When one thinks of Scottish surnames, one almost always thinks of those that begin with Mc’ or Mac.’ This is an over simplification as Scottish surnames are quite diverse and reflect the various... Scotland was first settled roughly 10,000 years ago after the end of the last ice age. From the personal name possibly from Saint Martin,it is the name of a once great family of East Lothian The Ulster Gilmores were a very powerful family controlling large territories in the baronies of Antrim Castlereagh and Lecale before the Plantation. Bringing with them large numbers of their extended family and kinsmen the Hamiton name soon became one of the most commonly found names in Ulster. The MacBaxters, Gaelic Mac an Bhacstair, 'son of the baker', were a branch of the Clan Macmillan. A change in ‘cultural identity’ can be quite rapid (think modern Americans who are a mix of almost every nation on the planet)... Ireland is one of Scotland's closest neighbours, and their shared heritage runs deep; it is reflected in surnames (Mac or Mc? My maiden name is McElhaney, but that name (as many others in our tribe) is only because Scottish Traders married high ranking [Wind Clan] Creek women about 300 years ago. century Yorkshire from the town of Roos . The plantation of Ulster in the 17th century led to many Scottish people settling in Ireland. The Origin of the Scottish Gaels as revealed by their DNA! Her mother's family were McKay often spelled McCoy on records there. The exact origins of this family are complicated when one takes into account the large numbers of both Irish and Scottish septs who share the names Johnston and Johnson. 19. This name is explained by several experts as being “hopper” from a dancer who performed at county fairs. The Martins were early settlers in South Tyrone in the Ulster Plantation. Suibhne mac Cinaeda ri Gallgaidhel modernised as MacCinaeda is in fact not Kennedy as supposed but McKenna. Some Highland MacWatts translated their name to Watson. Scots-Irish Surnames; a list of families in the Scots-Irish DNA Project, La Société Française d’Études Indo-Européennes. The Hopper family are still found in Coldingham in 1593 just some 20 years before the Plantation so this may be the origins of the Ulster Hopper family. Simon Loccard fore runner of the Lockharts of Lee held both places under the Stewarts in the latter part of the 12th The Dumfriesshire name Kirkhoe, now rare, also became Kirk. The Scots-Irish DNA Project is open to families of Scots-Irish ancestry. The early-eighteenth-century Gaelic poet James MacArdle was of the Fews district. I realize this is old but I'm adding my two cents. Ewing is quite a numerous surname in Ireland; in 1866 there were 27 births registered for it. +44 (028) 9181 2073 | enquiry@uhf.org.uk He also founded the Press Club. A Scottish name from Old English “Huda” a personal name. The following is a list of Scottish surnames, contained on Muster Rolls and Estate Maps of the eight Plantation Counties of Ulster for the period 1607 - 1633, which was the initial phase of the plantation scheme. Here they regrouped and made their way back to Ulster to coincide with the start of the Plantation in which their kinsmen the Gilmores were also partaking. The personal name William derives from the Old German Willihelm and when introduced into Britain by the Normans, it became the single most popular personal name in England and remained so until it was superseded by John. Thank you. Ferry, also spelt Fairy, is found almost exclusively in Co. Donegal, and is an anglicisation of the old Cenél Conaill sept name Ó Fearadhaigh. The McCleans who came to Ulster were the McCleans of Duart, brought over initially by the McDonnells of Antrim and later the O’Neills of Tyrone. A very common name in the Scottish Lowlands particularly in Aberdeenshire and Banffshire. Scots Irish indeed! I am descended from four Irish ancestors, Crozier, Elliot, McKay and Simpson. In Co. Monaghan the name Kirke is thought to be a variant of Carragher, Gaelic Mac Fhearchair, through the seventeenth-century variants Kearcher and Kirker. I have not ascertained the correct derivation of the name;  it may be a toponymic from one of the many places in Ireland called Curragh; the rare Irish word curach, meaning champion or hero, has also been suggested as a possible alternative; or it may be an Irish form of MacCurrach, which is a sept of the