Joseph Gavigan
✓ Sourced record
Born
25 Dec 1865, Ballyshannon, Donegal, Ireland
Died
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Parents
Documents
2 records from the research archive. Click an image to view it full size.
Census, 1881
Source: ScotlandsPeople downloads, 29 October 2026 — ScotlandsPeople_C1881_644_12_083_000_2_013Z.pdf
The household is schedule 73. The surname is written Gaffigan.
Birth, 1909 (Hugh, son of Joseph Gavigan)
Source: ScotlandsPeople — Hugh Gavigan1909 births.pdf· match unconfirmed
What the records say
Details read from the certificate images above. Handwriting is transcribed as read, with doubts noted.
Birth of Hugh Gavigan, 1909 (son of Joseph Gavigan and Mary Reid)
Statutory Births 644/17 0639 · Gorbals district, Burgh of Glasgow, page 213, entry 639
Name
Hugh Gavigan
Born
4 May 1909, about 4:50 am
Place of birth
325 Eglinton Street, Glasgow
Sex
Male
Father
Joseph Gavigan, Iron Grinder (journeyman)
Mother
Mary Gavigan, maiden surname Reid
Parents' marriage
9 May 1890, Gorbals district, Glasgow
Informant
Joseph Gavigan, father, present
Registered
17 May 1909, Glasgow
⚠ Not a child of Hugh and AgnesThe parents here are Joseph Gavigan and Mary Reid, not Hugh and Agnes Gavigan, so this is not their son Hugh (born 1906).
⚠ Possible child of Joseph, unconfirmedIt may belong to Joseph Gavigan, son of Hugh Gavigan senior, who was living in the Gorbals in 1894. The tree has no wife recorded for Joseph and nothing on the certificate proves the link, so this is attached as an unconfirmed match only.
1881 Census: household transcription
Details read from the census schedule image above. Reference 644/12 083/00 013, census night 3 April 1881.
Address
3 Portugal Lane, Gorbals, Glasgow
Area
Parish of Gorbals, Glasgow
Dwelling
2 rooms with one or more windows, 7 people in the house
Schedule no.
73
| Name | Relation | Age | Occupation | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hugh GaffiganMarried | Head | 44 (M) | General carter | Ireland, Donegal |
| Florinda GaffiganMarried | Wife | 38 (F) | none stated | Ireland, Donegal |
| Francis GaffiganUnmarried | Son | 20 (M) | General carter | Ireland, Donegal |
| Joseph Gaffigan | Son | 15 (hard to read) (M) | Apprentice Venetian blind maker | Ireland, Donegal |
| Hugh Gaffigan | Son | 5 (M) | Scholar | Lanarkshire, Glasgow |
| Michael Gaffigan | Son | 3 (M) | none stated | Lanarkshire, Glasgow |
| Hellen Gaffigan | Daughter | 1 (F) | none stated | Lanarkshire, Glasgow |
⚠ This Hugh is five, born in GlasgowThe tree had Hugh Gavigan born 19 June 1870 at Ballyshannon, Donegal. Here a Hugh aged 5 is born in Glasgow, so about 1875 or 1876. The 1891, 1901 and 1911 censuses agree, and the tree now shows that birth. The Hugh baptised at Ballyshannon in 1870 was probably an earlier child of the same name who died young.
⚠ Ireland-born children and Glasgow-born childrenFrancis and Joseph are born in Donegal and Hugh, Michael and Helen in Glasgow. That puts the move from Donegal to Glasgow between about 1866 and 1875. Peter (born 1868) is not in this house.
ℹ SpellingThe surname is written Gaffigan throughout. The index title spells it Gaffigan too, which is why this record was easy to miss.
Spouses & children
No spouse or family recorded.