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That may be the case for some of the Doyle branches, the Majority seem to have been native irish, adopting this name after moving into Norse towns. vm.tiktok.com/ZGeVesUN8/
Yeah we have Gentleman from county Claire going back 4 generations in the US. I always just assumed that Gentleman was an Anglicanized Irish name, but it's actually English.
My paternal line left Ireland during the potato famine and settled in Geordieland. Interesting video regarding how names were altered. Always wondered where Brown originated as a surname.
That is interesting to note, my father is from Newcastle, but if I look at his surname Gilley, it was first noted in Waterford Ireland. And what did my grandfather do? He was a glass blower.
We are irish from both my mothers and father's side, my grandad told us once "we live in England now, but are irish and don't forget that". Most recently we are from Yorkshire area (dad's side) and eastern seaboard of north america (mother's side). From dna testing, we are from Cty MAYO, DONEGAL, DUBLIN and our family names are WILD, FINNEGAN, MCKINNEY/MCKENNY, TAYLOR. I am most curious about the name WILD. I'd give alot to talk to my grandad again to get some facts and stories.
You see I disagree with your grandad, if you are born in England, then you’re English and definitely not Irish. We in Ireland are taught that by our parents.
I'm a Byrne living in County Wicklow, so I can trace my family all the way back to the High Kings of Ireland about 2000 years ago! We used to be the O'Byrnes. Look the family up, we were powerful back in the day 😊💚
@@Mountjoy1689-i9c You are getting mixed up with the Scottish Burns, as in Robbie Burns. Those Byrnes/O’Byrnes have been in south Leinster for thousands of years.
1:26 I'm from East Donegal and in my small village (and it's surrounding area) there are people with every single one of these surnames (English, Welsh & Scottish)
Yes, there are quite a few Gillin families in villages all over the Laggan (East Donegal) although a lot of them would have the spelling variation Gillen@@changelocation
Hello my friend, I've been on the lecture circuit and giving talks at Ireland101 so I've been really busy, I can't complain because it pays the bills but I miss getting the free time to make the videos, Maybe after Christmas when it dies down I will get some more done.
My Great great Grandmother was Mary Marks very English sounding but she was Roman Catholic from Maynooth, Kildare The surname could be from the Irish Markey or Anglo Norman Marks.
I have an ancestor who came over to the US during the Famine in Ireland. Her last name was Kilgareth on the document when she got married to her husband, who also was Irish. However, she later changed her last name to the anglicized version of Garvey, which I learned is from origins of Ó Gairbheith. How would it have gotten to "Kilgareth" from Ó Gairbheith? Irish names confuse me.
Very interesting info!! Both my paternal grandmother maiden name Brown and her mother was a Murphy and my grandfather surname Townsend and mother's maiden name Marshall, as far as my father knew both sides of his family emigrated from the County Cork area of Ireland to the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the US before the Civil War in the US which was from 1861-65 as his Townsend grandfather was a veteran of that War. Having had my Ancestry DNA done 50% is Italian attributed to both my maternal grandparents were Italian immigrants, and paternal came back nearly equal in % of Irish, British Isles, followed by German. The German coming up was quite a surprise!! Possibly the only pure Irish I can claim is marrying a Dolan and taking on my now late husband's surname which both his parent's Irish lineage traces to the Irish emigration to Boston during the potato famine. Unlike my husband's family which were strict Catholics, my Irish family were Methodist Protestants which my father believed his family brought this religion with they emigrated and did not adopt it in the US.
If they were protestant then they weren't Irish in the strict ethnic sense. A common mistake many Americans make: claiming Irish ancestry when they were in fact Ulster-Scots protestants. That is, 'Planters' from Scotland and northern England who were 'settled' in northern Ireland. They didn't mix or mingle with the native Irish catholics and were in fact hostile and suspicious of each other (see the Troubles). They would not have considered themselves Irish.
@leodesiefast Both arguments have many of the same problems when we try to simplify history down binary lines, Many of those from a "Protestant" backround did and still do consider themselves Irish on the entire Island, regardless of the state documents calling individuals and communities "Irish" and the continuation of the Irish Parliament, I mean what do people think they referred to themselves in the 198 years between England's conquest of Ireland in 1603 and the act of Union in 1801. We should be careful. simplifying history is what creates things like the troubles
It has to be remembered that the majority of Irish people carrying an English or Norman surname will actually be of native Irish stock. The Anglo-Norman takeover of Ireland mirrored that of the one in Scotland: Clan chiefs and their close followers were dispossed of their lands in favour of an Anglo-Norman or a Breton and either exiled, murdered or outlawed, and the rank and file clan members were reduced to vassal status to the new lord, subsequently adopting his surname. My own great, great grandmother on my Dad's side was a Power (from the Norman surname Pouer) from Cork, the descendent of the unfortunate souls from the O'Donovan clan that were left stranded when the area of land in which they lived was snatched.
They weren't "Anglo-Normans" Anglo-Normans settled in England. The Normans moved on quickly to Wales, Scotland and Ireland. They would of been Cambrian-Normans, Caledonian-Normans, and Hiberno-Normans. They came from Normandy in northern France, not England.
@@jasonallen6081 Norman's (Vikings), came to Normandy from Denmark. Then to England (1066 A.D.). 50 years after the Romans left Britain. The Angles, Jutes and Saxons came to Britain (486 A.D.). They had sent over a number of people to check out the Native Britain's. The Saxons said, "they (the Britons) are a push over. Let's go steal their Lands". So this language English, is Angle (from Denmark). The Romans called the island, Greater Britain- Lesser Britain is Brittany in France. The white people living in the Western European Isles, decend from Mainland Europe. We are not American or not African or not Asian. We are European. The current white people in England, are a mixture of European tribes. Going back thousands of years.
Having traced our ancestry back to 1560 I'd think we're English and were living in Wiltshire back then. Now the family live across southern England and further afield.
I see that the Irish apparently adopted surnames before the English. The first officially recognized English surname was in 1267, exactly a century before the Statutes of Kilkenny first began to reorder and anglicize Irish naming practice. So it is possible many or most Englishmen had not yet adopted surnames when their government began to change Irish surnames!
Do we know when surnames became recognized in Ireland? Also I don't think that's quite true because I know of atleast one name in England that has been around since the 9th century
All names ending in SON are Scottish protestant planter names found mostly in the plantation counties in the North, eg, Donaldson Carson Watson Emerson Wilson Henderson Atkinson Dawson Simpson Gibson Wilkinson Nelson etc.
Its a combo of the two for my youtube name. I have both Irish and Canadian Passports. In terms of how my name is written, One is in Irish and One is Anglised. Going to the US is a pain in the arse.
Interesting video, thanks! It certainly does make untangling surname origin for anyone in Britain and Ireland potentially more difficult! I am English but my mother is of Irish ancestry with the name Gallagher. I don't know if that name had an older traditional Irish spelling? I guess it probably was Anglicised to a degree. So, anyone with, let's say, the surname Smith (a very common name from an English word of trade/profession) could be purely English, purely Scots, early Norman/English settlers in Ireland (the Pale), later English/Scots planters in Ulster, or native Irish who Anglicised their name...either by choice or by decree....! Certainly makes genealogy a bit trickier! I think the original Gaelic Irish names/spellings look cooler. Cheers!
Gallagher is Ó Gallchobhair and means descendant of Gallchobhar, a personal name meaning "foreign help". It is the most common one origin surname in Ireland and hails from south Donegal.
Many surnames started as first names and changed ober time . ie, Duncan - Duncan's son- Duncanson . Or son of Reilly of Reilly- O' Reilly . Or named after their village John of Buxton - John Buxton Or their trade , John the blacksmith - John Smith.
This was truly excellent l- keep up the good work. In Northern Ireland a first name tells so much. Kevin, Seán, Liam, Seamus= Catholic Republican. Ian, Alister, Samuel, William, Graham, Nigel= Protestant Unionist. Roll on the happy day when no one looks twice at a Catholic Nigel or Protestant Liam. By the way, there are today Bodkins in deepest Connemara. And they're Catholic.
Thanks for all the great videos! Do you have any plans on the Clan Maclean? their intermingling in Ireland during the redshank era is pretty fascinating with the O'Neil, O'Donnell, O'Rourke leading up to the Nine Years War
Pugh and Price are Cymric surnames meaning Ap Hugh snd Ap Rhys(Reese). Parry is Ap Harry, Bevan is Ab Evan/Ifan, Bryce Ab Rhys, Bowie/Bowen Ab Owain, Pritchard Ap Richard, Probert is Ap Robert, Jones is Ap/Ab Ion/Iones(coming from the Latin name Iohannes), Stephens is Ap/Ab Stefan, Thomas Ap/Ab Tomas, Davies/Day Ap/Ab Daffydd, Lewis Ap/Ab Llewellyn, Lloyd Ap/Ab Lloyd,Griffith Ap/Ab Gryffudd,Williams Ap/Ab Gwylym(from the Latin name Guilliamus), James is Ap/Ab Iago(like Santiago which is Spanish from Jacob/James coming from Latin Sant Iacobus Saint James), Sayce from Sassaig(English or Anglo-Saxon), Cochburn(Coch means red and Cochburn could be a tanner just like the z Italian surname Russo/Rossi), Gof(Smith in Welsh related to surname McGavin), Carter(from Carter Wales), Walsh coming from Welshman, Edwards is Ap/Ab Eduard(like Latin Eduardus), Prichard is actually Ap Ricard (from Latin Ricardus), possibly Craig from Carreg which a stoner(occupation), and Miredith is Ab/Ap Meridydd. Ap/Ab for son and Mar for daughter. Moore/Morris is Ap/Ab Murreig from the Latin name Mauricus sharing origin with maroon which originally meant brown or dark features, and Morgan Ap/Ab Murhein. Welsh/Walsh is Cymreig.
My surname is hughes they came from cork ireland. Whenever I have looked this up apparently it is was given to norsemen who are of viking/Scandinavian origin. The name is derived from the Old Norse name Húgsviðr, which was a given name used by the Norsemen who settled in Ireland. The name Hughes was first found in County Cork, where the Hughes family held a seat from ancient times. Weird as my family are from cork and Waterford. They was both also viking cities when I done a dna test I was 24.9% Scandinavian which is very high. My wife's family are from kildare in athy and loads of hughes there also its a very popular irish surname the name is even painted on the wall as the boats on the river was named hughes. Its a celtic surname found in Wales and Scotland also.
Inaccurate to call some of these British Surnames, they are Norman French names, Hiberniores Ipsis Hibernis. Never knew the English called us old English Irish dogs, I love it :-)
Fascinating video, thank you! According to his U.S. naturalization affidavit, my great, great grandfather, John Cunningham, emigrated from County Roscommon in 1834. How can a boy, probably born in October 1831 in County Roscommon, have a name like John Cunningham?
@@Dhhhhj27 is that where they live? I only recently read something about it, I think they came to Ireland around the same time the Amish came to America,, right?
