The Goggin Name
The origin and history of the Goggin Surname
Birth, Death and Marriage
Collections of births, deaths and marriages for people with the surname Goggin can be accessed from the following links. The databases are fully searchable.
This includes date, forenames, district/ref and Mother's maiden name where available.
This includes date, name, district/ref and to whom the individual was married where available.
This includes date, name, district/ref and age at death and birth-date where available.
Certificates for some Goggin births, deaths and marriages can be accessed at:
Birth, death and marriage certificatesHistoric Goggin Ancestors
From their roots in Ireland, by 1841 the Goggin name was then mainly found in London (Middlesex/Surrey) with families also in Cornwall and Yorkshire.
Many of the Goggin ancestors from London were Watermen and Lightermen,
which is a trade that was often passed down the generations.
The life and times of Thomas Goggin can be found at: Copies of the lighterman certificates of Charles Goggin can be found on
the page
Goggin family Lightermen. Details of crimes involving the name Goggin is at Crimes and Black Sheep Ancestry of Mark Twain: Samuel Langhorne Clemens adopted the
pseudonym Mark Twain after he spent two years as a steamboat pilot
("mark twain" being the term that means that the river is the minimum
depth for safe navigation), and used the name when he joined a Nevada
newspaper. His Grandmother, on his father's side, was a Pamela Goggin
(1775-1844). Her father was a Stephen Goggin (1752-1802), and, in
turn, his father was also a Stephen Goggin (b. 1726). Pamela
married Samuel Clemens on 29 October 1797 in Virginia, having a son John
Marshall Clemens (1798-1847) - Mark Twain's father. When Mark Twain's paternal grandfather's family came to America from
England is unclear, though probably no later than the mid-eighteenth
century. This Goggin family, whose ancestors were tradespeople in
England in the sixteenth century, came to Virginia in the seventeenth
century and married into a Quaker family, the Moormans. In 1773, the
daughter of Charles Moorman, Rachel Moorman, Twain's great-grandmother,
married a non-Quaker, Stephen Goggin, whose father, an Anglican, had
emigrated from Queen's County, Ireland. Their daughter, Pamela Goggin,
born in 1775, married Samuel B. Clemens in Bedford County in 1797. Of
their five children, John Marshall Clemens was the first.
The Goggin Name in Famous Trees - Mark Twain
Family Trees and BDM Records
Goggin birth, death and marriage records and the Goggin name in famous family trees
A book on the life of Charles James Goggin (1864 - 1927) including certificates and census images can be accessed from the following link:
