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Group Administrator: Frances James

Project Surnames:

Carrigan	Carrocan	Carrogan	Carroghan
Carrucan	Corragan	Corregan	Corrigan
Courigan	Currie	Currigan	Curry
O'Corrigain

Group General Fund:

Y-DNA37 2007 Gift Certificate $30* - Kit 109682

04/28/08 - Jeanne R. Stanis donation....$50
04/28/08 - Total available....$50
05/21/08 - Kit N54927....($50)
05/21/08 - Total available....$0

Project Background:

Email Frances on; fjames2001 at yahoo dot com dot au for information or queries.

We are seeking male Corrigan’s worldwide. All variant spellings are accepted.
We are looking to determine whether there are multiple Corrigan lines and where they are from. Which line does your family connect with?

Y-chromosome DNA is passed down from father to son for many generations, with very little mutation. The mutations themselves can help indicate branching off of family lines. Along with traditional genealogy, Y DNA testing within a surname project can give us firm evidence for identifying and separating family lines.

The test is a simple cheek swab, a kit with 3 special scrapers and lids. The kit is mailed to you by FamilytreeDNA. You rub the inside of your cheek with each scraper and place in a provided envelope to return by mail.
(As we are looking at sections of the yDNA that are the same for many generations, the same from father to sons, there is no idenitfying information useful for forensic or insurance cases.)

For genealogical purposes a 37 marker test or more is recommended.
You may wish to start with a 12 or 25 marker test, then upgrade as you wish.

FTDNA have a section on;
How many markers are enough

Costs of tests, with a discount through the Corrigan Surname Project are (in USD);
12 marker test $99
25 marker test $148
37 marker test $189
67 marker test $269
Postage is $2 for within the US and $4 for International.

National Geographic "Genographic Project" particpants are most welcome to join our project.
national geographic genographic project

O'Corragáin Surname Origins;

O'Corragáin (in Gaelic), the sept belongs primarily to Fermanagh being of the same stock as the Maguires.
Corrigans - the prefix O is seldom used - are still in that part of Ulster, but the name to-day is very scattered, being found in most counties, except in Munster. This was already the case in the sixteenth century when it appears in localities as far apart as Offaly, Roscommon, Meath and Monaghan. In the 1659 census Corrigan and O'Corrigan are among the more numerous Irish names in Offaly, Longford, and Fermanagh. The place called Ballycorrigan near Nenagh in Tipperary, indicates that a leading family of Corrigan was seated there not later than the middle of the seventeenth century.
The majority of the references to O'Corrigáin/Corrigan in the Four Masters are to abbots and other ecclesiastics in Co. Fermanagh.

Some known variants of the surname O'Corragáin are;
Carrigan, Carrogan, Corragan, Corrigan.
Currigan and Courigan in East Connacht,
Carrocan in Co Clare.

For more information on Clan O'Corragáin please visit;
clan corrigan

The Corrigan Surname Project is listed on The Clans of Ireland at;
the clans of ireland

This project is administered by myself, Frances James, as a volunteer. Genealogy is my hobby.
I recieve no payment, I do not work for, nor am I associated with Family Tree DNA in anyway, apart from being a paying customer, like any other participant of a project.

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Project Goals:

Each member will undoubtedly have his or her own reasons for joining the project.
The following are some of the reasons for joining a project;

· To confirm relationships established through traditional genealogy.
· To locate new related family.
· To learn whether the O’Corragáin Clan share a common ancestor, or whether there are multiple lineages.
· To determine, if possible, where these lines were established.
· To look into the deeper ancestry of our lineages

Project News:

For more information on Clan O'Corragáin please visit;
clan corrigan

Lineages of our participants.

To participate meaningfully members are encouraged to share their direct line ancestry back to their most distant known ancestor, (excluding living persons). This will help us understand and organise the differing family groups, and correlate our yDNA results to the genealogies.

Email Frances on; fjames2001 at yahoo dot com dot au for information or queries.

Kit # 34966
Corrigan from Co Mayo, Ireland.

