Connecticut State Archives: RG 008, State Comptroller Records, Town Claims for State Paupers, Box #1, Folder # 20, 1849, Norwich, Carney & Corphen families Edward & Mary Carney (in feeble health) with children John (aged about 9), Patrick, & Catherine along with Owen & Mary Corphen and children Mary & Margaret, two Irish families, recently came to Norwich from New York. In need of support right in the middle of the great Irish Potato Famine of 1845-52.