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Egan Home Page

Please Note: The family data that is added to this page, has come from 100's of hours of searching put together by My Uncle, Kevin Egan, His son Stephen Egan and myself, I hope I can put it into a format to give us justice for all the hard labour !! I have only put a sceric of the information available here, please E-Mail us if anything looks familiar

Example "Egan" crest

 

History of the Family Name

Gaelic: Mac Aodhagain

The surname Egan is obviously of Irish origin, meaning "The son of little Aodha (fire)". which was the name of a pagan god. The surname is said to be really "Mac Egan", though prefixes are rarely used today. Decendants of O hUiginn (Viking or sea-rover) It appears to be Patronymic of origin (father's name)

BLAZON OF ARMS:
Gu. a tower ar. supported by two men in armour, their exterior hands resting on their hips, in each of the others a halbert all proper, in chief a snake or.

MOTO:
FORTITUDINE ET PRUDENTIA.

CREST:

Name Meaning:

Egan Descendants:

1. Denis Egan b. 17__, Ireland, m. before 1783, Catherine *Unknown, b. 17__, Ireland, d. 18_, Ireland.
Children:

2. i Thomas b.1778.

Second Generation

2. Thomas Egan b. 1778, Kilkenny, Ireland, m, Bridget Murphy, b. 1793, Kilkenny, Ireland,
Children:

i Thomas b. 1818.
ii Catherine b. 1820.
iii Martin b. 1823.
iv Stephen b. 1827.
v Patrick b. 1834.
vi Denis b. 1835.
vii Mary b. 1836.
viii James Patrick b. 1839.

Visit my cousin Stephen Egan's Homepage for more information on our Egan family tree.


Links To Other EGAN Home Pages:-

Check out my Uncle Kevin's "EGAN" Home Page in Brisbane, Australia

This is "Jacki Barber from the USA

Visit my cousin Stephen Egan's newly installed Homepage.

Mary Taylor's personal Egan Homepage and her Clan Egan Homepage
(Mary is the owner of the Clan Egan USA link above and is actively involved in putting Egan's together worldwide)

GenForum Egan Family Genealogy Forum. This is the Newsgroup for Egan's all over the world to share their stories.

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Updated: 16 May 1998.

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