I have had friends in the USA whose name is Dougherty, yet they pronounce it Doherty. One reason I have little luck finding my great grandmother Rosanna Dougherty Bustard. Yet we persist! Best to all for the holiday weekend. John Bustard, Drexel Hill, (West of Philly), PA! ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; "'IRL-Donegaleire-L'" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 12:34 PM Subject: [DONEGALEIRE] O'Doherty v Doherty > At the risk of interrupting the erudite discussions on chalking > gravestones, > I wonder can anyone help me with the Griffiths Valuation and the > O'Dohertys. > > > I have looked at both Bob's site and the Failte Romhat site and I can see > that the GV index shows there were only three "O" Dohertys in the whole of > Donegal (ignoring variations in spelling the Doherty bit) but over 100 > Dohertys (without the "O") in Fahan Lower alone. I assumed this is due to > officialdom's over zealous anglicisation of the name. And yet, while > looking for O'Dohertys, I noticed that there were hundreds of O'Donnells - > with an "O". Less evidence of anglicisation there. Anyone any other > suggestions just in case I were ever to be asked why the O'Dohertys are > only > found under Doherty? > > Boyd Gray > > http://familytrees.genopro.com/boydgray26/Boyd/default.htm > > When replying to a digest post, quote only the specific text to which you > are replying, removing the rest of the digest from your reply. Also, > remember to change the subject of your reply so that it coincides with the > message subject to which you are replying. > > TO VIEW PREVIOUS EMAILS BY SUBJECT, GO TO THE THREADED ARCHIVES AT > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/DONEGALEIRE/ > > > TO VIEW PREVIOUS EMAILS BY DATES AND SUBJECT GO TO THE SEARCHABLE ARCHIVES > AT http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=DONEGALEIRE > > SOME HELPFUL WEBSITES: > Donegal Genealogy Resource (Lindel's Site) > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegal/ > Donegaleire Genealogy Links & Data > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegaleire/ > Bob's Donegal Ireland Genealogy > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hiflyte/ > > ------------------------------- > 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