Martha Higgins Wight

Michael Higgins was born in 1799 in Queens County, Ireland. He married Mary Kenney in 1840. She was the daughter of James Kenney and Catherine Redmond. Michael emigrated in 1848 and settled in Baltimore, Maryland. His wife and daughter, Rosary, joined him a year later. They had fifteen children but only two, Rosary and James Corcoran (b. 1859), lived to adulthood. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Maryland, and Florida.