Clare Past Forum

I've just discovered that the first name Lot or Lott is a diminutive of Lancelot.

Unlike most such cases, the diminutive is far more common than the full name. In the Tithe Applotment books for Clare, there are 106 occurrences of Lot or Lott, one Lancelot and one Launcellot.

http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarc ... geSize=100

By 1911, the counts were down to 3 Lots, 10 Lotts, 1 Lancelot and 1 Launcelot:

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/s ... ageSize=50

The one I am interested in is the Lott Mangan who married Anne Kelly in Kilrush Catholic parish on 25 Jan 1847; I would welcome further information on this couple.

It has been pointed out to me that other synonyms of these names may include Loughlin or possibly even Luke.

According to someone who has studied the microfilm of the baptismal register for St. Munchin's Catholic parish, the register includes:

James born in 1764 to Lott O'Halloran and Mary Sullivan
Florence born in 1767 to Loughlin O'Halloran and Mary Sullivan

In the extracts at
http://limerick.rootsireland.ie/quis.ph ... artQuery=0
the father's first name for the second of these entries is recorded as Luke.

(The next question is whether the 1767 baptism is a male Florence, as would be the case in Cork, or a female Florence, as would be the case in most other parts of the country. There are other entries in the same parish showing a Flore/Florence O'Halloran of approximately the same generation married to a Hanora McInerney, so male looks more likely than female.)

For what it's worth, in the century after the referenced 1767 baptism involving a Florence, that forename was being used for Clare males, as shown by these Missing Friends ads online at the Boston College website. McCarty is a surname well associated with SW Ireland such as Cork and Kerry. The Donnellan sept has its origins in the old Connaught province where forenames have included Hyacinth and Nehemiah at a time when most Donnellan families there were Protestant.

Sharon Carberry