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[briggsy's girl]

Maori names don't usually have apostrophes. Unless their parents are getting creative. It would be reasonably common in Samoan names though.

My apologies. We see a lot of people come in from nz that are no citizens on nz passports, so I assume Maori. It's possible they were Samoan or similar and have lived in nz before coming here...

[Artechim]

Ahhh NZ, the Pacific Islanders back door to Australian residency

I wasn't meaning to be snippy

[~clover~]

I know quite a few Maori names & spaces are usually in them, even though they're one name (Te Kiri, Te Aho), but never seen an apostrophe. And if you're using traditional names like those, adding the apostrophe would kind of defeat the traditional purpose of it wouldn't it?

I have an apostrophe in my surname, so I get that. I've just never understood them in first names as they usually replace a missing letter. I have no idea if its true, but I was told names like O'Conner came about as they were children 'Of Conner'. My surname is a similar Irish surname that generates from Shaunessy.

And I guess in saying that, changing surname spellings is a pretty old thing in history. Our name started out as Shaunessy, then O'Shaunessy, then as they migrated to Australia it was changed & the 'u' is now an 'n', as far as I know, to simplify the name. Though I'm not so sure Le-ah is really simplified...

[Amity]

"Fitz" used to mean "b@$tard son of"
"Mac" and "O'Whatever" were also "son of".

Obviously Gerald was a busy man.

The best twins I have personally seen were Benson & Hedges.

[jellybean88]

"Fitz" used to mean "b@$tard son of"
"Mac" and "O'Whatever" were also "son of".

Obviously Gerald was a busy man.

The best twins I have personally seen were Benson & Hedges.

I automatically thought gee Gerald was busy as was Simmons and Patrick too I guess

[Jennifer13]

I automatically thought gee Gerald was busy as was Simmons and Patrick too I guess

I don't think here were a lot of unique names in Gerald's day.