Wow! All of these variations just for ONE county name; and to think that so many of us stubbornly say: "No, our family spells its name this way ...". ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fermanagh Gold" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 10:19 AM Subject: Re: How to Pronounce > Hi list > > Seeing this thread reminded me of the many spelling variations for Fermanagh > I came across in the 1881 Census CDs. I've reproduced them here (there are > 60). You might think this is useless information (!) but try using some of > them in a search engine and you never know what you might find. If you > search the 1881 Census using Viewer 3 you would find all of these > variations, and probably some more I've missed! > > Farmagh, Farmanagh, Farmanagtt, Farmanah, Farmanaugh, Farmargh, Farmaugh, > Feremanagh, Fermaaugh, Fermach, Fermag, Fermagh, Fermah, Fermaine, Ferman, > Fermana, Fermanach, Fermanagh, Fermanaghshire, Fermanah, Fermanale, > Fermanaugh, Fermanch, Fermanegh, Fermaneh, Fermanel, Fermange, Fermangh, > Fermanna, Fermannagh, Fermannah, Fermannaugh, Fermanneh, Fermanogh, > Fermanough, Fermanugh, Fermargh, Fermau, Fermauagh, Fermauah, Fermauer, > Fermaugh, Fermauogh, Fermenagh, Ferminagh, Ferminna, Fermnanagh, Fermonagh, > Fermonoch, Fermough, Fernamagh, Fernaugh, Firmana, Firmanagh, Firmanch, > Firmannah, Formana, Formanagh, Formanah, Formaugh > > Jan Hart > Fermanagh Gold > Over 29,000 FREE records at http://www.fermanagh.org.uk > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Crawford MacKeand <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 2:13 PM > Subject: Re: How to Pronounce > > > > That strikes a chord. In our family papers my g gfather and mother are > > recorded as coming from "Formana". > > > > Crawford. > > > > > > > ============================== > Search over 900 million names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > >