Mary and list, Am I correct in understanding Florence, Sylvester and Cornelius and interchangeable? Also, any thoughts on Jeffery/Geoffrey/Gottefriede? Are there names that are interchangeable with it? Thanks, Leslie -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of marysimpson Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 5:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [IRL-KERRY] names, names Michael, Jeremiah / Dermot / Darby are interchangeable. Bart / Batt ( or Battie ) / Bartholomew ditto. Edward / Edmund / Eamonn / Ned ( or Nedeen, even better ). And don't forget Florence ( male name in Ireland ), Sylvester, and Cornelius also.... If only people had the courage to use them nowadays! Mary _______________ --------------- Policies of the IRL-Kerry List: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/mailing.html 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. To subscribe to the Digest version of the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'subscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. To visit the County Kerry Research and Resources Page go to: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ Share your stuff! If you transcribed research data, share it with the Irish genealogy community. Contribute it to the Kerry website to reach a wide audience. Contact Ann Hammer, data maintenance. Her contact info is at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ contrib.html ------------------------------- 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

Leslie,   No, Cornelius was the "saint's name" for the Irish CONNOR - which is now popular on its own. My grandfather was Cornelius, generally known as Con or Connie.   Not sure about Sylvester.   Geoffrey (or the more English form, Jeffrey) was a Norman-French introduction to Ireland, related to the Germanic Gotfried. It was "translated" to Irish as Seafra or Seafraid (according to Woulfe). It was popular in Kerry at least.   Some other old Irish names found (usually anglicized) among emigrants esp. from Kerry: Murtaugh=Mortimer Muiris=Maurice Domnall or Donal=Daniel Riocard=Richard (pronounced Rickard) Eogan=Eugene  Gobnait=Abigail or Deborah Nora=Honora, Honoria Eibilin=Eileen, Ellen, Helen, Nellie, &c. Sioban=Joan, Johanna, Hannah   Paul --- On Fri, 2/11/11, Leslie Rahling <[email protected]> wrote: From: Leslie Rahling <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] names, names To: "'marysimpson'" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Date: Friday, February 11, 2011, 11:10 AM Mary and list, Am I correct in understanding Florence, Sylvester and Cornelius and interchangeable? Also, any thoughts on Jeffery/Geoffrey/Gottefriede?  Are there names that are interchangeable with it? Thanks, Leslie -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of marysimpson Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 5:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [IRL-KERRY] names, names Michael, Jeremiah /  Dermot /  Darby are interchangeable. Bart /  Batt ( or Battie ) /  Bartholomew ditto. Edward /  Edmund / Eamonn /  Ned ( or Nedeen, even better ). And don't forget Florence ( male name in Ireland ), Sylvester, and Cornelius also.... If only people had the courage to use them nowadays! Mary _______________ ---------------          Policies of the IRL-Kerry List: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/mailing.html 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. To subscribe to the Digest version of the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'subscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. To visit the County Kerry Research and Resources Page go to: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ Share your stuff!  If you transcribed research data, share it with the Irish genealogy community. Contribute it to the Kerry website to reach a wide audience. Contact Ann Hammer, data maintenance.  Her contact info is at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ contrib.html ------------------------------- 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 _______________ ---------------          Policies of the IRL-Kerry List: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/mailing.html                                                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. To subscribe to the Digest version of the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'subscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. To visit the County Kerry Research and Resources Page go to: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ Share your stuff!  If you transcribed research data, share it with the Irish genealogy community. Contribute it to the Kerry website to reach a wide audience. Contact Ann Hammer, data maintenance.  Her contact info is at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ contrib.html ------------------------------- 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

Hi, all, Here¹s what I can find... Dermot: ³Diarmaid, signifying the god of arms, is derived from ³Dia², a god, and ³Armaid², the ...plural of ³Arm². ....This name is Anglicised ³Diarmot² and has become a surname, as MacDermott². The only thing I could find that seems like Jeremiah (phonetically) is this: ³Gearrmaide, derived from ³Gearr, short, and ³maide², a stick; signifying the chief of the short cudgel. Bart with a period (Bart.) is short for Baronet, but Bart by itself is short for Bartholemew. In addition, Cornelius: "Conchobhar (Anglicized "Conor" and Latinized "Cornelius", derived from Cu or Con, and "Cobhair", signifying the helping warrior". Haven't found anything on the others you mentioned, but I see no connection between those three names. Maybe Geoffrey was one of those Norman names who settled and adapted Irish surnames. Gottfried sure sounds like it. Kitty