With the Mongey spelling the numbers jump to around 3000 ( mostly census results) but hitting the same early areas as Mongay Still looks like an early split off variation Marie (GOONS 5318) Bringing the world together one surname at a time. 'A Pepler Name' http://pepler.tribalpages.com 'Hedgerow - the Ancestors' http://cranberry.tribalpages.com Pepler DNA Study http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pepler-ow/ 'Scroops, Scropes and Scroopes' http://dentonlk.tribalpages.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Marie Byatt via <goons@rootsweb.com> To: mingay <mingay@xtra.co.nz>; GOONS Forum <GOONS@rootsweb.com>; "goons@rootsweb.com" <goons@rootsweb.com> Cc: Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 6:20 PM Subject: Re: [G] Puzzled? I would investigate Mongay - Family search only comes up with the exact spelling on less than 500 worldwide most afther the mid 1800s - ANcestry has just over 500 on exact spelling. Early records (1600s) are Germany/FRance/Spain and one family Mexico. Since you trace your Mingays back to Breton this could be a very early branch off and could also account for Ireland with the sea proximity. Marie (GOONS 5318) Bringing the world together one surname at a time. 'A Pepler Name' http://pepler.tribalpages.com 'Hedgerow - the Ancestors' http://cranberry.tribalpages.com Pepler DNA Study http://www.familytreedna.com/public/pepler-ow/ 'Scroops, Scropes and Scroopes' http://dentonlk.tribalpages.com ----- Original Message ----- From: mingay via <goons@rootsweb.com> To: GOONS Forum <GOONS@rootsweb.com> Cc: Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2014 5:44 PM Subject: [G] Puzzled? Hi All, Having 'found' many MINGEY families in the USA Censuses who claim they orginated (c.1830/1840 ish) in Ireland where apparently some of the same people have had their name transcribed as MONGEY/MINGY. Note that 'they carry the spelling as MINGEY through to c 1940 in USA Obviously if MINGY/MINGEY that would 'fall' within my registered surname researches but what if it is actually MONGEY, do I 'follow' that path? Remembering there are very few images of original data so that I can not check the correctness of the transcription, also note this is the first time anything like MINGAY/MINGEY/MINGY has been asscociated with Ireland. I can see that DNA might help but that could a be BIG project for me. At the moment the whole research/follow up has been put on the 'back-burner' because of its 'puzzlement'. Any advice on the way forward would be grateful received. Regards Tony Anthony John MINGAY, now in NZ once of Kent & Suffolk, England but still researching Worldwide the surname MINGAY & its variants. http://www.mingayhistory.co.uk. _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message