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From: Jane O'Brien< >
Subject: Re: Duffy-Co. Donegal
Date: 1 Dec 1997 03:13:07 -0800


Black: Dubh...the end is pronounced something like the 've' of dove.
The word Gormach is also used for black (I think) but a black person is a
'duine gorm'....however, gorm is actually the colour blue.

I do not know enough about the origin of names (yet!) to comment on where
the name Duffy came from but:

From some of the things I have heard and read the 'dubh' in a name, came
from describing say the person with the black hair as opposed to the one of
the same name with the red hair for eg.

John (Black) Smith
John (Red) Smith
John (Grey) Smith

Same goes for the guy with the green field compared to himself with the
barren field. Things like that. Makes it very confusing for people when
they get so far back in geneaology and then reach a dead end

Jane

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> From: daniel patrick duffy <>
> To:
> Subject: Re: Duffy-Co. Donegal
> Date: 30 November 1997 23:46
>
> Mary Dain wrote:
> >
> > I am interested in hearing form anyone researching the Duffy name from
> > Co. Donegal. Thanks!
> > Mary Dain
>
> My last name is Duffy and my mother was a Flaherty. Can anyone let me
> know if either name has a translated meaning (I've heard that Duffy is
> Gaelic for "black" as in the black Irish). Any info on clan histories
> and territories would also be apreciated. Thanks for helping me find my
> family roots.

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