This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_905105285_boundary Content-ID: <0_905105285@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII The writer of this e-mail and I are trying to find out if our respective Wisconsin ancestors are related. My ancestors (BARNEY LYNCH) first son was named John P., I'm sure after his father. I have no proof as yet but feel that there is a link between our two families if for no other reason than that of similar first names. Slim chance? You bet! Whole lines have been discovered on clues less positive than this one. --part0_905105285_boundary Content-ID: <0_905105285@inet_out.mail.tcsn.net.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline Return-Path: <LYNCH-L-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from relay25.mx.aol.com (relay25.mail.aol.com [172.31.109.25]) by air06.mail.aol.com (v49.1) with SMTP; Sun, 06 Sep 1998 13:28:56 -0400 Received: from fp-1.rootsweb.com (fp-1.rootsweb.com [207.113.233.233]) by relay25.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) with ESMTP id NAA17811; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 13:28:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from slist@localhost) by fp-1.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA19542; Sun, 6 Sep 1998 10:28:09 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 10:28:09 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 10:28:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <1.5.4.16.19980906102227.08d71710@tcsn.net> X-Sender: rreddick@tcsn.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (16) Old-To: LYNCH-L@rootsweb.com From: "Richard D. Reddick" <rreddick@tcsn.net> Subject: [LYNCH-L] Irish naming patterns Resent-Message-ID: <"CiKtsC.A.DxE.oYs81"@fp-1.rootsweb.com> To: LYNCH-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: LYNCH-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <LYNCH-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/395 X-Loop: LYNCH-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: LYNCH-L-request@rootsweb.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Lynch Rooters: Amy on the County Cork list sent over this interesting site. What is the naming pattern in your family? There are such traditions, and some of us may find clues in applying such a formula to our research. > >>From the Galway GenWeb page- > <"http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/9095/Galway.html"> > >"Old Irish Naming Patterns: > >1st son was named after the father's father. >2nd son was named after the mother's father. >3rd son was named after the father. >4th son was named after the father's eldest brother. > >1st daughter was named after the mother's mother. >2nd daughter was named after the father's mother. >3rd daughter was named after the mother. >4th daughter was named after the mother's eldest sister. > >"These patterns were not locked in, so to speak" > >"I've found this remarkably true in Ireland and in Newfoundland, but not in my >families once they come into the US. I think they often gave their children >American names to help them to fit in." Amy > I have heard of a couple of variations and formulas. My own Scottish surname tradition had to do with middle names. But this Irish naming pattern formula may have application to my wife's LYNCH line, and the mysterious John Lynch and Catherine McCarville who came to WI from Ireland by the 1850s. Continued success, Richard Daly Reddick --part0_905105285_boundary--