Surname Ni Longphuirt

[loudam]

It certainly makes you wonder, I'd imagine the mother in law was the one responsible for the census!!

Strange though that theres no Lankford marriage in 1889 or a year either side

[shanew147]

according to the census everyone except Anne/Áine is bi-lingual.. she only has English


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[Pastmagic]

Possibly Flemming? And who is Sarah Jones age 3 ? Is that some version of "visitor!" I am wondering if one of the children filled the form and Charles just popped his name in twice. Its actually quite endearing.

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[loudam]

I think the Sarah Jones aged 3 shows just how much the whole handing over a child and let someone else raise it happened, for what ever reasons....
It's actually facinating to dig further into it now though...

[shanew147]

That census of Charles gives the mother in law as :Ní Phléidhmionn   Eibhlín 91    ....

I've found a few mentions of the Irish work 'phléidh' - many in Oireachtas records, but cant figure out what it means yet. Think it might help work out what Ní Phléidhmionn is


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[loudam]

I've tried googling Phliedh too but google won't let me it keeps changing it!!

[shanew147]

works ok for me ... try link


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[loudam]

I've just checked the irish dictionary and the closest I can get to it is Pleidhce meaning simpleton, fool and pleidhciocht meaning fooling tomfoolery

[Pastmagic]

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0gg5/

Think Robert, Republican grandson of a Protestant minister was the culprit!

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