Gallen Family

This is the only James Gallen birth/baptism record (including surname variants) 1835 + - 5 years from www.rootsireland.ie/:

Name:James GallonDate of Birth:
Date of Baptism:07-Aug-1831Address:
Parish/District:KILLANUMMERY ROMAN CATHOLICGender:MaleCountyCo. Leitrim
Denomination:Roman Catholic
Father:Patrick GallonMother:Anne Brenan

Second daughter was often named after father's mother (Irish naming pattern)

Col

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There are no Donegal GallEns in the Tithe Applotments but there is 1 Gallon:

Peter Gallon Townland Friars Rush Parish & County Donegal 1825 (free at http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/)

The earliest Irish Census with Donegal records is 1851 but none of either name there either

Griffiths Valuation (free at http://www.askaboutireland.ie/) has 3 Gallens in Donegal in 1857: Alexander in Taughboyne, Owen in Clonleigh & George in Stranorlar

rootsireland.ie/ does have 247 Gallen Donegal marriages 1791 to 1919; 105 are from Killygordon R C Parish & another 100 from Killygordon Civil Parish

There are also 230 Gallen Donegal burial records with 178 from Killygordon Civil Parish (From 1864)

Col

 

 

Col has done a great job pointing you to the general area where most Gallens lived in Donegal. The civil parish would be Donaghmore and the RC parish is Killygordon.

Here is a link to the 1857 Griffiths Valuation head of household listing for Donaghmore parish https://www.failteromhat.com/griffiths/donegal/donaghmore.htm  You can see that the surveyor showed Gallan as the spelling.

There is a book written about five years ago by Tom Gallen called Donegal Generations https://www.amazon.com/Donegal-Generations-Tom-Gallen/dp/1482723972   His Gallen ancestor came over earlier than your great-grandfather and landed in Philadelphia and eventually moved out to the suburbs, I think where Upper Darby is now. 

Roger McDonnell