----- Original Message ----- From: Jane O'Brien <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 3:56 PM Subject: Fw: More Christian Names... > -----Original Message----- > From: Jane O'Brien <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] > <[email protected]> > Date: 23 June 1998 17:47 > Subject: More Christian Names... > > > >Continuation of interchangeable names: > > > >Abigail: Deborah (because ot the similarity of their respective diminutives > >Abbie and Debbie and of Gubbie the diminutive of the Irish Gobnet) > >Jane: Joan, Jean (all being rendered Johanna in Latin) > >Alice: Ellen (probably due to the diminutive Eily for both the Irish names > >Eilish and Eileen) > >Grizell: Grace (In Ulster) > >Susan: Johanna (as renderings of the Irish Siobhán) > >Giles: Cecily, Cecilia, Celia, Julia (as renderings of the Irish Sheelagh) > >Hannah: Honora, Johanna > >Judith: Julia (perhaps due to the simillarity of their diminutives Judy and > >julie) > > > >The fifth group of Irish Christian names is that used as the Irish or > >English equivalents of one another, but not necessarily being a correct > >translation of such names: > > > >Irish: English > >Brian: Bernard, Barnabas (Barney) > >Diarmaid (Dermot): Jeremiah, Darby, Demetrius > >Tiernan: Terence > >Teige: Thaddeus (Thady) > >Morrogh: Morgan > >Aodh : Hugh, Edie > >Tirlogh: Terence > >Eoghain: Owen, Eugene > >Cormac: Charles > >Cathal: Charles > >Eamonn: Edmond, Edward, Aimon > >Conchobar: Connor, Cornelius, Constantine > >Donogh: denis, Donat > >Dhonal: Daniel, Donald > >Eileen: Ellen, Helen, Eleanor > >Eilish: Alice > >Siobhán: johanna, Susan, Jane > >Sheelagh: Cecilia, Cecily, Giles, Sheila, celia, Julia > >Oonagh: Una, WInifred. > > > >The correct or standard translation of such Irish names as Sean-John; > >Seamus- James etc., can be found in a good Irish-English lexicon. > > > >Until the end of the mid 18thC it was unusual for a child to receivemore > >than one Christian name in Ireland..although threr were some standard > >favourite combinations such as Ann Jane, Mary Anne. Even in the 19thC the > >practise of giving a second christian name was slowly adopted....starting > >with the richer gentry. > > > >Favourite Catholic Christian names were: John, Patrick, James, Denis, > >William, Darby, Dermot, daniel, Cornelius, Henry, Timothy, Thomas, Michael, > >Jeremiah, Bartholomew, Brain, Laurence, Thady, Terence, Owen, Martin, > >Mathias, David and Jospeh for boyus. Dominick enjoyed vogue in the > >17thC..Columb, Malachy, Miles, Felix, Ambrose and Stanislaus were less > >commonly used. Aloysius is rare before the 19thC. > > > >For girls: > >Mary, Catherine, Bridget, Honora, Margaret, Ellen, Anastasia, Johanna, > >Judith, Julia, Rosanna, Maryanne, ELizabeth and Jane. Less common were > >Magdalen Monica and Theresa. Marcella is found in Ireland but is rare in > >England. > > > >Protestants were more varied: > >Arthur, John, Henry, James, William, Frederick, George, Edward, Richard, > >Charles, Philip, Oliver, Jonathan, Anthony, Andrew, Simon, Marmaduke and > >Sstephen. They also used old testament names which were rarely used by > >Catholics such as Abraham, Jacob, Moses, isaac , Samuel, joshua, Gamaliel. > > > >Favourite Protestant girls names seem to have been: > >Mary, Sarah, ELizabeth, Eleanor, Lucy, catherine, Susanna, Hannah, > >Margaret, Jane, Isabella, Frances and Alice. Less frequently: Barbara, > >Gertrude, Dorothea, Charlote, Diana, Rebecca, Lydia , race, Phoebe, > >Henrietta, Lettice, Ursula, Penelope, Esther and Heather. > > > >The name Austin (for Augustine) was common in the Catholic peasantry in > >Connaught but was uncommon elsewhere. Lettice was widespread amongst > >Protestant families in Cavan. Lancelot in Monaghan. > > > >Jasper and Horatio had a vogue in Cork: Bernard and Sylvester in Cavan: > >Hyacinth in Galway: Ignatius and Xaverius were common amongst Catholics in > >Mayo and Galway, also Dominick. Florence was used as a boys name amongst > >the Catholics in Cork....Moses, usually a name used by Protestants was a > >popular Catholic name in Wexford. > > > > ______________________________