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Where did the Irish Foran family come from? What is the Irish Foran family crest and coat of arms? When did the Foran family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the Foran family history?
Hundreds of years ago, the Gaelic name used by the Foran family in Ireland was O Fuarain or in some records O Furanain.
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Irish names were rarely spelled consistently in the Middle Ages. Spelling variations of the name Foran dating from that time include Foran, Forhane, Forahan, Forhan, Foreham and many more.First found in Connacht, where they were firstly known as Macgiollarnath or Mac Gilla na Naomh, meaning 'son of the devotee of the saints', which, through mistranslation and time emerged as an off-shoot of the main Clan through a chieftain O'Fuarthain or O'Fuarain, which, in English, became Foran.
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This is a small excerpt from our full listing of settlers for the name Foran. Our PDF Extended History provide the complete listing from our dbase of over 500,000 settlers!
To escape the religious and political discrimination they experienced primarily at the hands of the English, thousands of Irish left their homeland in the 19th century. These migrants typically settled in communities throughout the East Coast of North America, but also joined the wagon trains moving out to the Midwest. Ironically, when the American War of Independence began, many Irish settlers took the side of England, and at the war's conclusion moved north to Canada. These United Empire Loyalists, were granted land along the St. Lawrence River and the Niagara Peninsula. Other Irish immigrants settled in Newfoundland, the Ottawa Valley, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The greatest influx of Irish immigrants, however, came to North America during the Great Potato Famine of the late 1840s. Thousands left Ireland at this time for North America and Australia. Many of those numbers, however, did not live through the long sea passage. These Irish settlers to North America were immediately put to work building railroads, coal mines, bridges, and canals. Irish settlers made an inestimable contribution to the building of the New World. Early North American immigration records have revealed a number of people bearing the Irish name Foran or a variant listed above, including:
Foran Settlers in the United States in the 18th Century
- Danl Foran, who landed in Virginia in 1702
Foran Settlers in the United States in the 19th Century
- John Foran settled in New York State in 1804
- Michael Foran arrived in Philadelphia in 1834
- Edward Foran, who arrived in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pennsylvania in 1838
- John Foran arrived in Boston in 1847
- James Foran, who landed in Allegany (Allegheny) County, Pennsylvania in 1848
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- Dick Foran (1910-1979), American actor from California
- James H. Foran (1848-1928), American Major League Baseball player
- Sergeant Nicholas "Sam" Foran (1844-1927), American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient
- Richard "Richie" Foran (b. 1980), Irish footballer
- John Winston Foran (b. 1952), Canadian politician from New Brunswick
- Kieran Foran (b. 1990), New Zealand born, Australian rugby league player
- Charles Foran (b. 1960), Canadian novelist awarded the inaugural Hilary Weston Prize for non-fiction, the Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction, and the Governor General's Literary Award
- William Michael Foran (1871-1945), Canadian ice hockey executive, Stanley Cup trustee
- Mark Foran (b. 1973), English former professional footballer
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The motto was originally a war cry or slogan. Mottoes first began to be shown with arms in the 14th and 15th centuries, but were not in general use until the 17th century. Thus the oldest coats of arms generally do not include a motto. Mottoes seldom form part of the grant of arms: Under most heraldic authorities, a motto is an optional component of the coat of arms, and can be added to or changed at will; many families have chosen not to display a motto.
Motto: Lucrum Christi mihi
Motto Translation: Without Christ, there is no light.
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- Sullivan, Sir Edward. The Book of Kells 3rd Edition. New York: Crescent Books, 1986. Print. (ISBN 0-517-61987-3).
- 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.
- Leyburn, James Graham. The Scotch-Irish A Social History. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1962. Print. (ISBN 0807842591).
- Crozier, William Armstrong Edition. Crozier's General Armory A Registry of American Families Entitled to Coat Armor. New York: Fox, Duffield, 1904. Print.
- Somerset Fry, Peter and Fiona Somerset Fry. A History of Ireland. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1993. Print. (ISBN 1-56619-215-3).
- Bowman, George Ernest. The Mayflower Reader A Selection of Articales from The Mayflower Descendent. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. Print.
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