make a donation to a charity of their choice in Mike’s name.
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Alva Samuel (Sam) Haggerty
M, #9, b. 10 October 1911, d. 9 November 2003
Parents
Biography
- Birth: 10 October 1911; Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan
- Death: 9 November 2003; Castlegar, British Columbia
- Burial: Stony Beach Anglican Cemetery
- Note: Sam was born on a farm a few miles north of Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan. Shortly after he started school the family moved to the village of Belle Plaine where they built a house on the edge of town. When it was time for university he went to the University of British Columbia, living with his aunt and uncle, Ruth and Swanton Haggerty. After graduating with a degree in physics and mathematics he worked in radio, first at CJRM which had its radio transmitter on land near the Haggerty farm. He joined the CBC in its early days in the late 1930s, working first in Yorkton and then Watrous. In 1942 Sam and Marge left Watrous so that Sam could return to the family farm in Belle Plaine.
Sam was always an active worker in his community, involved in an immense variety of organizations, in particular as a school trustee and then as a member of the Moose Jaw Union Hospital Board. He was awarded life memberships in both the Saskatchewan School Trustees Association and the Saskatchewan Hospital Association. His other community activities included: the Sunday School and board of the Belle Plaine United Church, councillor and overseer in Belle Plaine, councillor of the Pense rural municipality, Regina Chamber of Commerce, the Regina Exhibition Farm Progress Show and the Saskatchewan Senior Citizens Council. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Shrine and the Eastern Star. One of Sam’s great loves was music and at one time he was a member of the Wa Wa Shrine Band, the Royal Canadian Legion Band, Lions Senior Band, Lions German Band, Regina Community Orchestra, Pioneer Old Timers Orchestra and the Preservation of Old Music Society. He was a Charter Member of the Regina Lions Harmony Club.
Sam died of colon cancer at the age of 92.
In his later years he was asked to write about a fond memory of his grandfather--he wrote the following about his Grandpa Haggerty:
"Remember his sitting in the den at Uncle Swanton's, cutting up an apple and feeding it to his grandsons (Floyd, Wilmer and I). He said it was a wonderful apple and we all nodded in agreement. As the youngest it took me a while to catch on (it was a terrible apple!)" [Floyd would have been William George Floyd born 1905, son of John Haggerty; Wilmer, son of Swanton, was born 1908]
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Margaret Reynolds Yvonne Small
F, #10, b. 5 May 1914, d. 5 July 2000
Parents
Biography
- Birth: 5 May 1914; Prince Albert, Saskatchewan
- Death: 5 July 2000; Regina, Saskatchewan
- Burial: Anglican Cemetery, Stony Beach, Saskatchewan
- Note: Marge Small was a brilliant woman whose many talents were largely unrecognized during her lifetime. Had she been born a generation later she would undoubtedly have been a highly successful career woman. She completed high school in Regina, and her high school graduation report reveals she was an outstanding student, particularly in mathematics and science. She completed one year of college at Regina College, but as this was the height of the great depression she withdrew from college and enrolled in a "business course." She once told me that she had walked the streets of downtown Regina, stopping at every office and place of business along the way until she was able to find work. At one point she was transferred to Vancouver, but she found the dull dreary winter there oppressive and returned to Regina.
In 1939 Marge married and settled in Watrous with Sam--from then on she was a wife and then mother. She raised three daughters and instilled in them the self confidence to not only complete university degrees, but to believe that there was no need for them to be second class citizens because they were born female. After her daughter Cathy was severely head injured in a car accident in 1971 she devoted her life to supporting and caring for Cathy.
In her eighties Marge realized the effects of decades of smoking when she developed congestive lung disease. She also suffered from severe and painful osteoporosis, and her last years were filled with pain and frustration.
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Kilkerranmore Haggertys
M, #11, b. before 1780
Parents
Biography
- Birth: Before 1780; Ireland
- Note: Various directories, etc. show the names of some Hagartys who lived in or near Clonakilty in the early 1800s. For example, the 1824 Piggot's Directory has Susan Hagarty, Baker, Main St; William Hagarty, Boot/Shoe Maker, Main St; Henry Hegarty, Corn Merchant/Miller, Lisse Lane; and Daniel Heagerty, Linen Draper, Main St All highly speculative!!
