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Name :: : William Dean KERRIGAN (1895 - 1924)
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Date of Birth: : 13 Oct 1895
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Marriage (2): :
Date of Death: : 27 Feb 1924 Notes : Injuries received in a train collision

Abode (1) : Place of BirthEngland, Yorkshire, Sheffield

Abode (2) : Place of Death / BurialCanada, Ontario, Brockville

Sailing Information

Date of Arrival: : 5 Jun 1908
Country: : Canada
Ship: : Tunisian
Placement Family: : F.Lamontagne

Homes / Agencys

Institution (GB): : Sheffield Workhouse
Agency: : Catholic Emigration Association

NotesA birth registration was found for William Kerrigan; Year of Registration: 1894; Quarter of Registration: Apr-May-Jun; District: Sheffield; County: South Yorkshire, Yorkshire - West Riding; Volume: 9c; Page: 457. (Parents: William Dean Kerrigan and Mary Glossop.)

In 1901, William D. Kerrigan, 8 years of age, along with his brother Joseph W. Kerrigan, 17, silver buffer, and sister, Florence D. Kerrigan, 6, were residing with his grandmother, Sarah Kerrigan, 60, at 8 Court 2 House, 60 Furnival Street, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. (Source: 1901 Census of England; Class: RG13; Piece: 4368; Folio: 89; Page: 3.)

Sarah Kerrigan, aged 65, died in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, in 1906.

In 1908, William Kerrigan, 13, arrived in Quebec, Canada, along with a group of 46 boys accompanied by Sister St. Vincent de Paul en route to Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

In 1911, William Kerrigan, 16, is shown as a servant to Edward McMahon and family in Gloucester, Russell, Ontario, Canada. His date of birth is shown as December 1894 and his immigration year as 1909.

On October 24, 1917, at Belleville, Ontario, Canada, William Dean Kerrigan, 22, enlisted in the Canadian Armed Forces (Service No. 3056729). He declared that he was residing at RR #1 City View, Merivale, Ontario, Canada; that he was born on October 13, 1895; that he was born in Sheffield, England; that his next of kin was his sister, Mrs. Florence Galliues, who resided at Commericial Road, Grantham, Yorkshire, England; that he was not married; and that he was a fireman on the Grand Trunk Railroad. He was described as 5 foot 10 inches in height; dark complexion; blue eyes; brown hair. He was a member of the Roman Catholic faith.

On June 29, 1921, in City View, Carleton, Ontario, Canada, a marriage was registered between William Dean Kerrigan, 26, loco. fireman, born in England, son of Dean Kerrigan and unknown mother ("orphan - mother not known"); and another home child, Mary McAllister Johnston Mitchell, 24, maid, born in Scotland, daughter of Walter Mitchell and Marion Johnston.

William and Mary Mitchell Kerrigan had one child, Florence Iris Kerrigan (Florence was born in July, 1924, five months after the death of her father. She died in 2004).

William Dean Kerrigan died on February 27, 1924 in General Hospital, Brockville, Ontario, Canada. He was involved in a railway accident in which he received a crushed chest injury causing shock and hemorrhage.

THE LETHBRIDGE DAILY HERALD
Wednesday, February 27, 1924

C.N. Passenger, Freight Collide

BROCKVILLE, - Feb. 27. -- When C. N. R. eastbound passenger train No. 20 and freight train No. 490 met in a head-on collision at a point just west of Mallorytown station at 4 o'clock this morning, two employees of the railway were killed and two others were seriously injured, one so gravely that his recovery is despaired of.

The dead are Neil A. Woodcock, Belleville, engineer of the freight train, and James A. Ritchie, also of Belleville, fireman of the passenger train. Those seriously injured and in the general hospital here are Albert Boyes of Belleville, the engineer of No. 20, and Wm. C. Kerrigan, fireman on train No. 490.

The accident occurred in a heavy fog. One of the cars on the freight train had suffered a broken truck earlier in the night when between Mallory town and Lynn and the engine was detached to proceed to Brockville to replenish the supply of water and fuel. On its return it proceeded to Mallory twon and was pulling the rear end of the train towards that station, tender first, on the eastbound track when the passenger train traveling at a high rate of speed, struck it.

Both engines were badly damaged and it was necessary to chop out the sides of the cab to remove the bodies of the dead enginemen. A relief train carrying physicians and nurses was ordered from Brockville and returned at 7 o'clock with the two injured railwaymen. The baggage car of the passenger train caught fire and all second class mails were burned. The locked mail bags were removed successfully. Both tracks of the main line are blocked as a result of the wreck.

Later: William C. Kerrigan, fireman of the freight train which met in collision with a passenger train early this morning near Mallory Town, died in the General hospital here at 10:15 o'clock from injuries received. Albert Boyes, engineer of the passenger train, is not expected to live.

