Delanny is probably Delaney in Ireland. signup for your free weekly Letter from Ireland by clicking here. If you qualify, you'll need official records such as certified copies of birth certificates. Scottish name from the Clan Campbell (from the Gaelic cam béal) – the name of many later Scottish planters in Ulster.So, the answer is – it depends but if it was MacCampbell it could well be the county Tyrone. I believe her ancestorsI have recently started trying to trace my family tree. ya, Catholics got the last lic.cheers!I don’t know why you Irish insist on branding all Highlanders as Irish since this idea is a complete fallacy. All 3 variations appear in both countries. answer to her was “If I told you Scottish comes from the Latin for Irish, but the surname And that kind of explains the complications around how surnames such asThe original Latin name for Scotland was “Alba”. If you read surname books, it talks about the gallowglass migrantsand Scott border clan, but the problem here is that the name shows up in Various areas of England in the medieval era, shows up in other countries as well as Schotte or Le Scotte or Scotti or whatever, and in these countries, let us take Schotte, that name was given to many Irish priests.

As a kid, the term Scotch-Irish seemed like a handy term to describe someone who was of Irish and Scottish descent. Thanks so much. I wish I could find the article, but I am sure I saw muster rolls for the name in Dublin, being soldiers stationed there from England, where the name could also be Scut, meaning wanderer, and thus, completely unrelated to Scotland.

My family of course is divided. What do you know about Atchisons?Hi Michelle – it is a Scottish name originally – but I am not familiar with its history for sure. ).In the highlands of Scotland, you had the Gaels (and the language they spoke was Scots Gaelic – an offshoot of old Irish) – and in the lowlands near the border with England, you had the non-Gael Scottish.There was a particular clan in this border area that came to be known as the “Scotts” by the English – and they adopted the name as their own clan name. Today you will find And one final “complication”!
If you look at Gryffiths evaluation, the name is common in Ulster and Dublin, true, but found in every county. One book said it was first recorded in the sixteenth century, but that also seems wrong, as a recent article on Scottish patriotism, which I wish I could find, lists the name being taken by an Ayrshire merchant who settled in Dublin in the late thirteenth century. Best, MaribelMy grandfather’so last name is Currant. This comes from a nummber of different septs – but mainly from the Galway Roscommon area.Long – now thats a mixed bag – can be Norman (de Long), English or Gaelic from the Irish Ó Lonaigh.

I know that this name was MacCampbell when original. So it is with many Scottish names: so Atchison is also spelled Acheson, Aicheson, Aitcheson, Attchison, Atkinson.

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Copyright 2020 by A Letter from Ireland. Thank you for any help – I’m new to this!Why is an individual from Scotland called a Scot yet a person’s name is Scott with 2 t ?My last name is Townsend, I’ve been told that it is Scot, but some argue it is Irish, or Welsh?Here is the surname Townsend on a map from John GrenhamMy family name is Regan my Great Grandfather and Grandfather came to America in 1879 from Ennis Ireland . David Christie stayed in NYC, but John Joseph Christie wound up in Henderson, Tennessee and later in Jackson, Tennessee, where he is buried. I have been told it is each…can anyone please help me?Hi Sheila – when Banks comes from Ireland, it can be a planter name OR a version of the Gaelic name Ó Bruacháin from County Offaly. There you can do a search for any surname. I think it is Scottish. My cousins all say Mack is Irish. I love your site and enjoy reading about anything IrishNice story Mary!

Mike.We have the surname Atchison.

I think they came from County Tyrone or ArmaghHi Michelle: I am a retired university professor and this stuff is onbe of myb hobbies.Celtic people did not believe in written traditions, only oral, so different pronounciation = different spelling.My mothers’ surname was Kenney my grandmothers’ was Long and My great grandmothers’ was Taaffe. I would love to trace his parents in the homeland. My mom’s mom’s maiden name was Stovall. My own family, mother’s side, in the past have all 3 forms in our family tree: MacMicking, McMicking, and M’ micking. I have been told that I am a great deal of Irish/Scottish but of course that doesn’t really tell me very much. My grandfathers name was Conner, and aim told his grandfathers name was Ferguson O’Conner.


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