Hi, What does the "St." in the name below mean? Does St. = Saint George? St. Geo. Layard Henry County-Donegal Parish-Clonca Location-Drung Bob Light snow for Mother's Day and the 9 May at that.

You've got it Bob.......... St. goed to Saint - but it's never written that way. It canalso go to 'Sin' - that is to say sometimes we'll see for example the name Sinclair/Sinclare............and it can be written St. Clair/Clare or Sinclair/Sinclare. Never happens when it's a George though. Always St. George - or Geo. as you have it - abbreviation for George. The name you have here though - what's the source.............it almost looks like a Griffiths cd ref and if it is then it's hard to knwo whether he was Henry St. george Layard or Henry Layard St. George. Usually, the last surname in the set is given as the surname and then the first surname. So, if that was the case then he'd be Henry St. George Layard. *but* sometimes people who are indexing these kinds of names confuse the issue by putting the first surname fo the set as *the* surname in the index and what should really be the surname then appears as part of the name. If you know what I mean. It ends up back to front. Jane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob" <hiflyte@telus.net> To: "Y-IRL - Yahoo" <Y-IRL@yahoogroups.com>; "Donegaleire" <DONEGALEIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 5:41 PM Subject: [Y-IRL] Help St. in name > Hi, > >