Is anyone studying families named Hassett, Hassard, or any variant? My gr.-gr.-grandmother was born Honora Hassard, according to one source, = but apparently was Nora Hassett according to another. I have read that = these names are variants of one another and wonder whether they were = simply inter-changeable in the mid-nineteenth century in Clare. Honora married Daniel Melican and they raised their family in the = townland of Ballycally (now Ballycalla). That is in the parish of = Newmarket-on-Fergus, and lies between Shannon airport and the River = Fergus. A number of the offspring of Dan and Nora emigrated to New Zealand as = young adults in the eighteen-sixties and founded families. As one of = their descendants I would be interested in hearing anything about the = possibilities of my being related to any current Hassard or Hassett = descendants, apart from those descended from the Melican line. Is anyone out there doing a one-name study of the Hassett/ Hassard = family? Robert Kennedy (Takaka, New Zealand)