| Name |
Anna CARR |
| Birth |
1837, Ireland |
| Emigration |
13 Sep 1851, New York from Liverpool |
| Death |
14 Feb 1909, St. Louis, MO |
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| Spouses |
| 1 |
John George HAGAN24 |
| Birth |
183125 |
| Death |
2 Apr 1911, St. Louis, MO |
| Burial |
Alton, IL |
| Emigration |
13 Sep 1851, arrived New York from Liverpool, UK25 |
| Birth |
1831, Ireland, County Armagh, Town: Lurgan |
| Citizenship |
15 Oct 1857, New York |
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| Notes for John George (Spouse 1) |
If John was truly 14 when he came to America. He lied to the ships officer, telling him he was 20. But this would mean that he and Anna Carr were the same age.
"Hagan" is a Gaelic name meaning "youthful one." O'Hagan is the original Irish clan name, but the less well off members of that clan simplified the name to Hagan.
I found listings on steamships for almost 2000 Hagans who traveled from Ireland to America from 1820 to 1890.
Because he was starving, John Hagan traveled first to Liverpool and then boarded the ship Lady Franklin which arrived in New York on 13 September 1851. He was twenty years old. He was accompanied by his sister Ann Hagan who was 8 and a relative, Harry Hagan who was 44. On the ship's log, Harry is not listed as John's father. Almost all 433 passengers on the Lady Franklin had been hungry for three years. The potato famine had started in 1848. More than a million Irish had come to America in the five years before John Hagan did. Another passenger traveling with a relative on the Lady Franklin was Anna Carr, a young hungry girl, 14 years old. Although there are Carrs in County Armagh, I have not found a record of her birth in Ireland. You can get a birth certificate for John Hagan from the Genealogy Center in County Armagh for a mere 70 Euros ($100).
We will just have to conjecture how John and Anna first met. Obviously, they supported each other through the difficulties of the journey or met as they arrived in New York. I can find no record of their marriage. At sixteen years old, Anna conceived their first child who was born in New York in 1854. I tried to find out where John ditched his eight year old sister Ann, but I haven't been successful. Five years later the young family had moved to Alton, Illinois. |
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