County Mayo

Sean:

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I looked at the death record for Thomas and it appears he lived in Killeen which is likely a local place name in Kilvine civil parish. The RC parish is Ballindine but records for that parish 

I looked at the Tithe listings and the Griffiths Valuation head of household listings from 1855 but did not see a Thomas Aughavan record. I did see a Patrick Aghavane record in Crumlin townland in Kilvine civil parish and possibly he was a brother to Thomas.

I went thru the civil marriage records from 1864-1880 and found about six Aughavin/Aughavan marriages. Most showed Patrick as the father but I did find one for a Mary Aughavan in 1879where the father was Thomas. Possibly this was the Thomas who died in 1881

https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/marriage_returns/marriages_1879/11060/8046380.pdf

Any additional family information?

Roger McDonnell

Sean:

I located a Mary Aughavane (age 75) living in Crumlin townland Kilvine civil parish.Likely she was the widow of Patrick Aughavan. 

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Mayo/Kilvine/Crumlin/1588009/

Roger

Kilveen/Kilvine (Cill Mhiáin in Irish) is both a civil parish and a Catholic parish, located just to the southeast of the Catholic parish of Kilcolman (where the town of Claremorris is located), although the civil and Catholic parishes of Kilveen have somewhat different boundaries.

The Catholic parish records for Kilveen which are available online are very scarce (just some marriages in the 1820's), and they are actually contained in a compilation of Archdiocesan records, which may indicate that there was not yet a church building in Kilveen.  However, you might want to check the records for Kilcolman (Claremorris), which go back to the 1830's for both baptisms and marriages, both because it is nearby and because of something else I found (see below).  You can find them at this link:  https://registers.nli.ie/parishes/1056

Both parishes (Kilveen and Kilcolman) are located in the Barony of Clanmorris, which is another version of the name Claremorris (Clann Mhuiris in Irish), so that may be why your family remembered that name.  The town of Claremorris is also the nearest large town.  Baronies have no real function anymore, and are just used in some records out of historical interest.

You can find more info about Kilveen at this link:  https://www.townlands.ie/mayo/kilvine1/

And you can find more info about the townland of Crumlin (Cromghlinn in Irish) at this link:   https://www.townlands.ie/mayo/clanmorris/kilvine/kilvine/crumlin/

That link has further links to things like census records, and one of those links shows that there were still Aughavane’s living in Crumlin at the time of the 1901 census, a Margaret Aughavane, age 75, living with her daughter, Mary, age 38, and her grandson, Michael, age 19.  Here’s a direct link to that census record:  http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Mayo/Kilvine/Crumlin/1…

You can also see an aerial image of Crumlin on Google Earth by searching Crumlin, County Mayo, Ireland.

I also found a record of a Michael Aughavane listed in Griffith's Valuation as living in Bulcaun townland in the parish of Kilconly in County Galway,  That townland is not very far from Kilveen to the south, and the family might well be related to yours.  Here's a link to the info:  http://places.galwaylibrary.ie/people/9188

Aughavane seems to be an uncommon name, and is not even found in MacLysaght's Surnames of Ireland, but I have a theory about its origin.  I Googled it and found this link, showing 1846 marriages in Claremorris:  http://www.irelandgenweb.com/irlmay/records/ClaremorrisMarriages1846-18…;

You'll see an entry there for "Peter Gughavane (or Aughavane) (?)", married in Claremorris on 27 January 1846, and one of the witnesses was a "Patt Aughavan"   I went back to look at the orginal parish register entry, and whoever transcrbed it for this list made a mistake, because the surname is pretty clearly Aughavane.  Still, the version with a "g" gave me an idea as to its possible origin.  There is an Irish surname originating in north Connacht, Ó Gáibhtheacháin, which was anglicized in several ways, such as Gavaghan, Gaughan, and Gavan (the Gaughan surname also exists in Ulster, but is based on a different Irish name).  MacLysaght says that the Gavaghan form was peculiar to Mayo and Roscommon (Kilvine borders Roscommon, as well as Galway).  The Irish surname, as pronounced, may have been somewhat hard for a non-Irish speaker to hear correctly, which is one reason that the different anglicized forms arose.  Your Aughavane form may have been another variant, perhaps found only in your extended family.   In any case, the record may indicate that people in your family went to church in Claremorris, which was not all that far away.  However, it could also just indicate that Claremorris was the bride's parish, since weddings were usually performed in the bride's home parish.

Interestingly, there's another marriage on that list, on March 1st, which I think shows the wedding of an elder sister of my great-great-grandfather, whose family also lived in that parish.