Corrane History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Ireland

Etymology of Corrane

What does the name Corrane mean?

Native Irish surnames such as Corrane have a long, ancient Gaelic history behind them. The original Gaelic form of the name Corrane is Ó Corrain or the older form Ó Currain. 1

Early Origins of the Corrane family

The surname Corrane was first found in County Waterford (Irish: Port Láirge), anciently the Deise region, on the South coast of Ireland in the Province of Munster, where they held a family seat from early times.

Early History of the Corrane family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Corrane research. Another 145 words (10 lines of text) covering the years 1302, 1411, 1526, 1546, 1750 and 1817 are included under the topic Early Corrane History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Corrane Spelling Variations

In the Middle Ages many people were recorded under different spellings each time their name was written down. Research on the Corrane family name revealed numerous spelling variations, including Curran, Currans, O'Curren, Curren, Corren, Corrane, O'Curran, Currens, Currin, Corraine, Courrane, Courran, Courren and many more.

Early Notables of the Corrane family

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Corrane migration to the United States +

Ireland saw an enormous decrease in its population in the 19th century due to immigration and death. This pattern of immigration began slowly in the late 18th century and gradually grew throughout the early portion of the 19th century. However, a dramatic increase in the country's immigration numbers occurred when the Great Potato Famine struck in the 1840s. The early immigrants to North America were primarily destined to be farmers tending to their own plot of land, those that came later initially settled within pre-established urban centers. These urban immigrants provided the cheap labor that the fast developing United States and soon to be Canada required. Regardless of their new lifestyle in North America, the Irish immigrants to the United States and Canada made invaluable contributions to their newly adopted societies. An investigation of immigrant and passenger lists revealed many Corranes:

Corrane Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Margaret Corrane, who arrived in Maryland in 1678 2

Sources +

MacLysaght, Edward, The Surnames of Ireland. Ireland: Irish Academic Press, sixth edition, 1985. Print. (ISBN 0-7165-2366-3)
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)