On 28/03/19 00:04, jill mason wrote:
I have some Fair ancestors who hail from Inchigeelagh Parish County Cork. I am finding that there are various towns in the Parish. I have no idea what town they might be from, except they might be from the Town of Inchigeelagh. So if someone was
immigrating to America would they be likely to state their town or Parish?
From English experience - yes. Town or parish!. Or something else.
Two of my gggrandfather's brothers emigrated to Sydney. They went about
a month apart so they were on different boats.
One gave his origin as "Almbry", the dialect pronunciation for
Amondbury, the parish in which he was baptised although in fact he was
baptised in the chapel of ease in Homlfirth. Almondbury was some miles distant. This was recorded as Ombrey.
The other gave the name of the hamlet, Hogley, where he was born
although, being a Yorkshireman he dropped his aitch and it was recorded
as Ogley.
In general people answering questions answer the question they think
they're being asked. If this isn't carefully specified what one thinks
isn't necessarily the same as another. In situations such as this the questioner doesn't know sufficient about circumstances to specify it and
in any case the answer will be meaningless unless they themselves came
from that area.
Ian
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