Caveys places

• Beaucoudray (Manche - France)

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• There is a place whose name is "Le Cavey" in the Calvados ! I am currently researching for a picture of this place. Here is a part of a map of Calvados. Le Cavey is on the top right of the map below.
  

This place host a sand yacht club, the address of whom is :

Eolia Normandie le Cavey / Omaha beach
Établissement agréé
Omaha Beach - Le Cavey
14710 Colleville-sur-Mer

They have their own Web site : http://www.eolia.info/

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• I have been told that there is also a Cavey Road in London WC1, however I am not sure of the spelling and have been unable to find it.

• There is a Cavey Lane in Woodbine (Maryland) named after Doris Cavey relatives' farm.

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• This is a picture of an other Cavey Lane crossing Woodstock Road at Ellicott City (Maryland). The picture has been taken by Richard Cavey on April 1998.

• Talley Cavey is a place in the Allegheny County (Pennsylvania - USA).

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• Cavey cemetery in Maryland (Howard County) reported by Dorothy Cavey Kolodziejsk. The cementary is close to Patapsco Valley State Park and College Avenue, just in front of Doncaster Drive. It is quoted several times on this site (Maryland - France).

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• Vallon de Cavey is a small valley, at Erquy (Britany - France) : I got several post-cards from there on eBay. There is a "rue de Cavé" at Erquy but the misspelling is recent : the name is properly spelled on the post-cards printed at least until World War II.

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• A day, I was looking for Cavey's name on the web and I had the idea to use "My Yahoo" and to click on the Usenet radio-button. In this news-group I found some messages regarding our surname, but one of them was especially interesting : A David Powell was searching for a town whose name was 'Cavey' !

Here is the message he sent :
G'day all! Anyway, another request. Anyone know where I can find the town of Cavey, in Co Tyrone. I suspect it's near Ballygawley, but I can't find it on my maps. Thanks : David Powell.

I searched for the answer and I found this reply from SeanRuand~ *{:-) (he signs like that). Sean is the Project Director of The IreAtlas Project (no less!)

Here is the reply :
Cavey is located in the Civil Parish of Errigal Keerogue near Clogher,Tyrone

As I had no idea where the County of Tyrone should be, I asked both David and Sean :

In which country ? UK ? Ireland ? USA ? Elsewhere ?

Here is the reply from Sean :

Errigal Keerogue is a Civil Parish of approx. 21,000 acres located in the south-central part of County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

Last but not least, Sean who visited Caveys' Family World Wide Society site, confirms what Ronald says (see The main debate) about the origins of the name for those of the Caveys who have their roots in Ireland.

But I was still unable to locate this small city... until I got an e-mail from Feargal O'Donnell who wrote me : Cavey is a small area near the town of Ballygawley. And then I found it on my map of Ireland ! Ballygawley is at the crossing of the highways A4 and A5. There is also a Cavey Road in this small city.

• I have received a mail from Des Donnelly :

  I am an Irishman from Co. Tyrone (near Ballygawley) currently living in US and came across your post via google earth, here is a link to a little map of the townlands of Errigal Keerogue Parish which shows the location of Cavey townland...a townland is a small geographical unit of land, after that we had the field names nearly always in Irish but they have mostly been forgotten

  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tyrone/parishes/tl/errigal-keerogue_tl.html

  Also since the townland is an old irish invention and the word base comes from Irish language Queen University in Belfast did a lot of research into the origin of the townland names...,

  http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofLanguagesLiteraturesandPerformingArts/SubjectAreas/IrishandCelticStudies/Research/NorthernIrelandPlace-NameProject/

  The only other Cavey I know in Tyrone is the placename Donacavey in Fintona.

  Regards

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