Kit # 43739
Corrigan from Co Cavan, Ireland, family thought to be from Co Fermanagh previously.

Kit # 58583
Charles Corrigan born Ireland, marr Rebeca Elliott, 2nd marr Mary.
Charles A Corrigan, b 1856 Maryland, marr Mary McBride ~1880.
Charles J Corrigan, b 1888 Philadelphia PA, marr Mary "Janey" Karsner.
(b.corrigan "AT" mail.utexas.edu)

Kit # 71421
Patrick Carroocan, b abt 1800 Co Clare Ireland, marr Bridget Gorman.
Patrick Carrucan, b abt 1831 Co Clare Ireland, marr Mary O’Brien.
Patrick Carrucan, b 1864 Eltham Vic Australia, marr Ellen Carroll.
(fjames2001 "AT" yahoo.com.au)

Kit # N10033
Michael Corrigan, b 1791 Ireland, marr Rose Nugent.
Patrick Corrigan, marr Ellen McNenly.
Hugh Corrigan, marr Anna Ophelia Hazlewood.
Hugh Corrigan II, marr Clementine Eleanor March.

Kit # N7450
John Corrigan, b 1830 Co Roscommon Ireland.
This family has links to Kiltybranks/Kiltobranks, RC Parish of Lisacul, Roscommon.

Kit # 86099
William Carrigan, b 1735 Co Derry Ireland, marr Elizabeth Brown.
James Carrigan, b 1760 Co Derry Ireland, marr Jane Sample.
John Cyrus Carrigan, b abt 1787 North Carolina, marr Nancy Spencer.
Jesse Carrigan, b abt 1807 marr Selina Hardin.
Wiley Hardin Carrigan, b 1838 Lincoln Co Tennessee, marr Pathenia Summerford.
Horace Edward Carrigan, b 1884 Nashville Tennessee, marr Willie Mae Culbertson.

Kit # 86212
Patrick Corrigan, b abt 1831 (possibly Co Fermanagh) Ireland, marr Margaret Campbell.
James Patrick Corrigan, b 1865 Lindsay Ontario Canada, marr Elizabeth Boyer.
Frank James Corrigan, b Rochester NY.
(pegjohn "AT" bluecrab.org)

Kit # 89823
Patrick Corrigan, b 1836 Ireland.
Thomas A Corrigan, b 1870 Illinois.

Kit # 92523
John Corrigan, Ireland, marr Kate Mason.
Michael Corrigan, b 1843 of Ansboro Co Down Ireland, marr Elizabeth Rooney.
John J Corrigan, b 1879 Cleator Moor Cumbria England, marr Bridget Loughran.
John C Corrigan born Chicago Illinois.

Kit # N52274
This Corrigan family have been on Achill Island Co Mayo Ireland for at least the last 4 generations.

Kit # 98149
Patrick Corrigan, b 1785 Ireland, marr Rose Ann Folun.
Patrick Corrigan Jr, b 1816 Co Mayo Ireland, marr Mary Riley.
James Peter Corrigan, b 1853 Dixon Lee Co Illinois, marr Margaret Ellen Dineen.
Basil Corrigan.

Kit # 99650
Patrick Corrigan, b 1785 Ireland, marr Rose Ann Folun.
John Curry, b 1807 Co Mayo Ireland, marr Jane Garner.
Frederick George Currie, b 1838 Co Mayo Ireland, marr Eliza Harris.
Thomas Frederick Currie, b 1871 Ontario Canada, marr Mary Wallace Bruce.

Kit # 104447
Patrick Corrigan, b 1785 Ireland, marr Rose Ann Folun.
James Corrigan, b 1821 Co Mayo Ireland, marr Leah E Russell.
George Henry Corrigan, b 1856 Whiteside Co Illinois, marr Sarah Ellen Kirby.
George Henry Corrigan, b 1877 Portage Co Wisconsin, marr Mary Helen Hopkins.

