You are correct that it was common to give a child his mothers last name as a first name. My grandfather, the third child, was named Johnston Nethery and a cousin was named Gibson Nethery. John Nethery In a message dated 9/17/2008 3:43:48 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, cotyroneireland-request@rootsweb.com writes: You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the CoTyroneIreland-D mailing list. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, please follow the instructions on http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/NIR/CoTyroneIreland.html Today's Topics: 1. Re: naming practices (Trudy L Barbisan) 2. Naming Practices (Alice) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:07:41 -0700 From: "Trudy L Barbisan" <barbisantl@qwest.net> Subject: Re: [CoTyIre] naming practices To: <CoTyroneIreland@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <F1B56B30D0074CB089C9A3739B1F868E@OfficeTrudy> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello Rob! Yes, I did see the email from Kathryn about the Kyle family and successful DNA testing. I tried to get my brother to do this (has to be a male descendant) but he declined. My son could do it but I don't know if that is too far removed or not. The Joseph Kyle mentioned in the email could have been related, and certainly predates any family in Ireland that I know about, but my direct line of Joseph Kyle's all stayed in Ireland until my grandfather Joseph who came to Philadelphia in 1905. Thanks, Trudy Kyle Barbisan _____ From: Rob [mailto:robertdoragh@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 8:59 AM To: Trudy L Barbisan Subject: RE: [CoTyIre] naming practices Hello again Trudy, Did you notice this email from a couple of weeks ago? http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/cotyroneireland/2008-09/122091 0657 Rob Doragh Liverpool UK barbisantl@qwest.net Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 Subject: naming practices I hope that I am using the correct address, I have not been in touch in a while. So far I have been able to determine that my grandfather, b Bancran 1881 was Joseph Kyle, and his father was Joseph Kyle b 1846 Bancran and HIS father was Joseph Kyle b abt 1818 also in Bancran as far as we know. That was the location of the family farm. With all of these Josephs it is hard to determine any sibling's names or find clues to them and I am hoping that someone can help. Trudy Kyle Barbisan Portland, Oregon _____ Get Hotmail on your mobile from Vodafone Try it <http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/111354028/direct/01/> Now ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:02:39 -0600 From: Alice <603_1107@telus.net> Subject: [CoTyIre] Naming Practices To: COTYRONEIRELAND@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <48D002CF.6030605@telus.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I don't know how common this has been but my Dad, born in Canada (1894) of Scottish and Irish parentage, was given the surnames of both his grandmothers, ie, Stewart Mathews (Cochrane). Hurray for our female ancestors! Alice Cochrane ------------------------------ To contact the COTYRONEIRELAND list administrator, send an email to COTYRONEIRELAND-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the COTYRONEIRELAND mailing list, send an email to COTYRONEIRELAND@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COTYRONEIRELAND-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 COTYRONEIRELAND Digest, Vol 3, Issue 186 *********************************************** **************Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com. (http://www.stylelist.com/trends?ncid=aolsty00050000000014)