Mogan History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Scotland

The Mogan name comes from the Gaelic "mùgach," meaning "surly."

Early Origins of the Mogan family

The surname Mogan was first found in Banffshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Bhanbh), former Scottish county located in the northeasterly Grampian region of Scotland, now of divided between the Council Areas of Moray and Aberdeenshire, where they were they held a family seat at Balnabruiche in Strathspey.

Early History of the Mogan family

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Mogan Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Moggach, Mougache, Muggah, Moygach, Muggach and many more.

Early Notables of the Mogan family

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Mogan migration to West Indies +

The British first settled the British West Indies around 1604. They made many attempts but failed in some to establish settlements on the Islands including Saint Lucia and Grenada. By 1627 they had managed to establish settlements on St. Kitts (St. Christopher) and Barbados, but by 1641 the Spanish had moved in and destroyed some of these including those at Providence Island. The British continued to expand the settlements including setting the First Federation in the British West Indies by 1674; some of the islands include Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Island, Turks and Caicos, Jamaica and Belize then known as British Honduras. By the 1960's many of the islands became independent after the West Indies Federation which existed from 1958 to 1962 failed due to internal political conflicts. After this a number of Eastern Caribbean islands formed a free association. 1

Mogan Settlers in West Indies in the 18th Century

William Mogan, who landed in Jamaica in 1773 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Mogan (post 1700) +

Ralph H. Mogan, American Democratic Party politician, Candidate in primary for Circuit Judge in Michigan 3rd Circuit, 1935 3

Citations +

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_West_Indies
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2015, November 19) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html