Hi,
I'm a Monaghan and have reached a brick wall - again - with my ancestral research. I've had pretty good success researching my mom's ancestors but my dad's are another story. It took me 3 years to find the given name of my great great grandmother's first husband. Anyway I finally found their marriage record at the Maryland State Archives. We knew he was a Monaghan, but that was all but at least now we have his first name. We know nothing at all about him, where in Ireland he came from or how he died (though I suspect he died during the American Civil War).
So, my great great grandfather was Daniel G. Monaghan, born in Ireland (don't know where) about 1841. I don't know when he emigrated to the United States, but he married Elizabeth McLaughlin on 12 Dec 1859 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Elizabeth McLaughlin was the daughter of Joseph McLaughlin (b. 1810 Ireland; d. 1860 Baltimore, Maryland) and Rebecca Cruse (b. 1822 Maryland; d. 1895 Baltimore, Maryland). Elizabeth was born about 1841 in Baltimore, Maryland. Daniel and Elizabeth had one son, Charles Patrick Monaghan, born 14 Jan 1862 in Baltimore, Maryland. Daniel is out of the picture by 1864, presumably dead, and Elizabeth remarries to Henry Clay Fisher on 28 Aug 1865 -- no issue.
Charles Patrick Monaghan (1862-1922) married Maria Louisa Joseph Bryan (b. 1865 QA Co., MD; d. 1957 Baltimore, MD) on 27 Dec 1886 in Queenstown, Queen Anne's County, Maryland at St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church. They had Joseph Daniel Monaghan (1897 Baltimore, MD; 1964 Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA) and Mary Bryan Monaghan (1906 Baltimore, MD; 1966 Parsippany, New Jersey, USA).
Thus far I have found only one passenger list for the port of Baltimore showing a Daniel Monaghan (any spelling) -- assuming that he entered the USA via Baltimore. Anyway, a Daniel Monaghan arrived in Baltimore aboard the ship Alexander on 29 Aug 1853 at the age of 12. He was traveling with the following people: Patrick Monaghan age 49 [b. abt 1804], Margaret age 19 [b. abt. 1853], James age 14 [b. abt. 1839]. It looks like Patrick was traveling with his children, no wife. I have no proof that the Daniel Monaghan traveling in this group is my Daniel.
My brother had his DNA tested and we are of the Y-DNA haplogroup R-M269. If there are any other Monaghans out there in Ireland whose family history includes a Daniel Monaghan that emigrated to the USA before 1859 and/or whose Y-DNA haplogroup is R-MS69, please let me know.
Thanks,
Cathy Monaghan
Rahway, New Jersey, USA