If you are asking how to display her name I would spell it like her father spells it most
often or how your most current family members spell it. Select that spelling for your
data base and have all the people in that line using the same spelling. It makes it much
easier to know "who's who" at a glance rather than try to find them all
through several spellings variations, expecially with the WHO and HOU. When people
hyphenate names like that it is usually to try and let future readers know how to
pronounce it, I wouldn't use the hyphens, they don't appear to be used
in indexes..
Just my two cents worth.
cw
--- On Sun, 9/21/08, jj.carroll <jj.carroll(a)comcast.net> wrote:
From: jj.carroll <jj.carroll(a)comcast.net>
Subject: [CARROLL] Whonohan or Hounahan or Hounihan, what do I do...
To: countycork(a)rootsweb.com
Cc: carroll(a)rootsweb.com
Date: Sunday, September 21, 2008, 6:33 PM
I have run into a problem that perhaps you could help me with. Margaret
"WHONOHAN" was in our line and it is a mystery to me how she and her
name should be displayed.
It is about somebody from my maternal side of the family.
Michael GAGHAN married Margaret WHONHAN (a possible variant of Hounihan)
sometime around 1854 to 1855, and they immigrated to the states in 1855. She
was born about 1830, probably around the civil parish of Donaghmore, County
Cork, Ireland, and died May 1, 1901 in Fond du lac County, Wisconsin. (The
surname is possibly "Hounihan" or "Hounahan"; there were
approximately 717 persons by that surname in Ireland in 1890, virtually all in
County Cork.)
I found her, but her name was given as "WHO - NO - HAN." It could be
a phonetic spelling, but the thing is when I went to Ireland they said there was
no WHO - and told me to look up Hounihan. This becomes more complicated because
John, the father, is displayed differently on family trees posted to the
internet, and then Margaret's siblings are all over the map.
Spelling wasn't a strong suit, and especially when there might be a problem
reading and writing as the case may be with Irish farmers. So, how do I do it?
Margaret's father was John HOUNAHAN, b: in County Cork, Ireland. According
to WorldConnect, his residence in Ireland included: 1835: Baracharing townland;
in 1837, 1840: Derry townland, and in 1842 Droumduff, Co. Cork, Ireland.
However, there appears to be no such townlands - other than Derry - when looking
for them in County Cork. He married Honora "Nora" Carroll, who was
also born in County Cork, Ireland on November 27, 1824, in the civil parish of
Coachford, Co. Cork, Ireland, according to a letter from Martina Aherne, Mallow
Heritage Centre, Mallow, Co. Cork, Ireland, addressed to Steven Dhuey (May 16,
2000). Their children included:
William Hounahan, b: November 14, 1825;
Twins, John and Ann Hounahan, b: September 27, 1827;
Jane Hounahan, b: January 5, 1829;
John Hounahon, b: December 1835;
Robert Hounehan, b: October 14, 1837
Patrick Huonihan, b: March 20, 1840;
Marianne Hoonihan, b: July 21, 1947; and
Margaret Whonohan, b: September 30, 1830.
Regards and Thank you,
Jim Carroll
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