How was Rowan pronounced? I am a Rowan researcher. I attended a family reunion a few years ago and when I pronounced the name Ro-WAN I was told I was "rising above my raising" :^). The few people who have been related pronounced the name as spoken by my mother. The reunion folks used ROW-in as their pronunciation. I would think Rohan would sound like my family name. I think my family came from county Mayo. Do you know any Rowan's who emigrated to Maryland, USA? ________________________________ From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 4:00:38 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-GALWAY] Names in Gaelic For what it's worth.... We knew my family as Rowan and that's what we stuck with in our research. However, we started finding early U.S. records showing Roughan, Rohan, etc. Sure as shootin'...we found the records in Limerick as Roughan, Rohan, Roohan, etc. I never, ever, found my families as Rowan (in Limerick) in the Giffith's, baptisms, etc. My Galway side always used Welch in the U.S. When researching records in Galway, the name (in 1820's, 1840's) was exclusively Walsh. Kitty **************Need a job? Find employment help in your area. (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=employment_agencies&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000005) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I know of Rowans in Western Maryland--they put the accent on the first , skipped the h entirely, and pronounced the second syllable as ON (not awn).  No idea where they wree from   Kathleen