Denis/Donat "Dunny" White

[LylaQuinn]

Hello,

I am researching my great grandfather Donat White (1885-1976)

He fought in WWI and was in the Hurling Championships 1907 which his team won (Scariff)

He married Winifred Sheedy in 1913 and had my grandmother (Mary-Ellen) and my great Aunt Margaret, who I was fortunate enough to have met.  I am not sure if they had any more children.

I would love to obtain any other information on either Donat or any of the family.  I would especially like to see a photograph.

It looks like Donat was actually born with the christian name Denis.  I believe he changed his name for political reasons but have no evidence of this.

Can anyone help?  Any scraps of information, no matter how small, would be gratefully recieved.

Many thanks

L

[Nailer1]

Could I suggest that Donat  should  probably be read as Donal ( Irish translation of Daniel )  and perhaps  '' Dunny '' should be  '' Dinny '',  a common Irish way of referring to people called Denis.

[dathai]

Do you have his fathers name from his marriage cert.
Is this him

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/Clare/Scariff/_Scariff_Village__Scariff_Street/1086064/

1911
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/Clare/Scarriff/Scarriff_Town/369760/

[dathai]

I presume this is where you got the name Donat from
http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/don_tran/graves/moynoe_graveyard_scariff.htm

[LylaQuinn]

hello,

thank you very much for replying.  Yes, that is him in the census, and yes that is his gravestone.  Thank you very much for your input, very much appreciated!

[dathai]

The name Donat as a Christian name when entered on the 1901 and 1911 is very popular in Co Clare

see here Donogh,Denis,Donat
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mturner/cork/jane_names.htm

[dathai]

I think they are discussing him here
http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/history_club/a2159273-Found-my-grandads-medal-from-world-war-1

[dathai]

I suggest you try contacting the church where they married to see if his mothers maiden  name is recorded on the church entry for his marriage and possibly any baptisms for further children as well as the two known to you.

I dont think his father registered his birth or some of his siblings however as he had 13 children with 11 surviving as of 1911 there is the possibility he may have recorded some of the earlier ones and think that he most likely would have called one of his sons John as in the following birth but at present without his mothers maiden name this is purely speculation.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FPCV-JYX
civil cert for same
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FYRV-JYQ

It would be worth  trying the church though.

Dathai.

[LylaQuinn]

Hello,

wow thank you for all the info - I am at work at the moment and so can't compute it all properly, but will re-read everything this weekend when I have time.  Its always a lot to digest.


That mumsnet link - I started that thread!