Meaning of a name . . .

[txranger]

A Walker relative who emigrated to the US abt 1819 was known by various spellings of his first name. On the 1830 Federal census of Georgia it was Skeaugh Walker. But in numerous public records in Texas where he and my Walker ancestors finally resided in 1835 I've found Skeigh, Keough, Skeough. Curious what root meaning this name may have had in the 18th century. Only one other in the line has ever been named that in the U.S. that I've discovered.

BTW presume he as from the parish of Killead.

[Christopher]

Hi txranger,

Welcome to RootsChat.

I'm almost certain Skeaugh is another name for Hugh.

Christopher

[BallyaltikilliganG]

A suggestion if you come from a place you sometimes get a nickname that sticks. Skeagh townland and reservoir  exist in the civil parish of Abbeystrowry, County Cork. Griffiths valuation of households lists these surnames associated:-Donovans, Driscol,  Neale, Sullivan [many] Walsh. To locate it try www.maplandia.com/ireland/south-west/cork/skeagh/
I am not into irish place names, but it is along way from Killead
keep searching, Jim

[Christopher]

SeanRuad didn't go along the place name route in response to the same query. He felt it was a nickname for a given name commencing with Sc and the k was introduced as the Irish language doesn't have one. See his comments on the thread below.

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GENUKI/1969-12/0000004275

[txranger]

Clever Christopher . . . you found my post on subject from abt 10 yrs ago but I never saw response. Thanks for update. An Sceach to Skeaugh is interesting and I wonder if when he came to American they spelled it phonetically.

Following my post here I did more research and discovered 12 Skeagh placenames in Ireland. The only one in Antrim Co. is over in Kilwaughter parish which from I gather is about 40k away from Killead. So if there is no letter "k" in the Irish alphabet then all the Skeagh townlands were really called An Sceach?

Also did a search at the Irish Times using the free newspaper service. Found quite a number of entries for An Sceach. Seems that generally it means thorn tree or bush, but see attachment. If it truly was a nickname then Skeaugh was probably not a very inviting person. Sadly, he came to America with a large family but after leaving Georgia and arriving in Texas 1834 he was single. Family history has that his family was wiped out during the Indian depredations of the early 1830s.

Also attached image(s) from paper on various local meanings of an sceach. I've probably exhausted this subject so I'll move on to another topic.

Moderator comment: Images removed. It is against the terms & conditions of the Irish Times site to upload images in this way.

[AgEE]

Howdy txranger, I assume this is Harold...

I've seen your old posts on rootsweb but have never been able to catch up with you. I'm a cousin of yours, descended from John Walker & Mary Wallace. I believe you descended from John and his first wife Isabella Fullerton.

On the off chance that you revisit this site, or have an alert set on this thread, I'd like to get in touch with you.

- Dean