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Hello Alison!
Unfortunately cannot be the same James O'Gorman.
Mine was born in Co. Wexford!
He was out in South Africa but we think he may have bred horses for the army and/or sold fruit, unlikely he was himself involved in military action...
Afterwards, he returned to Ireland, married and raised a family and died here.
Best of luck finding info on your James!
Caroline

Hello Rich!
Lovely to hear from you.
Can you send me a private message with your email address so I can get in touch? I have an ancestry family tree with info on that I can invite you to and can also share info by email if you'd like. Can't wait to hear more about the Hogans who went overseas!
All the best,
Caroline

Hello Caroline,
My name is Rich Hogan and Bridget Hogan was my 2nd great aunt. Sorry this took 10 year but I just recently came across information revealing that my GG grandfather Edward D. Hogan and his wife Catherine Gahan were from this area of County Wexford and that their first 6 children were either born in Tomatee or Newtownbarry (Bunclody).  They all eventually emigrated to Quebec, Canada,  except for Bridget for some reason.  Bridget's brother, Dennis J. Hogan then left Canada eventually settling in St. Louis, Missouri USA, which is where I am located. 
I would be extremely interested in and very appreciative for any information you may have regarding the Hogan's including of course any photo's you may have. Sorry it only took me 10 years to contact you.  Hope to hear from you.
Rich

Thanks so much, maddys52.
I'll check out Trove and see if can find him under a combination!
Caroline

Hello!

Hoping some of you might be able to help and would really appreciate it!

Loughlin (O')Keeffe was born in Knocknadereen/Knockadeen near Paulstown in Co. Kilkenny, Ireland on 10th December 1826 to John and Anne.

Apparently, he and two neighbours/cousins called O'Loughlin went out to mine for gold in Bendigo, Australia in the late 1840's. One of these O'Loughlins stayed on and then went to Ballarat where he made his fortune and his legacy would fund the O'Loughlin Memorial Church in Kilkenny.

Would LOVE to find out more about Loughlin himself.

I *might* have found his arrival back to UK as it was then in April 1861 - passage from Victoria to Liverpool - passenger list for the Donald McKay leaving from Victoria to Liverpool mentions a Lott Keeffe, aged 30 which would be in and around the right age. If was him, he would have gotten a boat back then to Ireland from there.

As you can see above, there are so many different names, it's hard to know which might be the right person.
Loughlin/Laughlin/Lochy//Lachy/Lott
Keefe/Keeffe/O'Keefe/O'Keeffe

If there was a prominent photographer there at the time who miners might have taken photos to send back home, there might be a chance he'd be among them. Or a newspaper during that time (going by his age, between 1840s and 1860's) which might have an archive I can look through? Would there have been census returns taken in Bendigo around these times?

What I know for sure is that he married Ann Somers/Summers and they settled in Ballywilliam near New Ross in Co. Wexford. It's possible Loughlin met relatives of Ann's while he was mining for gold - maybe even met her there - and could have even married over there. Ann was only about 23 (and Loughlin about 38) when they had Margaret (1864) and went on to have Annie (1865), Mary (1866), Johanna (1868), Catherine (1869). On the 25th October 1870, Ann went into premature labour of a child which would die after 10 minutes. They named her Catherine (although the child born in 1869 had not died). Ann herself died some hours later, aged just 29 years old.

If you can help over in Australia, I'd really appreciate it!
All the very best,
Caroline

Hello Kon! Do get in touch - I'd prefer not to put contact details here on a post as will be spammed! - but make two more replies on this forum and we can private message each other. Looking forward to speaking to you in the near future. Caroline