Name: nanaa -- Family of Charles Henry Miller and John D. Maguire

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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Rebecca L Colgan: Birth: 1836.

  2. John G Colgan: Birth: 1841 in Salem, NJ. Death: 28 FEB 1891 in Wilkesville Township, Vinton County, OH

  3. Mary E. Colgan: Birth: 1843 in Salem County, New Jersey. Death: in Camden, New Jersey

  4. Henry Clement Riley Colgan: Birth: 1845 in Salem County, New Jersey. Death: OCT 1888 in Elm Grove, Ohio County West Virginia

  5. Louisa D Colgan: Birth: 1847 in Salem, NJ. Death: in Salem County, New Jersey


Notes
a. Note:   THE COLGANS OF INISHOWEN WERE PROBABLY AN OFFSHOOT OF THE O DONNELLS. A 15TH CENTURY RECORD OF THE NAME IS MACKOLLIGANDONILL . THERE
 IS NO CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE THE COLGANS OF INISH EOGHAIN ARE CONNECTED WITH THE ANCIENT COLGAN CLAN OF TIR KEERAN BARONY DERRY.
  THE PARISH OF DONAGH THE COLGAN STRONGHOLD IN INISH EOGHAN HAD A MONASTRY FOUNDED BY ST PATRICK AROUND 500 AD. THE COLGAN SEPT WAS STRONGLY INVOLVED IN THE SERVICE OF THE CHURCH AND WERE INVOLVED IN MANY REBELLIONS TO PROTECT THEIR IDENITY AND WAY OF LIFE WITH THE PROTESTANT POWERS SITUATED IN DERRY
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 THE COLGAN NAME HAS BEEN ANGLICISED IN VARIOUS WAYS COLGAN COLLAGAN COLLIGAN CULLIGAN COLLOGAN QUILLIGAN.THE NAME IS RECORDED IN THE EARLY THIRTEENTH CENTURY AND AGAIN HIGHLIGHTED IN THE 15TH CENTURY ON VATICAN RECORDS.
  THERE WERE 30 BEARERS OF THE NAME RECORDED IN 1659 AT INISH EOGHAIN. BY THE 18TH CENTURY THERE WERE SEVENTY OCCUPIERS RECORDED.OTHER STRONGHOLDS WERE OFFALLY TYRONE DERRY FERMANAGH ARMAGH WITH LESSER NUMBERS,
  THE INISH EOGHAIN SEPT WHICH HAD BECOME VERY DISTINGUISHED IN THE SERVICE OF THE CHURCH AND AS EDUCATORS AND LAND OWNERS. THEY DECLINED IN STATUS DUE TO THE PENAL LAWS DISPOSSESSION PERSCUTION AND EVENTUALLY POVERTY.WITH THE ARRIVAL OF THE FAMINE.
  MY COLGANS FOUND THEIR WAY DOWN TO NORTH MAYO
 FROM INISH EOGHAIN AROUND THE FAMINE TIME OF WHICH THE MAJORITY OF OFF SPRING MADE THEIR WAY TO THE USA .
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