I first came across this usage in a Limerick parish register relating to a person who had been born in the 1820s and emigrated as a young woman. I reflected on her having thought she was reinventing herself in a new land (Iowa), never thinking that a couple of centuries later, a family-tracing inquisitor would come upon what had been the "shame" of the life she had left. I had trouble reading the scrawled word and asked the PP what it was. He seemed a bit embarrassed, saying "Oh, they were a bit uncharitable in those days." Then, seeing that a father (with different surname from the mother) was also listed, added "And they usually named the wrong man." The bad breath of the past coming down to us from the original hand-written records. --Tom Bohan > On Aug 12, 2014, at 8:00 AM, cotipperary-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > > > When replying to a message in the digest please do two things: > 1. Change the 'Subject' to that of the message you are replying to. > 2. Delete all the messages above and below the one you are concerned with. > Thank You. > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: (no subject) (Cara) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:06:58 +1000 > From: "Cara" <cara_links@bigpond.com> > Subject: Re: [COTIPPERARY] (no subject) > To: <tomelliott@talktalk.net>, <cotipperary@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <F139D2756ECB4EC7857A4F8B5DA37EE5@ColmTOSH> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > The only thing that Janet did not cover in her absolutely brilliant answer ( > which I suggest everyone file for future reference ) was that > > Illigit ~ could have covered a Protestant and a Catholic marriage ~ many a > parish man ( either religions wrote the derogatory words in a parish > register ) most catholic men wrote ill or illigit and in Church of Ireland > they use the terrible word ( bastard_ by the way I apologise for even > writing this word here) but one must face things as they were in as Janet > put it * Old Ireland* > > > Did you also know that years on if that word was found in the register it > had a bearing on that child's life forever. > > Note I said Could > > Cheers > Cara > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the COTIPPERARY list administrator, send an email to > COTIPPERARY-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the COTIPPERARY mailing list, send an email to COTIPPERARY@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COTIPPERARY-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of COTIPPERARY Digest, Vol 9, Issue 77 > ******************************************