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Margaret “Peg” Hurley/Herlihy

Generation 8 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Beulah Grahm ← Anna Frances Brown ← Isaac Horace Brown ← George Ellison Brown ← John Brown ← Margaret Hurley

Born

Ireland

Died

not recorded

Married

August 1761 at First Church in Killingly, Connecticut

Also known as

Margarit Brown

Family

Child in this line

John Brown

Spouse

Isaiah Brown

Children

Olive Brown
b. September 15, 1761, in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut · d. November 27, 1834
m. Ezekiel Hopkins
Lydia Brown
b. between 1762-1765
m. Stephen Hopkins, December 22, 1782, in Foster, Providence County, Rhode Island
Patrick Brown
m. Ruth ____
Anna Brown
b. Abt. 1770 · d. June 2, 1867, in Richland, Oswego County, New York
m. Oliver Westcott in 1788
William Brown
b. Abt. 1770 in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut
Matilda Brown
m. Levi Brace
Isaiah Brown
d. Before 1824
Asenath Brown
m. ____ Walling
Elizabeth Brown
d. 1830
m. Emer Walling
Jerimoth Brown
b. Abt. 1784 in Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut · d. March 15, 1830
m. Phebe Tewgood

In brief

Born Ireland. She married August 1761 at First Church in Killingly, Connecticut and worked as witch.

Life story

A Reputation from the Old Country

Margaret “Peg” Hurley, also recorded as Herlihy, was born in Ireland — family record locates her origins in “the bogs of Ireland” — and married Isaiah Brown in August 1761 at the First Church in Killingly, Connecticut. The family's own records list her occupation simply as “witch,” likely reflecting a local reputation or folk legend attached to her rather than a literal trade; she was still living in Killingly as late as 1820.

At a glance

Work

Witch

Lived

Killingly, Windham County, Connecticut

Sources (1)

Dorinda Partsch and Janet Pack, “John Brown of Reading, Six Generations,” 6 January 2020; received via email from Dorinda Partsch to Ben Weber on January 8, 2020.