I started typing my name into Google Suggest this morning. As you type a search phrase it tries to guess what you’re typing and gives you a list of possibilities. I’d gotten as far as ‘sean mcgo’ before it guessed what I was looking for.
What Google Suggest also does is it tells you how many times that phrase has been searched for. While it doesn’t tell you over what time period, it was still interesting to see that the name Sean McGoldrick has been searched for 146,000 times. It seems that the guy in Japan wasn’t on his own when he was looking for Sean McGoldrick.
So much for my thinking I was unique! I doubt if 146,000 people were looking for information on this particular Sean McGoldrick. I just didn’t realize there were so many of us.
If you want to find out how unique you are try typing your name into Google Suggest but be prepared to be disappointed!
Who is Sean McGoldrick?
Sunday, November 4, 2007Posted by Sean McGoldrick Sunday, November 4, 2007 5:11 AM
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Hello Sean...
it`s so funny, because the Name of my
Son is Sean McGoldrick, too.
Many Greatings from Germany!
Hanna
Thanks for stopping by Hanna. It's an uncommon enough name outside of the northwest of Ireland so it's always nice to find a namesake!
Sean-
Greetings from Chicago. Are you from Leitrim or Sligo? My roots run back to a "John McGoldrick" from Leitrim. Curious to see if you know about the McGoldrick lineage. I'd love to find more old family links.
Slainte & Hail Hail!!!
Bill Golden
goldenwh2002@yahoo.com
Hi Bill. I'm from Sligo where it's a pretty common name. In fact the Mayor of Sligo at the moment is called Jonathan McGoldrick.
I don't have much to tell you about the genealogy though.
I was interested in this when I was younger. There was a section in the Ireland's Own magazine where they would give potted family histories and I wrote to them to ask about the origin of the McGoldrick name. The answer they gave me was that it originated from Ualraig O'Rourke who was a Lord of Breffni in, I think, the 12th century.
He died on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Travelling that far would have been a very big deal in those days.
Over time the name would have evolved from Mac Ualraig (Son of Ualraig) and became anglicised to McGoldrick. My uncle used to spell our name in Irish as Mac Guailrig whereas at school I was thaught to spell it Mac Guailraic. I have also seen it spelled Mac Uailgharig.
The origin of the name is actually from Uallgharg - the most common form of the surname is Mag Ualghairg, although it has now be simplified, sometimes, to Mag Ualraig. You will also see Mac instead of Mag but this is no more than a dialect variation.
Muiris Mag Ualghairg
geez...
my names sean mcgoldrick
and im a martial arts teacher and scotland coach and expert in hand to hand combat
check out the site
www.protec-tkd.co.uk
peace out from Scotland
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