Family History

Click on the link below and download file to view a 3 generation family tree of the Haughey family based on Michael Haughey and Catherine Cromie who emigrated from Ireland to South Australia in 1840. [download id=”314″]

The 12 May 1860 edition of the Otago Witness Shipping News shows a Mr and Mrs Haughey and their 7 children arriving in Port Chalmers (the port for Dunedin) on 4 May on the SS Pirate on 4 May from Melbourne.

Michael Haughey and his wife Catherine Cromie migrated from Northern Ireland to Australia as free settlers. They arrived in Port Adelaide on the ship ‘William Nichol’ on 7 July 1840 [1]. Michael’s occupation is listed as ‘labourer’ on his embarkation record [2]. Michael and Catherine had six children. There are no baptismal or birth records…

This section contains information on the origins of our branch of the Haughey family together with links to our family tree and family crests. Our branch of the Haughey family commenced with Michael Haughey and his wife Catherine Cromie migrating from Northern Ireland as free settlers arriving in Port Adelaide on the ship ‘William Nichol’ on…

The surname Haughey originally appeared in Gaelic as O hEachaidhin. Books by notable historians such as O’Hart, MacLysaght and O’Brien, and documents such as baptismals, parish records, and ancient land grants, were researched by historians who found that the family name Haughey was first recorded in Counties Donegal and Armagh in Northern Ireland where they held…