I did some research a few weeks back about why I have an apostrophe in my name. When the British conquered the Irish they started keeping records of the citizen

I did some research a few weeks back about why I have an apostrophe in my name. When the British conquered the Irish they started keeping records of the citizenry. The Ó used in Irish names to track descent was eschewed for O' in British record keeping. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_name