My New York Dutch followed the Dutch naming tradition which if I recall is the reverse but it helped very much as I was able to predict the grand parents names from the childrens names. one family had 8 female children 6 Arrintje's that died young and an Arrientje and a Marientje that lived the other 4 children were males and all lived. Also I have a German family all males were Johannes and went by their middle names. Robin Forrest rforrest@interisland.net on beautiful San Juan Island in Puget Sound Washington -----Original Message----- From: Waterlilys@aol.com <Waterlilys@aol.com> To: FIANNA-L@rootsweb.com <FIANNA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, May 31, 1998 6:52 PM Subject: [FIANNA-L] Re: Given Names ><< I would like to compare some given names from other counties and see if the >pattern continues. >> > >I hope one of those given names isnt Mary! I read somewhere that in 1850's era >Ireland, that 29% of the females were named Mary! > >In my O'Connor family the given names John, James, Hugh, ... Mary, Catherine, >and Johanna are repeated every generation. > >mary :) >O'Connor, Martin, FitzGerald, Moriarty West Dingle Co Kerry >Heffron, Murphy Hollymount, So Co Mayo >Ireland > Brattleboro,VT > Hartford,CT > > >==== FIANNA Mailing List ==== >Fianna-L@rootsweb.com >favorite sites: >Try: http://cust2.iamerica.net/pscobb/index.htm >http://www.rootsweb.com/~fianna/ ***Award winner*** Thanks to Chirho >http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/4404/ >Please turn off your Stationery, Backrounds & HTML! >Messages to list in plain text only! > > > > >