I just did a search of Glin school records out of curiosity and there are 32 Williams listed between 1830-60 and all mainly from local Irish Catholic families Kerry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Keroack" <pkeroack@sbcglobal.net> To: <irl-limerick@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 12:41 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-LIMERICK] Are there certain given names that indicatesomeone's religion? > Getting back to the purpose of the original posting, I have Catholic > ancestors in both counties Kerry and Limerick. Regional differences may > have accounted for popularity of personal names, even within the same > religion. > > The personal names of my various family members in Limerick include > William and David, for instance, while in Kerry I have not found these > names at all in my family lines - the most common male ones there were > John, Daniel, Patrick, and Michael. > >>From sources such as Woulfe I understand that the Norman influence in >>Limerick may have added William and David to the mix while these names are >>less frequently seen in Kerry - West Kerry, at least. Not that the Norman >>influence was totally absent - Geoffrey and Maurice are not uncommon >>names. > > Paul Keroack > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: "wm.karr@insightbb.com" <wm.karr@insightbb.com> > To: irl-limerick@rootsweb.com > Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 8:58:04 PM > Subject: Re: [IRL-LIMERICK] Are there certain given names that indicate > someone's religion? > > Liz, > > You're probably right. However, he was over here making a good living. He > might not have had anything to fear by saying such a thing to me. Then > again, he could have been a IRA wannabe, who knows. > > Bill > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Liz Haren <lizharen@gmail.com> > Date: Sunday, February 17, 2008 18:15 > Subject: Re: [IRL-LIMERICK] Are there certain given names that indicate > someone's religion? > To: irl-limerick@rootsweb.com > >> I hope you realize that someone in the IRA would never discuss >> such a thing, >> right? Every culture has it's village idiot, sounds like >> you ran into one >> of them. >> >> Liz >> >> >>>He claimed he was part of the IRA and would shoot the >> Protestants in an >> ambush and then sit down and have a pint or two to celebrate. I >> only lasted >> the summer with him>>> >> >> On Feb 17, 2008 6:44 PM, <wm.karr@insightbb.com> wrote: >> >> > Kathy wrote <Helen, pardon the intrusion but saw your >> mention that "I >> > believe there was a protestant marriage further back, hence >> the name >> > 'William'" and am curious...is the name William a dead give >> away that >> > someone was Protestant or something?> >> > >> > Kathy and Helen, >> > >> > I was named after my father, William Joseph. However, he did >> not want a >> > junior, so my middle name is Patrick, having been born on >> March 17. I was >> > raised Catholic. >> > >> > However, when I was 16, I worked a summer job for an off-the- >> boat Irishman >> > that constantly teased me about being named after William of Orange. >> > Needless to say, I did not take that too well. He claimed he >> was part of the >> > IRA and would shoot the Protestants in an ambush and then sit >> down and have >> > a pint or two to celebrate. I only lasted the summer with him. >> > >> > Bill Karr in Peoria, IL., USA >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > IRL-LIMERICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the >> > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL- >> LIMERICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-LIMERICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-LIMERICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > Internal Virus Database is out-of-date. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.19.7/1233 - Release Date: > 19/01/2008 6:37 PM > >