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Monaghan / Re: monahan vs. monaghan
« on: Tuesday 19 January 10 11:54 GMT (UK)  »
The surname 'Monaghan', with or without the 'g', is the English version of a Gaelic name  O Muimhneachain (pronounced ' O Mweenacawn') which means 'descendant of a Munster man'. Munster is the southern province of Ireland, including countiers Cork, Kerry, Tipperary etc.  The more common surname Moynihan has the same origin.

The surname has no connection with the place - they just both happen to have the same spelling. There are only a few families in Monaghan called Monahan - they have dropped the 'g' probably to avoid confusion.

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Monaghan / Re: 'Henry' family information? former Chemists in Monaghan???
« on: Tuesday 19 January 10 11:32 GMT (UK)  »
Henry's Medical Hall (i.e. chemist shop / drug store) was still going up to the 1970's, run by Hewitt Henry. I remember him as a smallish, slightly stooped man with a walrus moustache. He was a noted local amateur photographer. An advertisement at the end of a local history book published in 1895 states that the business was established in 1889, and the proprietor was Samuel Henry . See http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalsketch00rushrich#page/102/mode/2up

Monaghan Photograqphic Society has a photograph  of the shop for sale http://www.monaghanphotographicsociety.com/shadows/details.html
By the way, other replys mention the 'Greachen' family. This should be 'Greacen', pronounced 'Greesen'

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