Was the surname QUAID a fairly common name in the early 19th Century in Rathkeale, Limerick? I would like to find out about the parents of my ancestor DAVID QUAID. He was born about 1804/5, and in 1823 enlisted at Rathkeale in the 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade. He died in 1884, an army pensioner at Netley, Hampshire. I have no idea of the parents names, however, David named his only son James, and his two daughters as Mary Ann and Elizabeth, so these may have been family names. Can anyone advise me how I would go about finding more information on this Quaid family? Jean.

Jean,   I don't have any personal info on this family but I did make a  free search in Griffiths (1850s) via www.askaboutireland.ie . For the Poor Law Union of Rathkeale, there were 20 returns for Quaid - eight of them were for the occupiers alone - several more may have been lessors, perhaps just to laborers or other relatives. I didn't search in depth.   The 1890 Matheson survey of frequency of surnames shows no Quaid (less than five births of that surname in Ireland) but over fifty to McQuaid, but most of those were in Monaghan or Fermanagh, where, according to MacLysaght, that name originated. Quaid was the variation in Limerick, but was apparently less common.   Paul Keroack       --- On Wed, 3/23/11, jean rinaldi <[email protected]> wrote: From: jean rinaldi <[email protected]> Subject: [IRL-LIMERICK] QUAID of Rathkeale, Limerick. To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2011, 12:47 AM Was the surname QUAID a fairly common name in the early 19th Century in Rathkeale, Limerick? I would like to find out about the parents of my ancestor DAVID QUAID. He was born about 1804/5, and in 1823 enlisted at Rathkeale in the 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade.   He died in 1884, an army pensioner at Netley, Hampshire. I have no idea of the parents names, however, David named his only son James, and his two daughters as Mary Ann and Elizabeth, so these may have been family names. Can anyone advise me how I would go about finding more information on this Quaid family? Jean. ------------------------------- 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