A baptism entry in Ardfield Parish, Cork 'Maria daughter of John Deady' baptised July 14, 1814 fits my gr gr grandmother but I believeit may have been transcribedwrongly onto 'Ancestry' and other databases because when I view it very closely the entry's surname is 'Deasy'. I wonder if Deasy rather than Deady is the more common surname in this parish?
Gregory Cesar
Hi Gregory!
I believe Deasy is the correct surname, as I have ancestors with that name in my tree. And I have a cousin with the name Deasy among her ancestors.
Matt Peck mcpeck131@gmail.com
Gregory:
Welcome to Ireland Reaching Out!
I agree with Matt. I looked at the parish register for June/July 1814 and the surname would be Deasy. Look at the other "s" entries on the page and there is also one "d" further up on the page and the"d" is very distinctive and not close to an"s".
Roger McDonnell
Thank you Matt and Roger for your reply!. Perhaps I should notify the various websites of that error.
A bit of a coincidence Roger McDonnell my mother's surname is McDonell originating from Clan Ranald of the Scottish Highlands. I believe your spelling is the Irish version but still stemming from the original clan McDonald and the progenitor Somerlad , the Norse King
Gregory Cesar
While I agree with the two answers above, to satisfy yourself,as to the accuracy of the answers, use the following simple test which I use where there is a doubt about a surname in a particular Parish.
Go to irishgenealogy.ie and in the Church Records search engine put in just the surname Deasy and search from 1800 - 1900 and you will get 641 baptisms and 104 Marriages. If you substitute the surname Deady, you will get just one entry and this i am very sure is a mis - transcription of Deasy. This is a very releable test in the context of locating families in a parish as in the era mentioned, there were very few opportunities or facilities for either male or females to travel far from the pariosh in which they were born to meet a potential partner and consequently family names multiplied and clustered in Parishes around the Country.
irishgenealogy.ie is one of the very best websites to use and it is free and do not be put off by the Captcha security measure, it can be annoying but if you use the site frequently enough using the same PC or Laptop, it will recognise you and make things a lot easier.
Best of luck with the 745 entries mentioned above. If you need fdurther help, contact me on this notice board or on ,my email address, frankfahy@eircom.net
Frank:
One of my wish list changes for the message responses is to have spell check.
Roger
Gregory:
My McDonnells come from Mayo.
Roger
Hi Gregory, I also have Deasy in west cork but I’m stuck on my great grandfather William. He is listed as residing in courtmacsherry at the time of his marriage in 1895. Found out yesterday he was in the he Royal Navy and was demobbed in 1902 when he joined the royal naval reserves in Kinsale he was highly decorated by the Royal Navy. I’m currently looking at trying to get his records from the navy to see if they wound have more details about him. Or the irish newspaper archive. What other details do you have on your Deasy’s?
Emma
Hi Roger
The McDonnells of Northern Ireland descend from John Mor MacDonald the 6th chief of Clan Donald of Scotland
Gregory
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › MacDonnell_of_Antrim
Hi Emma
I am actually descended from the 'Deadys' of county Cork but there were some mistransciptions onto the various databases regarding Ardfield parish. The name was sometimes written 'Dady' Deddy and Duddy (in England) but I am lucky to have a rare Irish surname. Good luck with your Deasys.
Greg
Thank you Frank for your help
you are right that the surname in question was 'Deasy' . My 'Deady' ancestors also are found in Cork ,Limerick , Kerry and later in time some of these moved to Kilkenny and nearby counties.
This name is sometimes written 'Dady' 'Deddy' and on the 1838 marriage register in England 'John Devine married Maria Duddy'. It seems that many Irish from Cork moved to London (Southwark) pre-famine ,1840s but the 1841 England census does not specify the towns of their exact origin.
Greg
Frank
What I meant to say is that it was a mistranscription on the part of the web-site because the surname ' Deady' from O' Deadaigh is actually an ancient Gaelic name with coat of arms and there are a number of families from various counites listed in Griffiths. Also found prevalently in England
Greg
https://www.johngrenham.com › findasurname › surname=Deady