There may be a clue in the way your mother's name was pronounced. I have Wholeys on my father's side. And in the area around Skibbereen, about the only place the name occurs, it is pronounced welly. My Wholeys are from parish Myross. I've also read that Wholey is not a variation of Hooley. Marian >From: "Peter Robinson" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [COUNTYCORK] WHOLEY >Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:36:25 +1000 > >Hi Mary > >I've heard it said that Wholey *could* be a variant of Hooley but as I have >so little to go on at present I'm not in a position to make a sensible >comment as to a possible connection. > >Cheers > >the older of the tworobbos > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >[email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message