@FrithonaHrududu02127 The only two settlements that I know ,they came in the mid 18th century during our penal laws as the English were getting lazy and Irish were considered dirt.
Found out that my family , Trim left Dorset ,England in 1650 for America. I was always told we were Irish. I wonder if we came from Trim in County Meath ,Ireland?
My paternal line is French Normandy (Viking)! I live in America, many people call me African American; BUT, my genealogy ancestral lineage shows a direct paternal line back to EUROPE. My surname "Warde" (in this spelling variation) isn't of English origin! It was brought into England from FRANCE (at least pertaining to Captain Rowan Hamilton Ward lineage) around 980 A.D. - 1090 A.D. during the time of William The Conqueror: -Exhibit A: Three early ancestors of Captain Rowan Hamilton Ward identified through surname research from Archive™, WikiTree™ and Geni™: Name: Noble Captain Richard De La Warde Birth: 1040 A.D. Birthplace: FRANCE Death: 1084 A.D. (39-48) Occupation: Noble CAPTAIN OF THE GUARDS for William the Conqueror of Normandy. Name: John De La Warde Birth: 1015 Birthplace: FRANCE Death: ? Name: Mr NN De La Warde (or Fouques De Varde) Birth: 980 Birthplace: FRANCE Death: ? -Exhibit B: From Warde History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms: "The name Warde reached England in the GREAT WAVE OF MIGRATION following the Norman Conquest of 1066. THE NAME WARDE IS FOR A GUARD having derived from the Old English word ward, meaning guardian or watchman". - House of Names, 2000 - 2022 -Exhibit C: Ancient History Surname Ward "The family name Ward is believed to be descended originally from the Norman race. They were commonly believed to be of French origin but were more accurately of Viking origin. The Vikings landed in the Orkneys and Northern Scotland about the year 870 AD, under their Chief, Stirgud the Stout. Later under their Jarl, Thorfinn Rollo, they invaded France about 940 AD, The French King, Charles the Simple, after Rollo laid siege to Paris, finally conceded defeat and granted northern France to Rollo. Rollo became the first Duke of Normandy (the territory of the North Men)". [Ward, Corra. "The Ancient History of the Distinguished Surname Ward". Genealogy, 2007] -Exhibit D: African American DNA ethnic testing: "I have looked at some of the research that was done by African Ancestry™ in Washington D.C. and it was astounding. The results showed that 30% of all African Americans DNA was traced back to Europe (England, Ireland, Russia, Germany, Italy, SCOTLAND and Wales/Britain). It's interesting that the very nations BENJAMIN FRANKLIN NAMED AS BEING BLACK IN 1751 are the same nations that African Ancestry is listing as places of origination for the blacks in America". -Professor Lee Cummings, 'The Negro Question Book Series: 1-7', 2012 - 2019 #2: Who were the FRENCH: Exhibit A: From prehistoric times: "These LITTLE BLACK WELSHMAN (Scots and Celts) SETTLED IN FRANCE". -James Anderson, 'Riddles Of Prehistoric Times', 1911 Exhibit B: In the year 1751 "In Europe the FRENCH are generally of what we call a SWARTHY COMPLEXION". -Benjamin Franklin, 1751 *NOTE: Swarthy= A dark colored skin person replaced in English language with the word black. Used to identify those of very dark skin color, a dark complexion or a dark hue. See black! Black= The Old English word for black is sweart (or swart). See Swarthy!
I have Irish ancestry, & I am from Australia. My great grandfather was Irish, but I have discovered that his surname may be English. My great grandfather & grandmother's surname was Hardgrove. My great grandfather came from Kilkenny country. I think. Hardgrove is a name that comes from Hargreaves & other variations. I also learnt that the war cry is shared by other surnames that are similar also.
ive lived in reland my whole life thinking my fathers side of the family had a scottish/english surname. after seeing this video i looked into it some more and sure enough my surname has been replaced by an english surname
McNally. Gaelic - Mac Con Uladh. Translates as "Son of the Hound of Ulster" So if you know your mythology on "The Tain Bo cuilege" I Have the name of one of Irelands greatest Heroes of Antiquity.
Also the McNally's were never part or belonged to a Larger clan or family tribe as all the other clan's thought the McNally's were too strong and it would be unfair and unjust to assimulate them into a larger clan. therefore the McNally Clan were outlaw and were hired by other clans in time of conflict.
Whoever told you that needs too be arrested this is like yankees saying gey are decent from Brian boru Mcnally is son of Cú Allaidh its an ulster surname Yes it was part of a larger clan mcnally is cenél eoghain meaning wild hound a tribe of tir eoghain or Tyrone in English The hound of ulster is Cú Chulainn he had no clan amd no children there's nobody from the hound of ulster
The name Burke/Bourke is likely to be of Norman origin (which explains the resemblance to the French name Bourque). I read once that the Burke family originally came from Caen, in Normandy.
@@kevinkelly1586comes from Burgh. OE a fortified place, East Anglia. William de Burgh founder of Irish House of de Burgh. b.1206 brother of Anglo/Norman Hubert de Burgh. 1st Earl of Kent. There are millions all over the world. Spelling varies. We were probably descended from a servant/worker on land. Who knows?1850s famine brought tens of 1000s of Irish people in one year to Liverpool. I'm mostly English/Welsh Norton, Evans Hartley, Burke.
