Looking at Ireland, Cavan—Church Records, 1740–1913 [Part A] [M38W-B52]
On the first page, dated 7 Jan 1837 there is an entry for a death date for Thomas Brady. Immediately after the surname Brady it appears the cleric possibly wrote "et" (translated "and" in Latin) followed by another word "Graherott*. There is another entry on 6 Dec 1836 where the cleric actually writes "alias," so I don't think the 7 Jan entry indicates Thomas Brady has an alias. Could it be another person's name with a death on the same day? If you can see my entries, Thomas Brady is currently entry 18 and I have tentatively put in an entry 19 with "Graherott*" Would like comments
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Alias in the old Irish registers generally refers to a maiden name, or even a previous married name, rather than alias as we think of as AKA (also known as) or someone trying to hide their identity by using a different name.
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Thank you, but my question is to understand the Jan 7 entry of Thomas Brady and the the words following his name. Is the information following his name pertinent to Thomas Brady himself or is it possibly another individual's death?
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And my answer was to say that it would be unlikely for a man to have an alias, in an Irish RC register, since a man's name doesn't change with each marriage.
The extra word may refer to a place/townland, although I don't recognize it, even as a phonetic spelling.
I checked another site with an indexing of this same register, and the word was not indexed. And many of the names are poorly indexed. In other words, do your best, and you will create a better finding aid than currently exists for that register.
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