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Re: Searching for Graal's

Posted: 12 Oct 2012 12:34PM GMT
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Hi Bill,

The Dutch connection is a red herring. If you've ever actually looked at the Moylagh/Oldcastle parish registers, you'll see that the dounble 'a' spelling is fairly rare and rather accidental, and the most common spelling is Grall. And for most of the 19th, the same registers record this name as Fitzgerald. So it looks like Grall/Grall is a corruption of the Irish form of Fitzgerald, which is MacGerailt. Sounds like you don't want to believe this, but the evidence speaks for itself!
SubjectAuthorDate Posted
Bill Graal 13 Nov 1998 12:00PM GMT 
cybersilver 15 May 2002 1:20AM GMT 
f_graal1 14 Aug 2002 11:37AM GMT 
microrub 3 May 2011 4:20PM GMT 
philcheese 14 Oct 2011 5:52PM GMT 
catrunhel 1 Apr 2011 10:18PM GMT 
microrub 3 May 2011 4:16PM GMT 
KevinGraal 12 Oct 2012 6:34PM GMT 
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