Morgans (General)

by rookancestrybest , United Kingdom, Thursday, November 05, 2009, 20:39 (5576 days ago) @ Nick Morgan

I have never managed to find how the Morgans were related but I think my Morgans were of an earlier generation. The problem is that researching Morgan in that part of Britain is almost as difficult as Smith and Brown due to the sheer numbers involved!!! My mother always said that there were people called Morgan in the family, one of whom she said had an M.A. from Oxford. She said it was Henry. She also used to speak of Fanny Morgan. Slowhands once found some info. on the latter but I could find no links with my own family apart from them living close by. However, I have found a scrap of paper in the last three and a half years with Thomas Morgan's name written on it, in copperplate handwriting with the date Sept. 8th [or 6th?]1854 and Culham College, Oxon. after it (there is some geometry on the back of it in the same handwriting). Culham College was a teacher training college then and seems to be an institute for religious studies now.
This does not necessarily rule out your Morgans. I have found that the Forest of Dean was a very small close community and it is possible that people are related in more complex ways e.g. my great-great grandmother married her stepfather's brother and it is also possible that the Addams family married into the Rooke family in two different generations too.