Thank you everyone for your help regarding "pet names" in Ireland!! I have an interesting pet name for an ancestor whose given name was Julia which was "Juddy". I suppose it could be a miss spelling on her death cert. I if it wasn't for other specific facts on the death certificate, I certainly would not have taken "Juddy" for "Julia"!! Maureen In a message dated 6/18/2010 2:07:11 A.M. Central Daylight Time, irl-galway-request@rootsweb.com writes: Today's Topics: 1. Re: pet names (Karin A. Joyce) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:34:29 -0400 From: "Karin A. Joyce" <KarinJoyce@rcn.com> Subject: Re: [IRL-GALWAY] pet names To: <irl-galway@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <528A22B5E7674582979704D7A0F439C8@UPSTAIRS5> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Although too many to list - there is some "rhyme and reason" to the nicknames in Ireland - after awhile you just become familiar with them. However when it comes to a "pet" name put on someone it is because of something they always did, an occupation or even carried over from their father. It is a tradition of sorts. Maybe because there were too many Johns, Michaels and Toms. Examples of people I know: Bunny (he loved bunnies as a child), Gutherheels (his pant cuffs were always scuthered), Bugsy (he was a bit nutty), Doc (his father was a Doctor), Bucky (don't know the origin but he got it from his father who was also a Bucky), Checker (he wore checkered pants), Major (the local Major was gone and he acquired the name), Clippers (he was a barber) and loads more. Also, Elizabeth has been known to be Lee or Lillie (Lily) and the Irish as most Europeans tend to end names in "ie" rather than the American "y" as in Billie, Lillie, Lizzie, Joie, etc. Maybe someone knows the origin of that. Karin ------------------------------ To contact the IRL-GALWAY list administrator, send an email to IRL-GALWAY-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the IRL-GALWAY mailing list, send an email to IRL-GALWAY@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ 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 email with no additional text. End of IRL-GALWAY Digest, Vol 5, Issue 85 *****************************************

Maureen, Juddy looks like it could have been an alternate spelling for Judy (short for Judith). In 20+ years of researching Irish families, I've often seen Judy and Judith used interchangeably with Julia, Julie, and even Jude and Johanna (and all its variants like Joanna, Hanna, Anna, etc.) - for the same woman. Members of my own Kavanagh and Farrell families from along the Tipperary-Laois border were baptized as Judith but appear in later records both in Ireland and in the US under nearly all these variants. So I know that it is possible for the same Judith to be called by many different equivalent names (or nicknames) over the course of her lifetime! Geralyn Wood Barry in Oregon, USA whose mother's ancestors were all Irish - mostly Famine immigrants who settled in Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, but had relatives who lived in New York City, Brooklyn and Albany (New York) and Dakota County, Minnesota... and probably many other places! On 6/18/2010 6:43 AM, MOMO320@aol.com wrote: > Thank you everyone for your help regarding "pet names" in Ireland!! > I have an interesting pet name for an ancestor whose given name was Julia > which was "Juddy". I suppose it could be a miss spelling on her death cert. > I if it wasn't for other specific facts on the death certificate, I > certainly would not have taken "Juddy" for "Julia"!! > Maureen > > >

My grandmother was Ellen, usually referred to as either Ella or Ellie. On her marriage certificate in the U.S. she is listed as "Helenauer". That is the only place I have seen that variant. Is anyone familiar with it? -----Original Message----- From: irl-galway-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irl-galway-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Geralyn Barry Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 2:12 PM To: irl-galway@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRL-GALWAY] Juddy = Judy = Julia = etc. Maureen, Juddy looks like it could have been an alternate spelling for Judy (short for Judith). In 20+ years of researching Irish families, I've often seen Judy and Judith used interchangeably with Julia, Julie, and even Jude and Johanna (and all its variants like Joanna, Hanna, Anna, etc.) - for the same woman. Members of my own Kavanagh and Farrell families from along the Tipperary-Laois border were baptized as Judith but appear in later records both in Ireland and in the US under nearly all these variants. So I know that it is possible for the same Judith to be called by many different equivalent names (or nicknames) over the course of her lifetime! Geralyn Wood Barry in Oregon, USA whose mother's ancestors were all Irish - mostly Famine immigrants who settled in Paterson, Passaic County, New Jersey, but had relatives who lived in New York City, Brooklyn and Albany (New York) and Dakota County, Minnesota... and probably many other places! On 6/18/2010 6:43 AM, MOMO320@aol.com wrote: > Thank you everyone for your help regarding "pet names" in Ireland!! > I have an interesting pet name for an ancestor whose given name was Julia > which was "Juddy". I suppose it could be a miss spelling on her death cert. > I if it wasn't for other specific facts on the death certificate, I > certainly would not have taken "Juddy" for "Julia"!! > Maureen > > > ------------------------------- 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