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My father visited this weekend and got talking about his father, who died of ischaemic heart disease in his sixties after years of angina. He mentioned the local GP, a Dr Beausang, and my comment was rCLthatrCOs an odd name--was he Irish?rCY
He was (we didnrCOt have the multinational medical community we do today in the 1950s), and I looked it up today out of curiosity. The top Google result (from here) is a plastic surgeon in Dublin; when I check at
https://www.barrygriffin.com/surname-maps/irish/beausang/ it was limited to East Cork and not Hugenot.
It seems to exist in Newfoundland too, and there was significant migration from Waterford (beside East Cork), so presumably those were Irish emigrants. There are very few relevant hits from France; Miceal Beausang-OrCOGriafa is a French translator of comic books and an interpreter with an Irish father, so it doesnrCOt narrow down much where the surname came from. Has anyone come across it
in a non-Irish context?
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rCyAs I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /
How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stoutrCO
(C. Moore)
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