Hi Gordon However, it is "the Wirral Names" Jackie is talking about! I believe some people do call it The Wirral Peninsula Marj >Had no luck with the Wirral, Merseyside names so far - Jackie Shows that you're not local. To any native Wirralian it's just WIRRAL, not THE Wirral. :-) Regards Gordon ----- Original Message ----- From: <Annaj464@aol.com> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 10:51 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] MY NAMES > Hi May names that I have interest in within the Merseyside are: > > DAVID - Rock Ferry, Birkenhead and Liverpool > McCANN - Rock Ferry and Wirral > HUNT- Birkenhead > TOTHILL - Liverpool > LITHERLAND - Sefton and Maghull > > Had no luck with the Wirral, Merseyside names so far - Jackie To go to the site, click on http://lists9.rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-MERSEYSIDE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.431 / Virus Database: 268.14.6/536 - Release Date: 16/11/2006 15:51

Hi Marged >However, it is "the Wirral Names" Jackie is talking about! Fair comment, although fortunately for me Jackie doesn't appear to have taken offence. :-) >I believe some people do call it The Wirral Peninsula And correctly so, but without the appendage it's just Wirral without a definitive article ie there's no "the" in front. It's the way locals have of telling whether someone really IS from God's country or just a Scouser in disguise - a bit like the way Dutch people used to recognise German spies during WWII by the way they pronounced Scheveningen. :-) Gordon Wirral (Scouser in disguise) > Hi Gordon >However, it is "the Wirral Names" Jackie is talking about! >I believe some people do call it The Wirral Peninsula >Marj > >Had no luck with the Wirral, Merseyside names so far - Jackie >Shows that you're not local. >To any native Wirralian it's just WIRRAL, not THE Wirral. :-) >Regards >Gordon

You got it on one, Gordon. As a scouser, I reckon I can tell whether another scouser comes from the North End (Bootle area) or the South End (Dingle) by the way they pronounce words like Hair, Fair, Warehouse Marged It's the way locals have of telling whether someone really IS from God's country or just a Scouser in disguise - a bit like the way Dutch people used to recognise German spies during WWII by the way they pronounced Scheveningen. :-)

Hi, I'm Louise from Kent. I am new to tracing my ancestors and have been researching since about June this year. On-line tree with many names : www.turnaround.cdis.co.uk Membership: Ancestory - UK only, Genes Reunited and various ancestory/ family tree forums. Happy to do look ups in Ancestory if that helps anyone. Names I am searching for mostly at the moment: Hankinson - Parr Gibson - Mersyside and Manchester areas, Flintshire Thomas - Parr, Flintshire Hine - Birkenhead / wallasey Other locations: Smyth - Warwickshire, Kent, Cheshire, Birkenhead, Flintshire, Ireland. Hine / Hyne - Cardiff, Gloucester, Warwickshire, Histories interested (where relatives worked): Spiller Flour Mills 1930's + Mines in the above locations, 1800+ Wirral history of music festival and girls grammer school, 1925+ Holywell/Bagillt areas - general, all periods.

Not wishing to offend any one here but, is it also possible that there is a tendency to abbreviate by nature of the dialect? I do think it is interesting and also important to know local characteristics. Janet >-- Original Message -- >From: "Marged" > > >Hi Gordon > >However, it is "the Wirral Names" Jackie is talking about! > >I believe some people do call it The Wirral Peninsula > >Marj ___________________________________________________________ Tiscali Unlimited Broadband with FREE weekend calls only 12.99! http://www.tiscali.co.uk/products/broadband/