Hi
My many times great grandpa James Grady was born in 1815, in Waterford. In 1828 the family emigrated from Waterford to Australia. Is Grady a typical Waterford name?
His mother, Margaret Whalan (1788) was from Newcastle Tipperary.
regards Mary
Mary:
You can go to this Irish Times site to see where the surname Grady was found in the mid-19th century. The counts by county are below.There were five other counties with more Gradys than Co. Waterford.
Roger McDonnell
http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/surname/
grady households in each county in the Primary Valuation property survey of 1847-64.
Click on a county name for a parish breakdown of the number of households,
and an all-Ireland parish map (paying).Antrim1Clare104Cork79Cork city1Down1Dublin9Dublin city13Galway133Kerry63Kildare17Kilkenny46Laois35Limerick113Limerick city13Mayo136Meath11Offaly28Roscommon52Sligo54Tipperary112Waterford62Westmeath8Wexford8Wicklow4