Posted By:	John Field Pankow
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	Subject:	Re: Im a Carrigan in the UK.
	Post Date:	October 30, 2006 at 12:09:11
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/carrigan/messages/270.html
	Forum:	Carrigan Family Genealogy Forum
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Joanne, I was interested to see your message. My mother's name is Joanne. Do you know where in Ireland your ancestors came from? My 6th great grandparents, James Carrigan (c.1714/6-1793) and Isabel Brown (c.1726-1804), came from the village of Cootehill. Some sources say County Cavan, and some say County Monahan. Evidently, it's on the border between the two counties. James and Isabel came to America in the 1750s, first arriving in Pa. and then coming down to North Carolina. They fetched up at a place called Coddle Creek, in Cabarrus County, NC, where my grandfather was born. James and Isabel are buried at the Coddle Creek Presbyterian (now ARP) Church. I feel sure that Isabel was of Scots ancestry, but am not sure if James was Scots or Irish. Legend has it that one of James' brothers who was a priest came with them from Ireland, and that he fell in a river and drowned on the way South through Virginia. Since Presbyterians, then or now, don't use the term priest, I wondered if the Carrigans might not have been Irish Catholics. In North Carolina, they were definitely Presbyterians. In fact one of James & Isabell's sons became a Presbyterian minister. My line down goes as follows: James Carrigan (1714/6-1793) & Isabel Brown (c.1726-1804) James Carrigan, Jr. (c.1770-1843) & Margaret ? Mary Carrigan (c.1799-bef.1850) & William S. Van Pelt (c.1799-1851) m. 1821 Mary Jane Van Pelt (1831-1905) & Levi Bell (1812-1893) m. 1858 Mary Rhetta Bell (1862-1947) & Ernest Marion Field (1866-1902) m. 1888 John Levi Field (1899-1963) my grandfather. I never knew him, as he died before I was born. Best Regards, John Field Pankow Asheville, NC