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Harkins Family Crest
Harkins Family Crest
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Where did the Irish Harkins family come from? What is the Irish Harkins family crest and coat of arms? When did the Harkins family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Harkins family history?

The surname Harkins is an anglicized form of the Patronymic Irish surname "O hEarcain," which is derived from the word "earc," meaning "red." Thus, the surname would have originally been born by a "descendant of Red."

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Spelling variations of this family name include: Harkin, Harkan, O'Harkin, ÓhEarcáin and others.

First found in at Inishowen, in County Donegal where members of the family were erenaghs of Clonska, a parish near Malin Head. They are mentioned as such in Bishop Montgomery's diocesan survey of 1606. Danieal O'Harcan died in 1581 as a Catholic martyr in Ulster.


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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Harkins research. Another 155 words(11 lines of text) covering the years 1659, 1780, 1814, and 1830 are included under the topic Early Harkins History in all our PDF Extended History products.

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Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Harkins Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century


  • James Harkins, who landed in America in 1801
  • Dennis Harkins, who arrived in Somerset County, Pa in 1824
  • John Harkins, who landed in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pa in 1849
  • Patrick Harkins, who arrived in Mobile, Ala in 1860
  • Andrew, Daniel, Edward, James, John, Patrick and William Harkins all arrived in Philadelphia between 1830 and 1870


Harkins Settlers in the United States in the 20th Century


  • Annie Harkins, aged 22, who arrived at Ellis Island from Donegal, in 1904
  • Anna Harkins, aged 21, who arrived at Ellis Island from Derry, in 1906
  • Annie Harkins, aged 24, who arrived at Ellis Island from Glasgow, Scotland, in 1913


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  • Dwight "Red" Harkins (d. 1974), American founder of Harkins Theatres movie theater chain
  • John Harkins (b. 1932), American actor
  • William Draper Harkins (1873-1951), American nuclear chemist
  • John Joseph "Pa" Harkins (1859-1940), American Major League, baseball player
  • General Paul Donal Harkins (1904-1984), American Deputy Chief of Staff to George S. Patton Jr during World War II
  • Gary Harkins (b. 1985), Scottish footballer (soccer player)


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  2. Burke, Sir Bernard. General Armory Of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales. Ramsbury: Heraldry Today. Print.
  3. Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard and David Faris. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 7th Edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0806313676).
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  5. Grehan, Ida. Dictionary of Irish Family Names. Boulder: Roberts Rinehart, 1997. Print. (ISBN 1-57098-137-X).
  6. Somerset Fry, Peter and Fiona Somerset Fry. A History of Ireland. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1993. Print. (ISBN 1-56619-215-3).
  7. Woodham-Smith, Cecil. The Great Hunger Ireland 1845-1849. New York: Old Town Books, 1962. Print. (ISBN 0-88029-385-3).
  8. Harris, Ruth-Ann and B. Emer O'Keefe. The Search for Missing Friends Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in the Boston Pilot Volume II 1851-1853. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1991. Print.
  9. Tepper, Michael Ed & Elizabeth P. Bentley Transcriber. Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia 1800-1819. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1986. Print.
  10. Zieber, Eugene. Heraldry in America. Philadelphia: Genealogical Publishing Co. Print.
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The Harkins Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Harkins Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.

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