Irish first names 1825 Laois
I am indexing marriages, but I am seeing unexpected given names for the groom - women's names like Eleanor, Honor, Margaret , Judith and Elen. See image LHS entries:
Is this correct? Or am I seeing something else?
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It would be useful if you share the batch number so we can see the entire register page.
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What Áine said, but also, what makes you think they're marriages? They look entirely standard for baptisms, to me.
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My immediate thought was they did represent recordings of marriages, but it does appear (if indeed they record baptisms) there are two names on each line - e.g., Honor Simon & Mary Dunn, Timothy Denis & Winifred Dunn. Where the date is the same (e.g. the 4th of the month) there is a maximum of two names per line.
As Áine suggests, the whole page / batch needs to be seen, so the content /context can be fully understood. The screenshot, although clear, has no heading and seemingly omits data to the right of the names visible.
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There's enough information in the snip that I was able to find the page on the other sites with images.
The records are indeed baptisms from October through December 1825. The top is line in the snip is the baptism of Eleanor, daughter of John and Mary Dunn, with sponsors (godparents ) John Dunn and Ann Conrahy.
On the NLI website: https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634574#page/12/mode/1up
On FMP: https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=IRE%2FPRS%2FBAP%2F4716219
There is just one child named in each record. The priest (to save space) didn't bother with "son of" or "daughter of." The format is given name of child, given name of father, given name of mother, surname of child and (presumably) father.
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Thank you for your replies. 1. Before I began I did check the 5 pages, both prior to and post my allotted one, looking for an indication of category of record and as far as can I see checking again this morning, there is none. 2. I have transcribed before, so I am not new to this. Those records to me were an unknown and the first ones I looked at were all male given names followed by a name that can be either given or family name. Hence I (wrongly I now know) assumed the batch contained marriages. Thanks to those with constructive comments I have now finished a set of baptisms.
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