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 theMac(“son of”) prefix, then dropped theMac, but ended up with the h...
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...
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...
We have listed more than 300 of themost frequently found namesin Ireland, with some brief information about the origins of each and their distribution in Ireland in the past and to-day. Many names have complex histories, so while we have tried to be as accurate as possible in these listing...
All names beginning in Fitz –Fitzgerald,Fitzpatrick, Fitzsimonsand so on, are of Norman origin. The Fitz is simply a mispronunciation of the French “fils”, meaning “son of”, and its use implies a family with an aristocratic background. ActorBarry Fitzgerald(left)was of Norman-Irish sto...
England. The Norton family of Sharpenhoe in Bedfordshire was one early Norton line, beginning with le Seugneur de Norville in 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...
Over time, the Savages became fully part of the Irish landscape (the Gaelic version of their name was Mac an tSabhasaigh) and were constantly at war with other Irish clans in the area, in particular with their arch-rivals, the Clandeboye O’Niells....