WGW Sligo County, Ireland NAME HELP! Tricia sent the following information to help you in your Irish research. A lot of the names (as you may have suspected) were open to individual interpretation by the priests especially if they weren't sure of the exact translation. In that case, they recorded whatever looked and/or sounded like it was the best answer to the name. To add to the confusion there was often no direct Latin word for the name, so, therefore, no direct translation. Sometimes, you just have to guess at what you see. To add more to the confusion the letters "i" and "j" in Latin are virtualy the same and often interchangeable . If you'd be able to lay your hands on a good Latin-English dictionary and go to Latin section and look up all words beginning with a "J" it might tell you to "see i". Remember that when you see the list below for names that begin with "J". For example, the words over the crucifix of our Lord Jesus Christ are "INRI" not "JNRJ"..........."Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews".

Anna, Hannah, Hanah	Ann
Brigida, Brigeda, Brigitta	Bridget
Catherina	Catherine
Edvardus	Edward
Eugenis, Eugenius	Eugene
Henricus	Henry
Jacobus, Jacobi, Jacobum	James
Joannes, Joannis	John
Margarita	Margaret
Martinus, Martini	Martin
Maria, Mariae	Mary or Marie
Patricius, Patritius	Patrick
Petrus	Peter
Rogerius, Rogerus	Roger