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From: Robert Breslin <>
Subject: Re: [DONEGAL] EGAN/LAIRD
Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2000 11:27:41 -0400


My grandmother was an Egan. Her father was Patrick EGAN from south Roscommon.
He married a GATELEY also from Roscommon. There were many Egans and
Gatelys in that area.
They were very much Catholic.
Bob Breslin.


At 10:47 AM 10/05/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello,
>I have posted before to this wonderful list about my LAIRD family.
>I hae NO clues on James Laird's wife Jane EGAN.
>Family stories say they were married in Ireland, traveled through Scotland,
>went to London where they had a baby girl who died on the way to the US.
>My problem with this story is that there seem to be precious few Egans in
>Donegal and I have found James on a ship's passenger list with his brother
>Ralston in 1852. Just in case Jane was from Donegal though--is anyone
>familiar with any EGAN families?
>The little I have on Jane is she was born 1835/36 in Ireland--had 6 daughters
>between 1858-1872 in Burlington Co. NJ. She died there in 1880--no death
>cert. of course! She was also Catholic, James and his family were
>Presbyterians. The daughters were all raised as Catholics.
>Is this unusual or did people routinely marry out of their faith in Ireland
>in the 1850's?
>Thanks for any clues or suggestions.
> Kathy Karn
>
>
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