Donna – Page 7 – Gough Family Genealogy

February 14, 2021March 7, 2021

Making a historical family map (part 1)

You may have noticed the map of Philadelphia on John Gough and Susan McCloskey’s family history page. Here it is:

Nonnater’s Court, off McIlleary Street, 1860 Philadelphia

This was a fun map to make because it incorporated three different maps, one modern image (the backdrop map) and two historical maps that were available online.

The first step in making any historical map showing where your ancestors lived starts with the obvious one of figuring out where exactly they resided at a given time.

February 7, 2021

Try this online handwriting quiz!

This website quiz was a fun way to learn the unusual ways certain letters could be spelled in England and colonial America back in the 18th century and earlier. Some of the letters are incredibly hard to remember!

online handwriting match game — Try this matching game from Reed on colonial American handwriting!

August 28, 2020

Gough family nearly complete

The Pennsylvania half of our Gough family is now pretty much complete on this website. We’ve added Peter Gough and wife Letitia McNulty/Nulty and their six children (and descendants to one additional generation), as well as John McGeehan and wife Mary and their nine children (we descend through son Hugh McGeehan and his wife, Mary Kiernan).

In addition, we’ve added the McCloskey family, Michael McCloskey and wife Mary Mullen, from County Derry, whose daughter Susan married John J. Gough Sr. in 1859, probably in Philadelphia. We’re sure there are more children than the ones we know about but hope someone will spot this website and help us fill in more blanks.

And finally we’ve built a Kiernan family for Hugh McGeehan’s wife, Mary. We believe they were originally from County Longford.

Next up, the Massachusetts side and then on to the Rowland in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and North Carolina.