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ROHAN v. of RUANE- Irish anglicized form of Gaelic ó Ruadhán-Descendant of Ruadhán: a personal name from a dim. "ruadh" red.Variations: O' Ruane, O' Rowane, (O') Roan, Ro(u)ane, Rowan, Rohan, Rouan, Raun, Roon. This information is from: Hanks, P. & Hodges, F. (1988). Dictionary of surnames. Oxford, N.Y.: Oxford University Press.
Other variations include: Ua Ruadhain, Ua Ruadhachain, Ua Robhachain; the first of which means "descendant," (literally, grandson) of Ruadhan, i.e., "the Red".
Bibliographic Resources and References for the ROAN Surname:
Pat Traynor contributed the following information on the ROAN surname:
There is a ROUGHAN pedigree in "Irish Pedigrees" by O'Hart,
vol.1 page 260.
It is a branch off the O'DEA pedigree: (rogha, Ir., "a choice")
Irish name was O'ROGHAIN and anglicized as Rowhan, Roan, and Roughan.
There are 17 names in the pedigree. The last one was Dermod, the
first to use
O'Roughan as a surname. Probably in the 10th-11th century.
I don't have a county of origin for them but the O'Deas came from
counties
Cork, Tipperary, and Clare.
Her Majesty's Treasury (1871). The annals of loch cé : A chronicle of Irish affairs from A.D. 1014 to A.D. 1590, Vols.I & II (Wm. M. Hennessy, Trans.). London, Longman & Co. (see what this book has to say about the ROANS, ROWANS, ROUGHANS, etc.)
MacLsyaght, Edward (1991). Irish families: Their names, arms and origins.(4th Ed.). Kill Lane, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland:Irish Academic Press.
MacLsyaght, Edward. (1982). More irish families.Kill Lane, Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland:Irish Academic Press.
MacLsyaght, Edward. (I do not have a publisher or year). The surnames of ireland.
O'Hart, John (1892).Irish pedigrees; or, The origin and stem of the Irish nation, (5th Ed.). Dublin, Ireland: J. Duffy and Company; New York, New York: Benziger Brothers.
Woulfe, Patrick. (1992). Irish names and surnames (Special Revised Edition), Kansas City, Missouri, USA: Irish Genealogical foundation.
My gggrandfather immigrated to the United States from Ireland during (or just prior to) the tragic Great Famine. Like most Catholic Irish poor, he made his way along the east coast laboring on public work projects as a means of raising his family. Working the railroads, he took his wife and two of their five children with him to St. Louis, Missouri in 1880. There, he and his family settled and thrived until the jarring impact of the second World War.
This summer marks 150 years since the unholy onslaught of The Great Famine which ravaged Ireland decimating her children and laying entire clans to rest for evermore.
The ROAN Clan has suffered the effects of this great castastrophe with our brothers and sisters spread all over the world from Canada to the United States and down to Australia. Hopefully, with your help, we can reconnect this family someday.
ROAN Surname Queries
Please, if you make a connection, e-mail meso that I can publish your results on this page!
I am looking for any information on my gggrandfather Bernard RO(H)AN b. appox. 1826 in Ireland and his wife Elizabeth (RYAN) RO(H)AN b. approx.1828-1830 in Ireland. Bernard and Elizabeth RO(H)AN had a son (James P. RO(H)AN b. 1865 in New Jersey) and a daughter (Catherine RO(H)AN b. 1871 in New York). The family emigrated to St. Louis, Missouri, USA in 1800. Bernard died in 1893 and Elizabeth followed in 1903. In the 1900 census of St. Louis, Elizabeth claimed to have 5 children still living. Does anyone have information on:
(1) Location in Ireland of Bernard RO(H)AN and/or Elizabeth (RYAN) RO(H)AN?
(2) The names and info of Bernard and Elizabeth RO(H)AN's other children?
Bernard RO(H)AN married Elizabeth (RYAN) RO(H)AN (?) and had supposedly 5 children. The two that I know of are:
(1) Catherine RO(H)AN who married Lawrence O'NEIL (?) and had 3 children:
(1) Lawrence b. 1890
(2) Thomas b. 1892
(3) James b. 1896
(2) James P. RO(H)AN married Amelia LOHMAN in 1889 and had 11 children:
(1) James Anthony Sr. b. 1890
(2) Joseph b. 1892
(3) Francis b. 1895
(4) Thomas b. 1898
(5) Vincint b. 1901
(6) John b. 1904
(7) Laurence b. 1905
(8) Philip b. 1908
(9) Florence b. 1910
(10) Bernard b. 1912
(11) John b. 1912 (John and Bernard were twins)
James Anthony Sr. married Anna GRACE and had two children:
(1) Grace ROAN b. 1922
(2) James Anthony ROAN Jr. b. 1924
James Anthony ROAN Jr. married Colma Mae (SCHAEFFER) in 1945 and had two children:
(1) Sally Ann ROAN b. 1949
(2) James Michael ROAN Sr. b. 1951-
James Michael ROAN Sr. married Kelly Lyn BLACK in 1988 and had 2 children:
(1) Kamee Michelle ROAN b. 1989
(2) James Michael ROAN Jr. b. 1990
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Sincerely, James Michael Roan Sr.
