Hi,
Thanks for the information, however, like uourself I too get a bit bewildered by the numerous spellings of the name, and unfortunately have so little information apart from the name of my gt grandfather which was Stephen Geoghan, his father recorded on the marriage cert was Lawrence Geoghan, that is the only information I have.
I have no idea of how many there were in the family or what the mother`s name was, so have very little to go on with, nor do I know exactly where Stephen came from, the only place of birth given was on the 1901 census and that was Galway. He disappeared from after 1871 until 1901, I can only assume he may have returned to Ireland deserting his wife and family, they ended up in the workhouse, my grandfather and his sisters being sent to Canada in 1885, there weas also another son Patrick, but I do not know what became of him either, he was not sent to Canada with the others and may have left the workhouse before them, I still have research to do on that eventually.