Seeking Naghten family history

Hi,

St Nicholas is a Roman Catholic Church in Galway City.  The records are held in these repositories, National Library of Ireland and LDS Family History Library  This is a particularly strange record set as it only includes very early Baptisms:

Baptisms: April 21, 1690 - Dec 28, 1690 and Mar 31, 1723 - Mar 10, 1726,

NLI reference is Pos. 2436 for this Microfilm.

FHLC Film 0,926,070

See also: http://galwayeast.rootsireland.ie/ where you can do free online searches of the BDM records held by the East Galway Heritage Centre.

Also be aware of the name variants that should also be searched:

- (O) Naghten, Naughton, Nocton, Knochton, Natton, and one I have seen only once Notin.

--- This name is mostly found only in Galway and Clare

MacLysaght's Surnames of Ireland has a short bit on the Tarleton:

- Tarleton, Coming to Ireland from Liverpool about the year 1600 the Tarleton family settled in Co. Offaly and have since become fairly numerous there.  The name isvery rare elsewhere in Ireland.

Best of luck to you,

James McNamara

Feakle Clare

feakle@irelandxo.com

Hi, the name Naghten is very prevalent in the parish of Drum Co Roscommon, was down there a few years ago and went into the local church and looked at a roll call of names and there was a lot of spellings of the name Naghten ,Norton, O'Naghten, Nachten,Naughten, there was also a private Naghten family burial place on some farmers land, we think they where the local prominent  Protestant  family in the area that had the big house, our branch of the family are all from Dublin since about the last century but we are not sure if we are from that part of Ireland as we could not go back any further with the records 

I see from the RC registers, this name is fairly common around Feakle, Scariff, and Mountshannon. 

Wnen I look at the Griffith's Valuation surname distribution, I can see this name and variants are common around most of Ireland and my statement above is not confirmed. [Note: William's statement about Roscommon is confirmed by Griffiths show 43 households there.]  We have to remember that farm labourers will not be counted in Griffiths as they are not occupiers of land.

BY NUMBER OF HOUSEHOLDS:

• 371 - Naughton
• 57 - Naughtin
• 81 - Naghten
• 11 - Nochton
• 233 - Naughten
• 4 - Naughtan
• 4 - Nocten
• 2 - Noughton
• 2 - Naghtin

BY NUMBERS OF HOUSEHOLDS PER COUNTY

• Cavan - 2
• Clare - 18
• Cork - 11
• Cork City - 1
• Galway - 126
• Kerry - 6
• Kildare - 1
• Kilkenny - 2
• Limerick - 54
• Limerick City - 4
• Longford - 5
• Mayo - 45
• Meath - 2
• Offaly - 8
• Roscommon - 43
• Sligo - 2
• Tipperary - 14
• Waterford - 1
• Westmeath - 18
• Wexford - 8

Best regards,

James McNamara

feakle@irelandxo.com

I'm clearly not an "ancestor" but my grandfather, father and brother all have the middle name Tarleton and surname Naghten. There must be a link somewhere. Would love to know if you have found any further info.

In USA when a child was given a surname as middle name it is almost always the mother's maiden name or the mother's mother's maiden name.