It could be anything Not all irish names are clans Dullaghan is a personal name like quinn or kearney It's not a clan so too speak it was adopted by a person and given too his kids Dullaghan doesn't have a direct line and we don't know what it means Some say it means son of the blind one from old gaelic blind being dull Aghan being anglicised one Like quinn means son of the chief but not a particular chief it is a name adopted by a singular person due too his achievement Niall quinn was the first quinn named son of the chief because his father was del gcais the kings of munster Kearney is named after conn ceathalact conn of the hundred battles who fought the hound of ulster it is not a clan name irish named their sons kearney because it was a popular name not because they are actually sons of conn Irish don't have a born surname before occupation we had out first name and could Change our surname too a nickname or named after mythology like kearney Dullaghan or dalachain and many other spellings is very old and is mainly found in america since mass migration.
My last name means “cleric” it was a profession name . Dna shows we are Irish , Scottish and English. Smaller amount of English. The name Patrick has been used in my family for generations. We knew we had Irish heritage but it was unknown the Scottish till DNA testing. I’ve noticed that there are people who have the profession aspect of surname did not realize they were Irish till DNA testing as most discussion are based on the typical O in a name forgetting that some may have the profession attached to their Irish heritage.
Scottish and Irish I believe are grouped in the same category in DNA tests so that might not necessarily mean you have Scottish ancestry though they are both very similar.
I recently did a DNA test and found I'm about a quarter Irish (which I've always had a feeling I might be so it was nice to discover it ) but it seems to be on my Dad's side who was adopted and never bothered tracing his real parents and family. I'm more interested to see if there might be Irish on my Mums side, Downes. Gone back about 4 or 5 generations and there isn't yet :/
My last name Skelton is English but yet im Irish. My great grandfather was from Waterford Ireland. Skelton was from Yorkshire Northern England in the 8th century
I'm Irish and my surname is Long. I thought perhaps its an English surname but as I was researching local history I saw that Longs came from Germany to nearby areas. I need to pay a geneaologist to research the surname. My ancestry DNA results were 97% Irish 4% Faroe Islands! Family lore also says we have Spanish ancestry.
Most of the translations happened before the Famine, Many people don't realise that it was the Gaelic revival in the 19th century that brought many of the O's and Mac/Mcs back
@@waynemcauliffe2362 that’s most likely nonsense and as someone with ancestors from across the island it seems that they some had their name officially in English without the prefix but retained the information in Irish. If you want to be that petty, should we say you’re descendant of viking invaders and distant cousin to the Cambro-Normans???
If I was around ... I'd take soup too. Not much use standing in a bog. starving to death singing Faith Of Our Fathers. Look up Achill, Edward Nangle. Famine He was jettisoned for helping the starving peasants
As with all names, there will be multiple origin points on the Isles of Ireland and Britain, Dawson and Collins both have branches from Britain, but the Collins surnames has a famous Irish line from Limerick / Cork, while the Dawsons Irish line can be found in Wexford.
@@Clans_Dynasties We always thought my gt. grandfather, Henry Collins, was born in Lincolnshire where he grew up, but I traced his birth to 1846 in Cork. He was, with his family, a refugee from the Irish Famine!
@@Clans_Dynasties That's very interesting, I wasn't aware of much Irish immigration into that part of England.The Irish ancestors I have on the other side of my family were all Catholics, but the Collins family were Protestant. This probably accounts for their easy integration into the local Lincolnshire population.
My maternal grandfather' surname was Mayo...... descended from De Mayeaux and the Normans. Mayo Co is probably a hangover from the Norman conquest of Ireland.
@@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756 maybe you should research it . Great name . Im very proud to be Irish. Currently reside in USA . Great to know that about the name
I have second cousins called MADDEN Which is the English translation for the Irish name MADDIGAN. It’s written in stone on the head stones of his ancestors in our old cemetery. Maddigan not madden.
I'm a 7th generation Canadian by the last name of Farley. My ancestors came over the pond from Ireland in 1825. The best I can do in my research is that we lived in County Armagh in the city of Tandragee. However, researching the origin of my surname indicates the Farleys came from somewhere in NW England. My conclusion is that we emigrated to Ulster as one of the Plantation migrates, but not certain. The name Farley does not appear in the list of English surnames involved in these migrations, so I'm baffled. Does anyone have a web address that might assist me? I grew up always believing we were Irish, but was told in no uncertain terms by an Irish genealogist that we were NOT Irish. So be it.
Thank you for you comment, Most maps are just visual aids unless I'm talking about a specific family held area for example the ones shown in my O'Sullivan clan history video. I hope this helps.
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How do you account for Irish lords such as Edmund O'Brien (Baron Inchiquin, descended from Brian Boru himself) of Co Claire who were royalists and supported the cause of King Charles and King Charles II? Col John Fiztgerald was even from a Catholic family and went on to be very high in the military of King Charles and was with him in exile (and later supported Charles II).
@@Clans_Dynasties It wasn't really so black and white as what a lot of historians portray . You are portraying that folks had to change their surnames and what not (granted I guess you were talking about 1300 or something) but here we have all these royalist Irish, many of whom were not Old English and who had old Irish surnames and titles who were quite chummy with the English peerage without any name change whatever. So it seems to contradict your broad and sweeping statement. It was more nuanced.
