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Offline Half Pint

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Help with a translation needed
« on: Saturday 01 April 06 22:37 BST (UK) »
Hi

I am really sorry if this is the wrong board to use, but could someone help with the following translation.

I have a beautiful traditional song on cd with the title of "Suo Gan" and I would love to know what it means.

Many many thanks for your help.

Regards

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Ire:  Macken, McAvoy, Rooney
Lancs:  Casson, Dixon, Huddleston, Hunter, Muschamp, Skirrow Stephenson, Tyson
Staffs:  Burslem, Tunstall, Wedgwood
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Re: Help with a translation needed
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 01 April 06 22:51 BST (UK) »
Quinn - Tyrone, Ireland ; Greymouth/Waipori/Waimate South/Otago, New Zealand
Galway Carlow, Ireland
Grace Ireland
McSorley Ireland
Donnelly Skreen, County Meath, Ireland
Matthews Tyrone and Monaghan, Ireland
McKenna Tyedavnet, Monaghan, Ireland
O'Neill - Dublin, Ireland

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Re: Help with a translation needed
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 01 April 06 22:54 BST (UK) »
Definately Welsh !!!! 

http://www.contemplator.com/tunebook/welsh.htm

I'm Irish and had never heard of it so I just had to look it up and reply to you...... the words are beautiful ...

Hope this helped! (and hope I'm right!)..

Kind regards, Karen
Quinn - Tyrone, Ireland ; Greymouth/Waipori/Waimate South/Otago, New Zealand
Galway Carlow, Ireland
Grace Ireland
McSorley Ireland
Donnelly Skreen, County Meath, Ireland
Matthews Tyrone and Monaghan, Ireland
McKenna Tyedavnet, Monaghan, Ireland
O'Neill - Dublin, Ireland

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Re: Help with a translation needed
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 01 April 06 23:00 BST (UK) »
It was the first tune I learned to play on my recorder at school and I always thought it was Welsh.
Reynolds, Woodham, Payne, Wilmott, Hart, Richardson, Packwood, Tandy, Dexter - Bedfordshire.
Chamberlain and Wagstaff- Hunts.
Freeman, Cheney, Cox- Northants.
Burns, Muter, Cobban, Hossack, Strachan, Moonlight.
Lanarkshire, Ross and Cromarty and Kincardineshire.
Garvey- Ireland.

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Re: Help with a translation needed
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 01 April 06 23:01 BST (UK) »
Hi Karen

Many, many thanks for this.

I sit here researching my tree and keep pressing the repeat button to hear it again.  It really does help me to relax.

Take care

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Beds: Chapman, Norris, Nicholls
Cul:  Bone, Casson, Cuppage, Ellwood, Harrington, Harrison, Huddleston, Mawson, McAvoy, Rooney, Sherwen, Singleton, Stephenson, Taylor, Tunstall, Tyson, Wedgwood, Whitehead, Woodall
Herts:  Chapman, Merridan, Seymour
Ire:  Macken, McAvoy, Rooney
Lancs:  Casson, Dixon, Huddleston, Hunter, Muschamp, Skirrow Stephenson, Tyson
Staffs:  Burslem, Tunstall, Wedgwood
Yorks:  Harrison, Lund, Roberts, Swire


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Re: Help with a translation needed
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 01 April 06 23:06 BST (UK) »
Hi

There are alot of songs and records that I like but I can honestly say that not one of them has grabbed me like this has.

I just wish my Rooneys in Ireland were so easy to find.

They came over to Cumberland between 1854-56 but do not know from which county or port..................

My dad has always made a joke of us being from common stock but I don't think even he realised what a common name Rooney is in Ireland.  Its worse than Jones in Wales (lol)

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Beds: Chapman, Norris, Nicholls
Cul:  Bone, Casson, Cuppage, Ellwood, Harrington, Harrison, Huddleston, Mawson, McAvoy, Rooney, Sherwen, Singleton, Stephenson, Taylor, Tunstall, Tyson, Wedgwood, Whitehead, Woodall
Herts:  Chapman, Merridan, Seymour
Ire:  Macken, McAvoy, Rooney
Lancs:  Casson, Dixon, Huddleston, Hunter, Muschamp, Skirrow Stephenson, Tyson
Staffs:  Burslem, Tunstall, Wedgwood
Yorks:  Harrison, Lund, Roberts, Swire


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Re: Help with a translation needed
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 02 April 06 07:47 BST (UK) »
Fadhb ar bith! (no problem!)

My husband's name is Quinn!  He's a New Zealander and last night I just 'might' (fingers/toes/arms crossed) have found someone who might have info on his ggggrandfather.....  I haven't come across any Rooneys .. but if I do I'll remember you..

Sonas Ort!

Slan!

Le gach beannacht (kind regards), Karen



Helpful website for basic English to Irish and vice versa:
http://www.englishirishdictionary.com/dictionary
Quinn - Tyrone, Ireland ; Greymouth/Waipori/Waimate South/Otago, New Zealand
Galway Carlow, Ireland
Grace Ireland
McSorley Ireland
Donnelly Skreen, County Meath, Ireland
Matthews Tyrone and Monaghan, Ireland
McKenna Tyedavnet, Monaghan, Ireland
O'Neill - Dublin, Ireland

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Re: Help with a translation needed
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 02 April 06 10:18 BST (UK) »
A reference of a Rooney on the Great Grandmother
thread on the Lighter Side would be a welcome addition.

It never hurts to have a tiny touch of Emerald  & Shamrocks on any thread
Zelley,  Lovell, Godbold, Woods, Phillips, Lewis, Emery,
Magee, Baker, White. Flisher, Kyne, Tilston, Valence/Vallens,
Mabb/Mabbe, Bellamy, Selley, Martha Smith, Arno (of Dartmouth, Devon}.
Dorset, London, Warwick, East Anglia, Kent,  Devon
North Wales          

The ancestors lived here and there, in many scattered
places, with various occupations

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Re: Help with a translation needed
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 02 April 06 21:07 BST (UK) »
Hi Karen

go raibh mile maith agat

Take care

Half Pint

ps if you cannot translate the above, I know of a very good website (lol)
Beds: Chapman, Norris, Nicholls
Cul:  Bone, Casson, Cuppage, Ellwood, Harrington, Harrison, Huddleston, Mawson, McAvoy, Rooney, Sherwen, Singleton, Stephenson, Taylor, Tunstall, Tyson, Wedgwood, Whitehead, Woodall
Herts:  Chapman, Merridan, Seymour
Ire:  Macken, McAvoy, Rooney
Lancs:  Casson, Dixon, Huddleston, Hunter, Muschamp, Skirrow Stephenson, Tyson
Staffs:  Burslem, Tunstall, Wedgwood
Yorks:  Harrison, Lund, Roberts, Swire


Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives
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