John McGovern VC
CavanTempleport (Cavan)
Looking for relatives of John McGovern who recieved the Victoria Cross in 1859. John was born in 1825 in Bally McGovern, Templeport.
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The tithes for 1826 list a John Magauran in Balinagauran. John’s father perhaps?
Griffiths Valuation for 1857 lists a Bridget McGovern on plot 7 in Ballymagauran. Porbably a widow. So perhaps his mother?
No McGovern households in the townland by 1901:
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Cavan/Ballymagauran/Ballymagauran/
Wikipedia says he was from Tullyhaw, though I don’t see a townland of that name in the parish:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McGovern_(VC)
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Thank You so much.
John McGovern is my great great grandfather, he imigrated to Canada in the 1860's. We will be in Ireland in a couple of weeks where I plan on visiting Templeport to see where he was born. I did read one article tht said he was from Tullyhaw but our family records have him from Templeport.
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Templeport is a parish. That’s quite a big area. What you need is to know which townland within the parish he came from. So there is a townland of Ballymagauran (Balinagauran in 1826) that did have a Magauran household for part of the 1800s. So that’s one option, and since there doesn’t appear to be a townland of Tullyhaw it might be your only option. However ask in the local studies section at the library and you might get better advice:
http://www.cavanlibrary.ie/Default.aspx?StructureID_str=17
They might even have some references to your ancestor.
McGauran and McGovern are interchangeable. It’s the same surname.
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