looking for Info on EuDaly

Hi Patrick, your surname intrigues me, I hope you dont mind me saying but when I said the name out loud it made more sense as O'Daly and possible the name was written down by someone with a frence accent.  What years are you talking about? & what other clues do you have?

This link

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlkik/ihm/cntynam2.htm

may help you locate where the O'Daly or Daly name is most common.

Regards Carmel O'Callaghan

Carmel,

Thank you so much for your reply!  As far as I can tell, it was some time in the 16th century when the Eudaly's went to France and become French Hugeunots. When the Hugeunots were persecuted they left France.

That is the most information I can find.  I am now wondering if it was O' Daly and became Eu Daly when the brothers moved to France.

I again thank you very much for your help and your reply.  Hopefully one of these I will find out where in Ireland they were from.

Thank you again!!

Regards,

Patrick Bartlett EuDaly

Eudalys were French Huguenots ("members of the Reformed
or Calvinistic communion of France in the l6th and l7th
centuries; French Protestants   they fled from France to Charlotte Virginia among other places in the United States and also to the  United Kingdom

It is possible that these were Irish O'Dailigh (O'Daly) men who joined the army in Ireland and were send to France to fight and stayed, but I am not ruling out that they were not Irish.

When I say army I am thinking of the 'Flight of the Wild Geese'  the Irish Jacobite army that went to France in 1691 under the command of Patrick Sarsfield, so another thing to check out.

There are many different ways of spelling the name it is also possible that the name derived from a French name.

A lot of French Huguenot surnames were adapted to the new country and in some cases are hard to recognise as being from French origin.

Did you check the Huguenot Society  for Britain & Ireland ? http://www.huguenotsociety.org.uk/

Regards,

Annemarie