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Cork / Re: WHONOHAN, HOUNIHAN or HOUNAHAN, what do I use?
« on: Tuesday 23 September 08 04:55 BST (UK)  »
The Irish form of the name of the Cooneys in my database of 5 parishes south of Cork City is certainly Ó Cuanacháin, not Ó Cuana.   It is clear that the parish priests were perplexed by the non-Cork name, so much so that a couple of the priests simply left a blank.  Another recorded the name differently for each of 6 infants baptized, even including 'Owens' and 'Cunningham'.  All you can do in your case is to choose a form of the name that you want to regard as the standard or ideal.  In my 5 parishes, I suspect that a priest early on decided on Cooney, and that the bearers of the name who could write were happy to adopt any spelling.  It is possible that none of them before, say, 1880 ever pronounced the name as Cooney.

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Cork / Re: WHONOHAN, HOUNIHAN or HOUNAHAN, what do I use?
« on: Monday 22 September 08 05:02 BST (UK)  »
In the district south of Cork City, the names Whonohan, Whonihan, Whenehan, Wenehan, Counihan, etc. were used interchangeably with Cooney, which is now the most frequent spelling in that area.  There is no use arguing which is the 'correct' form of many names in Ireland.  There are still many families in which the same name is spelt differently by various family members, even in the same neighborhood.  The differences generally go back to the time when some people were speaking Irish (Gaelic), with its dialects, that is, variations in pronunciation, and when the language was rarely written down. 

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Cork / Re: Kilnahone
« on: Sunday 21 September 08 00:00 BST (UK)  »
Steven
My Madden ancestors were from Kilnahone, and I have completed a database of 5 Catholic parishes south of Cork City, including the marriages and baptisms of the Ballygarvan section of Douglas parish, 1812-1880, which includes Kilnahone.  Are you descended from the McGrath-Cogan line?
Write to my e-mail address

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and I will send you what I have.
Frank Thompson / NYC

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Cork / Re: Scripture Reader
« on: Sunday 10 August 08 06:55 BST (UK)  »
My database includes the R.C. marriages + baptisms for Carrigaline, 1826-80.
Your William was probably the son of David Mulcahy + Honora Twomey and was baptized at Carrigaline 11 June 1841.  They probably lived in Fahalea townland but were gone by 1850.
Send me your e-mail address and I will send you the other entries for the family.
Frank Thompson
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Cork / Re: Bowes family look up
« on: Tuesday 24 June 08 07:20 BST (UK)  »
The usual spelling of the name of the people in your list in Carrigaline, Cullen and Ballymartle, all the same family, was 'Bouse'.  It was sometimes also recorded as 'Bouce'.  I believe most of them emigrated to Boston, Mass., USA, over time.

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Cork / Re: Bartholomew McCarthy
« on: Wednesday 02 January 08 02:45 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry, I must have forgotten that you were looking for a Bridget who was the daughter of a Bartholomew, not a Patrick.  The name Bartholomew was regularly confused with Patrick because of the nicknames Bat(t) and Pat, which sounded similar.  I would guess that that was a sign that the people were speaking English, not Irish.  Pats are now often called 'Paudie' and Batts 'Bertie'.  Prime Minister Bertie Ahern is actually Bartholomew.

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Cork / Re: Bartholomew McCarthy
« on: Tuesday 01 January 08 05:59 GMT (UK)  »
I have (in my database of 5 R.C. parishes) a Bridget McCarthy, dau. of Patrick McCarthy & Margaret Walsh and baptized at Passage West, Co. Cork, 13 Aug 1839.  A brother Edward was baptized in 1836, no children otherwise in the database.  You would have to have more information to be able to say that this was your Bridget.
Frank Thompson

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Cork / Re: McCarthy/Marshall
« on: Thursday 22 November 07 06:39 GMT (UK)  »
These people lived in Tracton Abbey Catholic parish, not at Shanbally.  I stupid and don't understand how this website works, so I have no idea if you will ever get this message.
Frank Thompson


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