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Need help decipering placename on parish register
« on: Friday 18 September 15 01:43 BST (UK) »
Does anyone recognise what it says at the bottom of the Residence column?  I can't work it out and Googlemaps is no help.  It's from the Castlecomer RC parish register.
Ancestral names: Lewis, Watson, Hetherington, Barclay, Clark, Regan, Hunter, Murray, Robson, Todd, Carney, Comerford, Urwin, Rayson, White, Purves, Biggins, Wilson, Gibson, Graham, Curry, Kennedy, Greenlaw, Waldie, Armstrong, Hodgson, Harle, Wild, Monkhouse, Donald, Allen, Bowie, Cowe, Ogilvie, Barnes, Pattinson, Williamson, Hogg, Denholm, Kirkwood and Hewitt

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Re: Need help decipering placename on parish register
« Reply #1 on: Friday 18 September 15 09:03 BST (UK) »
Looks like Shannually? to me
What date is it please?

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Re: Need help decipering placename on parish register
« Reply #2 on: Friday 18 September 15 09:22 BST (UK) »
I can't see a g in it but could it be Shanganny mis-spelt

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Re: Need help decipering placename on parish register
« Reply #3 on: Friday 18 September 15 15:45 BST (UK) »
Looks like Shannually? to me
What date is it please?
It's in 1855 if that helps.  The residence for the first two children was Castlecomer itself, and for the four following this one it looks to be Aughamucky (the "Augh" is readable, the rest a bit of a scribble, but the penultimate letter is a tall one and the last one has a tail), but this one is stumping me.  I can't see anything in the area which seems to fit the writing.  I thought perhaps what looks like a "Sh" at the beginning might be an elaborate capital H, but that doesn't make a difference.  I'm grasping at straws really.
Ancestral names: Lewis, Watson, Hetherington, Barclay, Clark, Regan, Hunter, Murray, Robson, Todd, Carney, Comerford, Urwin, Rayson, White, Purves, Biggins, Wilson, Gibson, Graham, Curry, Kennedy, Greenlaw, Waldie, Armstrong, Hodgson, Harle, Wild, Monkhouse, Donald, Allen, Bowie, Cowe, Ogilvie, Barnes, Pattinson, Williamson, Hogg, Denholm, Kirkwood and Hewitt

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Re: Need help decipering placename on parish register
« Reply #4 on: Friday 18 September 15 15:51 BST (UK) »
Could it be "Ah" Ahan or Ahau something  :-\
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Re: Need help decipering placename on parish register
« Reply #5 on: Friday 18 September 15 16:09 BST (UK) »
It's
   
 Ahamucky

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Re: Need help decipering placename on parish register
« Reply #6 on: Friday 18 September 15 16:26 BST (UK) »
Oh cool :)  The way the A is written looks different to the other entries I've seen, but I can see where you're coming from there.  Do you know if Ahamucky is a different place, or just an alternate spelling for Aughamucky?
Ancestral names: Lewis, Watson, Hetherington, Barclay, Clark, Regan, Hunter, Murray, Robson, Todd, Carney, Comerford, Urwin, Rayson, White, Purves, Biggins, Wilson, Gibson, Graham, Curry, Kennedy, Greenlaw, Waldie, Armstrong, Hodgson, Harle, Wild, Monkhouse, Donald, Allen, Bowie, Cowe, Ogilvie, Barnes, Pattinson, Williamson, Hogg, Denholm, Kirkwood and Hewitt

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Re: Need help decipering placename on parish register
« Reply #7 on: Friday 18 September 15 16:35 BST (UK) »
I was just about to say if you move further down the register there are better examples.
I lost the one I was going to post

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Re: Need help decipering placename on parish register
« Reply #8 on: Friday 18 September 15 19:10 BST (UK) »
Oh cool :)  The way the A is written looks different to the other entries I've seen, but I can see where you're coming from there.  Do you know if Ahamucky is a different place, or just an alternate spelling for Aughamucky?
One place - just different spellings  :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aughamucky