Nonetheless, there were 3 St Finbarre's marriages from 1823 to 1825 for Hagartys who were from Woodfield, a townland in Kilkerranmore parish, about 5 km west of Clonakilty and 8 km south of Kilmeen parish. Unfortunately, the father was not named for any of the three; hence I have listed him as "Kilkerranmore," their home parish.
The earliest record of a "Heagerty" in Kilkerramore is the 1796 flax Growers list, which shows a James Heagerty (and it is probably worth noting that Adam's eldest son was called James). That James may have been the father of these others. In addition to those three who married in St Finbarre's, Cork (Adam, James and Mary) in the 1820s, both the Tithes Applotments (1833) and the Griffiths Valuation (1853) show a Marmaduke Hegarty in Woodfield. Woodfield is 8 km (5 miles) from Kilmeen and 5 km from Clonakilty.
DNA analysis confirms that the Kilkerranmore family is very closely related to both the Kilmeen Haggertys and the Clonakilty Hegartys. I suspect the Kilkerranmore people were probably first and/or second cousins to the Kilmeen 14 family and the Clonakilty family?
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Catherine Laurel Haggerty
F, #12, b. 9 May 1946, d. 9 August 1997
Parents
Biography
- Birth: 9 May 1946; Regina, Saskatchewan
- Death: 9 August 1997; Regina, Saskatchewan
- Burial: 25 August 1997; Anglican Cem, Stony Beach, Saskatchewan
- Note: Cathy graduated from the University of Alberta just before her marriage. She and Art lived in Regina while Art completed his master's degree in physics, then moved to Dartmouth Nova Scotia where Art accepted a position as a scientist with the Defense Research Board of Canada. Cathy's active life ended abruptly when she was severely head injured in a car accident in 1971. She remained in hospital in Halifax for four years, after which her parents had her moved to Regina. Cathy was unable to speak or even to sit by herself as a result of her injuries. She remained a patient in Wascana Hospital in Regina until her death in 1997.
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Jacob Harry Krahn
M, #13, b. 7 July 1938, d. 22 September 2014
Biography
- Birth: 7 July 1938; Saskatchewan
- Death: 22 September 2014; Trail, BC
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William Haggertie
M, #18, b. 18 December 1771, d. 5 April 1848
Parents
Biography
- Birth: 18 December 1771; County Cork, Ireland
- Death: 5 April 1848; Rawdon Twp, Hastings County, Canada West
- Burial: 7 April 1848; St Thomas Church, Belleville, Canada West
- Note: The 1942 Haggerty book gives William's death as 1825, based on some early ration records; however, the St. Thomas, Belleville cemetery record for the burial of William Haggerty, aged 80 years in 1848 must be this William. James and John Haggerty were recorded as present at the burial, and would have been his brother and son. A book on the Peter Robinson settlers in Peterborough indicates that a William Hagerty died in 1825, aged 28, leaving a wife and 5 children. I think this family is probably the one for whom Florence Haggerty found ration records. Florence Haggerty (FHH) did indicate in one of her books that William had been buried in St Thomas Churchyard in Belleville, although she did not find a record of his burial. The 1848 burial was recorded from Diocese records by Gerry Boyce of Belleville, given to me by Mattie McCurdy and was also recorded by Lisa Russell who searched the Haggerty name in the Anglican Diocesan Archives for Ron Babcock.
In County Cork a William Haggertie signed the Vestry minutes for the Kilmeen parish meetings in April of 1803, 1804 and 1805. In 1803 this William was married in Dromdaleague parish, and there are two baptisms in that parish for his children, in March 1807 and July 1810. At that time he was living in Loughcrot, Dromdaleague parish (between Drimoleague and Dunmanway, closer to the former). The next record we have for him is when William jr was baptised in 1816 in Kilmeen, at which time William and Elizabeth were living in Kildee, Kilmeen parish. In 1819 when George was baptised they were living in Maulatanvally (which is actually in Ross parish).
