Where does the surname Donoghoe come from?

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What you will need to do to learn if your Donoghoe surname originated in Ireland or was changed in Australia is find the first immigrant ancestor to Australia of your line. The way to do this is to begin with yourself and work back one generation at a time documenting one generation to the next with birth, death and marriage certificates. And any other record that will provide clues as to the names of your records such a obituaries, wills, funeral cards, bible records, tax records, letters and anything else that might be in your home or the home of your relatives.

Some useful links that will help you with records outside the home and with how your ancestor would have traveled to Australia are:

http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/find/guides/fa...nger_lists
http://naa.gov.au/collection/a-z/family-history.aspx
http://www.hotkey.net.au/~jwilliams4/migrate.htm

Also, don’t forget to consider that some Americans immigrated to Australia after the California gold rush…some of those could have been Irish.