Just browsing the listed numbers in the Louth phonebook: no Evatts, Mac-or-McEvatt. No Mcevitts (1 in westmeath). One McEvett. Thirty-two McKevitts. Declan "Tom McKevitt" <tommckevittsr@tds.net> wrote in message news:4353a669_2@newspeer2.tds.net... > Hello, list folks! I'm looking for people named Evatt. A Louth family, > Evatt was, in the 18th Century, > MacEvatt or McEvatt. Some turned to the "Established Church" and some the > Presbyterian religion. > Doing so, many dropped the Mc- / Mac- prefixes. The name may have gone > back to the early 17th > Century as an alias to avoid detection following the O'Dochartaigh / > MacDaibheid 1608 Derry Uprising. > By the later 17th - early 18th Centuries the name in Armagh-Louth-Down > completed a phonetic > change from the earlier MacDavitt/McDevitt to McKevitt, with the > transitional MacEvatt concentrated > in Louth. Your input appreciated. > >