Although William and Elizabeth were married in November 1803, the eldest child to come to Canada is their son John, now known to have been born about 1810. There appears to have been another son John born in 1807, and there may have been other surviving children born before the four who came to Canada with William. If so they must have either died before 1823 or remained in Ireland. In particular, I would have expected William to name his eldest son James, a child who could have been born between 1804 and 1806.
In 1823, after Elizabeth died, William and his four known children emigrated to Canada. There was a little-known famine in Ireland at that time. An ancestry.com newsletter (2 Aug 2009) notes:
"After a poor harvest in Ireland in 1821, famine and disease were widespread, particularly in the south and west of Ireland. The Gettysburg Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) of 24 July 1822 reported that, "A letter from T.S. Lindlay, Esq. High Sheriff of Mayo, says, the distresses arise from 'A failure in the potatoe [sic] crop of the last year, and the inability of the lower classes to purchase either this root or any other provision at present. The small plot usually attached to the cabins of the poor, in many cases, remain unsown from the impossibility of procuring seed. Nothing can be more wretched than the situation of the peasantry generally in Mayo. I have seen hundreds of wretched people greedily seeking for water cresses, wild mustard, nettletops, dwarf thistles, or dandelion all the spring, and this unnatural food has been the only meal within their reach.'
"The population in Ireland had grown from around 2.3 million in 1754 to 6.8 million as counted by the 1821 census. The Penal Laws, in place at the time, didn’t allow Catholics to buy land, and restricted them in many other ways. In 1827, legislation restricting emigration was lifted and in the ensuing ten years nearly 400,000 Irish emigrants left for foreign shores."
As well, the following statement was in the "Report of the Committee for the Relief of the Distressed Districts in Ireland, 1823":
"From the Rev. S. Murphy, P.P. Kilmeen, County of Cork, August 27th, 1822"
"The most troublesome share of the business was most cheerfully undertaken by the Rev. Mr. Kenny, (Rector of Kilmeen,) as the partition and daily inspection of the work,--the keeping of the accounts,--the paying the labourers in money or meal,--the distribution of soup, &c.; and I cannot conclude, without expressing the happiness I feel in this opportunity of testifying to your Committee my warmest acknowledgements of that Reverend gentleman's meritorious conduct, during the prevalence of the late awful calamity. His anxiety to alleviate the alarming distress of his parish, his indefatigible exertions to procure the means necessary to that effect, his very judicious management of them, (and here I am bound to state that in our frequent conferences on this subject, any suggestion of mine met with the most marked attention on his part,) will, I am convinced, be long remembered with sentiments of the deepest gratitude of every individual in this parish, and by none with a stronger impression than by myself."
A few months after this description of conditions in Kilmeen parish, William and his four children emigrated to Canada. Family stories are that his brother Jonathan and his family came at the same time. As noted above, until 1827 there were restrictions on emigration. After those restrictions were lifted, William's two youngest brothers followed him to Canada.
The Y-DNA Haggerty/Hegarty project confirmed the close relationship between the protestant Kilmeen Haggertys and Haggerty protestants who lived in the nearby Bandon, Clonakilty, Skibbereen and Skull areas. See results for descendants of James Haggertie, Marmaduke Hegarty, Edward Haggarty, William Haggerty, Daniel Heagerty and Adam Haggarty: .
Upon learning this, further analysis of autosomal DNA tests (Family Finder) revealed that these connections are quite close--many predicted to be within 5th or 6th cousins. Family Finder is very accurate for up to 3rd cousins; it is predicted to find approximately half of 4th cousins, only about 1 of 10 5th cousins; for more distant cousins the odds are against finding a match.
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Elizabeth Beamish
F, #19, b. about 1775, d. about 1820
Parents
Biography
- Birth: About 1775; County Cork, Ireland
- Death: About 1820; County Cork, Ireland
- Note: Elizabeth's birth date is not known. We have the marriage record thanks to the 1950 book on the Beamish family. Its author visited numerous Cork parishes to extract records of Beamishes. The Drimoleague parish register had records from 1802, so Elizabeth's baptism record was not available. Her parents are still unknown, but would likely be from the family that lived at Acres. Haggerty family information is that she had a brother, Captain Tom Beamish, who came to Canada on the same ship as William and the four youngest children (i.e., probably in 1823).
