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why are irish surnames not more common in america?

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    #62
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭tac foley


    gobnaitolunacy wrote: »
    Should also have mentioned that a fair percentage of what seem like English surnames, may in fact be carried by African-Americans.


    This is a reminder that their predecessors took their surname from their white owners, a fact that explains the preponderance of Scottish surnames among the black population of Belize, formerly known as British Guyana.

    tac


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    #63
    Dr.Tank Adams
    Registered Users Posts: 91 ✭✭Dr.Tank Adams


    They've always seem reasonably common to me, if often horribly misspelled. I suppose it could be down to the fact that many of the people who report "Irish" ancestry are actually Ulster-Scots.


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    ONeill2013
    Closed Accounts Posts: 447 ✭✭ONeill2013


    in my family tree there seems to be a pattern that the people who emigrated to Pennsylvania (mostly women) married other irishmen and their children married people with other irish surnames, this is compared to others who emigrated to Canada and married people with English surnames.


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