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The McGaugh Family |
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James, Larry A. |
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Origin of the McGaugh / McGough Surname
- The origninal Gaelic form of the name McGaugh is Mac Eachaidh, from the personal name Eachaidh. According to Patrick Woulfe, McGahey (with its variant MacGaughy etc.) is Mag Eachaidh in Irish, this being another form of Mag Eochadha, McGahey is definitely an Ulster name. Other surnames that, according to Woulfe, stem from Each are MacGagh (mag eacaro), MacGaugh (mag eacada), MacGeagh (mag eacada).
- See in Wikipedia McGeachie
- Variants that do not appear in Griffith's Valuation are shown by Irish Ancestry as: Goch, MacGaugh, MacGeogh, MacGeough, MacGoff, MacGough, and Mag Eochadha.
- Listen to the Proununciation of Mac Eochaidh by BridEilis Female from Ireland
- Sullivan, A. M. 1830-1884., Joyce, P. W. 1827-1914. (1902). Atlas and cyclopedia of Ireland. New York: Murphy & McCarthy.
- The index shows a McGough Coat of Arms as number 275 on plate 32.
McGough, McGeough - Coat of Arms
The McGaugh Family History (1980's) - Virginia, Middle Tennessee, Missouri
- THE McGAUGH FAMILY OF MISSOURI AND TENNESSEE. 1981. Compiled by Larry A. JAMES, 504 Joy, Neosho.
- Among surnames, the name McGaugh is rare. It is seldom found in this country spelled McGaugh except in our family. According to the book, “Irish Names and Surnames” by Rev. Patrick Woulfe. The name McGaugh can also be spelled MacGaugh and MacGagh. The name is also closely related to MacAghy, MacCahugh, MacCaghy, MacCaughey, MacCahy, Caughy, and Cahy. By translation, I have also found the name spelled McGa and McGaw in this country. The earliest mention of anyone in this country by the name of McGaugh is found in “Records of Augusta Co., Va.” by Chalkley. Among those mentioned are Samuel McGaw and John McGaw.
- WILLIAM McGAUGH, was born about 1720 in Ireland. The following was written by Timothy Richard Marsh of Shelbyville, Tennessee in 1979.
- In the year 1769, Major John Rains, Kasper Mansker, Uriah Stone, and possibly WILLIAM McGAUGH and others, all from the area of New River, Virginia, crossed thru the Cumberland Gap into Kentucky and may have explored the Cumberland Country as low as the lower Cumberland River.
- Major John Rains was a noted Indian Scout and Fighter, who in later years was appointed by General James Robertson to help fight the Indians in Middle Tennessee and North Alabama. Rains of Virginia in the fall of 1779 to Nashborough, merging with the Robertson and Mulherrin parties on the way.
- I am of the opinion that WILLIAM McGAUGH came with the Rains party in the fall of 1779. We know that he came from Virginia and was in the Cumberland Country by May of 1780. According to the records of the Virginia Militia, he was in Captain William Prestons Company of Rangers of Augusta County, Virginia in the year 1755. Pattenburg area of Virginia. McGAUGH, was listed as being from Ireland, age 35, 5’7”, and a distiller by trade. Another source, the “Virginia Gazette” has him as age 34 from London and a button maker, this information was copied erroneously from the original list and appeared in the “Virginia Gazette” in error. The correct listing is the one that has WILLIAM McGAUGH as age 35 from Ireland.
- WILLIAM McGAUGH was in the Nashborough area in May of 1780, as he is listed as a “Signer of the Cumberland Compact” and was granted a Preemption Grant of 640 acres of land being in the area now called Williamson County, near the community of Arrington on Arrington creek. Preemption Grants were only granted to those who were there before May 1780. McGAUGH was a Commission Guard for the Commissioners of North Carolina who went out in the Spring of 1783 from Nashborough or the French Lick to locate the 35th Parallel or the Tennessee-Alabama State Line and then to lay off lands for the Officers and Soldiers of the Continental Line.
- It appears that WILLIAM McGAUGH returned to Virginia (perhaps Washington County) in 1783 or shortly after, as Thomas H. McGaugh a son, was born in Virginia in 1784, also WILLIAM McGAUGH secured a loan from Robert Edmondson in September 1785 while living in Washington County, Virginia. The transaction was witnessed in the presence of Rev. Thomas B. Craighead, an ordained Minister of the Gospel of the Presbyterian Church, who left Washington County in the fall of 1785 shortly after this transaction took place and came to Nashville and was later a prime mover in the Presbyterian cause in Middle Tennessee.
- Perhaps McGAUGH did not bring part or all of his family to Middle Tennessee until 1785. This leads to the speculation that RUTH, wife of WILLIAM McGAUGH may have died in Virginia and WILLIAM may have married SUSANNA _____in Virginia before bringing her to Middle Tennessee and while we are in a speculative mood, it is logical to assume that RUTH HILL McGAUGH was related to JOHN HILL, the father of MATHEW McGAUGH’s wife ELIZABETH HILL. Could MATHEW and ELIZABETH, his wife, have been cousins?
- WILLIAM McGAUGH died in what is now west Davidson County probably Hickman Station in the year 1789 age 69. Three of the sons of WILLIAM and RUTH McGAUGH, - JOHN, ROBERT, WILLIAM settled in MISSOURI and THOMAS H. and MATHEW settled in Lincoln and Marshall Counties in the southern part of Middle Tennessee.