An excerpt from Florence Haggerty's book on the family of Elizabeth Beamish and William Haggerty notes: "[Elizabeth] Beamish, died in Ireland when their son, George was born. [Their] son, John often told how his father raised the baby, who slept with him, and how the child's mother came back each night and tucked the baby in bed and admonished him to take good care of him. He also told how, as he rode to town on Saturday nights to get the provisions for the family, she would come and get on horseback behind him, and ride till they came to the River Shannon [couldn’t have been the River Shannon, possibly the Argideen or the Bandon River; William and Elizabeth lived in Maulatanvally when George was baptised in 1819, according to the Kilmeen Parish register], when she would slip off and disappear, not being able to cross water. One night he tried to keep her by force, but she got away from him. That night, she came to tuck the baby in as usual, but told him he did very wrong trying to hold her, and if it happened again, her companions would kill him, and then she disappeared, and did not come back anymore." (Haggerty, 1942, pp. 3-4)
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John Haggerty
M, #20, b. 24 June 1810, d. 15 April 1902
Parents
Biography
- Birth: 24 June 1810; Loughcrot, County Cork, Ireland
- Christening: 2 July 1810; Dromdaleague parish, County Cork
- Death: 15 April 1902; Caradoc Twp, Middlesex County, Ontario
- Burial: Oakland Cemetery, Delaware, Ontario
- Divorce: Jane Janet Smith
- Note: John Haggerty was born in County Cork in Ireland. He came with his father William and three younger siblings to Canada, probably in 1823. His mother had died about 1820 when the youngest child George was an infant. John married Margaret Gawley who had travelled to Canada with her family from Ireland (Fermanagh) on the same ship as the Haggertys.
FHH gave John's year of birth as 1812, although if the birth date is calculated back according to his given age when he died, it should be 24 August 1813. His tombstone records his age at death as 88 yrs, 7 mos & 21 dys. John was recorded as being 45 in 1861 (age next birthday) suggesting he would have been born abt 1816; 56 on the 1871 census, suggesting a birth year of 1814. The 1901 census gives his birth date as June 24, 1813 and indicates that he came to Canada "before 1851" (unfortunately, he apparently did not know what year the family arrived, and he was the only surviving member of the immigrant family at that time). Until June 2013 I had been unable to find a baptism record in Ireland. But now I find the following from the Drimoleague register:
1807, March 15 Baptised John son of William Hegarty of Lochcrutt(?) drim…
April 12th Churched wife of William Hegarty of Lochcrut, Drim
1810, July 2d Baptised John son of William Hegarty of Lochcrur Drim.
[Note: unable to find any townland beginning with Loch! However, in Dromdaleague parish there is a Loughcrot, which is located abt 4-5 km ENE of Drimoleague (on the way to Dunmanway)]
Also in that register is the 1803 marriage of William Hegarty and Elizabeth Beamish, so I feel confident this is the right family. Thus it appears that their first child, John, died and the second child was also named John. His baptism of 2 July is a good fit with a birth date of 24 June, even though the year is inconsistent with the various records found in Canada. I am going to assume that the John Haggerty who emigrated to Canada with his father and three younger siblings is the John who was baptised in 1810.
John married twice. He first married Margaret Gawley in St. Thomas Church, Belleville, Ontario, 19 May 1836. Margaret was born in Fermanagh County, Ireland about 1818, the daughter of Andrew Gawley and Jane Reed. After Margaret's death, John married Jane Dafoe (née Smith) in Hastings County, 29 May 1864. Jane was a widow and was born in Canada West about 1825. According to the Hastings County Marriage Register, she was a resident of Rawdon tp., the daughter of Nicolas and Mary Smith, and 38 years old at the time of her marriage. John's first wife had died only 15 months earlier and leaving him with eight children, born between 1837 and 1861. The 1861 census suggests the family was doing well. They lived in a brick house which had been built the year before, and is still standing on Hiway 62 and is currently occupied (2009).
