Keegan is one of a clan of spirited Irish surnames starting with K and ending with 'n'--this one with the cheery double 'e' in the middle-- that are appealing to an increasing number of parents. It derives from Mac Aodhagáin, meaning "son (or descendant) of Aodhagán," a diminutive...
I am writing this because I feel that it is necessary for me to set the record straight. Being that my grandfather who opened up Whitefish with the help of his father, Arnold Newton, in helping his sons, is not the one who made Whitefish lake what it is. It is my grandfather who wo...
After emancipation in 1865, he and his wife Nancy prospered as black farmers in Mecklenburg county. Their land has been handed down to present-day descendants.Pennsylvania. There was an early Welsh contingent from Puleston in Flintshire that came to Pennsylvania, starting sometime in the 1670’s...
Linguistically, Douglas comes from the Gaelic dubh, meaning “dark” or black,” and glas, meaning “stream,” and was probably at first a place-name. There are many such places with this name in Scotland.However, it is thought that the Douglas in south Lanarkshire was the origin of the...
One prominent exception to this trend was the Daly family of Dunsandle in Galway, starting with Dermot O’Daly in the late 16th century. They cut their cloth with the English and became part of the Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland. Generations of this family served as mayors and MP’s of ...
The surname was appropriated by one family in particular in west Yorkshire, starting with de Tempest soon after the Domesday survey of 1086.Tempest Surname Resources on The InternetThe Tempest Family History of the Tempest family. Articles on the Tempest Family Early Tempest lines. Tempest Family ...
Cyrus Haley from Leeds who arrived in Auckland with his family in 1870 soon developed a reputation for starting fires. “When his wife Emily’s singing performance at the Music Hall was savaged, the hall was mysteriously gutted by fire. More arsons took place and while all these could not ...
Ackermans from Germany to Iowa.Matthias Ackerman departed Wurttemberg in Germany with his family in 1831 for New York. On arrival there they headed for Philadelphia, where they stayed at the Black Bear Hotel, before moving onto Lancaster county, Pennsylvania for the winter. Matthias’s wife died...
London.Increasingly, Adamses were to be found in and around London. One early sighting was in the 1500’s in north Buckinghamshire. Starting with Theophilis Adams (who died in 1626), the Adams family were lords of the manor of Swanbourne from 1624 to 1775. ...
John Gibson was a mid-19th century Scots Irish arrival, starting a whiskey distilleryin 1856 on the Monongahela river in western Pennsylvania. Son Henry grew wealthy on the whiskey sales and built a European-style castle, Maybrook, for his family outside Philadelphia. Neither Henry nor his wife...