@rdwwdr3520 This video clearly states that these are examples of how someone with a name associated with Britain may descend from a Gaelic lines so those with said names can understand why they may have changed including but not limited to laws that sought the destruction of the Irish language and usage of Irish names, although there were and always are some exceptions, though your example only add to my point since families that did retain lands and titles such as the Callahans, O' Brian's, and Maguires used anglicised versions of thier names instead of the Gaelic O'Ceallacháin, O'Briain and Mac Uidhir, your also using 1 point in history to try and argue against several centuries of laws and examples I stated, every century and the politics within it was completely different, I feel like you are implying that somehow an Irishman being loyal to England or later Britain is somehow either news too or an issue for me none of my videos are anti or pro any idiviual from history or thier politics including allegiances to England and later Britain, if you are finding any Nationalistic arguments within my videos I would say maybe take a look inwards at your own biases.
@@Clans_Dynasties No I get your point; overall you were making a (very interesting) point about how some otherwise English surnames may have arisen in unexpected ways in Ireland. Still, I sense in your video and many others' videos on Ireland, Wales and Scotland a propensity to speak in terms of nicely discreet groups whereas the sense I get is that things were more messy and it was more of a priomordial soup with a high degree of entropy there on the isles. And I think this is born out by DNA haplogroups. Things seems ro have been very dynamic rather than static. But no disrespect intended. Just my random impression.
@rdwwdr3520 Yes. Some did cosy up to the crown in order to keep their lands however that doesn't mean they were inter marrying and mixing DNA as you suggested
I was told my family name RICE had the root OMAOLCRAOBHE but this is the first time I've seen it spelled like O' MAOL-CRAOBHE. I was told it means/meant something like "bald branch" or something originally but to the English overlords (or whatever) the Gaelic voicing sounded like how we say Rice. Supposedly, it was a family or clan that was part of the O'Neil crew around Armagh! Sorry if I'm butchering the terms, I mean no disrespect. Anyway, what's the best literal translation of O' MAOL-CRAOBHE? Great video BTW!
It is Ó Maol Chraoibhe historically but often incorrectly written Ó Maolchraoibhe today. It means descendant of the follower of Craobh. a personal name meaning "branch".
Our surname is Bates we believe it originated in Yorkshire, my elder brother had a friend from Ireland he asked if we originated in Ireland I believe the Irish Bates,s went across with Cromwell I have no evidence it’s just an idea
@@NeilBates-k3t youtube will undoubtedly, yet again, censor this comment (I've replied to your comment a number of times already, but the free-speech warriors at youtube just love censorship) ... Obviously it wasn't you, but it's way past time that the British accept their vile, vicious, rapacious history. One way or another, you benefited from 'empire' (aka, genocide, massacre, mass murder, land theft, sexual violence, etc. ... On an unparalleled scale). Just own the dark, depraved side of your history for a change.
Well....My Grandmother's name on my father's side was Mary Gildr and yes that is the correct spelling, Apparently. Was born in Belfast northern Ireland. And that was her maiden name, before marriage. I am to believe that she and my Grandfather from around Dunbarton of Scotland had the Scottish name Lennox, As both my Father's parents were both of Anglo Scandinavian Ancestor's , As my Father's original Ancestral name was once "Fitzflaad dating back in history before arriving in Scotland from over the sea's....But before 1040 it was changed to Lennox, as it was known in the Royal Court's in the history of King Macbeth of Scotland. Then due to some rather bad behaviour, it was changed for the Third Time.. tracing the name that my Grandfather was also of Anglo Scandinavian Ancestor's.
What's up with the surname Stephens? Edit: My surname is Stephens which I always thought was Anglo though I know of a co-founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood known as James Stephens. My dad's surname is Barry and his dad was from Yorkshire. I think Barry is Irish. My grandma's maiden name is Masterson which I'm fairly certain is Irish
Although the majority of the surname probably have link to Britain thier are known usages of the name by the Native Irish. Mac Giolla Stiofáin was anglicised to Stephen(s) And a branch of the O'Reillys used the surname Steven(s) aswell. There may be more either I'm unaware of or lost to time.
There are two branches mentioned, 7:56 , 8:05 , although I couldn't put every name down due to the amount of names associated with the possible recruitment area.
My surname originated in Ireland. It in no way came from England. Kelleher is an Irish Dalcaissian surname which came from relatives of Irish high king Brian Boru. The original Kelleher was a nephew of Irish King Brian Boru.
O'Keefe isn't mentioned. Tha clan was blessed by St Patrick and O'Neil chose paganism. There was a Pobal O'Keefe given to the clan. A Irish name thst lived on. It'd be interesting to here of O'caighm origins.
@lombmusic07 Being Irish & Catholic aren't invariably synonymous; only with DNA analysis do you know all your true origins & migration routes: get real.
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As much as many may wish to romance about Irish heritage, the English population is significantly higher… we’re all a mix anyway!
....and Doyle is an extraction of the Viking name that the Irish gave the family, Dhubgail, meaning Dark Stranger.
That may be the case for some of the Doyle branches, the Majority seem to have been native irish, adopting this name after moving into Norse towns.
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Have a.lot of Irish In me it's called Guiness
Oh I love a good warm stout. A pint~~
😊 , I do love a pint or 2 of Guinness..
Means you're black and bubbly?
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This explains so much. My family tree “paper trail” is full of English surnames; but my genetic genealogy has mostly Irish….not English genes.
One of the many evils the English forced on the Irish.
same here - one of my grandmother was Harrington, which I always wondered about
Yeah we have Gentleman from county Claire going back 4 generations in the US. I always just assumed that Gentleman was an Anglicanized Irish name, but it's actually English.
Great video buddy, thanks.
Thank you title needs a little work I think but means alot mate.
This is a good video thanks for composing and posting it.
Thank you very much.
My paternal line left Ireland during the potato famine and settled in Geordieland. Interesting video regarding how names were altered. Always wondered where Brown originated as a surname.
