Although I have not begun an all-out effort on researching Roughan, I do believe that Ronan is a spelling which Roughan researchers should consider a variation. Now as I run through online materials, I will be mindful to collect and post something by someone with real credentials in Irish surnames, such as Maurice Lenihan (1800s, wrote a history of Limerick) of our own Clare region. A few years ago by request, I posted the dozens of spelling variations found while doing Carberry research, with many of the odd ones being verified through records as actually Carberry. I am now trying to determine why so many families, particularly on the Eastern seaboard of the U.S., apparently chose (rather than being mistaken by recordtakers) to be known as Coby or Corboy and then much later changed to the usual Carberry spelling. I suspect that it is because there was a Gerberich family who settled Pennsylvania in the 1700s, a line of which was using Carberry as of the early 1800s. The new settlers of the mid-1800s may have chosen a distinctly different spelling in order to maintain their own cultural identity. Back in Clare, it is known that the Minogue and Mannix are interchangeable, for some reason significant within that family and not of general relevance to Irish surnames overall. Sharon Carberry Georgia USA ----- Original Message ----- From: <DUCKEECPS@aol.com> To: <irl-clare@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 7:51 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-CLARE] Ronan of Kilrush and NY > Sorry to jump in. Is Ronan another name for Roughan, Rowan, etc? Oh > my...if it is I will have to add it to the list of "possibilities". On a couple of > church records for my Rowan families, I also have Roone and Rooney!! In some > census, it has been Rohan, Rohen.... > > > Kitty > Illinois > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-CLARE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.15.18/585 - Release Date: 12/13/2006 > >