irl-kilkenny-request@rootsweb.com wrote: >Add/check your County Kilkenny surname at: >http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/Kilkenny/ > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Lennigan and Welsh ancestors (Auspicenumine@aol.com) > 2. Re: Lennigan and Welsh ancestors (Auspicenumine@aol.com) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 06:13:45 EDT >From: Auspicenumine@aol.com >Subject: Re: [KILKENNY] Lennigan and Welsh ancestors >To: irl-kilkenny@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <55b.728a3ac.324905d9@aol.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > >Hi, I am trying to trace my husbands grt.grandad place of birth. His names >is James Welsh born about 1836/37 we believe in the Kilkenny/ Carlow area >his father was known as James Welsh mother unknown both James were Coalminers, >James Junior came to england (Staffordshire were he married a Mary Robinson >in1861) then moved to Scotland and carried on as a coalminer. I know you say >Walsh but a priest we spoke to when in ireland 18months ago said that in the >same family they used the two names Welsh?Walsh. I hope you may be able to >help, as at the moment i am stuck? > >regards >Beryl Welsh > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 2 >Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:18:19 EDT >From: Auspicenumine@aol.com >Subject: Re: [KILKENNY] Lennigan and Welsh ancestors >To: irl-kilkenny@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <461.617afe6.324914fb@aol.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > >Hi >Iam tracing my husbands ancestors, and have now come to a full stop. We have >his grt.grandfather James Welsh born 1836/37 in the killkenny and Carlow >area his father was James also, mother not known. Both Father and son were >coalminers James Junior moved to england about 1858 and married a Mary Robinson >in Stoke on Trent in 1861 they then moved to Scotland and he carried on as a >coalminer, and this is were he started my husbands ancestors. and as you say >Welsh or Walsh. When we were over in killkenny area trying to trace his >ancestors a priest told us that sometime in the same family they would use >Welsh or Walsh. We are hoping you may have some connections to enable us to >continue aur tracing of there ancestors. > >regards >Beryl Welsh > > >------------------------------ > >To contact the IRL-KILKENNY list administrator, send an email to >IRL-KILKENNY-admin@rootsweb.com. > >To post a message to the IRL-KILKENNY mailing list, send an email to IRL-KILKENNY@rootsweb.com. > >__________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-KILKENNY-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-KILKENNY Digest, Vol 1, Issue 12 >******************************************* >I have found that Welsh and Walsh are routinely interchanged, Long with Brannack in all its various spellings. They stem from the first immigrants from Wales to Ireland in medieval times and seemed to have localised in Kilkenny. On my first visit to Ireland I told my wife's cousin that my grandmother's name was Brannack and his response was "Oh--Walsh!" Fred Boland BOLAND BRANNACK FOLEY McMANIGAL/McMONEGAL > > > >