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New post in my blog - an extract from my book I guess. I keep laughing when I think about that amazing funeral for a probably illiterate miner, and his mates drinking the pub dry while someone worked their shift.
http://coadcoode.blogspot.com/
Feasibility of extending the Coad one-name study to the Irish.
The official terms of my one-name study with GOONS require me to "collect all information on Coads, Codes and Coodes everywhere". Till now I have largely restricted the study to West-Country families, since this is practically the only place these surnames appeared before 1800.
However, we know there are as many Irish COADs in the USA as West Country, and more Irish CODEs than this. There are also substantial numbers of Irish Coades etc in Canada, one family in Australia, and about 70 persons in Ireland itself. It therefore seems odd to be writing a book about COADs in which the Irish are largely neglected.
While it's easy enough to lay out charts of the North American families of Irish descent, the lack of online data in Ireland itself has put me off extending the study. I have used as excuse that the Irish were all name changers from CODD - which is a bit weak as the Cornish were all name changers too - from COODE. Now however with the Irish Census of 1901 and 1911 online, it is time to re-assess.
What is obvious from the census is that Irish CODDs are numerous (about 420 in 1901) and are overwhelmingly a Catholic Wexford family. There are smallish branches in Carlow and Wicklow, and a few families in Dublin. Sorting these out would be no mean feat. I find from the IGI that at least 77 Coad couples were having children in Wexford 1860-80, with fathers including 15 Patricks and 12 Johns. This is about the same sort of tangle I faced with the Cornish Coads in the 1820- 1830, when information was scant, and it took me years to work it all out.
Nevertheless Brain Bailey and David Coad have managed to trace their ancestors, so it is clearly do-able. Nobody else much seems to have put forward CODD trees.
For the time being I will proceed with the West Country Coad book (called "Unravelling the CODE"), and if it seems possible, I will look towards a Volume II on the Irish Codds.
Best Regards
Dr Joe Flood
http://coadcoode.blogspot.com/
Thanks, Joe. Very interesting! I'm not sure when I'll get back into any of
our genealogy. Between cancer and moving.....
Pax,
Peg
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Joe Flood <joeflood(a)bigpond.com> wrote:
> Feasibility of extending the Coad one-name study to the Irish.
>
> The official terms of my one-name study with GOONS require me to "collect
> all information on Coads, Codes and Coodes everywhere". Till now I have
> largely restricted the study to West-Country families, since this is
> practically the only place these surnames appeared before 1800.
>
> However, we know there are as many Irish COADs in the USA as West Country,
> and more Irish CODEs than this. There are also substantial numbers of Irish
> Coades etc in Canada, one family in Australia, and about 70 persons in
> Ireland itself. It therefore seems odd to be writing a book about COADs in
> which the Irish are largely neglected.
>
> While it's easy enough to lay out charts of the North American families of
> Irish descent, the lack of online data in Ireland itself has put me off
> extending the study. I have used as excuse that the Irish were all name
> changers from CODD - which is a bit weak as the Cornish were all name
> changers too - from COODE. Now however with the Irish Census of 1901 and
> 1911 online, it is time to re-assess.
>
> What is obvious from the census is that Irish CODDs are numerous (about 420
> in 1901) and are overwhelmingly a Catholic Wexford family. There are
> smallish branches in Carlow and Wicklow, and a few families in Dublin.
> Sorting these out would be no mean feat. I find from the IGI that at least
> 77 Coad couples were having children in Wexford 1860-80, with fathers
> including 15 Patricks and 12 Johns. This is about the same sort of tangle I
> faced with the Cornish Coads in the 1820- 1830, when information was scant,
> and it took me years to work it all out.
>
> Nevertheless Brain Bailey and David Coad have managed to trace their
> ancestors, so it is clearly do-able. Nobody else much seems to have put
> forward CODD trees.
>
> For the time being I will proceed with the West Country Coad book (called
> "Unravelling the CODE"), and if it seems possible, I will look towards a
> Volume II on the Irish Codds.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Dr Joe Flood
>
> http://coadcoode.blogspot.com/
>
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