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Alun (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Thursday, June 14, 2007 - 10:24 am: |   
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There are several references on line to "Falmouth (Fullie) Kearney" as an ancestor to candidate Obama. I have never encountered such a first name among the Irish. Does anyone have any comment on this name? |
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Domhnall
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Username: Domhnall
Post Number: 1129
Registered: 06-2005
| | Posted on Thursday, June 14, 2007 - 11:42 am: |
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Never came across it...
A people without a language of its own is only half a nation.A nation should guard its language more than its territories, 'tis a surer barrier and a more important frontier than mountain or river
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Marianna (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Thursday, June 14, 2007 - 08:43 pm: |
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Only reference I found was to a town on Cape Cod, Mass. Might be Anglo-Irish family name. McLysaght does not list it among Irish surnames. |
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Aonghus
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Username: Aonghus
Post Number: 5623
Registered: 08-2004
| | Posted on Friday, June 15, 2007 - 06:16 am: |
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The surname (Kearney) is Irish.
Falmouth is a given name; and its a town in England.
Probably a corruption of some Irish name, but damned if I know what name. |
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Alun (Unregistered Guest)
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| | Posted on Friday, June 15, 2007 - 02:11 pm: |
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A mangling of the name Felimy perhaps? |
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Domhnall_Ó_h_aireachtaigh
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Username: Domhnall_Ó_h_aireachtaigh
Post Number: 188
Registered: 09-2006
| | Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 03:47 am: |
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Falmouth was the name of a bad guy in a thriller I loved as a teenager (Chameleon, by William Diehl). The character was Irish, by the way.
Anyway... that's all I got.
(Message edited by Domhnall_Ó_h_Aireachtaigh on June 16, 2007) |
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Bearn
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Username: Bearn
Post Number: 20
Registered: 06-2007
| | Posted on Saturday, June 16, 2007 - 09:20 am: |
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Famous actresses and now polital hopefuls...maybe I have some native american blood in me. Bearn Bigfoot? I mean who gives a toss about reality, its all negotiable, isint it? |
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