tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37005661.post116254429373304458..comments2021-02-15T17:17:32.996-08:00Comments on Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma: Coast, the Mabinogion and keeping up with the Joneses.Martynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17678628763585554800noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37005661.post-1162575134218252342006-11-03T09:32:00.000-08:002006-11-03T09:32:00.000-08:00Diane - good to be back and thanks very much :-) I...Diane - good to be back and thanks very much :-) I didn't see the Pete Burns thing but I had meant to watch it. He's a great character. If he doesn't like you, he doesn't like you, no messing about. He's painfully honest at times.<BR/><BR/>Bailey - Having looked at Gaelic as well I think Welsh is marginally easier, possibly because of the extra exposure it had to latin which does at least give you a few hooks to hang some recognition on. I'm presuming with a surname like Stewart you've got some Scottish heritage somewhere ? All the best people have :-)Martynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17678628763585554800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37005661.post-1162561858967730082006-11-03T05:50:00.000-08:002006-11-03T05:50:00.000-08:00Carla's right. And Jones is a very hard name to d...Carla's right. And Jones is a very hard name to do genealogy on.<BR/><BR/>I've always wanted to learn Gaelic. Even bought a book on the subject. All those consonants threw me. Oh well, some day.Bailey Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639029254352011915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37005661.post-1162554583390335802006-11-03T03:49:00.000-08:002006-11-03T03:49:00.000-08:00Welcome back, Martyn. I'm going to have to go chan...Welcome back, Martyn. I'm going to have to go change my template, aren't I?<BR/><BR/>Hugh won in our house last night. Then Pete Burns talking about cosmetic surgery nightmares. I liked this because he opened with his own story.Dianehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06430125606844410229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37005661.post-1162553943073913302006-11-03T03:39:00.000-08:002006-11-03T03:39:00.000-08:00Hi CarlaI did hear that discussion. I knew about I...Hi Carla<BR/><BR/>I did hear that discussion. I knew about Ieuan being John but wasn't aware that Evans, Bevan or Jenkins were derived from it. <BR/><BR/>It would be a thankless task attempting to find the family of my Jones I reckon. Presumably plenty of Joneses and Thomases research their family trees so their must be ways and means if you're really committed. I tried to find her birth in the registers but located lots of Mary-Anne Joneses born in Carmarthen in the same year so came to a dead end.Martynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17678628763585554800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37005661.post-1162547943161019412006-11-03T01:59:00.000-08:002006-11-03T01:59:00.000-08:00Did you hear the geneticist Steve Jones on the Tod...Did you hear the geneticist Steve Jones on the Today programme this morning, explaining to Ed Stourton that not all the Joneses are related to each other because the name simply meant "son of John"? His analogy was that therefore two Joneses were no more likely to be related to one another than the son of John Major to the son of John Travolta.<BR/>He also explained that Evans, Bevan and Jenkins are also variants of Jones, the first two derive from the Welsh name Ieuan (Welsh for John, he said, although I'd thought that was 'Sion' - you probably know more about this than I do) and the last one is a diminutive "little son of John." I didn't know that last one.Carlahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11901028520813891575noreply@blogger.com