Historically, surnames evolved as a way to sort people into groups - by occupation, place of origin, clan affiliation, patronage, parentage, adoption, and even physical characteristics (like red hair). Many of the modern surnames in the dictionary can be traced back to Britain and Ireland. Sim...
Historically, surnames evolved as a way to sort people into groups - by occupation, place of origin, clan affiliation, patronage, parentage, adoption, and even physical characteristics (like red hair). Many of the modern surnames in the dictionary can be traced back to Britain and Ireland. ...
These are the areas that were host to to a constant back-and-forth traffic between Scotland and northern Ireland (Ulster), and it may well be that originally English “Gay”s and “Guy”s both ended up here by 1881, when people of that name who had settled in Ireland from England, ...
Few Irish surnames have been more barbarously maltreated by the introduction of the English language into Ireland than Ó Brollachain. For some extraordinary reason, it was generally given as its anglicized form, the common English name Bradley. Though in a few places, notablyCounty Derry, it...
On the contrary, an analog study carried out in Ireland6 showed no significant correlation between the frequency of a surname and the diversity of the Y chromosomes within it. Moreover, the finding that frequent Irish surnames such as O'Sullivan and Ryan present a single founder may be ...
Excluding Ireland 1880 US Census Distribution(all McGee variants) Map courtesy ofwww.wykes.org/distand FamilySearch 1880 Census CD Census Distribution of McGee Surname Surname1990 US1880 US1881 UK McGee0.031%77,0000.033%16,7380.009%3,075
The map is autogenerated when we upload the photographs.That means you do not really need to know the geography of Ireland or Munster to find your family grave. Just save the lat/long coordinates into a GPS or smartphone, or use the small google map on the left to save the gravestone ...
McGough, McGeough, McGeogh, Magough, Mageough, and Mageogh are forms of the same family name. In public, church, and estate records in Ireland in the 19th century and earlier, these surnames were often used interchangeably to describe the same person or family. John O'Hart says that ...
Historically, surnames evolved as a way to sort people into groups - by occupation, place of origin, clan affiliation, patronage, parentage, adoption, and even physical characteristics (like red hair). Many of the modern surnames in the dictionary can be traced back to Britain and Ireland. ...
Historically, surnames evolved as a way to sort people into groups - by occupation, place of origin, clan affiliation, patronage, parentage, adoption, and even physical characteristics (like red hair). Many of the modern surnames in the dictionary can be traced back to Britain and Ireland. ...