Scottish clan MacPherson. I am certain there will be more.I have had my autosomal DNA analyzed and it showed 60% Celtic which really shocked me. MacBrearty, an exclusively Ulster name, is most common in counties Tyrone and Donegal. From the trade “fletcher” the man who fitted the fights to arrows, though not an old Scottish family they did appear in early Scottish records in Roxburgh as early as 1338. Adam Legate rendered his accounts to the Bailie of Sterling in 1406 and later became a burgess of the same town. There are many Ulster-Scots surnames that began as a nickname. Origins in Ulster:  Pre Plantation (16th In the 18th Century when many thousands of Ulster's sons and daughters came to New World to settle on the frontier, they brought... General Robert E. Lee was once asked this question: 'What race of people do you believe make the best soldiers?' Although the map features surnames of Scottish, English, Welsh, Pallantine and Gaelic Irish origin, it is the Scottish surnames that dominate in both number and frequency! In Scotland the name is found almost exclusively as Adam. Below is a roster of the participating families. Unless he court with Kennedie”. Also Rainy and Rannie and Rennie However the Fermanagh South Tyrone Johnstons were of the Scottish border reiver family of that name. No. My GGG grandfather William Blair came to the colonies 1765- 1771 ? Many of the surnames, about 35% are of  Highland Scots ancestry. A brother of Daimhín called Cormac was ancestor of the Maguires and the O'Devines, Lords of Tirkennedy. The unusual name MacAragh  which is taken from Wade and McQuaide can be found only in Irvinestown County Fermanagh. They are a branch of the MacMahons of Oriel, forst noted as Sliocht Ardghail Mhóir Mhic Mathúna, 'the stock of Ardghal Mór MacMahon', who was chief of the MacMahons from 1402 to 1416. The name is in Gaelic Ó hEaghra and the family was originally of Co. Sligo, descendants of one Eaghra, pronounced 'ara', a chief of Leyny in that county. This “ Adams” family were early settlers in Cavan. Some of the Irish sept of O'Hagan (see O'Hagan) may have further anglicised their name to Aiken. Although there is confusion between the Farleys of Blackwatertown and the Irish Farrelly family ,a Breffny family whose territory was in the barony of Loughter in County Cavan ,it seems these Blackwater “Farleys “were in fact Fairleys a family of English adventurers who had arrived in Ireland with Cromwell. The family name derives from Hamilton in Larnarkshire. These families can sometimes also be found as McGibbon or McKibbon. May be a corruption of the name Breamage from the old English. In Ireland very few of Blairs live outside Ulster where over half are from Co. Antrim and most of the remainder from counties Derry and Tyrone. son of the servant or devotee of St Peter) has several anglicized forms: Kilfeather, Kilfeder, Kilfether and occasionally Gilfeather - the prefix Mac is not now retained with any of them. DonateCharitable Objectives. Origins in Ulster : Plantation Scottish This word in Ireland has no relation to Scotland. As you can see the families are a combination of Lowland and Highland However, there are a number of my lines that go clear back to early colonists and I have not found any way to determine what country they came from. The spelling “Millar” is preferred in Scotland and can be found there from the 15th As a reporter for the Evening Standard and the Daily Chronicle, he covered almost every war in Europe and Africa in a thirty-year period, from the Franco-German War in 1870 to the recapture of Khartoum in 1898. From the Gaelic Ó, meaning 'grandson', 'grandchild' or 'descendant'; Ní is the femine form of Ó, meaning 'daughter' or 'descendant'. It has been recorded in Ireland since early medieval times but its current prevalence in Ulster probably stems from post-Plantation Scottish settlers. Rainey and the variant spellings are pet forms of Reynold a spoken form of Reginald. Also found in Stranraer. The Nobles, as mentioned before in the case of other Fermanagh planters lived on the English side of the West March of the Scottish Borders. Sometimes spelt as Bunan Bunyan or Bunion. The O'Ferrys were followers of the MacSweeneys. As a name in Ulster many Blackburns claim the Sterlingshire decent. The Davidsons and McPhersons remained at feud thereafter. It is in Ireland a variant of the Norman name de la Haye .