My Callahan ancestors came to America (via PA) in the 1740's and the name was
generally spelled Callahan, however, back then there was a lot of phonetic spelling and
just plain misspelling so I have seen Callihan, Calliham, Callaham, and some Kallahan, etc
. Strangely, there appears to be no use of Callaghan or O'Callahan by these early
settlers. This could be because they were generally considered Scots-Irish rather than
"pure" Irish.
Ben Callahan
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From: cmc614 <cmc614(a)aol.com>
To: callahan <callahan(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thu, Mar 3, 2011 8:46 am
Subject: Re: [CALLAHAN] Researching Callahans & DNA
This is probably a very dumb question to those who have been doing research for
a long time but here goes - should I use all spellings of Callahan ie Callaghan,
O'Callahan etc. when doing my research even though at this point all the
documentation (which is only US New Jersey census and a couple of US New Jersey
death certs) show the spelling Callahan? I don't know if the name was the same
in Ireland or was changed as I have not been able to move beyond the states and
unfortunately all the relatives that would have known something are long gone.
Colleen Callahan
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To: callahan(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Thu, Mar 3, 2011 1:11 pm
Subject: Re: [CALLAHAN] Researching Callahans & DNA
Since we finally have some activity on this list, I will post a little info
that I have learned about the Callaghan's of Ireland. My Callaghan
ncestors came from County Sligo. I went back to the village my g-grandfather
ame from. Went there several times and got to know the area fairly well
or a Yank and found some Callaghan's that used to live there but moved away.
had my DNA tested , one of the things you can find out from DNA is where
our DNA traces back to (where do people with similar DNA trace back to)
nyway, I know very little about DNA so I asked other people on a DNA
oard. My DNA traced back to northwest Ireland but I always heard that the
allaghan Clan came from the County Cork area. I wondered how could someone
rom a County Cork clan be from Sligo. One of the guys that responded to my
uestions also had similar DNA and told me there were other Callaghan
lans besides the one from Cork. He explained there was a clan from the Mayo,
oscommon, Sligo area of Ireland (northwest Ireland)
convinced one of the Callaghan's that moved away from my g-grandfather
illage to have his DNA tested and we were a match. It is very doubtful
hat I will ever find paper records that I have been looking for but at least
ade a connection through the DNA. I quit wondering how and why my ancestors
ot from Cork to Sligo. Now I have narrowed my search to just NW ireland
n a message dated 3/3/2011 11:26:30 A.M. Central Standard Time,
gmctigue(a)aol.com writes:
My GGF came from Charville, County Cork. I was there. His name was John
allahann his father was Daniel his mother was Mary Hurlihy. He came to NYC
n 1860. He was a hatter.
ent via BlackBerry by AT&T
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rom: Mary Palmer <cal.mary(a)gmail.com>
ender: callahan-bounces(a)rootsweb.com
ate: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 17:18:56
o: <callahan(a)rootsweb.com>
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ubject: Re: [CALLAHAN] Researching the Callahans of Ireland and Trenton,
J
Hi Colleen,
I am Mary Palmer nee Callahan
I do know that the Callahan/Callaghan clan did originally come from the
ork. My great Grandfather, John O' Callaghan, was baptised in 1825 at
t.Coleman´s on the island of Cobh (Cove), Queenstown at one time) in Cork
arbour and was married in Aghada, on the borders of the harbour. Our name
as anglizised to Callahan when he joined the Royal Navy in Plymouth,
ngland in 1848.
Just thought I would give you some places to think about, to try and help.
Mary
n 2 March 2011 23:29, Colleen Callahan Hinton <
olleencallahanhinton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I am researching the family of Jefferson Callahan born April 13,
1884 in
Ireland and died July 1930 in Trenton, NJ; married to a Anna McGuire
born
1851 died 1915); Jefferson's parents were: Owen Callahan and Mary Tobin.
Any and all information is appreciated - especially any insight into the
roots in Ireland as I am at a dead end.
Thanks so much.
Colleen
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