Merry
17-10-11, 14:00
Research for a friend, so nothing to add to BK6
A friend told me her ancestor was a valet to a man who eventually left her ancestor a legacy. Sadly little is known about this, but the boss was apparently called 'Quinan'. No one has ever seen this written down, so that spelling is my interpretation of what I was told. I have seen variations such as Queenan and Quinnan etc on Ancestry.
I have found her ancestor on the 1901 census as a valet in a household. It's most likely he was valet to an Irishman called Kinahan.
What's the chances Kinahan has evolved into Quinan? I wondered if Kinahan might be pronounced Kin-nan which sounds very close to Quinan, but I would have thought it was pronounced Kin-a-han if I wasn't trying to force these people to fit the story! lol
A friend told me her ancestor was a valet to a man who eventually left her ancestor a legacy. Sadly little is known about this, but the boss was apparently called 'Quinan'. No one has ever seen this written down, so that spelling is my interpretation of what I was told. I have seen variations such as Queenan and Quinnan etc on Ancestry.
I have found her ancestor on the 1901 census as a valet in a household. It's most likely he was valet to an Irishman called Kinahan.
What's the chances Kinahan has evolved into Quinan? I wondered if Kinahan might be pronounced Kin-nan which sounds very close to Quinan, but I would have thought it was pronounced Kin-a-han if I wasn't trying to force these people to fit the story! lol