Bridget EGAN (1871 – ?)
Bridget was born 3rd November 1871. She was the third daughter and the sixth child of John and Mary Teresa (Desmond) EGAN.
Her baptismal record is the last record I have found that is certainly her.
She may have died in infancy and not been registered as dead, which was not unusual at that time. There’s no record of marriage. There are no cleatrly matching records of emigration.
Bridget is a mystery.
Francis Patrick EGAN (1874 – 1939)
Francis Patrick was born 11 March 1874. He was the fourth son and the seventh child of John and Mary Teresa (Desmond) EGAN. He was known as Frank.
Frank’s school success appeared in the Irish Examiner Sat, Sept 01, 1888:
Francis P. Egan, Christian Schools, Cork. Junior Grade Pass List of the Intermediate Examination.
Frank lived with his remaining family, and did not marry.
Frank was an accountant / clerk and worked in a flour mill in the census years.
In the 1910 Guys Almanac, following the death of both parents Frank, having assumed the head of household mantel, was listed at 24 Cathedral Ave.
In the 1916 Almanac he was listed in the commercial pages at 33 Grattans Hill under Auditors and Accountants.
Frank died 8th January 1939, of V.D.H. (the acronym for vascular disease of the heart) heart failure. He was recorded as a Chartered Accountant on his death certificate. He was from Fair Hill, but died at the Little Sisters of the Poor. [1] Frank was almost 65 years old.
Frank was buried at St Joseph’s cemetery. It appears he was buried in a pauper’s grave. Why was he not buried in a family plot?
Agnes Bridget EGAN (1876 – 1948)
Agnes was born on 22 October 1876. She was the fourth daughter and the ninth child of John and Mary Teresa (Desmond) EGAN.
Agnes was living with her remaining family in the 1901 and 1911 census. She did not marry. She was not working in either Census records. She was perhaps housekeeping, along with her aunt Nora, or otherwise seeking employment.
At the time of her death Agnes was living at 30 Dublin St., the home of her older sister, Mary Theresa (Egan) HYLAND. Agnes presumably moved to the HYLAND house after the siblings with whom she had shared a home had all died. Her death record gave her occupation as Governess.
Agnes died 10 December 1948 at the Cork District Hospital after 23 days in hospital. Agnes died from hemiplegia, 1 year, 4 months. Hemiplegia is partial paralysis, caused by stroke or tumour. She was 62 years old.
There is no record of a will 1948-1950.
Nora Mary EGAN (1877 – 1944?)
The youngest and tenth of the EGAN children, Nora was born 9 November 1877.
This is presumably the woman known to my mother’s generation as “Aunt Nora EGAN”.
Nora lived with her remaining family and did not marry (at least, not in Ireland before 1940.)
In 1901 she was a shop assistant, and in 1911 Nora worked as a typist in a timber importers.
The only Irish death of a Nora/Norah Egan from 1911 – 1969 is that of a typist, who died from coronary thrombosis, in 1944 but her age is out by 17 years.
I haven’t found a matching record for Nora in any other country. Given the next generation knew of her it seems most likely the typist above was our Nora – or could she have emigrated and married?
Nora is a mystery.
1]An earlier Cork City and County Directory described this facility in Montenotte as “Home for respectable old people.” It took in men and women aged over 60 years.
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