That is interesting to note, my father is from Newcastle, but if I look at his surname Gilley, it was first noted in Waterford Ireland. And what did my grandfather do? He was a glass blower.
@@Briardie My wife's grandfather was a glassblower. He died after contracting typhoid due to contaminated water in the factory.
We are irish from both my mothers and father's side, my grandad told us once "we live in England now, but are irish and don't forget that". Most recently we are from Yorkshire area (dad's side) and eastern seaboard of north america (mother's side). From dna testing, we are from Cty MAYO, DONEGAL, DUBLIN and our family names are WILD, FINNEGAN, MCKINNEY/MCKENNY, TAYLOR. I am most curious about the name WILD. I'd give alot to talk to my grandad again to get some facts and stories.
Is my surname Irish, (Finney).
You see I disagree with your grandad, if you are born in England, then you’re English and definitely not Irish. We in Ireland are taught that by our parents.
Ruttledge is a popular name in Ireland 🇮🇪 Thought to be an Anglicised version of Mulderrig
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The history you spoke about is very interesting. Think I will have a look at your items for sale.Thanks!
My ancestors are Moore Meath boat builders, Delahanty to Wilkerson 1661.
DB totally loved this vlog.Wish you your wife and family a lovely weekend❤
I'm a Byrne living in County Wicklow, so I can trace my family all the way back to the High Kings of Ireland about 2000 years ago! We used to be the O'Byrnes. Look the family up, we were powerful back in the day 😊💚
lol no one cares but you dear lol
@lombmusic07 Have you heard of history/historians?
Some Bryne are descended from Viking or English. But that would not suit your blinkered history.
@@Mountjoy1689-i9c You are getting mixed up with the Scottish Burns, as in Robbie Burns.
Those Byrnes/O’Byrnes have been in south Leinster for thousands of years.
@@davidpryle3935 I said some, not all.
amazing Lad ...
tha research work , tha making of tha video .....
brilliant
Thank you so very much, I really do appreciate this alot.
Interesting video thanks! I always wondered why my surname was roughly equally represented across the divide in the North.
Thank you, There are many more names but I didn't have time the time to fit them in, I will add them to their specific family videos though.
Ó h-Ádhmaill is a true Irish surname.
1:26 I'm from East Donegal and in my small village (and it's surrounding area) there are people with every single one of these surnames (English, Welsh & Scottish)
Planters.
Do you know any Gillin family.
Yes, there are quite a few Gillin families in villages all over the Laggan (East Donegal) although a lot of them would have the spelling variation Gillen@@changelocation
@@cooldaddy2877We are all planters, including yourself, know your history.
@@ononewheellad I do know my history....and you should know what the difference is!
English and proud🏴 Not a drop of Irish 🏴🏴
Loads.of.irish.dna.in.you.mate.you.just.dont.no.itask.your.granny.or.gRead.granny😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
English.mick.an.your.brother.is.paddy.sister.isaileeen😅😅😅😅😅
Go.on.ye.spoofer.ye😅😅😅😅😅😅drink.your.guinness.before.it.goes.off
@@VincentMartin-f2s Nah. Can't stand the stuff.
@mick1406 thank.god.for.that.mick.are.we.the.lucky.ones
Slainte mo chara dia duit, great upload . Haven't heard from you in awhile.
Hello my friend, I've been on the lecture circuit and giving talks at Ireland101 so I've been really busy, I can't complain because it pays the bills but I miss getting the free time to make the videos, Maybe after Christmas when it dies down I will get some more done.
My Great great Grandmother was Mary Marks very English sounding but she was Roman Catholic from Maynooth, Kildare
The surname could be from the Irish Markey or Anglo Norman Marks.
My family said we were Irish McIntyre's originally who later moved to the Isle of Skye and then the Scottish Highlands
Naah....I'm English and very proud to be. 🏴
Fitz Gerald is Norman French. Fitz is a corruption of Fils, meaning son of.
Mac Gearailt as Gaeilge, fonetisized as McGarrett
Great video. Just subscribed 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
I have an ancestor who came over to the US during the Famine in Ireland. Her last name was Kilgareth on the document when she got married to her husband, who also was Irish. However, she later changed her last name to the anglicized version of Garvey, which I learned is from origins of Ó Gairbheith. How would it have gotten to "Kilgareth" from Ó Gairbheith? Irish names confuse me.
Very interesting info!! Both my paternal grandmother maiden name Brown and her mother was a Murphy and my grandfather surname Townsend and mother's maiden name Marshall, as far as my father knew both sides of his family emigrated from the County Cork area of Ireland to the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the US before the Civil War in the US which was from 1861-65 as his Townsend grandfather was a veteran of that War. Having had my Ancestry DNA done 50% is Italian attributed to both my maternal grandparents were Italian immigrants, and paternal came back nearly equal in % of Irish, British Isles, followed by German. The German coming up was quite a surprise!! Possibly the only pure Irish I can claim is marrying a Dolan and taking on my now late husband's surname which both his parent's Irish lineage traces to the Irish emigration to Boston during the potato famine. Unlike my husband's family which were strict Catholics, my Irish family were Methodist Protestants which my father believed his family brought this religion with they emigrated and did not adopt it in the US.
My mums name was O'Neil
@@patcullen9304 son of Neil , easy
If they were protestant then they weren't Irish in the strict ethnic sense. A common mistake many Americans make: claiming Irish ancestry when they were in fact Ulster-Scots protestants. That is, 'Planters' from Scotland and northern England who were 'settled' in northern Ireland. They didn't mix or mingle with the native Irish catholics and were in fact hostile and suspicious of each other (see the Troubles). They would not have considered themselves Irish.
