Late 16C English Given Names: Notes on Thadeus

Late Sixteenth Century English Given Names

Notes on the name Thadeus


Thadeus: More commonly Thaddeus. The one instance is an entry for Thadeus Mac Cartye, of the city of Westminster. Thaddeus was later a common Englishing of Irish Tadhg, so it is likely that he was an Irishman named Tadhg Mac Cárthaig.


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