옥천 전씨(沃川 全氏) — A Jeon clan seated at Okcheon, North Chungcheong, said to take as founder Jeon Yu, enfeoffed as Lord of Gwanseong under King Chungsuk of Goryeo.
A Jeon clan seated at Okcheon, North Chungcheong, said to take as founder Jeon Yu, enfeoffed as Lord of Gwanseong under King Chungsuk of Goryeo. In the 2015 Census the 옥천 전씨 clan numbered about 47,681 people, one of Korea's major surnames and clans. Even among people surnamed 전, a different clan seat (bon-gwan, 옥천) means a different lineage. New to these terms? See the bon-gwan, pa & hangnyeol guide.
The Okcheon Jeon has its seat at Okcheon (old Gwanseong) in North Chungcheong, and its founder is Jeon Yu. Its relation to the original ancestors Jeon Seop and Jeon I-gap and to the Jeongseon Jeon is explained differently by different sources.
Jeonseo-gong-pa, Bongsang-daebu-gong-pa, Panseo-gong-pa
The Jeonseo-gong branch descends from Jeon Gwang-un, who served as Minister of Personnel (Ijo Jeonseo), and is said to be one of the three branches from Jeon Yu's three sons.
Members include Hyugye Jeon Hui-cheol, Yeongseo Jeon Myeong-ryong (Mosan line), Gosan Jeon Seol (Hakchon line) and Yaong Jeon Eung-bang. Seats include Yeongju, Bonghwa, Geumsan and Yeongdong.
Bangsan Seowon in Yeongju enshrines Jeon Hui-cheol, Jeon Ik-hui and Jeon Myeong-ryong.
The Bongsang-daebu-gong branch descends from Jeon In-suk and is said to be found mainly in the seat of Okcheon. Further figures and seats could not be sufficiently confirmed.
The Panseo-gong branch descends from Jeon Suk (Lord of Hugwanseong; Vice-Director of the Academy and minister), son of Jeon Yu. His tomb area is said to be at Jeokha-ri, Dongi-myeon, Okcheon.
Members include Songjeong Jeon Paeng-ryeong, Saseo Jeon Sik and Gyucheon Jeon Geuk-hang (Nodong line), with seats at Sangju, Okcheon and Geumsan.
Mokdam Seowon in Okcheon enshrines Jeon Yu, Jeon Paeng-ryeong and Jeon Sik, and Okdong Seowon in Sangju enshrines Jeon Sik.
Branch divisions vary by lineage and jokbo; confirm your own branch in your family's records.
전유(clan founder), 전희철(withdrew after Danjong's deposition), 전팽령(upright official), 전식(Imjin War righteous army, Inspector-General), 전명룡(Neo-Confucian scholar and writer), 전극항(died in the Manchu War), 전승업(Chilbaeguichong)
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The Okcheon Jeon (沃川 全氏) has its seat at Okcheon in North Chungcheong and is also called the Gwanseong or Gwansan Jeon after Okcheon's old names. The original ancestor is Jeon Seop, a founding meritorious subject of Baekje, and the founder is Jeon Yu, enfeoffed as Lord of Gwanseong under King Chungsuk of Goryeo. Records call him both Jeon Seop's 27th-generation descendant and Jeon I-gap's 12th-generation descendant, apparently from different counting. Namuwiki says the clan reveres Jeon Hak-jun, a Dongjeong official of Goryeo, as founder and Jeon Yu as mid-founder, so sources differ.
The Chungcheong Times and others explain that the Cheonan, Okcheon, Yonggung, Naju and Gyeongju Jeon branched from the Jeongseon Jeon. Namuwiki, on the other hand, notes a theory of branching from Jeongseon based on an epitaph stone found in the early 1900s but judges it unlikely to be genuine, and points out that Okcheon is recorded as a native clan seat, suggesting a local gentry family from early Goryeo. Which is right was not settled; check the genealogy and clan records.
The descendants are said to have split into the Jeonseo-gong, Bongsang Daebu-gong and Panseo-gong branches from Jeon Yu's three sons, with sub-lines named after their seats. See the branch descriptions below.
Known figures include Jeon Hui-cheol, who withdrew to Yeongju and kept mourning after Danjong's deposition; the upright official Jeon Paeng-ryeong; Jeon Sik, a disciple of Ryu Seong-ryong who raised a righteous army; Jeon Myeong-ryong, known for learning and prose; Jeon Geuk-hang, who died in the Manchu War; and Jeon Seung-eop, who raised volunteers with Jo Heon. The clan produced 7 civil and 20 military examination graduates in Joseon. Modern figures include Jeon Geon-ha (former Cheongju city council chair) and Jeon An-won (former Yuseong district council chair and calligrapher).
Mokdam Seowon in Dongi-myeon, Okcheon, enshrines Jeon Yu, Jeon Paeng-ryeong and Jeon Sik; Geumam-ri has a commemorative stele, Yangsinjeong, Hyojajeong and Hocheonjeong, and Haksan-ri has Sangdeoksa and Inbong Jeongsa. Bangsan Seowon in Isan-myeon, Yeongju, enshrines Jeon Hui-cheol, Jeon Ik-hui and Jeon Myeong-ryong; Yeongju has Chilseongnu and Hyugye Jaesa for Jeon Hui-cheol, and Yeomsujae in Dalseong County, Daegu, honors Jeon Yu-jang. The Panseo-gong founder Jeon Suk's tomb area is said to be at Jeokha-ri, Dongi-myeon. Jeon Sik's spirit-path stele (1700) was designated North Gyeongsang Tangible Cultural Heritage in 2009.
Clan villages are said to centre on Geumam-ri, Haksan-ri and Guil-ri in Okcheon and extend to Daejeon, Yeongdong and Jincheon in North Chungcheong, Geumsan in South Chungcheong, and Bonghwa, Sangju and Yeongju in North Gyeongsang. Bangchuk-ri, Nam-myeon, Sejong (formerly Yeongi County) was settled in the late 1600s by Jeon Se-seung, and memorial gates (designated Sejong Local Heritage No. 28 in 2014) honored the wives of Jeon O-bok and Jeon O-ryun, awarded in 1772. Yogwang-ri, Chubu-myeon, Geumsan, is a village of descendants of the settling ancestor Jeon Ji-yeong (1499-1579); 304 Okcheon Jeon lived in Geumsan in 2015. Before 1945 there were also members in North Korea, in Yeonbaek and Yonggang.
The clan numbered 37,380 in 1985, 43,920 in 2000 and 47,681 in 2015. In 2015 Daejeon had the most with 5,304, followed by North Gyeongsang (3,409) and North Chungcheong (3,402).
An official association site, contacts and generation names could not be confirmed. Check your branch and generation name against your genealogy and clan.
The 옥천 전씨 clan association can be found in the Korean E-Jokbo Library clan-association directory.
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