>"Graham Coward" <cowardz@zalphalink.com.au> wrote in message >news:436aa1a2$1@news.alphalink.com.au... >> My great grandfather had a sister with the unusual Christian name of >> "Strange". Now I'm guessing that this is a family surname from >somewhere. >> It wasn't her mother's maiden name but it could have belonged to a >> grandmother. Does anyone know of a "STRANGE" family in Ireland. My >family >> were KENNYs and lived in Newmarket Co. Cork. >> >> Graham Coward Graham, if you put "Peter Strange" + Waterford in Google, you'll get hits. I've researched a little of the Strange family as they seem to be somehow connected with my Cork/Waterford Murphys in the 1700s, but I haven't yet found a direct connection. Jan Dean