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From: "Bob Trehearne" <>
Subject: Re: [IRL-MAYO] MULDERIG REDINGTON question for Bob Trehearne
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 15:59:47 -0700
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Jane,
I am looking at an old email that you sent to me concerning the
Mulderrig/Redington names.
I do not think that I answered you and I am sorry that I missed
answering.
My Mulderrig ancestors from Mayo used the Mulderrig name entirely while
in Ireland. Although some of the families also used Redington
interchangeable. That is apparently what your ancestors did also. Mulderrig
means Red Chief in the Gaelic language. My Mulderrig's switched to
Redington after they immigrated to the United States.
I know of instances when the switch between names when was due to
persecution problems with Catholics as all the Mulderrigs that I knew were
Catholic. And Catholics could not own land, vote etc. so the people
switched to Redington which also is of English use. Some of Cromwell's
men were English Redington's and some stayed in Ireland and married and
raised families. Hope this explanation helps you. If not, please contact me
again as I feel that I let you down on not answering you last March.

However, I noticed your families and I have a question or two about
your ancestral family. I have a Philip Mulderrig , my great grandfather,
who had a large family but his children were born starting around
1830. So your Philip and my Philip do not match up. My Philip lived in
the townland of Derreen in the Parish of Ardagh which is about 8 miles west
of Ballina. Do you know the name of the townland where you ancestral family
lived? Or anything to pin point a location?
I have corresponded with another living Mulderrig person who also has a
Philip Mulderrig in her family and they lived about 5 miles from my
Philip.If you look at Griffiths Valuations from the mid 1850's these are
the two Philips that are listed. These two Philip's are hers and my
ancestors. Because the Irish have a more or less fixed naming pattern,
there is a very strong possibility that there is a common Philip
ancestor to these Philip's.
BTW, I have plotted all the property of the Mulderrig's mentioned in
Griffiths.Each farm etc is detailed in a paying web site called Irish
Origins which I belong to. I can help you with some research there if you
are interested.
There are two Mulderrig spellings, one with a single R and with a Double
R. The double R's are all centered about 8 miles west of Ballina in
about a 5 miles circle. The single R Mulderigs are located near
Altbaun which is south and east of Ballina. I would be glad to send a
copy of the concentrated Mulderrig's locations to you. The key is to find
the townland your ancestors lived in.
I am at the point now where I want to go back to Ireland again and/or hire
a researcher in Dublin to do some film lookups at the National Library
which I have done before with my Cork ancestors. The parishes around
Crossmolina all have church records on film at the NLI in Dublin and
these records go back to 1823 so the possibility exists that some of these
elusive ancestors can be found in these church records.
I recently began correspondence with another Mulderrig in Ireland however
there is no Philip's in her ancestry - so far- but there is a lot of
Patricks.
Can you tell me what research you have done in Ireland?
Thanks,
Bob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jane Lachs" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2007 1:45 AM
Subject: [IRL-MAYO] MULDERIG REDINGTON question for Bob Trehearne


Morning Bob :-)
Picked up an IRL-MAYO board message this morning that I found very
interesting.

I have a connection to a family that moved from Ireland to England through
Wales.
It was the Wales census info. that was driving me mad.
Took me ages to find them and then only because I left off the surname
entirely and searched for given names.

E.g. John born ca. 1831 Mayo. In 1851 and 1871 as MULDERIG but as REDINGTON
in 1861.

I believe his siblings were:
Margaret born ca. 1823 married a John WALSH,
Philip born ca. 1831
and maybe Thomas born ca. 1826

Can you tell me why these names were interchangeable ?

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Cheers Jane

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