East Cork Parish and Civil Records
This collection brings together Catholic parish registers, civil registrations, baptisms, marriages, sponsors, witnesses, parent identifications, residences, and related evidence for the Dorgan, Dargan, Flynn, Healy, Hartnett, Garde, Ahern, and connected East Cork families.
These records help establish family relationships across Ballymacoda, Ladysbridge, Churchtown South, Cloyne, Ballycotton, Carrigkilter, Ballybraher, Aghada, Midleton, and neighboring East Cork places.
How to Use This Collection
Each entry identifies the person or couple, date, place, record type, known family relationships, original filename, evidence status, and significance to the wider family archive.
Names may appear in several forms. Dargan and Dorgan may refer to the same surname, while Johanna Flynn also appears in records as Anne, Nancy, and possibly Anstice. These variations should be preserved rather than silently standardized.
Confirmed and direct family records appear in this collection. Unproved candidate and comparison records are preserved separately on the Related East Cork and Comparison Records page.
Carrigkilter Family Baptism Records
The following baptismal records document children of Patrick Dargan / Dorgan and Johanna / Anne / Nancy Flynn. Together, they establish the known child sequence before and during the Great Famine and provide sponsor names that may help identify relatives and neighboring family networks.
Catholic Parish Register · 1838
Person: Daniel Dargan / Dorgan
Date: 18 Dec 1838
Place: Ballymacoda / Ladysbridge area, East Cork
Record type: Catholic baptism register
Folder: parish-registers
Why this record matters: This baptism record may be the earliest known child record for Patrick Dargan / Dorgan and Johanna Flynn of Carrigkilter. The sponsors, John Motherway and Bridget Barry, should be compared with later Dorgan / Dargan, Flynn, Motherway, and Barry records in the Ballymacoda / Ladysbridge and wider East Cork parish-register network.
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1838 Daniel Dargan / Dorgan Baptism
Evidence status: Confirmed child record for the Patrick Dargan / Dorgan and Johanna Flynn family, if the parent identification has been verified from the register. Sponsor names are supporting clues.
Catholic Parish Register · 1840
Person: Mary Dorgan
Baptism date: 13 May 1840
Parish: Ballymacoda and Ladysbridge, County Cork, Ireland
Parents: Pat Dorgan and Anne Flynn
Sponsors: Daniel Dorgan and Eliza Flynn
Record type: Roman Catholic baptism register
Folder: parish-registers
Why this record matters: This baptism confirms Mary as the second presently documented child of Patrick Dargan / Dorgan and Anne Flynn, who appears elsewhere as Johanna, Nancy and Anstice Flynn. It continues the documented sequence of the couple’s children before the Great Famine.
The sponsor names provide clues to the family’s wider network. Daniel Dorgan could not have been Mary’s infant brother Daniel and must have been an adult Dorgan relative or close associate. Eliza Flynn was probably an adult relative of Mary’s mother. Their precise relationships remain unproved.
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1840 Mary Dorgan Baptism
Evidence status: Confirmed baptismal and parentage record. The original register clearly gives the date as 13 May 1840 and names Pat Dorgan and Anne Flynn as Mary’s parents.
Research caution: The entry records Mary’s baptism, not her birth. It does not provide a birth date or townland, so Carrigkilter should not be presented as her proved birthplace. The identities and relationships of the two sponsors remain under investigation.
Catholic Parish Register · 1842
Person: Elizabeth Dargan / Dorgan
Date: 11 Feb 1842
Place: Parish: Ballymacoda / Ladysbridge area, East Cork
Record type: Catholic baptism register
Folder: parish-registers
Why this record matters: This baptism record helps place Patrick Dargan / Dorgan and Johanna Flynn’s family in the Carrigkilter / Ballybraher area. The record is especially useful because Johanna appears under the name Nancy, showing how the same person may appear under different first-name forms in parish records. The sponsors, Patrick Savage and Bridget Savage, should be compared with nearby Dorgan / Dargan, Flynn, and related family records; the sponsor surname should also be checked carefully against the original image.
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1842 Elizabeth Dargan / Dorgan Baptism
Evidence status: Confirmed child record. The Nancy / Johanna name variation is important supporting evidence for interpreting first-name variants in the parish registers.
Catholic Parish Register · 1844
Person: Timothy Dargan / Dorgan
Date: 18 Feb 1844
Place: Ballymacoda / Ladysbridge area, East Cork
Record type: Catholic baptism register
Folder: parish-registers
Why this record matters: This baptism record helps document another child of Patrick Dargan / Dorgan and Johanna Flynn. The sponsors, Ned Millerick and Mary Boozane, may help connect the Carrigkilter Dorgan family with neighboring East Cork families in the Ballymacoda / Ladysbridge parish-register network.
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1844 Timothy Dargan / Dorgan Baptism
Evidence status: Confirmed child record. Sponsor names Ned Millerick and Mary Boozane are supporting clues.
