This picture is of my Great Great Grandmother Margaret Loughran (maiden name Kane or Cain) from Dunnamore, nr. Cookstown Northern Ireland. Her son John Loughran and his wife Catherine Greenan (my Great Grandparents) and three of their daughters, Maggie, Katie and Rose.
Margaret ended up in Kilwinning living with the family – old people used to say “something happened” which is code for marital problems which would account for her leaving Ireland and going to Kilwinning. She died in Kilwinning in 1908. The family had a tradition of returning people to Ireland when they died so I don’t know if she is buried in Kilwinning or Ireland.
Here is another picture of Catherine Greenan Loughran as a young woman.
Here is a another picture of my Great Grandmother, Catherine Greenan Loughran (also pictured above). She lived in Kilwinning and had a really huge family with my Great Grandfather John Loughran. They were intertwined with the Gartland family, another local family around North Ayrshire. Her daughter Mary married my Grandfather Andrew McTaggart.
She was well known locally as a ballroom dancer, the Barrfield Pavilion, Largs, was one of her places. They used to chalk the heels of her shoes.
She died in Ireland in the late 1920s/1930s, where she spent a lot of her time with John’s family and is buried in St Mary’s Churchyard, Dunnamore, nr Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, in an unmarked grave along with older members of John’s family. John was also taken back from Dalry and interred there when he died.
In this picture she is wearing the infamous sealskin coat which everyone fought over when she died. I believe it went to Anna Mariah Campbell, from Kilmarnock.
Catherine again in this one: Here she is feeding the chickens in Dunnamore, Tyrone Ireland
In this next picture she is wearing the infamous sealskin coat which everyone fought over when she died. I believe it went to Anna Mariah Campbell, from Kilmarnock.
That house was latterly owned by two old aunts and is now a barn. In the 1990s I went there it was owned by Seamus Loughran (not a relative – at least not a close one anyway). My Loughran family were always referred to as Jo Hanna’s Loughrans because Hanna was another family name. This is important because in order to identify the tribe, you need to know the nickname. There are no Jo Hanna’s Loughrans left in the area.
(John Loughran in Kilwinning)Here are other family photos taken in Dunnamore.
John Loughran
