Margaret Haughery: The Story and the Untold Story

The statue at the intersection of Camp and Prytania streets in the Lower Garden District is identified only as Margaret because she was so well known. Modern research can shed new light on Our Margaret aka the Bread Woman of New Orleans aka the Angel of the Delta aka the Friend of Orphans. Support my research: https://noladeeptours.com/product/buy... https://noladeeptours.com/   / from_the_deep_gifts     / from.the.deep.504   #neworleans #neworleanshistory #travelguide #nola #freetour Music Witch Waltz by Kevin MacLeod Connecting Rainbows by Kevin MacLeod Infinite Wonder by Kevin MacLeod Dark Hallway by Kevin MacLeod Shining Stars by Rafael Krux Waterlilies 4 by Kevin MacLeod Bar Brawl by Bryan Teoh Icicles Melting by Kevin MacLeod Murder on the Bayou by Bryan Teoh Sources Patent Case: “Ball v. Langles, 102 US 128 (1880),” https://supreme.justia.com/cases/fede... https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremeco... Succession (inventory): Haughery, Margaret Docket: 5300 Succession (descendants): Gaffney, Thos. Haughery Docket: 5934 On appeal by the executors the appointment was vacated, 35 Ann. 596 Succession (Klotz as liquidator): Klotz v. Macready, Supreme Court of Louisiana, 39 La. Ann. 638, Docket Number: No. 9607, https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion... https://archive.org/details/sim_louis... Succession: Macready v. Schenck, Supreme Court of Louisiana, 41 La. Ann. 456, Docket Number: No. 10,273, https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion... https://archives.nd.edu/calendar/auth... Kelley, Laura D. The Irish in New Orleans. University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, Lafayette, La. © 2014. Wilder, Mary Lou. Margaret: Friend of Orphans. Pelican Press, Gretna, La. © 1996. Angel of the Delta by Edward Francis Murphy, New York: Hanover House © 1958. Haughey, M. Catharine Joseph. “A Candle Lighted: A Capsule Biography of Margaret Gaffney Haughery (1813-1882).” Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia, vol. 64, no. 2, 1953, pp. 113–20. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/44210307. Accessed 15 Feb. 2025. Gilbert, Ann. “Margaret Haughery: The Bread Woman of New Orleans,” Inside New Orleans, April-May 2017, page 40-47. https://issuu.com/in_magazine/docs/17... Butler, Eoin. “The girl from Leitrim who became the Angel of New Orleans,” The Irish Times, February 10, 2017. https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-s... “History of Margaret,” Margaret of New Orleans Birthplace: Walking in Margarets Footsteps, https://www.margaretsbirthplace.ie/hi... “Life Story: Margaret Gaffney Haughery (1813-1882),” Women and the American Story: The New York Historical, https://wams.nyhistory.org/expansions... Kelley, Laura D. “Margaret Haughery,” 64 Parishes, March 15, 2016. https://64parishes.org/entry/margaret... Tony Fahy, “Margaret’s Birthplace — Margaret of New Orleans — Tully, Carrigallen Sept 2014,”    • Margaret's Birthplace—MARGARET OF NEW ORLE...   Rogers, Rosemary. “The Mother of Orphans,” Irish America Magazine, June/July 2016, https://www.irishamerica.com/2016/06/... “Margaret ‘Mother of Orphans’ Gaffney Haughery,” Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1... Jenkins, Regina Randolph. "Margaret Haughery." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 9. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/0965... Estill, Harry, F. Women in American history. [Dallas, Tex., The Southern Publishing Company, 1922] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/22022731/. “Margaret Haughery,” Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare... “Margaret Place Park,” The Cultural Landscape Foundation, https://www.tclf.org/margaret-place-park Kingsley, Karen and Lake Douglas, “St. Elizabeth’s Apartments (St. Elizabeth’s Home of Industry),” https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/... Adrienne Luck , “Margaret Haughery: "Friend of the Orphans",” New Orleans Historical, accessed February 19, 2025, https://neworleanshistorical.org/item.... Luck, Catherine Adrienne. “Finding Margaret Haughery: The Forgotten and Remembered Lives of New Orleans’s ‘Bread Woman’ in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries,” University of New Orleans Master’s Thesis, May 2014. https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1821/ “Poydras Asylum Photograph Collection,” New Orleans City Archives and Special Collections. https://archives-nolalibrary.contentd... Parker, Teresa, “Julien de Lalande Poydras,” 64 Parishes, Janaury 12, 2024. https://64parishes.org/entry/julien-d... “John Baptiste Camors,” Find a Grave. “Bernard Klotz,” Find a Grave.