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From: "Mark Lusby" <>
Subject: Re: [Derry] MCILDORY MCELDORY Derryloran Arboe
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 07:11:03 -0000
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Thanks
Rachel
Looks like McAdory and McIldory would not be connected then
Mark Lusby
Derry
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From: "Records" <>
To: "Mark Lusby" <>; <>
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 9:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Derry] MCILDORY MCELDORY Derryloran Arboe


> The nearest I can get is McElderry in
>
> The Surnames of ireland by Edward MacLysaght
> ISBN 0 7165 2366 3
>
> " Woulfe gives Mac Giolla Dorcha meaning son of the devotee of the dark.
> Well known Tyrone name now numerous in Co Antrim"
> Since a lot of McIl.. McEL.. surnames were also rendered as KIL...... I
> checked MacKilderry. It shows as a variant of MacIlderry in Co Clare
> which was then corrupted to Kildare.
>
> The Book of Ulster Surnames by Robert Bell doesn't mention any variant of
> it
> all
> ISBN is 0 85640 602 3
>
> Rachel
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Lusby" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 7:50 PM
> Subject: [Derry] MCILDORY MCELDORY Derryloran Arboe
>
>
>> Dear Listers
>> I have come across the McILDORY or McELDORY surname in the Irish Flax
>> Growers List, 1796 in South Derry. Does anyone know the derivation of
> this
>> surname? Is it a variation on McADOREY or McDORY which I am researching?
>> Mark Lusby
>> Derry
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