Re: McDermott Boston, MA 1880 Census
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In reply to:
Re: McDermott Boston, MA 1880 Census
6/28/01
Greetings Elin,
My ggrandfather was Hugh McDermod born in Ireland about 1846 and married a Mary Ann Murphy also born in Ireland abt 1850, they married in Malden, Ma. on 28 Nov 1869. As far as I know they stayed in Malden. Hugh's father was Patrick and I don't know that he came to America. Patricks wife was Rose Noonan. I know the spelling is not the same but as you can see my name had an a put in there. The folks that recorded these names went by sound instead of spelling. My grandfather was born a McDermott, lived the rest of his life the way it should have been as McDermod when it was corrected, then on his death certificate it was spelled McDermond. My father was born a McDermod but when my brother and I came along we became MacDermod. Why I haven,t a clue.
There is a Irish web site www.macdermot.com you may want to check on if you already haven't, its a real treat. If any of this mumbo makes sense give me a yell at
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