Chat | Daily Search | My GenForum | Community Standards | Terms of Service Jump to Forum Home: Surnames: O'Brien Family Genealogy Forum Re: O'BRIEN/BRIEN?? Posted by: Stephen O'Brien (ID *****9264) Date: January 15, 2009 at 03:08:24 In Reply to: Re: O'BRIEN/BRIEN?? by Ralph Connors of 4458 Ralph - much obliged Very much what I had come to understand. Interestingly, I had a reply to this qn on another forum, from someone tracing Driscoll/O'Driscoll; and it seems quite a common practice during the early 1800's for a woman marrying into the Driscoll family to adopt the O', and certainly in my family during that period it appeared that it was often left to the mother to register a birth. Thnx again Notify Administrator about this message? Followups: Re: O'BRIEN/BRIEN?? Paul O'Brien 2/17/09 http://genforum.genealogy.com/obrien/messages/4333.html Search this forum: Find all of the words Find any of the words Search all of GenForum: Proximity matching Link to GenForum Add Forum

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