Jane, Sorry, just a little clarification svp. The list of names below, is the order surname followed by given name or given name followed by surname? Peter Mitchell (Searching for Mitchell's & D'Arcy's around Clifden, Derrigimlagh, Ballyconnelly or Tuam in Galway County or anyplace in Monaghan County) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dr. Jane Lyons" <sniliaghin@iol.ie> To: <IRL-GALWAY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 4:17 PM Subject: [GALWAY] Kilcroan parish : Ballyhaugay West 1901 census > Spelled as above on the 1901 census returns. > > Spelled 'Ballyhaugeag', West in the pamphelts published by the General > Registrar's Office in Dublin, 1885 - re-published in the Townlands and Poor > Law Unions of Ireland, Edited by G.B. Handrahan > > and I can find nothing close to either spelling in the 1851 townlands > directory. > > I have not checked variations on the word Bally though - so it may be there > with the Bally replaced by Ballin - Ballina or Ballinagh - or, even Ballagh. > > Regardless, the following people were listed as the Heads of Household in > the townland of Ballyhaugay West, Kilcroan parish in County Galway in 1901. > Seventeen families in all. > > Druchy Patrick > Gormley Patrick > Kenny Patrick > Hanley Michael > Mitchell Martin > Mullen Michael > Fox Michael > Moogan John > Burke Edward > Mulvihill Bernard > Lyons James > Keaveny Andrew > Fannon Bridget > Skiffington Michael > Dane Patrick > Dean Martin > > If any person is familiar with this place, with any of these families and > knows another spelling for it - be that spelling phonetic or whatever, I'd > be interested in knowing this other spelling. Does anyone know the spelling > as per the Tithes or the Griffiths? > > Please and thanks > > I am not researching any of the above families - and have taken no > information other than what I list and the number of the plot/house they > lived in as per the enumerators sheet. Patrick Dane's name was spelled Dean > on the enumerators sheets - or else, it was Martin Dean was spelled as Dane. > Either way, the spelling/name given here is as per the individual family > sheet, filled out and signed by the person who lived in the house. The name > given on the enumerator's sheet was wrong - for one of them - spelling wise > compared to those individual family sheets. Usually though, when two people > with such close names live beside one another - you find they are related > and the name used to be the same. > > Jane > > > ==== IRL-GALWAY Mailing List ==== > New!! Irish-American Mailing List, > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Ethnic-Irish/IRISH-AMERICAN.html > To unsub or change your Irl-Galway mailing mode: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/IRL/IRL-GALWAY.html > > ============================== > Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for > ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx > >