Hello A French correspondent asked your help with names on a French death certificate; I've given her the family names (it's the Walsh family - and because they're near Nantes, it's probably the slave-trading lot, though a bit later) However the name of the place they came from, I can't make out, and I don't know Ireland so I can't even make an educated guess. It is St(e) somewhere that looks like Dost or Dopt and because of that 'e' after St, it'll be a female saint - unless the registrar got it wrong Can anyone help? TIA Liz Owen

Liz Owen wrote: > Hello > A French correspondent asked your help with names on a French death > certificate; I've given her the family names (it's the Walsh family - and > because they're near Nantes, it's probably the slave-trading lot, though a > bit later) > However the name of the place they came from, I can't make out, and I don't > know Ireland so I can't even make an educated guess. > It is St(e) somewhere that looks like Dost or Dopt and because of that 'e' > after St, it'll be a female saint - unless the registrar got it wrong > > Can anyone help? It looks like Sledoft, but I'm not sure about the f which is different to other lower case f on the page. I can't find anything like it in the Irish Times gazeteer. I suspect it's the name of an estate in Ireland, rather than a parish or townland.

"Liz Owen" <l.owen@free.fr> wrote in message news:4b76b121$0$29963$426a74cc@news.free.fr... > Hello > A French correspondent asked your help with names on a French death > certificate; I've given her the family names (it's the Walsh family - and > because they're near Nantes, it's probably the slave-trading lot, though a > bit later) > However the name of the place they came from, I can't make out, and I > don't know Ireland so I can't even make an educated guess. > It is St(e) somewhere that looks like Dost or Dopt and because of that 'e' > after St, it'll be a female saint - unless the registrar got it wrong > > Can anyone help? To me it looks like there is a lower case 'd' in there if you compare it with the capital 'D' in 'Dame Jane Walsh' that appears in the line immediately below it. It's difficult and the only letters I'd hazard an opinion on would be '?tedo?t' and even then I wouldn't argue if anyone thought differently.