new research

Today I received the death certificate of William Hagan, who was the brother of John A Hagan, our Ireland immigrant ancestor. It indicated his father's name as John and William's birthplace only as Ireland. However, it states that he was buried in Cypress Hills Cemetery in New York. I googled the name of the cemetery and it turns out that Cypress Hills is a national cemetery. It was opened to receive Civil War soldiers who died during the war. In 1873, the cemetery was opened up to burials of soldiers of the Civil War who did not die during the war, but were honorably discharged. So it appears that William was a Civil War Veteran and now I have civil war records to track down, which might be helpful

unidentified pictures

In 2002, another VanFrank researcher, John S (a descendant of Charles P. Van Frank), sent me a digital image of the photos of Charles P. & Harriet (Bickel) Van Frank.

Just last week (Jan 2008), I looked through my unidentified photos and realized that I had these same photos.

I love it when researchers can collaborate together

irish ancestors

Here's an update on my latest research for our Irish ancestors:

1) Our Ireland immigrant ancestor was John A. Hagan. (For a refresher on him and his family, go to http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Hagan,JohnA/hagan,johna.htm

2) All documentation that I have found for John A. Hagan have not mentioned his Irish birthplace, other than just indicating he was from Ireland.

3) I have been able to uncover that John had a brother named William Hagan and apparently they immigrated from Ireland together in 1853.
(source: John's obituary and William's 1900 census record)

4) They left a mother and sister in Ireland.
(source: John's obituary)

5) Gerald Hagan (Hubert's brother) wrote in a letter to me once that the Hagans were from County Cork. (unconfirmed as of yet).

6) William Hagan lived in Brooklyn New York. He married Annie and they had 3 daughters: Daisy, Lulu and Annie Agnes.
(source: 1870, 1880 and 1900 census records and letters written from the girls to John Van and Mabel Hagan.
Note: I do have a photograph of John Van Hagan and William's 3 daughters. I've attached it.)

7) John Van Hagan (Hubert's father) went and visited them in Nov. 1898 (about a year before he married Mabel Deal).
(source: letter written from Annie to John Van with directions to their house)

8) Recently I also found a record of death record for William Hagan on 02 May 1905 and for Anne, his wife on 01 June 1906 in Kings County, New York.
(source: http://www.italiangen.org/NYCDeathresults.asp?kind=exact&Esurname=hagan&Efirst=&StartYear=1905&EndYear=1906&County=K&B1=Submit)
I have requested copies of their death records. If we're lucky, William's death record will have his parents name and possibly his birth place in Ireland.

9) Just today I found William's passport application from 08 June 1872. I know that this is "our" William, because his signature on the passport application exactly matches the signature on a letter he wrote to John Van Hagan in 1903. I've attached a copy of the application. It does not listed his place of birth or have a photo, but it does list his description at the bottom. I wonder if he got a passport for the death of a family member in Ireland?

10) I know that Annie (and probably William) were buried at the Greenwood Cemetery in Kings County, New York.

11) Since I now know exact death dates, I am writing to the library in Brooklyn to locate an obituary.

new information posted website

added mysterious letter to the family page of John & Mabel (Deal) Hagan. It's about triplets being born to them, but our family has now knowledge of triplets. Here's the link:

http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Hagan,JohnVan/hagan,johnvan.htm

new family on website

I added a new family to my genealogy website today. It's for the family of Charles & Hannah Whipple.

Here's the link:

http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Whipple,Charles/whipple,charles.htm

new information posted website

added a new photo to my genealogy website for Henry Crego, son of Richard & Martha (Gallop) Crego. Here's the link:

http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Crego,RichardMartha/crego,richardmartha.htm

new family on website

Today I put up a new family on my website. It was for Lemuel & Lydia (Richmond) Hammond. On it went their family's pictures, family group sheet, biography, and list of sources. What's especially interesting about this family, is that Lydia lived from 1811 - 1892 and I have 6 or 7 of her recipes. Here's the link: http://members.toast.net/jan.monnin/hagan/Hammond,Lemuel/hammond,lemuel.htm

Richmond family

I found something interesting today. I was working on the family of Lemuel & Lydia (Richmond) Hammond. I know that she's a Richmond, however, had not had much luck finding her parents or family. Living with Lemuel and Lydia in 1860 were twins Arabella and Isabella Richmond. I assume that they are related somehow to Lydia.

Today I found the 1850 census listing for Arabella and Isabella. They are listed as living with Austin and Malina Richmond (who I assume are their parents) along with the rest of the children. Twins born exactly in 1848 with names Arabella and Isabella must be pretty rare, so I am pretty sure this is their family. What is even more convincing is that Arabella married Cephas Parker and they named one of their children Bela, which is one of the sons of Austin and Malina.

What's more interesting is that Arabella and Cephas named their first son Lemuel and their first daughter Lydia, which I can only assume was done in honor of Lemuel & Lydia Hammond. Perhaps they had taken in the girls after their parents had died and raised them.