Surname Ni Longphuirt

[shanew147]

some people on the 1911 census in Cork with similar spelling - father has his full name in English as Lankford, everything else on the form is in Irish, with surname as Lonchphuirt

  Lankford / Lonchphuirt household



Shane

[loudam]

Possibly the same family that the birth record is from a few years later

[Pastmagic]

And there is always the possibility of transcriptions being phonetic.

Longford GAA website give this:
Club Name: Longford; As Gaeilge: An Longfort - Shane's first thought...

However goireland.ie has it like this:(I think its originally from McLysaghts Surnames of Ireland)
 .....O Fearghaill (O'Farrell or O'Ferrall) sept was of Annaly in Col Longford. The chief to the sept, known as Lord of Annaly, resided at Longphuirt Ui Fhearghaill (I.e. O'Farrell's fortress), hence the name of the town and county.......

So maybe it changed when the Teanga was standardised.....
PM

[loudam]

I think in those years Irish transaltions were probably a bit hit and miss too...

[shanew147]

If I'm reading the census form correctly it looks like Charles was born in An Dúna - Co. Down. Everyone else born Contae Chorcaí

cant find a marriage for him c1889


Shane

[loudam]

It does look like that doesn't it! It's lovely to see it wrote in Irish, my dad was only saying recently how he loved that way of writing Irish..

[shanew147]

here's the same family 10 years earlier - everything in English..

  Lankford - 1901
 


Shane

[Pastmagic]

That census of Charles gives the mother in law as :Ní Phléidhmionn   Eibhlín 91    Female which is pretty creative, and possibly unique!

PM   

[shanew147]

That census of Charles gives the mother in law as :Ní Phléidhmionn   Eibhlín 91    Female which is pretty creative, and possibly unique!
..

was just trying to work that out - but my Irish has failed me..


Shane