@leodesiefast Both arguments have many of the same problems when we try to simplify history down binary lines, Many of those from a "Protestant" backround did and still do consider themselves Irish on the entire Island, regardless of the state documents calling individuals and communities "Irish" and the continuation of the Irish Parliament, I mean what do people think they referred to themselves in the 198 years between England's conquest of Ireland in 1603 and the act of Union in 1801. We should be careful. simplifying history is what creates things like the troubles
@@leod-sigefast do you know how the catholic religion came to Ireland ??? do you know anything?
My maiden name Wilson, mother's maiden name Dillon, maternal grandmother's maiden name Pearl, paternal grandmother's name Milner.
It has to be remembered that the majority of Irish people carrying an English or Norman surname will actually be of native Irish stock. The Anglo-Norman takeover of Ireland mirrored that of the one in Scotland: Clan chiefs and their close followers were dispossed of their lands in favour of an Anglo-Norman or a Breton and either exiled, murdered or outlawed, and the rank and file clan members were reduced to vassal status to the new lord, subsequently adopting his surname. My own great, great grandmother on my Dad's side was a Power (from the Norman surname Pouer) from Cork, the descendent of the unfortunate souls from the O'Donovan clan that were left stranded when the area of land in which they lived was snatched.
This is where I believe the sir-name "Clary" came from. Norman to Ireland to USA
They weren't "Anglo-Normans" Anglo-Normans settled in England. The Normans moved on quickly to Wales, Scotland and Ireland. They would of been Cambrian-Normans, Caledonian-Normans, and Hiberno-Normans. They came from Normandy in northern France, not England.
My last name is Power. 😉
@@jasonallen6081 Norman's (Vikings), came to Normandy from Denmark. Then to England (1066 A.D.).
50 years after the Romans left Britain. The Angles, Jutes and Saxons came to Britain (486 A.D.). They had sent over a number of people to check out the Native Britain's. The Saxons said, "they (the Britons) are a push over. Let's go steal their Lands".
So this language English, is Angle (from Denmark).
The Romans called the island, Greater Britain- Lesser Britain is Brittany in France.
The white people living in the Western European Isles, decend from Mainland Europe.
We are not American or not African or not Asian. We are European.
The current white people in England, are a mixture of European tribes. Going back thousands of years.
Having traced our ancestry back to 1560 I'd think we're English and were living in Wiltshire back then. Now the family live across southern England and further afield.
your great graet great great great grandad made wooden wheels
I see that the Irish apparently adopted surnames before the English. The first officially recognized English surname was in 1267, exactly a century before the Statutes of Kilkenny first began to reorder and anglicize Irish naming practice. So it is possible many or most Englishmen had not yet adopted surnames when their government began to change Irish surnames!
Do we know when surnames became recognized in Ireland?
Also I don't think that's quite true because I know of atleast one name in England that has been around since the 9th century
@@kellancarney810 .....and that is?
@@markaxworthy2508 I just looked it up and I was wrong
I thought it was prestage but no I read the website wrong
@@kellancarney810 If only everyone on this medium was so honest. Respect.
Yes, in my family on mother's side is the McGowan or MacGown, that is the translation of Smith and there's Barber and Pennick
All names ending in SON are Scottish protestant planter names found mostly in the plantation counties in the North, eg, Donaldson Carson Watson Emerson Wilson Henderson Atkinson Dawson Simpson Gibson Wilkinson Nelson etc.
My maiden name was Morris, born in Hastings, however I’m convinced I have Scottish roots, does anyone know anything?
Those ending in son are English I think. .The Mac's are Scottish
@@dougbarb12hardy38 The surname Morris is common in Ireland, and Morrison in Scotland...
Hi my surname is Finney, unsure if Irish or Scottish?
Its a combo of the two for my youtube name. I have both Irish and Canadian Passports. In terms of how my name is written, One is in Irish and One is Anglised. Going to the US is a pain in the arse.
Interesting video, thanks! It certainly does make untangling surname origin for anyone in Britain and Ireland potentially more difficult! I am English but my mother is of Irish ancestry with the name Gallagher. I don't know if that name had an older traditional Irish spelling? I guess it probably was Anglicised to a degree.
So, anyone with, let's say, the surname Smith (a very common name from an English word of trade/profession) could be purely English, purely Scots, early Norman/English settlers in Ireland (the Pale), later English/Scots planters in Ulster, or native Irish who Anglicised their name...either by choice or by decree....! Certainly makes genealogy a bit trickier!
I think the original Gaelic Irish names/spellings look cooler.
Cheers!
Gallagher is Ó Gallchobhair and means descendant of Gallchobhar, a personal name meaning "foreign help". It is the most common one origin surname in Ireland and hails from south Donegal.
MacGowan and other variations are the Irish equivalent of Smith.
Many surnames started as first names and changed ober time .
ie, Duncan - Duncan's son- Duncanson .
Or son of Reilly of Reilly-
O' Reilly .
Or named after their village
John of Buxton - John Buxton
Or their trade , John the blacksmith - John Smith.
Halley family from Waterford. ( o'hailche) in the Irish.
This was truly excellent l- keep up the good work. In Northern Ireland a first name tells so much. Kevin, Seán, Liam, Seamus= Catholic Republican. Ian, Alister, Samuel, William, Graham, Nigel= Protestant Unionist. Roll on the happy day when no one looks twice at a Catholic Nigel or Protestant Liam. By the way, there are today Bodkins in deepest Connemara. And they're Catholic.