However, it appears that after Margaret's death and John's remarriage, hard times fell upon the family. According to a notice reproduced in a book about life in Upper Canada in the 1800s ("Village Life in Upper Canada," by G. Thomson, published in 1988 by Mika Press of Belleville, Ontario), it appears that either Jane left the marriage without John's approval or John forced her to leave. The notice says: "I hereby forbid any persons harboring my wife, Jane Haggerty, and also forbid anyone giving her goods on my account, as I will not be responsible for any debts or liabilities incurred by her." The notice was signed, "Wm. Haggerty, Huntingdon, 8th Con., Lot No. 7." The name William is a bit confusing, but land records for that lot indicate that William Haggertie sold the west half of the lot (100 acres) to John Haggertie 13 April, 1839. John Haggertie took out a mortgage for $500. on 1 April, 1865. A month later, on May 6, 1865 (less than a year after their marriage), the record notes a "decree": Jane Haggertie, Plaintiff, and John Haggertie, Defendant, registered May 27, 1865, "As to all money [alimony?] payable quarterly." In September, 1869 the land was sold for taxes. Jane evidently left John or was sent away while pregnant, as their daughter Margaret was born in August, 1865. I am confident the above ad referred to this couple, in spite of the notice listing the name William Haggerty, rather than John. Other documents I have indicate that John signed documents with an "X", and hence was illiterate. I believe the publisher erred in the name, possibly because it was submitted by a William who could have been either John's brother or son, or perhaps the publisher was confusing John with his father. It appears that John had to provide Jane with money following a divorce or separation, had to mortgage the farm to do so, and that he lost the farm four years later. John and Margaret's children were living with their eldest brother, James, and his wife Elizabeth when they moved to Middlesex County, believed to be in 1868. After George and Martha Bateman married in 1870, John and his youngest daughter, Jane, lived with George and Martha in Caradoc Township.
John fought in the war of 1837/38 and is listed among the survivors of 1891/92
Ontario death registration for John "Haggarty" #15882: cause of death senile decay, informant his son George; resided Lot 20, R4S, Caradoc tp.
- Note: Margaret Gawley; Marriage date per Diocese records was 2 June 1836. Witnesses were Zane Joseph Kinner and James Sherman (uncle of Margaret who came to Canada at the same time as the Gawleys and Haggertys--source, pers. corr. Sherman Gauley).
- Note: Jane Janet Smith; This marriage ended in divorce after one year.
Family 1: Margaret Gawley (b. about 1818, d. 1 February 1863)
- James Haggerty+ (b. 27 October 1837, d. 31 March 1913)
- Elizabeth Haggerty+ (b. 22 March 1840, d. 21 September 1926)
- William Haggerty (b. 20 September 1842, d. 1845)
- George Haggerty+ (b. 11 February 1845, d. 9 September 1921)
- John G. Haggerty+ (b. 8 April 1847, d. 25 March 1931)
- Andrew Hagerty+ (b. 11 June 1849, d. 5 September 1917)
- William Haggerty+ (b. 27 October 1851, d. 19 April 1938)
- Jane Haggerty (b. after 1851, d. before 1857)
- Jane Haggerty (b. 9 March 1857, d. 27 May 1943)
- Thomas Hagerty+ (b. 19 March 1861, d. 11 July 1926)
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Margaret Gawley
F, #21, b. about 1818, d. 1 February 1863
Parents
Biography
- Birth: About 1818; Fermanagh County, Ireland
- Christening: 26 March 1818; Clones, Monaghan, Ireland
- Marriage: 19 May 1836; John Haggerty; St. Thomas Church, Belleville, Ontario
- Death: 1 February 1863; Ivanhoe, Hastings County, Canada West
- Burial: St Thomas Cemetery, Rawdon Twp, Hastings County
- Note: Margaret Gawley was christened in Clones Parish, Monaghan (Christening record IGI Batch # C700681). Clones is a parish which overlaps both County Fermanagh and County Monaghan. The Gawley family came to Canada on the same ship as William Haggerty and his children. Margaret travelled with her parents, Andrew Gawley and Jane Reed, two brothers, James and Andrew, and a sister, probably named Anne. Her mother, Jane Reed died en route and was buried at sea.
