CONWAY - BUCHAN

[lyndyloo6]

I have ancestors in Montrose, Bervie, and all round the North East of Scotland....including Buchans from Aberdeen.   I live in east lothian, not too far from Dunbar...

My husbands family are from Ireland and came over during the potato famine.

I understand what you are saying about the olderones not speaking about their past and always envy people who have ha most of the history passed on to them.  I remember my great Granny (in the picture) having a very sparse, but comfy house and I know she had had a hard life, working on the farms with my gt grandad.  But her sons and daughter looked after her well in her later years.

Lynda

[aughoo1]

Hello Im new to this have an interest in McGoohans particularly from Leitrim Carrigallen Ballinamore
Oughterragh alocal Leitrim Parish Mick O

[aughoo1]

 

Hi,
Just to say that I too have done some research on Irish roots....I have a McGoohan, recorded as McGowan probably due to the liteacy problem and the preist interpreted it as McGowan...caused a lot of problems...I also have Conways from Ireland and have had no luck tracing them......

Lynda

Hello Im new to this have an interest in McGoohans particularly from Leitrim Carrigallen Ballinamore
Oughterragh alocal Leitrim Parish Mick O

[lyndyloo6]

hi,
i am working in edinburgh today.
  I think that if you are in East Lothian that ur Conway/Mc5oochans are probably related to mine....I also pin pointed them in Ballinamore.....I am using my mobile to reply but will get back to you to explain in detail....I have Patrick McGoochan married to Sarah Conway in 1858...off the top o my head...at Edinburgh.....both born 1836 approxiamately....there are many children from this family and I found his brothers, sister and mother in West lothian....Lynda

[aughoo1]

hopefully this ls helpful but ilive in dublin im still a learner on this computer so forgive the spelling and mistakes .  I have info on a branch of the family that were related to our bunch that lived in co down near castlewellan and were involved with the mc cartans and were relocated tl leitrim my mother was fro leitrim an named mc goohan my uncle and aunts all lived within an area just outside ballina more co leitrim  The landlord was a man called clements or lord leitrim aughoo incidently means northern ford in gaelic Micko

[familyroutes]

Hi Micko,

Have you looked in the census:
Here are some  McGoohan's and McCartan living beside each other in Aghoo in 1901


http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Leitrim/Drumreilly_South/Aghoo/1482750/
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Leitrim/Drumreilly_South/Aghoo/1482751/
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Leitrim/Drumreilly_South/Aghoo/1482752/