I know two people not related both called Hayes, mind you they are in the Liverpool area Imelda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cyril Newsome" <cnews@eircom.net> To: <wexford@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 5:43 PM Subject: Re: [WEXFORD] More Doyles. Murphys, Redmonds, Laceys, McCrearys > Suzanne, > > Do not dismiss the name of KAVANAGH which is the more common variant of > the > name over here. > > I find that most times the name is corrupted to the spellings you have > outside of Ireland, even as far as to pronounce it as KAV-ANNA in the UK. > I > think they live under the illusion that it sounds better and sort of loses > the link to their Irish ancestry? This was more common amongst the Irish > communities in the days when you saw the signs saying "Irish not welcome" > or > "need not apply", so a change of spelling could open doors for them. > > Sadly phonetics has lost a lot of the origins over the years. I put it > down > to immigration officers in various lands not being familiar with the > English/Irish language or brogues who could not be bothered but wrote it > as > it sounded. Of course in a lot of cases the Irish themselves could not > read > or write to question or correct the matter. > > Another one I often come across, lost in translation, is the name of HAYES > which has been corrupted to HAISE/HAYS/HAZE etc.. > > slan > > Cyril Newsome > Loch Garman > > > > > Wexford Surnames List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/wexford.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WEXFORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.16/1928 - Release Date: 1/31/2009 8:03 PM