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A Look At The Moran Family as we know it
It is unfortunate that little is known of the early Moran Family. In an attempt to preserve the little that is known, the writer has attempted to put together a few facts that have been gleaned by others. Many years ago the Arbuckle’s family in Kentucky did some research on Genealogy. The notes were later passed on to Hugh Moran whose window gave them to E. Harold Moran of Webster Grove, Missouri. She in turn, passed them on to Miss Nellie Robnett who is living today in St. Louis, Missouri. Later Mrs. Pearl Moran Shackelford of Kansas City, Missouri did some research on the four marriages of her grandfather, Isaac Newton Moran. The writer is indebted to her for some information contained in her Genealogy.
It is believed that the original name, Moran was French Morand, which later was changed In spelling to Moran. In the Compendium Of American Genealogy First Families of America. It is noted that some Canadian Moran’s (Morand’s) kept the French name and Married French women after they came to the United States. The earliest entry is Jacques (Morand) Moran (born 1661) son of Antoine of Tours, France and who came to Quebec, Canada, 1675. He married Jacquette Audet in 1684. It's believed that Louis Moran, with whom this history begins, was a relative of Jacques who settled in Canada.
Louis Moran was born in France and later moved to Tipperary, Ireland. Apparently he was a Huguenot refugee. He married Nellie Coffey, an Irish woman. Their son Nicholas Moran was born in Tipperary, Ireland in 1732. He immigrated to America and settled in Albemarl County, Virginia. There he married Elizabeth Cleveland, whose father’s original name had been Cromwell changing it to Cleveland for a money remuneration. Nicholas and his wife Elizabeth had three children, two sons and one daughter. John Cleveland (Born January 1, 1763) married Elizabeth Barnett, daughter of Mary and James Barnett and a sister of Col. James Barnett of Continental Army. John Cleveland Moran, with the Barnett family, emigrated from Albemarl County, Virginia to Madison County, Kentucky in the spring of 1791 and settled on Silver Creek, eight miles south of Richmond, Kentucky. They were granted several hundred acres of land. Some of the descendants were still residing here in 1900. John Cleveland Moran died on the night of August 20, 1835. His wife, Elizabeth, died the same night and they buried then side by side in the Barnett burying grounds on Silver Creek, Madison County, Kentucky.
John Cleveland Moran had eight children:
1. William married Nancy Bowling (Born April 6, 1802 Died June 21,1842). Their sons were Daniel, Sloan, Oliver, James and Barnett Coffey.
(2)Mary Moran (Born Feb.19, 1792-Died April 7, 1855) married Elisha Vaughn of Lincoln County, Kentucky.
(3)Robert Newton Moran (Born August 31, 1793 – Died Oct. 27, 1858) married Elizabeth Anderson (Born June 6, 1799 – Died May 30, 1831) Elizabeth Anderson was the daughter of James (Born Dec. 13, 1757 – Died May 30, 1831) and Hannah Anderson (Born April 29, 1767 – Died Oct 5, 1836). Robert Newton Moran had two children, James, who married Rebecca Newton and Ann Maria who married Denny. They had one child, Elizabeth. She married Thompson Burnham. They had one daughter, Marion.
(4)Nathan Moran (Born Feb. 10, 1803 – Died Feb 11, 1874) married Mary Anderson of Georgia (Born April 7, 1821 – Died Nov. 7, 1877). They left one son, Hugh Anderson (Born August 21, 1849 – Died April 30, 1886) who married Jennie G. Breck of Richmond, Kentucky, daughter of R.L. Breck.
(5)Franklin Moran married Mandy Estill, daughter of Sam Estill. They one daughter who married a Mr. Walker of Madison County, Kentucky. They had one daughter, Florence.
(6)Barnett Coffey Moran(Born July 23, 1790 – July 22,1852)
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