Mary Haverkam (née Kirwan)

Daughter of Monica Kirwan and mother of Sarah McHugo and Margaret Watts (both q.v.) whose husbands claimed for compensation in Antigua on the basis of their wives' inheritance.

T71/877 Antigua claim no. 554. T71/1294: claim by J. McHugo for his wife Sarah, in right of her children; claim from Samuel Watts, in right of his wife Margaret, by his attorney J. Osborn, as inheritors of Mary Haverkam (?); counterclaim by Samuel Watts and Robert Horsford, as trustees under deed of conveyance in trust for Sarah McHugo and her children. T71/1223: letter, dated 15/05/1837, from Barron & Co., 4 Upper Charles St., stating that Mrs Watts and Mrs McHugo were both grand-daughters of Monica Kirwan; Mary Haverkam was their mother. Lt-Col. Samuel Watts and Robert Horsford were constrained to counterclaim versus Mrs McHugo's claim by virtue of the trust deed executed by Mrs McHugo in favour of her children before her marriage to Mr McHugo. Mr McHugo 'has declared that he does not intend to interfere with the obvious purposes of his wife's Trust Deed'.