Julie, Some more on Lanty. All my Google searches turn up Lancelot in connection with Lanty. The geographical references below all seem to belong to a region between Upperchurch, Moyaliff and Clogher on the west, Templemore on the northeast and Thurles on the east. http://cygnus.homelinux.net:4242/writing/names/celtic-male.txt Celtic Male Names of Ireland Laughlin (LOFF-lin or LOCK-lin) "servant of St. Secundinus". Lanty, Lany, Leachlainn, Loughlin. Leachlainn (LEKH-len) "servant of St. Secundinus". Laughlin, Lochlainn, Lanty. http://www.hotkey.net.au/~jwilliams4/nnew394.htm The following index of names has been taken from the Nenagh Guardian, a newspaper published in Nenagh, Co Tipperary. Nenagh Guardian News 1839 Index 4 Co Tipperary Fogarty Lanty Bridwellkeeper Templemore/evidence/Dan BYRNE trial Fogarty Lanty /Main street Templemore/mentioned in trial BYRNE Fogarty Magrath Ballinlonty//Record Panel/North Riding.Nenagh Assizes Note townland named Ballinlonty - it is near Templemore http://www.ryans.org/Nicknames.htm Ryan Nicknames Terry's 1999 List Lanty Carrow Donohill Mary's 2004 List Lanty Knocknakill Templebeg Janet's List Lanty Turraheen Clogher http://home.austin.rr.com/mfmcgraw/McGraths%20of%20Truxton%2001.pdf P. 214-216 in "The McGrath Family of Truxton, New York" The Interesting Name of Lanty. Best Regards, Mike McGraw Austin, TX -----Original Message----- From: Julie Robinson [mailto:juliejameson@crazycat45.demon.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 6:06 PM To: IRL-TIPPERARY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [TIP] "LANTY" RYAN Hello Michael and List, Thanks for that information about the name being a surname diminutive rather than that of a Christian name. Yes, like you, I've come across "Lanty" but nowhere any indication proof positive that it derives from this or from that. The closest I came was in connecting it to a "Cornelius" Delaney. It could well be, for we have "Betty" and "Dick" as examples of other pet names that, to a non-English speaking person, would never suggest "Elizabeth" or "Richard". Another suggestion was that it is from the English "Lawrence" or our Irish equivalent "Lorcan". I'm still open to further possibilities - or better still, certainties - from other Listers. Meanwhile, I have to refer you all to a book I found on the internet. "A Humorous Tale" published in Philadelphia in 1850 by one Gregory Seaworthy, pseudonym of George Throop 1818-1896 has a "Lanty" Oliphant as a character. Though, speed reading through this tale, I failed to spot the man in question. Slainte, Julie ==== IRL-TIPPERARY Mailing List ==== Online Tipperary Census: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irltip2/census_ndx.htm