I don't know about Ireland but I have plenty of examples from several lines of my family of North American gravestones being incorrect: these include ages and dates of death that don't match registration information and also incorrect names. My great-grandmother Ellen Todd's headstone has read Ellen Codd since it was put there in 1901, for example. Most of my family don't like paying for them in the first place and sure didn't want to pay for corrections. In any case, I'm not sure to what degree what is being called Irish naming patterns in this thread really is Irish. Part of my family is Scottish and they followed this pattern pretty religiously right down to the mid-1900s. I have also seen it followed in my lines from the north of Ireland who were either Scots-Irish or influenced by the Scots. In my father's line, my name is the first in seven generations that was not according to the pattern. My grandfather let my mother know what the expectations were from the family for my name and he was very displeased when she named my middle name after him rather than giving me his name. I have seen no trace of it in the several lines in my wife's family from Galway and Roscommon. An occasional name might appear to comply but the vast majority seem to have chosen names of uncles and aunts or other relatives. In addition, with our own children there was no pressure from the Irish side about names but no shortage of reminders from the Scottish side about traditions. John Carey -----Original Message----- From: irl-galway-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irl-galway-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of helenware Sent: March 5, 2010 3:27 PM To: irl-galway@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRL-GALWAY] Irish naming patterns My family followed it also, and that is my mystery-on the gravestone it says my g.g.grandfather 's parents were Patrick and Ann "Mary"---but I find no records for those name-I do however find James and they named oldest son James-second son Hugh (after her father)-so I wonder if his sons had correct info when he died. I have found so many mistakes in names and dates from Family records--but I am not sure -they named first daughter after wife's Mother and second after his Mother--so it would seem the eldest named James would be after father's Dad. It just seems when you see a name engraved on the grave stone-it should be correct! Have any of you ever had this happen with names back in the early 1800's in Ireland? Helen ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-GALWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message