Celtic Connections: Thomas James Fogarty

1840 - 1891

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Birth 1840 Ireland

Gender Male

Buried 14 Nov 1840 Linwood Cemetary - class 2, lot 52, block 40, fee one pound, four shillings & sixpence

Died 13 Nov 1891 Christchurch

Person ID I1103 Burns

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Father James Fogarty

Mother Margaret Kirk

Family ID F396 Group Sheet

Family Mary Flynn, b. 1840, Ireland

Married 31 Oct 1864 Christchurch

Children

1. James Fogarty, b. 11 Jul 1868, Christchurch

Family ID F415 Group Sheet

Notes	Died of meningitis from sunstroke in Chch. Was last seen by a doctor at Christchurch Hospital on day of death. Cemetary registrar lists his surname as Foggarty and informant as M. Fogarty. It says he was 30 years in the province and last came from Melbourne. If records are accurate he must have arrived in Canterbury in 1861 when he was 21 years old. In a Wise's directory for 1887-88 he is listed as Thomas Froggarty, 17 Creyke St, which used to be between High St & Montreal St in CHCH. A check of the records in Australia suggests the only Thomas Fogarty who fits the description arrived in Melbourne onboard the Commodore Perry which left Liverpool on Aug 1861 and arrived in Melbourne in December. If he is the same one he must have travelled to NZ almost immediately.