Gaughran Family History
- Gaughran Name Meaning
- Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Eachráin, a patronymic from the personal name Eachrán, of uncertain origin, perhaps containing the element each- ‘horse’. Compare Gahan 1.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 15,543 Historical Documents with Gaughran on Ancestry
- 7,093 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,953 Census and Voter Lists
- 780 Military Records
- 668 Immigration Records
- 4,049 Member Trees
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Number of Gaughran families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gaughran census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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