Kit # N54927
Patrick Corrigan, b 1785 Ireland, marr Rose Ann Folun.
Patrick Corrigan Jr, b 1816 Co Mayo Ireland, marr Mary Riley.
James Peter Corrigan, b 1853 Dixon Lee Co Illinois, marr Margaret Ellen Dineen.
Joesph Corrigan.

Kit # 109862
Patrick Corrigan, b abt 1803 Ireland, marr Ann Stewart.
Thomas Corrigan, b abt 1839 Co Down Ireland, marr Eliza Kane.
Charles Stewart Corrigan, b 1864 Lochee Dundee Forfar Scotland,
marr Anne Emily Mueller.
Robert Bruce Corrigan Snr, b 1897 Woodside Queens NY.

Project Results:

As of July 2008 we have 20 members in our project, with test results returned for 20.
We have 2 kits back to the lab for upgrades, results due in August.

(Family Lineages that have been supplied can be seen in the "News" section.)

Email Frances on; fjames2001 at yahoo dot com dot au for information or queries.

FTDNA have a section on understanding your results.;
Understanding 12 marker results
Understanding 25 marker results
Understanding 37 marker results
Understanding 67 marker results

For genealogical purposes, a 37 marker test or more is recommended.

Project Groupings

Corrigan members are grouped by their Y DNA Haplogroup.
R1b is the largest Y Haplogroup in the project, (and the major Y Haplogroup in Ireland ), we also have I Haplogroup present.
Members of different Y Haplogroups will have no likelihood of sharing a common ancestor in the last several thousand years (Non Paternal Events are of course a reality and may be a reason why your paper trail tells a different story.)
Haplogroups are subgrouped where possible, and these will be updated as new results show clear relationships and/or groups. If members are in an Unmatched Group, they are NOT considered to be related, they just share the same subgrouping until a match is found.

We have four Common Lineage Groups so far;

"R1b Group 1" (Teal), with two members having a very close match at 36/37 markers. Kits N10033 and 78958. This indicates these two men are very closely related.
I understand these two men are both descended from Michael Corrigan b 1791 in Ireland.
(They both also match well with Kit 109682 from Co Down Ireland, but he matches slightly better with R1b Group 2, so has been placed in that group for now.)

"R1b Group 2" (Light Grey), has exact match at 12 markers with two members, Kit 43739 from Co Cavan, Ireland and Kit N45032.
Kit 109682, from Co Down Ireland, matches very well with Kit 43739 at 34/37 markers. (109682 also matches well with R1b Group 1.)

"R1b Group 3" (Light Blue), has four members with a common paper trail back to Ireland.
Kits 98149, N54927, 99650 and 104447 are descended from three sons of Patrick Corrigan of Co Mayo.
Kits 99650 and 104447 have a great match at 36/37 markers. Kit 98149 has a mismatch at 2 markers with Kit 104447 and at 3 with Kit 99650. This still falls within the accepted range for a related family.
N54927 matches 12/12 with 98149 and 104447 and 11/12 with 99650.
Kit 104447 also matches well with Kit 89823 from our "R1b Unmatched" Group.

"R1b1b2e Group 1" (Gold), with three members, two of whom have a very good match of 36/37 markers.
I understand that Kits 34966 and N7450 both have links to the Parish of Lisacul in Co Roscommon, Ireland. The third family in this group is from Achill Island, Co Mayo, Ireland. Kit N52274.

Our other men are in Unmatched Groups awaiting a match.

It is early days yet for our group, as our project continues to grow, we hope to have many matches.

Deep Ancestry

As for the group’s deep ancestry, most of our member’s are in Haplogroup R1b and one member is Haplogroup I1

R1b is the most common Haplogroup in Western Europe, and especially common in parts of Ireland, reaching up to 98%, so it will not be surprising if it is a common Haplogroup in our project, though we can also expect to see Halogroups I, G, J and E3b.

