Hi Sue I had guessed at first that my relatives came from Northern Ireland because of the different spellings of the name. If you say them out loud and imagine a NI accent, they all sound nearly the same. Yours fit that bill too. My gg grandparents were William McAnulty and Margaret McIlwain (I think, the writing of the mother's maiden surname on my ggrandmothers marriage certificate is not too clear). According to this certificate she (MARY McANULTY) was born about 1847 in Glasgow. Her husband's death certificate shows the informant as WILLIAM McINALTY - brother in law, and when I found him in the 1881 census he had an older brother ROBERT McANULTY lodging with him. William's birthplace was Bridgeton, Glasgow and Robert's birthplace was Ireland, APPROX 1840. so that would mean that the family came to Glasgow from Ireland some time between 1840 and 1847. And that's about all the information I have except for family legends. An aunt of mine was described by my mother as having the McNulty eyes - she had rather prominent blue eyes. And the McAnultys were all musical. I know some of them played fiddles in a band in the 1920's but don't know if they were professional or amateur, and a JOHN mCaNULTY played violin with the Scottish National Orchestra in the 1970s, and he was a far out relation of my mothers, although I never met him. The odd thing is I don' think Mum even realised she was saying the name differently on each occasion, so I think she was repeating it as she had heard it. Her mother ELIZABETH MOAN (daughter of Mary McAnulty) died when Mum was 2 years old in 1915. I should be going up to Scotland during the summer - I have promised myself time at the GRO(S, and I also mean to go over to Glasgow to search the archives at the Cathedral. I'll let you know if I find out anything else. Margaret Steele Hampshire, England <margaret.steele@virgin.net> -----Original Message----- From: SMrcus@aol.com [mailto:SMrcus@aol.com] Sent: 14 March 2000 19:29 To: IRL-MONAGHAN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MONAGHAN] McNally, Wallace Hi Margaret, I suspect that McAnally could have been McAnaully or some version thereof. My "cousin" who married into the family in the early 1940's got the information from her husband's father (my grandmother's brother) and she says the way he pronounced it made it sound more like Macanaully than McNally. My great grandmother, Ann Jane McAnally Wilson, named my grandmother Ann Jane also, but as far as I know they both went by Annie. I have an obit for Elizabeth Wallace McAnally's brother, John Wallace. He was born in 1808 in Monaghan County. Someone on another list said that McNally was a Monaghan Co name & I thought that would make sense in my case with a Wallace-McNally marriage. I ordered the 1851 census from my FHC to try to find my great grandmother's siblings. For now, she's the only one whose name I have. It looks like it's going to be a long wait, though. I'm into the 6th week already. Thank you for writing. I'll let you know what I find in the census. Sue Marcus In a message dated 3/13/00 7:39:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, margaret.steele@virgin.net writes: << I don't know if this is any connection but I have McNULTY, McINULTY, McANULTY, McANALTY's (all the same family) I think from Monaghan, although I am still looking for hard evidence. What caught my eye in your message was the name Ann Jane. My g. grandmother MARY McANULTY's daughter and grand-daughter were called ANNIE JANE (Jane wasn't the middle name, they were called Annie Jane) and I haven't worked out where the name came from. >> ==== IRL-MONAGHAN Mailing List ==== ©