Visiting Ireland next summer and want to visit ancestral town
I am looking to find out if my great grandparents came from Cluin. Their names were David Goggin and Bridget Newman. They were born in the mid 1840s. I have seen different birth dates for them on the censuses and death certificates and I don't know which are correct. Before leaving Ireland they had two children, Michael born about 1870 and Mary born about 1872. They left either in 1873 or 1874. They moved to the Keweenaw Peninsula of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan where David was a copper miner. Later they moved to Ishpeming & then Republic in Marquette County in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, where David mined for iron ore. The family remained there, but in about 1883, David left Michigan. I don't know where he was between 1883 and 1900 when he died. He died in Sept 1900 in Rossland, British Columbia, Canada mining gold. He was 55 according to his death certificate. There is one record where my gr grandmother says that her maiden name was Sullivan. All others she lists her maiden name as Newman. I don't know if she was married twice, and Sullivan was her married name, or if Newman was her married name and Sullivan was her maiden name. I do know that they had a next door neigbor that could be a relative, named Andrew Sullivan with his wife Mary. His age would indicate a possible brother or cousin. I do not know the middle names of my gr grandparents. I do not know my gr grandfather's, parent's names. On my gr grandmother's death certificate, her parents are listed as Philip Newman and Julia Green, both with birthplaces listed as Ireland. I don't know how accurate the information given was, as it does not say who furnished the information. I don't know if they came from Cluin or not, but from much research it seems like it is likely due to the fact that so many of the Irish miners from the UP of Michigan came from the area. Any help would be greatly appreciated.