Family: Francis Moran / Anne Galligan (F537)

• Father | Male Francis Moran

  
  

  Born	1812	Co. Leitrim, Ireland
  Died	29 Jan 1888	Fitzroy Township, Carleton County, Ontario
  Buried	31 Jan 1888	St. Michael's, Corkery, Huntley township, Carleton Co., Ontario
  Married	04 Jan 1853  [1]	Fitzroy Township, Carleton County, Ontario  [1]
  Other Spouse	Margaret Behan | F539
  Married	About 1837	Fitzroy Township, Carleton Co., Ontario
  Father	Ambrose Moran | F538 Group Sheet
  Mother	Mary Cannon | F538 Group Sheet

  
  

  Mother | Female Anne Galligan

  
  

  Born	About 1827	Loughaconnick, Kilmore, Co. Cavan, Ireland
  Died	21 Feb 1903	Fitzroy Harbour, Carleton Co., Ontario
  Buried	24 Feb 1903	St. Michael's RC Cemetery, Corkery, Huntley township, Carleton Co.
  Father	Denis Galligan | F573 Group Sheet
  Mother	Ann Kelly | F573 Group Sheet

  
  

  Child 1 | Male John Moran

  
  

  Born	Dec 1853	Fitzroy Township, Carleton County, Ontario
  Christened	01 Jan 1854	Fitzroy Township, Carleton County, Ontario
  Died	19 Dec 1887	Fitzroy Township, Carleton County, Ontario
  Buried	20 Dec 1887	St. Michael's, Corkery, Huntley township, Carleton Co., Ontario

  
  

  Child 2 | Male Michael Moran

  
  

  Born	18 Jun 1855	Fitzroy Township, Carleton County, Ontario
  Christened	19 Jun 1855	Fitzroy Township, Carleton County, Ontario
  Died	24 Jan 1932	St. Patrick's Orphanage and Asylum, Ottawa
  Buried	26 Jan 1932	St. Michael's RC Cemetery, Corkery, Huntley township, Carleton Co.

  
  

  Child 3 | Male Thomas Moran

  
  

  Born	1858	Fitzroy Township, Carleton County, Ontario
  Died	04 Oct 1887	Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois
  Buried	11 Oct 1887	St. Michael's, Corkery, Huntley township, Carleton Co., Ontario

  
  

  Child 4 | Male Edward Moran

  
  

  Born	Mar 1859	Fitzroy Township, Carleton County, Ontario
  Christened	5 Apr 1859	Fitzroy Harbour, Carleton Co., Ontario
  Died	04 Oct 1887	Chicago, Cook Co., Illinois
  Buried	11 Oct 1887	St. Michael's, Corkery, Huntley township, Carleton Co., Ontario

  
  

  Child 5 | Female Ann Elizabeth Moran

  
  

  Born	May 1861	Fitzroy Township, Carleton County, Ontario
  Christened	24 May 1861	Fitzroy Township, Carleton County, Ontario
  Died	30 Jan 1926	Kinburn, Fitzroy Township, Carleton Co.
  Buried	01 Feb 1926	Fitzroy Harbour, Carleton Co., Ontario

  
  

  Child 6 | Female Margaret Moran

  
  

  Born	Feb 1863	Fitzroy Township, Carleton County, Ontario
  Christened	06 Mar 1863	Fitzroy Township, Carleton County, Ontario
  Died	23 Jun 1931	St. Patrick's Orphanage and Asylum, Ottawa
  Buried	25 Jun 1931	Notre Dame Cemetery, Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada

  
  

  Child 7 | Male Denis Moran

  
  

  Born	Jan 1865	Fitzroy Township, Carleton County, Ontario
  Christened	01 Mar 1865	Pakenham, Lanark Co., Ontario, Canada
  Died	20 Nov 1872	Fitzroy Township, Carleton County, Ontario
  Buried

  
  

• Association	André Dugas (Relationship: Marriage witness)
  Association	Denis Galligan (Relationship: Marriage witness)
  Association	Andrew Devine (Relationship: Marriage witness)

  
  

• Documents

  John Moran applies to be administrator of estates of Edward Moran and Thomas Moran The Grand Forks Daily Herald, 11 November 1887

  
  

  Obituary » Slide Show		Obit for Edward Moran and Thomas Moran The Ottawa Journal, 15 October 1887
  		Death of Thomas and Edward Moran The Chicago Tribune, 5 October 1887
  		Death of John Moran The Arnprior Chronicle, 23 December 1887
  		Death of Francis Moran The Almonte Gazette, 10 February 1888 (copied from The Arnprior Chronicle)

  
  

• Notes

  Francis Moran and Ann Galligan lost four of their five sons to illness and accident. Son Denis died at seven years of age of "softening of the brain" (presumably some sort of brain infection). Sons Thomas and Edward emigrated to North Dakota in 1878, along with their half-brother Francis (son of Francis Moran and his first wife Margaret Behan). In the autumn of 1887, Thomas and Edward learned that their father was very ill. On their way back from North Dakota to Canada to see their dying father, they met with a horrible accident in Chicago, where they were asphyxiated by gas. Both sons died on 4 October 1887, and their bodies were returned to Fitzroy to be buried at St. Michael's, Corkery. Son John went out to North Dakota to settle his brothers' affairs, and caught typhoid fever; he died in Fitzroy on 19 December 1887. Thus, even as the elderly Francis Moran was dying, he and his wife Ann Galligan lost three sons in the space of a couple of months. None of the remaining children, Michael, Ann Elizabeth and Margaret, ever married. Both Michael and Margaret died at St. Patrick's Orphanage and Asylum.

  
  

• Sources

  [S87] Fitzroy Harbour Register.