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--- : Burial - East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, USA Holy Sepulchre Cemetery in Civil War veterans section. His regiment is listed on his marker. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13384605/john-joseph-gegan

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Baptism 1820 • Clonakilty, Cork, Ireland ??? Source: Gegan2 ancestry.com

Death 16 Jul 1892 • Home for Disabled Soldiers, Kearny, New Jersey, USA Buried in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Essex County, NJ. Died at a home for wounded Civil War veterans. * His wife Margaret is listed in census records from 1880 onward as a "widow," but at that time John Gegan was in a home for infirm veterans.

Burial East Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, USA Holy Sepulchre Cemetery

All "Possible Family History" comes from Gegan2 ancestry.com

Possible Family History #1 - 1750 Could be a descendant of the "Bunowen Geoghegans" - descendants of 17th century Art Geoghegan of Castletown, Westmeath. The Galway Geoghegans took over the confiscated O'Flaherty lands at Bunowen. They later sold property to the Blake family.

Possible Family History #2 ("Galway History Note) - 1820 Doon Hill, Ballyconneely, Galway The half of the Geoghegan family related to John David Geoghegan became Protestant in order to retain the family estates. In 1807, this half of family under John Augustus took surname O'Neill. The half that stayed Catholic continued to use Geoghegan.

Possible Family History #3 - 1830 Doon Hill, Ballyconneely, Galway Family estates inherited by MP John Augustus O'Neill in 1830. After the famine, he had money trouble, & sold the castle and much of the land to Valentine Blake of Towerhill in 1852. Blake had Carnmore Estate in Galway & land in County Mayo & western Cork.

Family History Note #4 1851 • Oughterard, County Galway A branch of the Geoghegan family of Galway have been owners of the Glengowla silver mine in Oughterard, County Galway, since 1851. The Holleran, McDonough, and Cloonan families had members who worked the mine.