A Providence, Rhode Island marriage record in the later Dorgan family branch
William J. Dorgan and Jessie Greig
Why This Marriage Record Matters
William J. Dorgan was a son of Patrick J. Dorgan and Mary Catherine Hartnett Dorgan. Born in East Cork, he immigrated to the United States as an infant with his mother and siblings in 1897 and grew up in Providence, Rhode Island.
William married Jessie Greig at St. Patrick’s Church in Providence on 9 June 1917. This was William’s first known marriage and belongs to the early American period of the Dorgan family story.
The marriage record helps identify William through his residence, age, occupation, parents, and Rhode Island family setting. It should be read together with his Irish baptism, 1897 passenger record, census records, and other Providence evidence.
William and Jessie’s marriage later ended in divorce. This page does not presently document children from their marriage.
William later married Helen Louise McIntosh on 25 July 1923 in Fall River, Massachusetts. That second marriage formed the family branch through which William J. Dorgan Jr., Helen L. Dorgan, and Corinne H. Dorgan descended.
This page preserves the evidence for William and Jessie’s marriage as a distinct part of William’s life without confusing it with his later marriage and family with Helen Louise McIntosh.
The 1917 Providence Marriage Record
William J. Dorgan married Jessie Greig at St. Patrick’s Church in Providence, Rhode Island, on 9 June 1917.
This marriage record is important because it connects the East Cork Dorgan family story to the next generation in the United States. William J. Dorgan belongs to the American branch descended from Patrick Dorgan and Mary Catherine Hartnett, who left Ireland in the 1890s.
The marriage also connects the Dorgan family to the Greig family. Jessie Greig’s parents were Alexander Greig and Catherine Sullivan, adding another related family line to the later Providence branch.
This record should be studied with Rhode Island marriage records, census records, family photographs, church records, and earlier East Cork records connected to Patrick Dorgan and Mary Catherine Hartnett.
William J. Dorgan and Jessie Greig marriage record, 9 June 1917, Providence, Rhode Island.
This record documents the marriage of William J. Dorgan, son of Patrick Joseph Dorgan and Mary Catherine Hartnett Dorgan, and Jessie Greig. The marriage belongs to William’s first marriage record group and should be read separately from the later direct family line through Helen Louise McIntosh.
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Later Divorce and Remarriage
William J. Dorgan and Jessie Greig later divorced.
This is an important caution for the family narrative. Their 1917 marriage record remains part of the Dorgan Family Archive, but it should not be treated as the continuing direct spouse line in this branch.
William J. Dorgan later married Helen Louise McIntosh, who is part of the later Dorgan family line and is the grandmother of William Dorgan III.
For that reason, the William J. Dorgan and Jessie Greig page should be read as a record-based family-branch page for the 1917 Providence marriage, while the later direct family line should be followed through William J. Dorgan and Helen Louise McIntosh.
Read the later family-branch page: William J. Dorgan and Helen Louise McIntosh
Connection to Patrick J. Dorgan and Mary Catherine Hartnett
William J. Dorgan belongs to the Providence, Rhode Island branch connected to Patrick Dorgan and Mary Catherine Hartnett.
Patrick J. Dorgan and Mary Catherine Hartnett carried the Carrigkilter and Cloyne family story into the United States after their emigration from Ireland in the 1890s. William’s later marriage record helps show how that East Cork family line continued in Rhode Island.
This connection is important because it links several layers of evidence: Carrigkilter land records, Cloyne parish records, emigration records, Providence marriage records, census records, and later family documents.
The William J. Dorgan and Jessie Greig branch should therefore be read as part of the continuing Rhode Island family story, not as a separate or disconnected line.
Greig and Sullivan Family Connections
The marriage of William J. Dorgan and Jessie Greig connects the Dorgan family to the Greig and Sullivan family lines in Providence, Rhode Island.
Jessie Greig was the daughter of Alexander Greig and Catherine Sullivan. These names should be studied alongside the Dorgan records because marriage records often connect families across parish, neighborhood, church, and later census networks.
The Greig and Sullivan connections help expand the later American side of the archive beyond the East Cork Dorgan line. They may also help identify additional records, photographs, witnesses, residences, occupations, and related family branches in Providence.
This branch should be studied with Rhode Island marriage records, church records, census records, family photographs, city directories, cemetery evidence, and family documents.
Providence Records and Later Family Evidence
Providence, Rhode Island records help continue the Dorgan family story after the family left East Cork.
Records connected to William J. Dorgan and Jessie Greig may include marriage records, census records, church records, city directories, cemetery evidence, family photographs, and later family documents.
These records are important because they show how the Dorgan family became part of the Providence community while still remaining connected to the earlier Carrigkilter, Cloyne, and East Cork family story.
The Providence evidence should be studied together with the earlier Irish records so the family line can be followed across both places and generations.
Related Records for This Branch
The William J. Dorgan and Jessie Greig branch should be studied through several connected records.
1917 William J. Dorgan and Jessie Greig Marriage
This Providence marriage record connects William J. Dorgan to Jessie Greig and continues the Dorgan family story into the next American generation.
Rhode Island Census Records
Rhode Island census records can help identify household members, addresses, occupations, ages, and family relationships connected to this branch.
United States Census Records
Federal census records help place the family within the wider Providence community and may show changes in household structure, employment, residence, and related family members over time.
Family Photographs and Documents
Photographs, family papers, church records, cemetery evidence, and later documents may help connect the written records to family memory and later descendants.
These records should be read together with the Patrick J. Dorgan and Mary Catherine Hartnett page, Providence records, East Cork records, and the wider Family Branches page.
Research Cautions and Open Questions
This page should be read as a working family-branch narrative rather than a finished proof of every detail.
The 1917 marriage record is an important anchor for William J. Dorgan and Jessie Greig, but the branch should still be checked against original Rhode Island marriage records, census records, church records, city directories, cemetery evidence, family photographs, and family documents.
Care should be taken when connecting later American records back to the East Cork Dorgan line. Names, ages, addresses, occupations, parents, spouses, witnesses, and household members should be compared across records before conclusions are treated as proven.
Open questions may remain about later residences, children, related Providence families, cemetery evidence, photographs, and how the Greig and Sullivan lines connect to the wider family network.
Related Pages
Patrick J. Dorgan and Mary Catherine Hartnett
The family-branch page connecting Carrigkilter, Cloyne, emigration, Providence, Rhode Island, and later descendants.
Patrick Dargan / Dorgan of Carrigkilter
The main family narrative for the earlier Carrigkilter generation connected to land records, Johanna / Anne / Nancy Flynn, and later Dorgan branches.
William J. Dorgan and Helen Louise McIntosh
The later family-branch page for William J. Dorgan’s marriage to Helen Louise McIntosh, the continuing direct Dorgan family line connected to William Dorgan III.
The main records page for parish registers, land records, census records, emigration records, Rhode Island records, photographs, and other evidence used throughout the archive.
A guide to the major surnames and related family lines connected to the Dorgan / Dargan archive, including later American branches.
The visual gallery for family photographs, East Cork places, cemeteries, houses, farms, and later family images.