William died at Union Hospital; buried on March 18, 1924 in Roman Catholic ground; Grave Number 275, Section Q of St Michaels RC Cemetery, Rivelin.

His mother Mary died shortly after his death, in the Workhouse in Sheffield (buried St Patrick's section, aged 47).

ContributorsCreated : 2008-04-26 15:13:47 / From original database

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Last Updated : 2018-07-19 14:47:59 /

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ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links
3858	ABBOTT, Emily Jane	1886	ENG, YKS, Guisborough	Jul 1903 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3046	ABBOTT, Lily	1873	ENG, YKS, Leeds	Sep 1883 : Parisian	CAN	Maria Rye
3086	ABRAHAM, Dinah	1889	ENG, YKS, Hull	Jul 1897 : State of California	CAN	Waifs & Strays
3089	ABRAHAMS, Milly Esther	1889	ENG, YKS, Hull	Jul 1897 : State of California	CAN	Waifs & Strays
5397	ADAMSON, Doris	1907	ENG, YKS, Hull	Mar 1915 : Scandinavian	CAN	Barnardos
6852	AGGAS, Clara	1891	ENG, YKS, Leeds	Jul 1902 : New England	CAN	Barnardos
6851	AGGAS, Ethel	1889	ENG, YKS, Leeds	Jul 1902 : New England	CAN	Barnardos
6780	AGGAS, Herbert	1895	ENG, YKS, Leeds	Apr 1905 : Kensington	CAN	Barnardos
6854	AGGAS, John William	1893	ENG, YKS, Leeds	Apr 1905 : Kensington	CAN	Barnardos
10434	ALLENBY, Edward	1908	ENG, YKS, Kirkbymoorside	Aug 1924 : Doric	CAN	National Childrens Home
3463	ALLINSON, Herbert Arthur	1895	ENG, YKS, Harwood Dale	Mar 1906 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
3462	ALLINSON, Lancelot	1892	ENG, YKS, Harwood Dale	Jul 1903 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos	suffolkmawther
4456	ANDERSON, Ethel Rows	1884	ENG, YKS, Normanby	Aug 1890 : Parisian	CAN	Maria Rye
3807	ANDREWS, Vernard Reginald	1897	ENG, YKS, Kingston Upon Hull	Mar 1908 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
13294	ANGUS, Agnes Crawford	1892	ENG, YKS, Ecclesall Bierlow	Jul 1905 : Corinthian	CAN	Quarriers
13293	ANGUS, Jennie Anderson	1893	ENG, YKS, Ecclesall Bierlow	Jul 1905 : Corinthian	CAN	Quarriers
5278	ARDINGTON, Thomas	1914	ENG, YKS, Driffield	Mar 1930 : Baltic	CAN	Waifs & Strays
8614	ARGENT, Joseph	1892	ENG, YKS, Sheffield	Mar 1909 : Canada	CAN	National Childrens Home	Lyn 8
23425	ARUNDEL, Eleanor Chapman	1892	ENG, YKS, Swinton, near Rotherham	Jun 1907 : Tunisian	CAN	Mrs. Mooney\'s
23426	ARUNDEL, Elsie Mary	1895	ENG, YKS, Doncaster	Jun 1907 : Tunisian	CAN	Mrs. Mooney\'s
5754	ASHBURNE, Alfred	1892	ENG, YKS, Dewsbury	May 1907 : Carthaginian	CAN	Middlemore
23815	ASHER, Thomas	1889	ENG, YKS, Sheffield	Aug 1905 : Dominion	CAN	Barnardos
15686	ASHFORD, Alice Carter	1908	ENG, YKS, Leeds	Sep 1924 : Melita	CAN	Barnardos
5361	ATKINSON, Thos	1910	ENG, YKS, Keighley	Aug 1925 : Montnairn	CAN	National Childrens Home
5049	BAKER, David	1914	ENG, YKS, Leeds	Mar 1930 : Duchess of Richmond	CAN	Barnardos
4996	BARNER, John	1916	ENG, YKS, York	Sep 1930 : Duchess of Bedford	CAN	Barnardos
4733	BARRACLOUGH, Dorothy D.	1918	ENG, YKS, Leeds	1932 : - Unknown -	AUS	Barnardos
4732	BARRACLOUGH, George Edward	1920	ENG, YKS, Scarborough	Jul 1930 : Balranald	AUS	Barnardos
4103	BARRETT, Maud	1888	ENG, YKS, Skipton	Aug 1901 : Parisian	CAN	Barnardos
12080	BATTERS, Thomas Edward	1917	ENG, YKS, Halifax	May 1928 : Ballarat	AUS	Fairbridge Homes
ID	Name	DOB	Place of birth	Arrivals & Ships	Dest.	Agency	Family links

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