Margaret's grave was recorded by FHH as follows: "Tablet in cemetary: Margaret, wife of John Hagerty, died Feby 1, 1863 Aged 43 yrs. & 7 D's. Blessed are --- Lord. Erected by her sons John & Andrew." Initially Ron Babcock and I were unable to find Margaret's stone, and she is not recorded in the Genealogical Society transcript of the St. Thomas Cemetery. However, in the summer of 1999 Ron and I used a metal probe to locate the stone buried several inches below the surface. As of the summer of 2000, it has been set in concrete in the cemetery. If the age at her death is correct on the tombstone, 43 years 7 days, then Margaret would have been born January 25, 1820. The 1852 census records her age as 35 (that is, the age she would be at her next birthday after January 1852), suggesting she was born in 1817. All in all, I believe it very likely that the baptism record listed above (from the IGI) is our Margaret.
- Note: John Haggerty; Marriage date per Diocese records was 2 June 1836. Witnesses were Zane Joseph Kinner and James Sherman (uncle of Margaret who came to Canada at the same time as the Gawleys and Haggertys--source, pers. corr. Sherman Gauley).
Family: John Haggerty (b. 24 June 1810, d. 15 April 1902)
- James Haggerty+ (b. 27 October 1837, d. 31 March 1913)
- Elizabeth Haggerty+ (b. 22 March 1840, d. 21 September 1926)
- William Haggerty (b. 20 September 1842, d. 1845)
- George Haggerty+ (b. 11 February 1845, d. 9 September 1921)
- John G. Haggerty+ (b. 8 April 1847, d. 25 March 1931)
- Andrew Hagerty+ (b. 11 June 1849, d. 5 September 1917)
- William Haggerty+ (b. 27 October 1851, d. 19 April 1938)
- Jane Haggerty (b. after 1851, d. before 1857)
- Jane Haggerty (b. 9 March 1857, d. 27 May 1943)
- Thomas Hagerty+ (b. 19 March 1861, d. 11 July 1926)
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George Haggerty
M, #22, b. 11 February 1845, d. 9 September 1921
Parents
Biography
- Birth: 11 February 1845; Hastings County, Canada West
- Christening: 22 October 1845; St. Thomas Church, Belleville
- Marriage: 17 November 1870; Martha Bateman; Christ Church, Delaware, Ontario
- Death: 9 September 1921; Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan
- Burial: Anglican Cem, Stony Beach, Saskatchewan
- Note: George Sr.'s birth date, according to notes Florence Huff Haggerty made from the family Bible which was in the possession of Maggie Fisher, was 27 September 1842. However, the birth dates of George and William were apparently interchanged. February 11, 1845 is the date in George and Martha's Bible (now in the possession of Margery Haggerty Ford), and is now seen to be correct (baptism record and 1861 census). In the 1901 census his birth date is recorded as 11 February 1844. Baptism sponsors were William Collins, William D. Collins and Mrs. W. Collins. I do not know who these people were.
George apparently moved from Hastings County to Middlesex County in the late 1860s. After George and Martha's marriage in 1870, his brother Tom and sister Jane and their father came to live with them (the 1871 census has John and Jane living with Martha and George, but not Tom, who was living with James and Elizabeth at that time). Their name is spelled "Haggarity" on the 1871 census. Ancestry.com has them indexed as "Haggerts" on the 1901 census (Caradoc Div.1, p. 10). When their son George was born their residence was recorded as Lot 20, R 4 S, Caradoc tp.
I have seen a series of documents relating to the land in Caradoc Twp. farmed by George and Martha from 1870 until 1906. There were a number of mortgages and similar documents during those 36 years, suggesting on-going financial difficulties. In the 1870 documents George and Martha signed their names "Haggarty." Later documents were signed "Haggerty." In 1906 George and Martha sold the farm in Ontario and moved west to Saskatchewan following their three sons. The 1916 census shows George living with his recently widowed daughter, Beulah Rutherford (Jim and Etta Steel are the next household), 16-23-2. George lived his last few years with his son and daughter-in-law, George and Florence, in Belle Plaine.
