Crosscurrents

Tracking Nugent Heritage

By: Charles Giuliano - Sep 09, 2015

Crosscurrents

Nugents of Ireland
Not Celtic but Norman
Crossed to England
Not long after 1066
From the village
Nogent in France
First noted 930 AD
Hence DeNogent
Chavalier Gilbert DeNogent
Left for Ireland
Some hundred years on
By 1486 Baron Devlin
Then Earl of Westmeath in 1621
Took up the Irish cause
Famous battles
Christopher Nugent at Limerick, 1619
Soldiers with James II in Scotland 1715
Reprisals for backing Stuarts
Land confiscated
Some returned to France
Then the troubles
British rule and famine
Fought the Black and Tans
Dermot (Jeremiah) Nugent and Margaret Power
Raised five
Thomas (b. 1842), Dermot (B. 1844), Margaret (B. 1846), Mary (B. 1846)
The youngest Patrick (B. 1850)
My great grandfather  
Then twenty
Seeking a better life
Boarded the steamer Samaria
May 3, 1871
Booked steerage to Boston
East Boston tenement
Sweetheart Mary Donovan
Left April 23, 1872 aboard Siberia
After three years of courting
She demanded his intentions
Honorable Mary he said Honorable
But proved not to be
Raising thirteen in Rockport
Dead at 50
Blood poisoning
From treating infected horse
Having spread his seed
Far and wide
America where the blarney
Thrives with Norman woes