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Legg inn av Gjest » 15 jun 2007 00:10:02

In my searching family in England in the 1600's and 1500's I have found
names like Owen Ap Tudor, and Robert Ap Tudor. What does the Ap mean? I know in
Ireland Mor means older and Oge means younger is this the same kind of thing?
Thanks.

Patty Quinn



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pj.evans

Re: Stupid Question

Legg inn av pj.evans » 15 jun 2007 04:30:14

On Jun 14, 3:05 pm, quinnblueb...@aol.com wrote:
In my searching family in England in the 1600's and 1500's I have found
names like Owen Ap Tudor, and Robert Ap Tudor. What does the Ap mean? I know in
Ireland Mor means older and Oge means younger is this the same kind of thing?
Thanks.

Patty Quinn

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And to add to Tony's reply:
older is generally mawr (or fawr) meaning big
younger is generally bach (or fach) meaning small or little

Ian Goddard

Re: Stupid Question

Legg inn av Ian Goddard » 17 jun 2007 00:44:13

quinnbluebird@aol.com wrote:

In my searching family in England in the 1600's and 1500's I have found
names like Owen Ap Tudor, and Robert Ap Tudor. What does the Ap mean? I
know in Ireland Mor means older and Oge means younger is this the same
kind of thing? Thanks.

Patty Quinn



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http://www.aol.com.

AIUI the Welsh "[M]ap" is cognate with the Irish "Mac" - they are both
Celtic languages but one of the distinguishing features is that Welsh
uses "p" or "b" sounds where Irish has "q" or "c" sounds.

I'm not sure about "mor" meaning older in Irish - in place names it
generally means bigger, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moneymore and its
opposite is "beg", e.g. Lough Beg, the small lake just downstream of the
larger Lough Neagh.

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Janet

Stupid Question

Legg inn av Janet » 17 jun 2007 13:41:02

Back in the 1600s if a husband left land to his wife in his will. Can she
own land?
If a father left land to his daughter, can own it.
Would the English law let her?
Even if she was in America?

Janet

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