- Note: Martha Bateman; Witnesses were J.[ohn] Haggerty and Margaret Bateman both of Caradoc tp.
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Martha Bateman
F, #23, b. 1 February 1848, d. 14 May 1920
Parents
Biography
- Birth: 1 February 1848; Caradoc twp, Middlesex County, Canada West
- Christening: 23 April 1848; Christ Church, Delaware, Canada West
- Marriage: 17 November 1870; George Haggerty; Christ Church, Delaware, Ontario
- Death: 14 May 1920; Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan
- Burial: Anglican Cem, Stony Beach, Saskatchewan
- Note: Caradoc Census for 1901 gives birth year of 1847, but is likely an error. Martha was born a few miles south-west of London, shortly after her parents moved from New Brunswick.
- Note: George Haggerty; Witnesses were J.[ohn] Haggerty and Margaret Bateman both of Caradoc tp.
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George Rolland Haggerty
M, #24, b. 28 March 1880, d. 8 January 1960
Parents
Biography
- Birth: 28 March 1880; Caradoc Twp, Middlesex Co, Ontario
- Death: 8 January 1960; Texas, USA
- Burial: 11 January 1960; Anglican Cem, Stony Beach, Saskatchewan
- Note: Ontario birth registration #19645.
George Haggerty and his two brothers were the first members of this Haggerty family to go west to Saskatchewan. George first went west with his friend and distant cousin, Dick Pulling, about 1900. These two men worked on the Williams ranch near what is now called Old Wives Lake, south of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. In 1901 the census has John, George and their Aunt Jane living in Fairville, Assiniboia (their birth dates are all incorrect). In 1906 George is recorded as a boarder in the household of Laura and Charles Brooks in Assiniboia West (District: #12, Subdistrict: 25+A which included townships 15, 16 17 and 18 inclusive, in ranges 22, 23 and 24 west of the 2nd M, Page 5). George evidently returned to Ontario at some point in 1906 to assist his parents wind up their affairs before they also moved to Saskatchewan with their four youngest daughters, as he signed some of the documents when his parents' Caradoc farm was sold.
The Haggertys settled near Belle Plaine and Stony Beach (between Regina and Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan). George met his future wife, Florence Huff, when she came west to teach school and boarded with the Haggerty family. George established his own homestead and farmed until his son Sam took on responsibility for the family farm in the early 1940s. George and Florence were both very active in a variety of community affairs during their life in Belle Plaine.
In 1924 George and Florence travelled overseas, sailing from Montreal to Southampton on the Minnedosa (incorrectly indexed as the "Minnesota"), owned by the Canadian Pacific line. They arrived 24 June 1924. They returned on the Montroyal, leaving England July 11 and arriving July 17--sure was a quick trip! Family stories are that they hoped to visit Ireland, where George's father had been born, but were unable to do so because of political unrest there--seems odd?
George and Florence retired to Regina in the mid 1940s and during their later years spent many winters in Weslaco, Texas, returning to Regina each spring. George suffered greatly from trigeminal neuralgia during the last several years of his life and died following surgery in an attempt to relieve that pain.
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Swanton Haggerty
M, #25, b. 7 October 1872, d. 16 May 1950
Parents
Biography
- Birth: 7 October 1872; Caradoc Twp, Middlesex County, Ontario
- Death: 16 May 1950; Vancouver, British Columbia
- Burial: Anglican Cem, Stony Beach, Saskatchewan
- Note: Ontario birth reg'n #12204. Listed living with parents in Caradoc Twp. Ontario in 1901 (none of the other sons were listed). The family lived in Regina when Bill (Wilmer) was in secondary school, and then moved to Vancouver so Bill could attend UBC. In Vancouver Swanton was active in the Clydesdale Horse Association. I was told that when the Burrard Bridge had its official opening Swanton drove a team of horses across the bridge as part of the opening ceremonies.
Death registration gives death date as 16 May 1950 (BC death registration # 1950-09-005157) and indicates he had last worked as a farmer in 1926. Cause of death coronary thrombosis with complete heart black.
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