Mapping out the familiies

This series of posts focuses on an A-Z theme for April in 2025. I have chosen events that occurred On This Day in April of years in the past. These events are recorded in my genealogy database. 

The Horgans below all moved, sometimes several moves, within their lifetimes. Daniel's moves are tracked with a map application within WeAre(dot)xyz.

A map for William Stirling could show his journey from Scotland to Liverpool to New Zealand., Dalhousie St. in Auckland then his final resting place in the Symonds Street Cemetery. 

On This Day - 15th April

1916 - Death: Daniel HORGAN, Gulnare, South Australia, Australia

A map of his life's places shows immigration from County Kerry, Ireland, arrival at Port Adelaide, a farm at Tarlee, and a farm at Gulnare. 

Click on the first listed place in the map box, then select it again, then move to the next place to travel across the globe. or choose 3D flyby.

Daniel, father of ten, farmer of Gulnare was 73 when he died.

 

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1920 - Burial: William STIRLING, Auckland, New Zealand He was my husband's 2 x gt grandfather on the maternal side.

William Stirling was born in Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland and migrated to New Zealand in 1860 at age 22.

The journey of the ship "Blue Jacket" was described in great detail in the newspaper on its arrival. 

The clipper ship Blue Jacket, Captain Hugh Clarke,—the sixth of the White Star Line of packets,—arrived in harbour, at 1 p.m. yesterday, after a tedious passage of a hundred and eleven days from Liverpool. She took her departure from the Mersey, late in the afternoon of the 26th November [ed.1859], in tow of a steam-tug, the tow-rope parting at 5 am. of the following morning, at which time it blew a hard, double reef topsail, breeze at North West.  Cleared the Channel, on the 30th, with dark, cloudy, weather, and strong winds. Passed Madeira without sighting it; strong gales from the South-west then blowing. Sighted the island of Palma on the 14th December, and was detained, by adverse weather, for eight days off the Canaries...........................

The description of the passage continues giving latitude and longitude positions along the way. A summary at the end of the passage reads:

The Blue Jacket is a very fine ship of her class, and—alow and aloft—has come into harbour in the most clean and creditable condition. What the opinion entertained of her, her master and officers, will be seen by the testimonials which were presented, and which we print elsewhere. There were two births and two deaths (infants) during the passage, in other respects the ship has been exceedingly healthy. She will, we understand, haul alongside the Wharf with the morning tide. She has brought, as we learn from her Official Passenger List, the following valuable addition to our population:—65 labourers, 57 farmers, 13 spinsters. 3 carpenters, 2 joiners, 1 painter, 1 servant: in all 141 English, 58 Irish, 28 scotch, 227 souls equal to 192 statute adults. (1)

William married Agnes Crosbie just four years after his arrival in 1864. After a long marriage he died on April 13th 1920. At this stage I have not researched their children apart from son Charles Edward Stirling born in 1865.

STIRLING. Tuesday. April 13, 1920 at his late residence, Dalhousie, 12, St. Martin's Lane, William, the dearly-beloved husband of Agnes Stirling, in his 82nd year. Funeral will leave his late residence, today (Thursday), April 15, for the Symonds Street. Cemetery at 3 p.m. Friends please accept this intimation.(2)

Noticeboard at Symonds St Cemetery, Auckland.

1. New Zealander, Volume XVI, Issue 1452, 17 March 1860, Page 3

2. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17445, 15 April 1920, Page 1

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1952 - Death: Margaret Anne DEMPSEY, Glenelg, South Australia, Australia

THE LATE MRS. MARGARET ANNE HORGAN. R.I.P.

THE late Mrs. Margaret Anne Horgan was born of Irish parents, Thomas Dempsey and Mary Erwin, at Clare, South Australia, in 1875. Her early home was near the Mintaro Railway Station (now Merildin); later her parents took up land north of Farrell Flat. In 1903 she was married to Thomas J. Horgan, member of a Manoora family, former neighbors of the Dempseys. For 14 years they lived on a farm at Mintaro, where their six children were born. In 1917 they went to live at Glenelg, where their children attended the Catholic schools no longer available in their country farming district.

For more than 25 years, in spite of all the duties entailed by family life, she found time to give herself without reserve to activities concerned with the parish. Towards the sick and the spiritual and temporal good of the poor especially, she exercised, in a quiet way, a charity that was constant and at all times practical.

In 1943 Mr. Horgan died suddenly, and since then she lived with her two daughters at Glenelg. Some eighteen months ago Mrs. Horgan showed signs of failing health, which gradually curtailed her round of activities, though she was able to attend the Marian 

Congress of October last. During this time she had the consolation of the unremitting care of her family and frequent reception of the Sacraments from her son, Fr. T. Horgan, and Fr. Farrell, of Glenelg ; her final Viaticum was received on Easter Sunday. The Sisters of the Little Company of Mary, the Sisters of Mercy, and the Sisters of St. Joseph frequently visited her in her last days, which ended peacefully on Easter Tuesday, April 15, as all the members of her family were reciting the Rosary at her bedside.

A Priests' choir chanted the music of the Solemn Requiem celebrated by Fr. T. Horgan, with Rev. Fr. P. Kelly and Rev. Fr. O. Farrell as Deacon and Sub-Deacon. At the funeral, which took place at the Centennial Park Cemetery, six nephews acted as pall-bearers. 

Remaining members of her own family are: Messrs. John Dempsey (Parkside), Thomas Dempsey (Hanson), James Dempsey (Farrell Flat), Mrs. C. Hogan (Booborowie), and Miss Ann Dempsey (Farrell Flat).

1952 'OBITUARY THE LATE MRS. MARGARET ANNE HORGAN. R.I.P.', Southern Cross (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1954), 2 May, p. 14., http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article167083049

This post first appeared on earlieryears.blogspot.com by CRGalvin