1. Re: 1851 Female naming pattern question
   (edward.lowitz1@verizon.net)

 On Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 08:42:07 PM EDT, Gordon Wilkinson

    On Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 09:54:22 AM EDT, Lizanne Smith

 My great great grandmother, "Margt" Conway McGarvey was a passenger on

Thank you all very much for your wisdom. Ed, I see the real possibilty of my ancestor being "Mary Margaret" and needing to be distinguished from her sister"Mary Ann" who, I failed to mention may have been in the same voyage as Ann Conway. Lizanne McGarvey Smith On Sat, Sep 28, 2024, 3:30 AM <cotyronelist-request@list.cotyroneireland.com> wrote: > Send CoTyroneList mailing list submissions to > cotyronelist@list.cotyroneireland.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via email, send a message with subject or > body 'help' to > cotyronelist-request@list.cotyroneireland.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > cotyronelist-owner@list.cotyroneireland.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of CoTyroneList digest..." > > > ================================= > If you wish to respond to one particular email, please remove all the > other emails from your reply before sending. > ================================= > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: 1851 Female naming pattern question > (edward.lowitz1@verizon.net) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 12:10:15 +0000 (UTC) > From: "edward.lowitz1@verizon.net" <edward.lowitz1@verizon.net> > Subject: [CoTyroneMailingList] Re: 1851 Female naming pattern question > To: Dorothy Gaunt via CoTyroneList > <cotyronelist@list.cotyroneireland.com>, "neredon@gmail.com" > <neredon@gmail.com> > Message-ID: <439590456.10725980.1727439015936@mail.yahoo.com> > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="----=_Part_10725979_1707605418.1727439015933" > > All good points (which I wished I had mentioned) but just to complicate > things a bit further, the name "Mary Margaret" with both names being the > person's Given Name (i.e. the 'first name' is Mary Margaret) is not > uncommon. > If the family had one daughter named Mary Margaret and one named Mary Ann. > they may have referred to the one as Margaret and to the other as Ann (or > some other variation). I do have a nephew who is called by the second part > of his first name. > Ed. > > On Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 08:42:07 PM EDT, Gordon Wilkinson > via CoTyroneList <cotyronelist@list.cotyroneireland.com> wrote: > > In our Family Bible, my great grandmother is recorded as both Margaret > and Margret on the same page but in different places. Margt being an > abbreviation of Margaret/Margret. Literacy was not a strong point in the > 19thC. ☹️ > Gordon > > > On 27/09/2024 4:50 am, Dorothy Gaunt via CoTyroneList wrote: > > > Have you seen the original rather than just a transcript? I always > double-check when Margt/Mary occurs as it?s easy to get it wrong. But as > your example has a t at the end, i would go with Margaret. And check to see > if the clerk abbreviated other names. Dorothy > Sent from my iPad > > On 27 Sep 2024, at 2:51?AM, edward.lowitz1--- via CoTyroneList < > cotyronelist@list.cotyroneireland.com> wrote: > > > > ? Where was the name "Margt" notated? On the passenger list? > If the name was on the passenger list, presumably, it was provided by > Conway and he would have known his mother's name. The name on the Death > cert was provided by someone other than Conway who might have gotten it > wrong. > In either case, there is always the possibility that the shipping clerk > or the doctor got it wrong. > As the clerk and the doctor were paid to record info correctly, I'd go > with the name on the passenger list until I got the name from other > records. > Ed. > > On Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 09:54:22 AM EDT, Lizanne Smith > via CoTyroneList <cotyronelist@list.cotyroneireland.com> wrote: > > My great great grandmother, "Margt" Conway McGarvey was a passenger on > the Marchioness of Clydesdale with 2 sons John and Joseph. The ship left > Glasgow on Nov 11, 1851 bound for Philadelphia, PA, USA. Other records: > 1860- 1900 US census, Death certificate list her as "Mary" McGarvey. Would > it be possible that Margt and Mary are the same person? 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