Caroline COEN
1817-1879
Born: Dearborn, Indiana
Died: Daviess, Missouri
Irish surname search<br><br>Coyne, Kilcoyne, Kyne, Coen<br> The remarkable extent to which this name and its synonyms appertain to the province of Connacht, and particularly to the counties of Galway and Mayo, is illustrated by the following birth statistics: Form of Total Births In In In In Name Registered in Connacht Leinster Munster Ulster one year Coyne 54 39 13 1 1 Kyne 27 27 0 0 0 Coen 27 21 1 2 3 Kilcoyne 15 15 0 0 0 The majority of the 14 born in Leinster were probably of Connacht families settled in the metropolitan area of Dublin. The first three names given above are variant anglicized forms of the Irish O Cadhain, a minor sept originating near Partry, Co. Mayo. Coen (and especially the form Cohen) appears Jewish, but when met in Ireland it is almost always a true Irish name; it may, however, often be an anglicized form of O Comhdhain (also of north Connacht) and not of O Cadhain. There is another synonym of Coyne which is found around Castlebar, viz. Barnacle, a surname which was adopted because the Irish word cadhan means wild goose. Kilcoyne is definitely found in the birth registrations as an alias of Coyne, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that Coyne is an alias of Kilcoyne. Kilcoyne, however, as a rule is not the same name in Irish as Coyne and Kyne, but comes from Mac Giolla Chaoine, I.e. son of a follower of St. Caoin. Hardiman states that the Quins, one of the assimilated families of Galway City, are in fact Coynes whose name was altered to Quin. The 15 births recorded for Kilcoyne as above were all in Counties Mayo and Sligo. The Coens were nearly all in Galway and Roscommon. The name is more closely associated with literary than with political or other activities; apart from the distinguished Jesuit, Father Coyne of our own day, Joseph Sterling Coyne (1803-1868), was a very well known playwright and satirist and was one of the founders of the English Punch; Rev. Joseph Coyne, P.P (1839-1891), was also an author of repute and contributor to the Nation, as was John Coen (b. circa 1820).<br><br>Clan History...<br>The surname Coen in Ireland is rarely of Jewish origin but derives from the ancient Irish surname 'Ó Comhdhain -descendant of Comhghan' the name of a branch of the 'Ui Fiachrach' (descendants of Fiachra, son of Eochaid Muighmheadhoin, King of Ireland in the 4th century) anciently seated in the parish of Dunfeeny, County Sligo but by the 16th century more numerous in Galway and Roscommon. The name is still well known in Connacht, where it is usually anglicised to Coen. Other anglicised versions of this name include 'Cowen', 'Coyne', 'Cohan', 'Coen' to name but a few.
<p>I've been told all my life that I had indian ancestry (first Shoshone, then Cherokee). Caroline was always supposedly that indian link. Now i find she was from Indiana!</p><p> Is this how she became known as the "Indian?"</p><p> </p><p>Amusing...but, one look at her descendants in my line shows clear Native American features, no doubt. So where did the Indian bloodline come from?</p><p> </p><p>Linda Nicola</p><p>2010 Virginia </p>