Catholic Parish Register · 1846
Person: David D. Dorgan
Date: 8 Jan 1846
Place: Ballymacoda / Ladysbridge parish area, East Cork
Record type: Catholic baptism register
Folder: parish-registers
Parents: Patrick Dorgan and Nancy Flynn
Why this record matters: This baptism record adds David D. Dorgan to the confirmed child sequence of Patrick Dargan / Dorgan and Johanna / Anne / Nancy Flynn of the Carrigkilter family. The record is especially useful because David’s mother appears as Nancy Flynn, helping support the pattern in which Johanna / Anne / Nancy Flynn may appear under different first-name forms in East Cork parish records. David’s baptism also helps extend the known child sequence beyond Daniel, Mary, Elizabeth, and Timothy, and bridges the parish-register evidence for the family before the land records that place Patrick Dargan / Dorgan at Carrigkilter from 1847 onward.
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1846 David D. Dorgan Baptism
Evidence status: Confirmed child record. This record identifies David D. Dorgan as a child of Patrick Dorgan and Nancy Flynn and should be read together with the other baptism records for the children of Patrick Dargan / Dorgan and Johanna / Anne / Nancy Flynn.
Mary Dorgan and the Healy Family
The following parish and civil records document Mary Dorgan’s marriage to Jeremiah Healy and continue the Healy–Dorgan family line into the twentieth century.
Catholic Marriage Register and Civil Registration · 1866
Couple: Jeremiah Healy and Mary Dorgan
Marriage date: 10 July 1866
Catholic register: Cloyne / Churchtown parish-register grouping, Diocese of Cloyne
Civil marriage place: Roman Catholic Chapel of Churchtown, Registrar’s District of Aghada, Midleton Union, County Cork
Groom: Jeremiah Healy, age 25, bachelor, farmer, of Lisanly; son of Jeremiah Healy, farmer
Bride: Mary Dorgan, age 25, spinster, of Ballybraher; daughter of Patt Dorgan, farmer
Civil witnesses: Michael Dorgan and Daniel Dorgan
Record types: Roman Catholic marriage register and civil marriage registration
Folder: parish-registers
Why this record matters: The marriage evidence identifies Mary Dorgan of Ballybraher as the daughter of Patt Dorgan and records her marriage to Jeremiah Healy of Lisanly. Her stated age of 25 closely agrees with the 1840 baptism of Mary, daughter of Pat Dorgan and Anne Flynn. Together, the baptism and marriage records support the identification of the bride as Patrick Dargan / Dorgan and Johanna / Anne Flynn’s daughter and establish the documented beginning of the Healy family branch.
Register interpretation: The Catholic parish entry lists “Jeremiah Healy & Pat Dorgan” after the couple’s names. Comparison with the civil registration shows that these were the fathers of the bride and groom, not the marriage witnesses. The civil record separately identifies Michael Dorgan and Daniel Dorgan as the witnesses.
Research note: The witnesses may represent Mary’s immediate family network. Michael Dorgan was probably her brother Michael, while Daniel Dorgan may have been her older brother Daniel, baptized in 1838. These identifications are plausible and important, but the marriage record itself does not state the witnesses’ relationships to Mary, so they remain hypotheses rather than proved relationships.
Image / Record files:
Catholic parish register: 1866 Jeremiah Healy Mary Dorgan Marriage Record.jpg
Civil marriage registration: Jeremiah Healy Mary Dorgan Marriage 1866.pdf
1870 John Healy Baptism
John Healy, son of Jeremiah Healy and Mary Dorgan, was baptized on 10 November 1870. His baptism documents the next generation of the Healy–Dorgan family following his parents’ 1866 marriage.
Name: John Healy
Record type: Catholic baptism register
Baptism date: 10 November 1870
Parents: Jeremiah Healy and Mary Dorgan
Sponsors: Jerry Brien and Betty Dorgan
Source: Original Catholic parish-register image
Archive significance: John Healy’s baptism provides direct evidence of a child born to Jeremiah Healy and Mary Dorgan. The sponsor Betty Dorgan may have belonged to Mary Dorgan’s immediate or extended family, making her name useful for further investigation of the Dorgan family network. That relationship has not yet been proved.
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1915 Marriage of John Healy and Margaret Graham
John Healy and Margaret Graham were married on 29 April 1915 at the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Cork. The civil marriage registration identifies John as a farmer and confirms that his father was Jeremiah Healy, linking the marriage record to the Healy–Dorgan family line.
Groom: John Healy
Bride: Margaret Graham
Record type: Civil marriage registration
Marriage date: 29 April 1915
Marriage place: Roman Catholic Cathedral, Cork, County Cork, Ireland
Groom’s condition: Bachelor
Groom’s occupation: Farmer
Groom’s residence: Cloyne
Groom’s father: Jeremiah Healy, deceased, farmer
Bride’s condition: Spinster
Bride’s residence: Lisgoold
Bride’s father: John Graham, farmer
Witnesses: Jeremiah Healy and Mary Ahern
Celebrant: Charles Daly
Archive significance: This marriage record carries the Healy–Dorgan line into the twentieth century. John’s identification as the son of the deceased farmer Jeremiah Healy provides the principal link to Jeremiah Healy and Mary Dorgan. The witness Jeremiah Healy may have been a brother or other close relative, but that relationship remains to be proved.