From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Mar 26 09:37:18 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k2QGbIjb027943; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:18 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2QGbHRE016466 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:37:17 -0700 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k2QE65FI008736 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:06:05 -0500 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k2QE65s6008735 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:06:05 -0500 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k2QCL4FI008481 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 07:21:05 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k2QEq6JS026750 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 07:52:06 -0700 X-Envelope-From: glasgowbliss@yahoo.com Sun Mar 26 07:52:06 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k2QEq6jb026739 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 07:52:06 -0700 Received: from web33215.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web33215.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.113]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k2QEq5Io025016 for ; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 07:52:06 -0700 Received: (qmail 72333 invoked by uid 60001); 26 Mar 2006 14:52:01 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=tjjESYDnR1gJ1PM/NOC4XSPNbYVW0r59MeMul5T5coyZysPTFTZ3SD0GgNkjknAwiTIzy1qGFDdpw4+hKBse9sovQeh2Bu5s0aUG6OBc+MQ/WXxoV2SebKg50KjlvqOpNlm4TPgvQH3S7NiVw/KKI3OwmJfIKJmfACXoaZenE8c= ; Message-ID: <20060326145201.72327.qmail@web33215.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [24.144.12.3] by web33215.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 26 Mar 2006 06:52:01 PST Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 06:52:01 -0800 (PST) From: Donna Jean Glasgow To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: 2.71 (**) BAYES_00,FORGED_YAHOO_RCVD X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] The name "Caty" Pat, You are so right! Boy, was I ever thinking inside a box. There was no good reason for my thinking those three Catys on the 1810 Grayson VA tax list were men. I was wondering if it might be short for "Kitturah" or "Cattron." On closer inspection, I found a sprinkling of other female names that list--assuming, of course, that "Rachel" and "Ann" were women! :-P I guess it just seemed so odd that out of so few women on the list, three were Catys. Catherine must have been a very popular name in 1810 in Grayson County. I have also learned that Kitturah is a female name that is frequently shortened to "Kitty" or "Katy." Thanks for your help, and thanks to everybody who let me know that Caty is short for Catherine (and variations thereof). Elaine's suggestion was quite valuable, also; I did find some Caty (and Cattron) surnames not too far away, so Caty as a man's given name is possible. Thanks again! DJ >I'm not sure why one would think that a tax list means these entries were only for men. I looked at them and saw no such distinction. As far as I know, quite a few women paid taxes in those days. If you owned property, you paid taxes. And, yes, some women did own property. I found plenty of Cat* Young and Cat* Mitchel entries on the censuses or substitutes, including VA and NC. Durnal, however, was harder to find. Maybe there is another reason for thinking they were men? Pat (in Tucson)<