Talk:James Newbury FitzGerald

Articles for Deletion debate

This article survived an Articles for Deletion debate. The discussion can be found here. Owen× ☎ 00:51, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

Spelling of name: hyphenated?

This name aroused my curiosity, because although FitzGerald is a resaonably common name in my native Ireland, I had never before seen it hyphenated as "Fitz-Gerald". (The hyphen struck me as implausible, because Fitz is a Norman prefix meaning "son of" (like "Mac" in Scots or Irish Gaelic), and hyphens are usually deployed only when two names are joind together as a resultof marriage.

I did some searching, and the only entries I could find for "Fitz-Gerald"[1] were on Wikipedia or its mirrors, but I found the following references to an unhyphenated "James Newbury FitzGerald"[2]:

• http://www.gcah.org/Bishops.pdf
• http://www.gcah.org/ead/gcah2101f.htm
• http://www.gcah.org/ead/gcah2386f.htm
• http://www.umsource.net/?page=umbish

So I have renamed the article to the unhyphenated form "James Newbury FitzGerald". --BrownHairedGirl ^{(talk) • (contribs)} 03:15, 10 January 2007 (UTC)