Baptisms and marriages were recorded in either Latin or English. Never in Irish. Generally where English was more common English was used and Latin was in Irish speaking parishes. Only the first names were translated into Latin, surname and placenames were not. Latin Name: English Equivalent/s Anna: Anne Carolus: Charles Cornelius: Cornelius, Conor, Neil Demetrius: Jeremiah, Jerome, Jerry, Dermot or Derby. (Demetrius is a Latinised form of the Irish name Diarmaid which had been incorrectly anglicised as Jeremiah) Gulielmus: William Hugones: Hugh Ioannes: John or Owen Jacobus: Jacob, James Johana: Johanna, Hannah, Joan, Jane Johanes, Joannes: John Honoria: Hannah, Nora, Norry Margarita: Margaret, Peg (Peig is actually the Irish name for Margaret) Maria: Mary Nigellus: Neil Timotheus, Thaddeus: Timothy, Tadgh, Thady Variations: Latin words change their endings according to their case: nominative, accusative, genitive and dative. Endings also change depending on whether the noun is singular and plural. You may notice changes to endings such as: Maria (nom.),Mariam (acc.) Marie (gen.), Marie (dat.) Gulielmus, Gulielmm, Gulielmui Fillius, Filium, Filii, filio, filia Johannes (John), Johannem, Johannis, Johanni Johanna (Johanna, Joan), Johannam, Johanne Surnames were given at baptism as Christian names frequently by Protestants and sometimes applied to both sexes. Names: Florence: more usually a male name in Ireland Sydney or Sideny used for both sexes but more commonly as a female name. Evelyn - both sexes All confused due to their slight differences. Francis (male) Frances (female) Olive (female) Olave (Male) Jess (Male) Jessie (female) Edie - a male name in Ireland, confused with diminutive of Edith. Kitty usually the diminutive of Catherine, but also used in the forms Kit and Kitty as a diminutive for Christopher. Constant or Constance found for a boy in Co. Clare. Constance and Constantia are found as girls' names. Giles: usually a male name but found in Ireland as a female name and an Anglization of Sheila. Catholics in 19thC sometimes gave male children second name of Mary or Maria, and Anne Bartle, Bat, Batty, Bartly are forms of Bartholomew. Toby a form of Theobold Con, Connor, Corny and Neily a form of Cornelius Rory and Roddy a form of Roderick Sandy : Alexander Centy : Hyacinth Lack and Lacky : Laughlin Darby : Dermot Castor and Kit : Christopher Nancy and Nany are forms of Anne and Hannah Bessie, Betsy and Lizzie forms of Elizabeth Polly, Molly and Mally forms of Mary Juggy form of Judith Honor, Honny, Onny, Noey and Norah are forms of Honorah Biddy, Bride and Beesy of Bridget Anty of Anastsia (Anstace) Peggy, Maggy of Margaret Nell and Nelly of Ellen, Helen and Eleanor. Polly also used to Martha Interchangeables: Alexander: Alistair Theobold: Tobias (because of common diminutive = Toby) Edward: Edmond ( because of phonetic similarity) Patrick: Bartholomew (solely through confusion of respective diminutives Pat and Bat) Jacob: James (because of latin form Jacobus) Gerald: Garrett, Gerard Owen: Eugene (both being used as translations of the Irish Eoghain) Daniel: David ( due to poor penmanship and mis-reading or mis-copying) Peter: Patrick (in Ulster) Randal: Randolph: Ralph ( all variants of the same name and rendered Randolphus in latin) Bridget: Bedelia: Delia: Bessy" Abigail: Deborah (because of the similarity of their respective diminutives Abbie and Debbie and of Gubbie the diminutive of the Irish Gobnet) Jane: Joan, Jean (all being rendered Johanna in Latin) Alice: Ellen (probably due to the diminutive Eily for both the Irish names Eilish and Eileen) Grizell: Grace (In Ulster) Susan: Johanna (as renderings of the Irish Siobhán) Giles: Cecily, Cecilia, Celia, Julia (Irish Sheelagh) Hannah: Honora, Johanna Judith: Julia (perhaps due to the similarity of their diminutives Judy and julie) Irish or English equivalents of one another, but not necessarily being a correct translation of such names: Irish: English Brian: Bernard, Barnabas (Barney) Diarmaid (Dermot): Jeremiah, Darby, Demetrius Tiernan: Terence Teige: Thaddeus (Thady) Morrogh: Morgan Aodh : Hugh, Edie Tirlogh: Terence Eoghain: Owen, Eugene Cormac: Charles Cathal: Charles Eamonn: Edmond, Edward, Aimon Conchobar: Connor, Cornelius, Constantine Donogh: Denis, Donat Dhonal: Daniel, Donald Eileen: Ellen, Helen, Eleanor Eilish: Alice Siobhán: Johanna, Susan, Jane Sheelagh: Cecilia, Cecily, Giles, Sheila, Celia, Julia Oonagh: Una, Winifred. Until the end of the mid 18thC it was unusual for a child to receive more than one Christian name in Ireland, although there were some standard favourite combinations such as Ann Jane, Mary Anne. Even in the 19thC the practise of giving a second Christian name was slowly adopted....starting with the richer gentry. People tended to take on a second name on arrival in a new country, it may have been the name of their father Favourite Catholic Christian names were: John, Patrick, James, Denis, William, Darby, Dermot, Daniel, Cornelius, Henry, Timothy, Thomas, Michael, Jeremiah, Bartholomew, Brain, Laurence, Thady, Terence, Owen, Martin, Mathias, David and Josepeh for boys. Dominick enjoyed vogue in the 17thC..Columb, Malachy, Miles, Felix, Ambrose and Stanislaus were less commonly used. Aloysius is rare before the 19th C. For girls: Mary, Catherine, Bridget, Honora, Margaret, Ellen, Anastasia, Johanna, Judith, Julia, Rosanna, Maryanne, Elizabeth and Jane. Less common were Magdalen, Monica and Theresa. Marcella is found in Ireland but is rare in England. Protestants: Arthur, John, Henry, James, William, Frederick, George, Edward, Richard, Charles, Philip, Oliver, Jonathan, Anthony, Andrew, Simon, Marmaduke and Sstephen. They also used old testament names which were rarely used by Catholics such as Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Isaac , Samuel, Joshua, Gamaliel. Protestant girls: Mary, Sarah, Elizabeth, Eleanor, Lucy, Catherine, Susanna, Hannah, Margaret, Jane, Isabella, Frances and Alice. Less frequently: Barbara, Gertrude, Dorothea, Charlotte, Diana, Rebecca, Lydia , Race, Phoebe, Henrietta, Lettice, Ursula, Penelope, Esther and Heather. The name Austin (for Augustine) was common in the Catholic peasantry in Connaught but was uncommon elsewhere. Lettice was widespread amongst Protestant families in Cavan. Lancelot in Monaghan. Jasper, Horatio and Darby were popular in Cork: Bernard and Sylvester in Cavan: Hyacinth in Galway: Ignatius and Xaverius were common amongst Catholics in Mayo and Galway, also Dominick. Florence was used as a boys name amongst the Catholics in Cork....Moses, usually a name used by Protestants was a popular Catholic name in Wexford. Fintan in Laois