- Hickman Station was located near the community of Scottsboro in west Davidson County, Tennessee, at the south of Bells Bend of the Cumberland River, the first bend down river from James Robertson Station which experienced an Indian attack by some 30 Indians in the year 1789. Perhaps this attack was perpetrated by the same band of Indians that Killed MATTIE, daughter of WILLIAM and wife at Hickman Station. The killing of MATTIE has been verified by oral history of the Elders of more than one branch of the descendants of MATHEW McGAUGH, of which I am one. This concluded the story written by Timothy Marsh.
- The following two deeds have been found concerning WILLIAM McGAUGH:
- Book G 7 p 60 to WILLIAM McGUAOCK (McGAUGH) State of N.C. #118 640 acres Davidson Co. April 17, 1786 Thomas Edmiston & James Sawyers cc. Beginning ash & ironwood corner to a smaller tract of land east 320 paces to large popler, north 320 paces crossing the East fork of Arrington Creek to a McKary, West 320 paces crossing the North fork of the creek to McGuaricks corner – with his own line crossing the creek to beginning.
- N. C. Grant to Wm McGUAIOCH 320 acres one of the guards to the commissioners for laying of the lands allotted to the officers & soldiers of the Continental line 320 on both sides of Arrington Creek about 31/2 miles above the mouth. Beginning John Sayers lands S 320 paces – E 160 paces crossing the creek to ash N 320 paces crossing the creek to ash N 320 paces crossing the creek to an ash W 160 paces to beginning.
- Oct 8, 1787 - Thomas Edmiston & James Sayers cc
- WILLIAM McGAUGH died in 1789 in Davidson Co., Tenn. His land was divided according to the plat.
- Davidson county court minutes “Vol. A 1783-1790” Part 2, p 324. Letters of administration on motion that SUSANNAH McGAUGH have letters of administration of estate of Wm McGAUGH deed.
- Jan 14, 1797 County court ordered that James Robertson, Charles Robertson, Robert Edmondson, William Anderson and William Nash divide lands of Wm McGAUGH among the heirs at law of sd McGAUGH.
- The land was divided according to the plats.
- Thomas McGaugh 228 acres
- John McGaugh 201 acres
- William McGaugh 200 acres
- Robert McGaugh 200 acres
- Mathew McGaugh 200 acres
- And Robert Edmondsons' Land 200 acres is due by Covenant from Wm McGAUGH deed.
- The grant of land made to WILLIAM McGAUGH was 20 miles south of Nashville in Williamson county. The following is found in the Davidson county Minute book indicating why Robert Edmondson was to receive 200 acres.
- “Know all men by these presents that I WILLIAM McGAUGH of Washington county & State of Virginia Do bind myself and my heirs Executers & Administrators unto Robert Edmondson of the State and county afsd. His heirs Extrs. Admrs. or Assigns, in Virginia To be by him the sd McGAUGH paid to him the sd. Robert Edmondson, his heirs Executors Admrs. or Assigns. The Condition of the Above obligation in such that If the above bound WILLIAM McGAUGH Do make a good and sufficient title for Two hundred acres of land to the sd Edmondson, being a part of sd. McGAUGH.”
- From the January Term of Court in Davidson County 1790 State of North Carolina, Davidson County (see NOTE) – Amos Heaton and Isaac Drake being Sworn to Law to Appraise the Estate of Wm McGAUGH Deceased. Do Appraise as follows Viz,
- 4 cows, 3 calves, and 2 two year old heifers, one black mare, one sorrell horse, and one black mare, and one black yearling colt, 2 beds and furniture, one bible, one book known by Issac Ambrose Works, one dutch oven, 6 pewter plates, 12 spoons, one brass kettle, four pails, and one cooler and chest, one bar shear plow, three axes, and grubbing hoes, 2 cheeves, one lot of triggers, four hoes and an iron wedge, one hatchet, one smoothing iron, one gun, one churn, one tub, one half bushel and three spinning wheels. The whole estate amounting to 105 pound sterling and 131 shillings. Signed Isaac Drake and Amos Heaton
- (NOTE) - The original North Carolina county of this name was created in 1786 what was then the far western portion of North Carolina, with its county seat at Nashville and a territory covering most of what is now Middle Tennessee. When Tennessee was established as a separate state in 1796, this county became Davidson County, Tennessee.
- The following was taken from “Annals of Tennessee to the End of the 18th Century” by J.G.N. Ramsey.
- page 369 (1785)
- Progress of the Settlements South of French Broad. After the treaty of Dumplin, great facilities existed for occupying the country acquired under it, South of French Broad and Holston, and the stream of emigration was principally directed in that channel. From Henry’s Station at the mouth of the Dumplin, the emigrants crossed the river, settling along Boyd’s Creek Valley, where McGAUGHY’s, Newells and other stations were formed.
- page 483, (1788)
- Hostilities continues throughout the summer, and Miss ______McGAUGHY at Hickman’s Station and Hugh Webb, on the Kentucky trace, near Barren River, were killed by Indians.
- page 599 (1793)
- . . . advised them to remove to McGAUGHEY station
- page 710 (1799)
- . . . upon the great road, leading from Knoxville, the first capital of Tennessee, Newell’s and McGAUGHEY’s Stations may be seen at a distance of 5 miles from the former place
The McGoughs' of Alabama and Mississippi
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