HAPLOGROUP R1b;
Haplogroup R1b (M343) is an offshoot of Haplogroup R. Haplogroup R originated in NW Asia (~30,000-35,000 years ago), with some later migrating, as hunter gatherers, probably through rivers and coastlines and across ridgeways of highland to reach the the Baltic, North Sea, Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts.
R1b is believed by some to have been widespread in Europe before the last Ice Age ~10,000-12,000 yrs ago. (Some mutations that characterise R1b occurred ~30,000 years ago)
Four main R1b groups have been identified by regional variants. Baltic Russian, North Sea Baltic, Alpine South German and Atlantic.
As the Ice Age intensified some retreated to refugium in southern Europe and the Aegean. Present-day populations of R1b in Western Europe are believed to be descended from populations that refuged in the Iberian peninsular (Spain/Portugal) and northern Italy.
This Haplogroup contains the Atlantic Modal Haplotype (AMH). The Atlantic group may have seperated from other R1b groups ~14,000-18,000 years ago.

The subgroup R1b1 (P25) is the most common Haplogroup in Western European populations. This group migrated and re-colonised Europe, following the retreating ice sheets, after the last ice age, ~10-12 thousand years ago.
This lineage is also the Haplogroup containing the Western Atlantic Modal Haplotype (WAMH), which is predominately Western European, with its largest percentages found in Ireland and the Basque’s.
(Members whose 12-marker Haplotype matches one of the four most common 12-marker R1b Haplotypes will find they have a WAMH logo on their member page.)

Subgroup R1b1b2e (M222) is primarily found in North West Ireland and parts of Scotland, and contains the Niall/North West Modal Haplotype.
(Members whose 12 marker Haplotype matches the Niall Modal Haplotype will have a green "Niall of the Nine Hostages" logo on their personal page.)

R1b
We have 1 member "predicted" by FTDNA as R1b.

R1b1
We have 14 members with Haplogroup R1b1, of which 1 is confirmed by a Backbone SNP and the other 13 "predicted" by FTDNA.
(Kits 92523, 34966, and N7450, though showing as R1b1 by FTDNA, are very close to R1b1b2e, which is called the North West Irish Model, and is often associated with the Ui Neill Clan and "Niall of the Nine Hostages".)
We have no "Niall of the Nine Hostages" match in the group so far.

R1b1b2 (formerly R1b1c)
We have 1 man confirmed R1b1b2 a by Backbone SNP

R1b1b2 WAMH (formerly R1b1c)
One member has a WAMH haplotype, meaning he has one of the four most common 12-marker haplotypes in Europe. He has been confirmed R1b1b2* by Deep SNP testing.

R1b1b2e (formerly R1b1c7)
We have one man confirmed R1b1b2e by Deep SNP Testing.
R1b1b2e is primarily found in North West Ireland and parts of Scotland, and contains the North West Modal Haplotype.

HAPLOGROUP I;
Y-DNA haplogroup I is a European haplogroup, representing nearly one-fifth of the population. It is almost non-existent outside of Europe, suggesting that it arose in Europe. Estimates of the age of haplogroup I suggest that it arose prior to the last Glacial Maximum.
The two main subgroups of haplogroup I, I1 and I2, likely divided approximately 28,000 years ago:
-I1-M253 et al has highest frequency in Scandinavia, Iceland, and northwest Europe. In Britain, haplogroup I1-M253 et al is often used as a marker for "invaders," Viking or Anglo-Saxon.
-I1a-M227 subclade is concentrated in eastern Europe and the Balkans and appears to have arisen in the last one thousand to five thousand years. It has been reported in Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Ukraine, Switzerland, Slovenia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Croatia, and Lebanon.
-I2-M438 et al includes I2* which shows some membership from Armenia, Georgia and Turkey;
-I2a-P37.2, which is the most common form in the Balkans and Sardinia; I2a1-M26 is especially prevalent in Sardinia.
-I2b-M436 et al reaches its highest frequency along the northwest coast of continental Europe.
-I2b1-M223 et al occurs in Britain and northwest continental Europe.
-I2b1a-M284 occurs almost exclusively in Britain, so it apparently originated there and has probably been present for thousands of years

We have one member "predicted" by FTDNA to be I1.

(Sources; ISOGG Wikepedia, FTDNA, A.A.Foster 2005)