Owen Robert Carrigan ¹⁰⁸

  General Notes:

Owen left Dowra in County Cavan in 1900 at age 18. He traveled to Liverpool where he took passage on the RMS Saxonia. The ship departed Liverpool on May 22nd and took 10 days to make the passage and arrived in Boston on May 31st 1900. Owen traveled with just $2 in his pockets in third class.
On the Passenger manifest it listed that his fare was paid for by his brother and he was going to visit his brother Philip at 54 Lincoln St Brighton


He was Naturalized on May 31st 1907. He and his wife Mary McGovern were living on Riverdale St and by 1920 were living on North Beacon St.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Nationality.

• Undertaker: J.W. Sullivan Boston.

• Born Alternate: Cunard Line Manifest Pg 196, 1881.

• Born Alternate: Death Certificate 70yrs 11 mon 4 days, Jun 30, 1885.

• Sailing Ship: RMS Saxonia from Liverpool - Cunard Lines, May 31, 1900.

• Residence, 1906, 74 Antwerp St.

• Naturalization, May 31, 1907, Boston Mass. ¹¹¹

• Residence, 1910, 53 Riverdale St.

• Residence, 1920, 343 Market St Brighton Massachusetts.

• Residence, 1956, 35 Parsons St.

Owen married Mary McGovern, daughter of Matthew McGovern and Alice Sheridan, on Oct 10, 1906 in Brighton Massachusetts.¹⁰⁷ (Mary McGovern was born in 1879 in County Leitram Ireland,^112,113 died in Mar 1957 in Brighton Massachusetts and was buried in Mar 1957 in St Josephs Cemetery West Roxbury Massachusetts.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Marriage locati: 377 Walnut Ave.

• Minister/Priest: Fr. Henry A. Barry.