'Deady or Deasy' ? in Ardfield and Rathberry

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

Batesdeasy@gmail.com

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