Variants: Macnairney, Mcnerney, McInerney In Irish: Mac An Airchinnigh Found in: West of Ireland Origin: Gaelic Comes from the old name MacErenagh which means “son of the lord”. Lord as in nobleman, not God. MacKenna In Irish: MacCionaoda Found in: Cavan, Monaghan, Ulster. Origi...
An analysis of Manx surnames at the beginning of the 19th century showed that 65 percent of them were of Celtic origin and another 30 percent of them of Norse-Gaelic origin. Many of these surnames had started with the Mac (“son of”) prefix, then dropped the Mac, but ended up with ...
A list of Irish surnames beginning with the letters H and J Hagan Variant:O’Hagan Healy Variant:O’Healy, Hely, O’Healihy In Irish:Ó hÉildhe Ó hÉilaighthe Found in:Cork, Sligo, Tipperary Origin:Gaelic Two families, Ó hÉildhe means “claimaint”, and Ó hÉilaighthe...
Another Gorman, Lou Gorman, spent more than three decades in baseball management, beginning in the 1960’s and mostly with the Boston Red Sox. Then there are the Gorman umpires – Tom Gorman, starting in the 1950’s, and his son Brian who began in the 1990’s. Reader Feedback – Lou...
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Scotland. Fletcher was the anglicized form of the old Scottish clan Mac-an-Leister who came from Glenorchy in Argyllshire. The clan held this land with the MacGregors until the 17th century when it was taken from them by the Campbells. After that time a number of subsidiary Fletcher lines...
The father’s name is Donald. The son’s name is Jamie. Using the Highland patronymic formula ‘mac’, derived from the Gaelic ‘meic’, which means ‘son of’, is added to the beginning of the father’s name. The son would then be called Jamie MacDonald. ...
to gain a passport or to hold a bank account. Nowadays, either through statutes or case law, all U.S. states allow for married women to retain use of their birth surname (MacDougall1985). It is clear that, as in the United Kingdom, the vast majority of married women choose not to...
England.The Norton family of Sharpenhoe in Bedfordshire was one early Norton line, beginning with le Seugneur de Norvillein the 12th century. Norville became Norton sometime in the 13th century. Thomas Norton of Sharpenhoe prospered as a grocer in London in Tudor times and his son Thomas mad...
Up with halbert out with sword! On we’ll go for by the Lord! Feagh MacHugh has given the word, Follow me up to Carlow!” Billy Byrne’s Lament.Billy Byrne was an influential and well-regarded gentleman among his peers in Wicklow in 1798. But he was convicted and hanged on the ev...