Historic Goggin Ancestors
The Goggin name has a rich history that spans generations. Understanding its origin and genealogy provides insight into the lives of those who carried this name.
Goggin name occurance
In September 2002 there were 689 occurances of the Goggin surname in the UK and it was the 8,849th ranked name in size (source: Office of National Statistics)
In the USA, in 1990, the name Goggin ranked as number 10,353 and by 2000 there were 2,513 occurances of the name and it was then ranked at 11,492 (source: US census bureau)
The Goggin Name in Famous Trees - Mark Twain
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.
Historical Records
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Milo de Cogan
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