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From: "Pádraig Mór Ó Gealagáin" <>
Subject: Re: Regans of Inchigeelagh
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 12:08:34 -0400
References: <4335F755.9010207@execpc.com>


The name "Nora" - although in itself, it might be a written as a complete
name on some legal forms - is generally considered to be a short form of
Honora(h) or Hanora(h), as are 'Norry' and 'Narry'. "Con" is usually a short
form for Cornelius, although a person named Conor might also have it as a
short name.

Pádraig Mór
An Sean Ghabair

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From: "Thomas Glassel" <>
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Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 9:03 PM
Subject: Regans of Inchigeelagh


> Greetings Jackie,
> Your query set me trying to do an equivalency list of first names, which
> I needed when inserting batch numbers into my IGI searches online.
> Narry seems to be a separate name, at least in Inchigeelagh, since it
> didn't get indexed with Mary or any other first name. Norry must also be
> considered a separate name, since it wasn't even equated to Nora. Not
> too scientific, just based on searching one parish on the IGI, so in
> other part of Cork, different naming customs may well apply.
>
> I had fun seeing which first names were lumped together by the IGI, at
> least for Inchigeelagh. Here are a few first names I checked, which the
> IGI considered "equal" to each other:
> Jane = Jean = Janny.
> Hannah = Nancy = Nantz = Nance = Ann = Anna = Hanna = Anne = Hanora.
> Nora = Nora, no others.
> Narry = Narry, no others.
> Norry = Norry, no others.
> Johanna = Joan = Joanny.
> Margaret = Peg = Mgt.
> Catherine = Kate = Cath. = Cady.
> Cornelius = Corn. = Cors.
> Con = Con, no others.
> Jeremiah = Jeremiha = Jerh., no others.
> Darby = Darby, although elsewhere it is supposedly Jeremiah.
> James = Jacob = Jim = Jas.
>
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>
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>
> I noticed that the dates in the IGI, also the Casey collection for
> Inchigeelagh baptisms, for the children of John REGAN and Narry RIORDAN/
> REARDAN, don't fit with ages of Denis REGAN and John REGAN on their army
> discharge dates in Bandon. Of course, maybe they were not infants when
> baptized.
> Incidentally, the IGI lists 3 other children for that couple

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