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Where did the Irish Donegan family come from? What is the Irish Donegan family crest and coat of arms? When did the Donegan family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Donegan family history?
The Irish surnames in use today are underpinned by a multitude of rich histories. The name Donegan originally appeared in Gaelic as O Donnagain. The first portion of the name is probably derived from "donn," which means brown, while the second portion of the name is probably derived from and ancient Irish personal name.
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Because early scribes and church officials often spelled names as they sounded, a person could have many various spellings of his name.Many different spelling variations of the surname Donegan were found in the archives researched. These included Donegan, Donnegan, Doneghan, Donneghan, Donagan, Donnagan, Donnaghan, Dunnegan, O'Donegan, O'Dunnegan, O'Donnaghan, Dongan, Donegin, Donnegin, Donnagen, Donagen, Donnegen, Donegen, Donnigan, Donigan, Dunnican, Dunican, Dunnigan, McDunnigan, McDonegan, Dongane, Dongin, Dongen and many more.First found in County Cork, where they held a family seat at Muskerry, later moving to Limerick, Kildare and Dublin.
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name Donegan. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
Thousands of Irish left in their homeland in the 18th and 19th centuries to escape the religious and political discrimination they experienced primarily at the hands of the English, and in the search of a plot of land to call their own. These immigrants arrived at the eastern shores of North America, early on settling and breaking the land, and, later, building the bridges, canals, and railroads essential to the emerging nations of United States and Canada. Many others would toil for low wages in the dangerous factories of the day. Although there had been a steady migration of Irish to North America over these years, the greatest influx of Irish immigrants came to North America during the Great Potato Famine of the late 1840s. Early North American immigration records have revealed a number of people bearing the Irish name Donegan or a variant listed above:
Donegan Settlers in the United States in the 17th Century
- Thomas Donegan, the Earl of Limerick, who became Governor of New York from 1683 to 1691
Donegan Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Patrick Donegan settled in Maryland in 1742
Donegan Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- James Donegan, who arrived in Charleston, SC in 1824
- John Donegan, aged 33, arrived in Missouri in 1842
- Clancy Donegan settled in New Orleans in 1849
- Andrew Donegan, who landed in Harford County, Md in 1861
- Lawrence Donegan, who landed in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pa in 1876
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- Dorothy Donegan (1924-1998), American classically trained jazz pianist
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- Michael Barry Donegan (b. 1978), American singer, songwriter, writer and political activist
- Patrick S "Paddy" Donegan (1923-2000), Irish Fine Gael Party politician
- Anthony James "Lonnie" Donegan MBE (1931-2002), Scottish skiffle musician with more than 20 UK Top 30 hits to his name
- Horace William Baden Donegan (1900-1991), English prelate of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Bishop of New York (1950 to 1972)
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- MacLysaght, Edward. Irish Families Their Names, Arms and Origins 4th Edition. Dublin: Irish Academic, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-7165-2364-7).
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- 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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- Heraldic Scroll and Map of Family names and Origins of Ireland. Dublin: Mullins. Print.
- Skordas, Guest. Ed. The Early Settlers of Maryland an Index to Names or Immigrants Complied from Records of Land Patents 1633-1680 in the Hall of Records Annapolis, Maryland. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1992. Print.
- McDonnell, Frances. Emigrants from Ireland to America 1735-1743 A Transcription of the report of the Irish House of Commons into Enforced emigration to America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-1331-5).
- Matthews, John. Matthews' American Armoury and Blue Book. London: John Matthews, 1911. Print.
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The Donegan Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The Donegan 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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