John Corcoran b.County Cork d.Nodaway County, Missouri
We are searching for the descendants of the John Corcoran and his wife, Mary Cahill, both born and married in Ireland and immigrating through New Orleans in the 1840s to first Gentry County and then Nodaway County. We have traced him back to St. Finbarr's South Parish in the city of Cork.The baptismal record there says his father was Patrick Corcoran and his mother was Mary Creedon. His tombstone in the St. Columba Cemetery in Nodaway County, Missouri says he was born in County Cork, Ireland in 1822. The following children were born in Missouri and listed in the Nodaway County 1880 census:Patrick Corcoran b.1855 married to Sophia O'Rourke (child James married Nany Downey with children James, Charles, Francis) - Ambrose Michael Corcoran b.1856 married Anna Hart (child Leo had no children and Daniel Aloysius married Margaret O'Riley children James, John, Elizabeth Ann or Betty) - Mary Corcoran b.1860 married Robert Merrigan - Johanna Corcoran b.1861 married Christopher Farnan (children Christopher, John, William, Joseph, Mary, Katherine, Margaret, Elizabeth) - John Joseph Corcoran b.1866 d.1956 married Helen McGettigan b.1929 (children Mary Monica Corcoran b.1898 married Foster Hockett with children Jim, Edward, Helen; Mary Frances Corcoran b.1899 married Russell Bagby with children Dorothy and John; John Daniel Corcoran b. 1900 married Emma Vienhage with child John Daniel Corcoran, Jr.; Joseph Michael Corcoran b.1901; Edward James Corcoran b.1903).