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Mike McTigue family

Posted by Dr. Monica McTigue <monicam@pharm.sunysb.edu> on Thu, 01 May 2003, in response to Irish Heritage, posted by Cecilia Santora on Sun, 15 Sep 2002

Michael Francis McTigue (1923 world light-heavy weight champion) was my uncle. I am the third and youngest child of his brother James. At the time of Mike's death (Aug, 12, 1966) he left three brothers James, Patrick and Thomas and two sisters Mrs Catherine Breen and Mrs Ellen Smith. Mike also left your grandmother the former Ceclia Manning and two daughters Peggy McTigue (perhaps your mother Margaret?) and Mrs Ceclia Chaufornier (your aunt?). I believe Mike was born on Nov 26, 1892 to Patrick McTigue and Catherine Neylon (sp?). He resided in Kilnamona, Inchiquin, county of Clare and province of Munster, Ireland before immigrating to New York, USA. He is buried here in New York along with my parents and a number of other siblings (Calvary and Gate of Heaven Cemetery). I believe a number of family members reside in Ennis, Ireland since I have come across their names in the Clare Champion newspaper www.clarechampion.ie. The Clare library (url below) has collected information about Mike and there are numerous articles describing his career in journals and on the internet. Kilnamona opened a community (sports) center in Mike's name in 2001. I was quite young when Mike died, but I can tell you that he looked very much like my father and judging from articles written about him, must have had a similar sense of humor!
Please feel free to email me if you'd like to discuss this further.

Slainte!
Monica

Responses

• Hello My Family : Cecilia Santora -- Sun, 04 May 2003
• Mike McTigue : Debra -- Wed, 04 Feb 2004
  • McTigues : Eugene J. Casey -- Wed, 02 Feb 2005
    • Mike (McTigue) Family : Debra McTigue -- Wed, 02 Feb 2005
      • Mike Family : Eugene J. Casey -- Thu, 03 Feb 2005
• mike mctigue : michael f. mctigue -- Thu, 19 Feb 2004
  • relatives of Michael F. McTigue (the boxer) : Dr. Monica McTigue -- Fri, 20 Feb 2004
    • Mike McTigue : Michael McTigue -- Tue, 24 Feb 2004
      • Mike McTigue : Greg McTigue -- Tue, 12 Aug 2008
        • mctigue : Michael McTigue -- Sat, 20 Jun 2009
    • Boxing (on mike) : sean malone -- Mon, 16 Aug 2004
      • RE MIKE MCTIGUE : pat morgan -- Tue, 30 Nov 2004
        • Mike McTigue : Eugene J. Casey -- Wed, 02 Feb 2005
          • Mike McTigue : Mike Burke -- Mon, 01 May 2006
    • Mike McTigue : Angela Rodger Balestino -- Thu, 17 Mar 2005
    • Mike McTigue the Boxer : Roy P. Jackson -- Tue, 24 Jan 2006
    • Mike McTigue : pennie tnomas -- Mon, 02 Feb 2009
      • McTigue - Rynne families : Cynthia seymour -- Tue, 03 Mar 2009
  • relatives Mike Mc Tigue : Teresa Rieveley nee Tighe -- Sun, 14 Jun 2009
• relatives of McTigue : MIchael F, McTigue -- Sat, 21 Feb 2004
• McTigue family : Linda Martin -- Wed, 11 Aug 2004
• My Great Uncle Mike : Susan McTigue-Buck -- Sat, 09 Apr 2005
• Mike McTigue : Maureen Bentham (nee McTigue) -- Wed, 23 Nov 2005
• mike mctigue : tim marsden -- Mon, 02 Feb 2009
• mctigue family history : Stephen Mctigue -- Tue, 10 Mar 2009
  • hi : christopher mc tigue -- Fri, 26 Jun 2009

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