Onny - short for Honor

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Sduddy
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Onny - short for Honor

Post by Sduddy » Sat Nov 18, 2017 11:03 am

While transcribing the Kilnoe baptisms, I met with the name Onny a few times. I had never heard the name “Onny”, and wondered if it was a meeting point between Una (Oona) and Winny, which are considered to be the same name.
Then I came to Scarriff and met Onny a few more times, and I was put right - there I saw that Pat Mack and Onny Horan had two children born after 1864, James in May 1869 and Mary in May 1871, and so I was able to check the civil records, where I saw that Onny was Honor. That was the end of me thinking I had found the missing link.

Sheila

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