GOING
                          by Robert Going
                          Mon Sep 09 1991
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The name Going as in my tree is rather interesting. It is probably a
variation of the Irish Gowan and we always claimed to be Irish, but
in fact we have been somewhat cosmopolitan, as it appears that my
ancestral GOINGS were floating around France at the time of the
Crusades and had some estates there. They later teamed up with the
Hugeounots and were on the wrong side of that (please disregard
spelling here, by the way) and got kicked out of France with the
revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Some went to Holland, others to
England, and my guys went back to Ireland the adventuresome way,
being one of the few native Irish families to side with Cromwell.
After rapining and pillaging the Irish countryside, they were
rewarded with lands and offices, although a few managed to get
assasinated along the way. Some became Quakers, but my ancestor,
James Going, came over here in 1848 and married a nice Catholic girl
and became Catholic himself and nobody ever mentioned Cromwell in my
family again (let alone Protestant) until I started snooping around
and got a big laugh, 'cause no one was more Irish Catholic than the
Goings. My earliest direct ancestor (ÿûbased on a couple of educated
guesses) was also named Robert Going and appeared in the court
records for swindling a sheep from a widow around 1700. I believe he
was also a lawyer. When my sister went to Ireland on her honeymoon
about twelve years ago there was only one Going left in Ireland, and
she had tea with him. In any event, we have been kicked out of a lot
of places, but have managed to stay in Amsterdam, NY for nearly 150
years, although God knows they've tried!

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