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  • 15-12-2010 9:43pm
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    caroj
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    Hello all,

    I can't decipher an abbreviation entered for my great great grandmothers birth place. It's Co Clare but there's what I think is R.W. after it. I have no idea what this means - could anyone shed some light??
    http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000919788/


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    P. Breathnach
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    See the name of the enumerator. I think he initialled the change to confirm it.


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    pinkypinky
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    I'd concur with that but it's an interesting mistake - Kilkenny sounds nothing like Clare.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    Simarillion
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    I would say P.Breathnach has got it in one

    The witness's name is Robert Watson hence the RW

    Based on the last time my family filled out the census, and my father was writing in the details and was muttering everything as he wrote and when he came to county born in said "Galway, Galway, Galway, Galway, Galway" for all of us until my mother reminded him she was born in Dublin.

    So I can only guess that as the husband and children are all from Kilkenny, that when asked someone said "we're all from Kilkenny" and then your great-great grandmother reminded them she was from Cork......or something along those lines..


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    caroj
    Closed Accounts Posts: 48 ✭caroj


    Duh! I feel a right plank now! :o I should have known that - shor I initial my paperwork everyday in work!! Thanks all.


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