Possibly the oldest name in Beara is UONHI/UONEY/OWNEY/UAINE (with a variety of other efforts at spelling it). They were an ancient Corca Laoi tribe, some of whom in later years adopted the surname HARRINGTON, but most of whom adopted the surname SULLIVAN/O'SULLIVAN. UAINE is an old Gaelic/Irish word for Green. The word GLAS also means Green. From all these came O'Sullivan(UONHI), O'Sullivan(GLAS), O'Sullivan(GREEN), now the surname GREEN. I had a great-granduncle who was known as Johnny Uonhi. Johnny and his wife emigrated to Australia in a sailing ship around the year 1855, shortly after the Famine. Their first child, a girl, was born on the ship on the long voyage out. Depending on storms and the many other vagaries of the weather, the journey at the time could take up to as much as nine months. Johnny's wife died only a few years after arriving in Australia, leaving him with 3 young kids. He went prospecting for gold about 60 miles from Grafton to the north of Sydney. When he had a bit of money made, he retired from "panning", started a provision store (including some "hooch") and had a little vegetable garden and reared some hens and chickens to supply the other prospectors. One of his prospector buddies, old Jim, used come in from the "gold-panning" rivers and sometimes himself and Johnny used celebrate the Feast of St. Patrick "in liquid and in singing form". Old Jim had no calendar, but he was very fond of eggs. So he found a way around his problem. When he would be going back out prospecting for the month of April, he used be given 30 eggs. He ate one egg each day and kept the shells. When he wanted to know what day of the month it was, all he had to do was count up the shells. 15 shells equalled the 15th of April !! ----- Riobard.

Riobard, Could you please tell me the meaning/origin of "Og", as John Og O'Sullivan? Would I be better off not asking? ;<)) Thank you Jack Kissinger > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Terry Curran is spot on. It means young John, or Junior, when the father has the same name. Riobard. ----- Original Message ----- From: <jkissinger@bellsouth.net> To: <beara@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 12:40 AM Subject: Re: [BEARA] Sullivans/O'Sullivans: Uonhi. > Riobard, > > Could you please tell me the meaning/origin of "Og", as John Og > O'Sullivan? > Would I be better off not asking? ;<)) > > Thank you > Jack Kissinger >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >