[Loch-Ruadh] Patronyms

Robyn Cantley elyssiaxvx at hotmail.com
Fri Aug 26 13:06:52 PDT 2005


hmm....cool.... Robyn is my mundane name. You found it was a welsh name? If 
so, where? I'd like to look it up. Or is that also his mundane name?

Ly Ceara Mac an Ghabhann
(Robyn Cantley)

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From: <pcrandal at sbcglobal.net>
Reply-To: "Shire of Loch Ruadh, Kingdom of Ansteorra, SCA,Inc." 
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To: loch-ruadh at ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: [Loch-Ruadh] Patronyms
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 07:30:38 -0700 (PDT)

Erinn,
You probably would not be using your father's name. You would be using your 
mother's name. Matriarchal lines were as important to the Celtic cultures as 
the Patriarchal. Not to confuse this issue, this applies more to the earlier 
periods than the later.
In some of the later periods the changing of names after marriage was only 
important depending on the inheritance of titles. Usually the name of the 
greater title would be passed down to the children, again depending on their 
order of birth. And at times the husband would receive the titles that came 
with the wife's estate.
Check with your name sources as to how that particular name construction was 
evolved.

Crandall


erinn holloway <mom3badboys at yahoo.com> wrote:
I'm a little confused about Welsh patronyms.

I know my boys would use their father's given name and
grandfather's given name. But, for a woman would I
continue to use my father's given name or would I
take my husband's after I am married?
Erinn

P.S.

The boys have picked out their names.
My oldest is Robyn ap Thomas ap Jerrel
My middle is Jenkin ap Thomas ap Jerrel
My youngest is David (boring but he chose it from
list) ap Thomas ap Jerrel


I think mine would be Emma vert Robert ap Cletus

Emma (Erinn)


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