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Morgan Surname Genealogy
William Morgan, bishop of Llandaff, made the first translation of the Bible into Welsh in 1588.
Henry Morgan was a notorious Welsh pirate on the Spanish Main in the Caribbean during the 17th century He came from the Morgans of Llanrhymney.
Henry Morgan from Fife in Scotland founded the first department store in Canada, Henry Morgan, in the 1860's.
John Pierpoint Morgan rom Hartford in Connecticut was the American financier whose House of Morgan dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation at the turn of the 20th century.
Cliff Morgan was a Welsh rugby footballer of the 1950's and later a TV rugby broadcaster.
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Morgan is the anglicized form of the
old Welsh name Morcant. Some believe that the name has Celtic
origins, from the Celtic goddess of beauty, Morrigan.
The surname traces its origin from the powerful Welsh family established around 1330 by Morgan ap Llewelyn who adopted Morgan as a surname. The Morgans of Tredegar date from this time and became prominent in the industrialization of south Wales in the 19th century. The county of Glamorgan in fact took its name from the Morgan princes of south Wales. Glamorgan accounted for 30 percent of the British Morgans in the 19th century. The Morgan name also spread to England, Scotland, and Ireland. Irish Morgans may have derived from the Gaelic O'Muireagain.
Morgan in America could also have come from the German Morgens, relating to the amount of land that could be ploughed in a morning.
The surname traces its origin from the powerful Welsh family established around 1330 by Morgan ap Llewelyn who adopted Morgan as a surname. The Morgans of Tredegar date from this time and became prominent in the industrialization of south Wales in the 19th century. The county of Glamorgan in fact took its name from the Morgan princes of south Wales. Glamorgan accounted for 30 percent of the British Morgans in the 19th century. The Morgan name also spread to England, Scotland, and Ireland. Irish Morgans may have derived from the Gaelic O'Muireagain.
Morgan in America could also have come from the German Morgens, relating to the amount of land that could be ploughed in a morning.
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Morgan Resources on
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- Morgan, A Welsh Name. History of the Morgan name.
- The Morgan Society. Search - the Morgan Society.
William Morgan, bishop of Llandaff, made the first translation of the Bible into Welsh in 1588.
Henry Morgan was a notorious Welsh pirate on the Spanish Main in the Caribbean during the 17th century He came from the Morgans of Llanrhymney.
Henry Morgan from Fife in Scotland founded the first department store in Canada, Henry Morgan, in the 1860's.
John Pierpoint Morgan rom Hartford in Connecticut was the American financier whose House of Morgan dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation at the turn of the 20th century.
Cliff Morgan was a Welsh rugby footballer of the 1950's and later a TV rugby broadcaster.
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- 150,000 in the UK (most numerous in Glamorgan)
- 88,000 in America (most numerous in Texas)
- 51,000 elsewhere (most numerous in Australia)