My Dads family were from Ireland up until late 19th century, surname is Duker, ive never known or met anyone else barring relatives with my surname.
I have an English surname that has English origins (Mom) and and Irish origins surname (Dad). Appleby and Foley.
Thanks for all the great videos! Do you have any plans on the Clan Maclean? their intermingling in Ireland during the redshank era is pretty fascinating with the O'Neil, O'Donnell, O'Rourke leading up to the Nine Years War
Pugh and Price are Cymric surnames meaning Ap Hugh snd Ap Rhys(Reese). Parry is Ap Harry, Bevan is Ab Evan/Ifan, Bryce Ab Rhys, Bowie/Bowen Ab Owain, Pritchard Ap Richard, Probert is Ap Robert, Jones is Ap/Ab Ion/Iones(coming from the Latin name Iohannes), Stephens is Ap/Ab Stefan, Thomas Ap/Ab Tomas, Davies/Day Ap/Ab Daffydd, Lewis Ap/Ab Llewellyn, Lloyd Ap/Ab Lloyd,Griffith Ap/Ab Gryffudd,Williams Ap/Ab Gwylym(from the Latin name Guilliamus), James is Ap/Ab Iago(like Santiago which is Spanish from Jacob/James coming from Latin Sant Iacobus Saint James), Sayce from Sassaig(English or Anglo-Saxon), Cochburn(Coch means red and Cochburn could be a tanner just like the z Italian surname Russo/Rossi), Gof(Smith in Welsh related to surname McGavin), Carter(from Carter Wales), Walsh coming from Welshman, Edwards is Ap/Ab Eduard(like Latin Eduardus), Prichard is actually Ap Ricard (from Latin Ricardus), possibly Craig from Carreg which a stoner(occupation), and Miredith is Ab/Ap Meridydd. Ap/Ab for son and Mar for daughter. Moore/Morris is Ap/Ab Murreig from the Latin name Mauricus sharing origin with maroon which originally meant brown or dark features, and Morgan Ap/Ab Murhein. Welsh/Walsh is Cymreig.
I am from South Africa. My surname is Roden. My grandfather Michael was born in South Africa in 1886.
My surname is hughes they came from cork ireland. Whenever I have looked this up apparently it is was given to norsemen who are of viking/Scandinavian origin.
The name is derived from the Old Norse name Húgsviðr, which was a given name used by the Norsemen who settled in Ireland.
The name Hughes was first found in County Cork, where the Hughes family held a seat from ancient times.
Weird as my family are from cork and Waterford. They was both also viking cities when I done a dna test I was 24.9% Scandinavian which is very high. My wife's family are from kildare in athy and loads of hughes there also its a very popular irish surname the name is even painted on the wall as the boats on the river was named hughes. Its a celtic surname found in Wales and Scotland also.
My great grandfather came from Antrim I believe his last name was Moore
The Moores were kicked out of Laois by Queen Mary in the mid 1550s some were killed in a massacre .
I’d say so, as an o’ Hanlon , everyone has a bit of Irish in them, and the ones that don’t want some 😁
Our Family name -is Fulton told
Out of London-Derry
Boyle name is Norman from boville the town in Normandy the branch of the family went to Ireland the other went to Scotland
Another branch is descended from the Cenél Conaill kin group in modern-day Donegal.
@Clans_Dynasties great info thanks 😊
Not a branch, but a distinct Gaelic origin....Ó Baoighill.
Inaccurate to call some of these British Surnames, they are Norman French names, Hiberniores Ipsis Hibernis. Never knew the English called us old English Irish dogs, I love it :-)
Fascinating video, thank you!
According to his U.S. naturalization affidavit, my great, great grandfather, John Cunningham, emigrated from County Roscommon in 1834. How can a boy, probably born in October 1831 in County Roscommon, have a name like John Cunningham?
Ireland was well mixed up by 1831.
Martin. It came with the conquest in 1066, but also already existed in Ireland so it’s both I suppose.
My grandfathers surname was spelled Martyn
John Martyn did some great music @@dechannigan2980
You should do a video on the palatine germans in Ireland
Tralee and Rathkeale.
@@Dhhhhj27 is that where they live? I only recently read something about it, I think they came to Ireland around the same time the Amish came to America,, right?
@FrithonaHrududu02127 The only two settlements that I know ,they came in the mid 18th century during our penal laws as the English were getting lazy and Irish were considered dirt.
@FrithonaHrududu02127 The mid 18th century.
@@FrithonaHrududu02127 They were used as farmers as the Irish couldn't be trusted.
My name is Lavery my father's mother is Irish his father is Scottish
Lavery is an Irish surname.
Found out that my family , Trim left Dorset ,England in 1650 for America. I was always told we were Irish. I wonder if we came from Trim in County Meath ,Ireland?
My paternal line is French Normandy (Viking)! I live in America, many people call me African American; BUT, my genealogy ancestral lineage shows a direct paternal line back to EUROPE. My surname "Warde" (in this spelling variation) isn't of English origin! It was brought into England from FRANCE (at least pertaining to Captain Rowan Hamilton Ward lineage) around 980 A.D. - 1090 A.D. during the time of William The Conqueror:
-Exhibit A: Three early ancestors of Captain Rowan Hamilton Ward identified through surname research from Archive™, WikiTree™ and Geni™:
Name: Noble Captain Richard De La Warde
Birth: 1040 A.D.
Birthplace: FRANCE
Death: 1084 A.D. (39-48)
Occupation: Noble CAPTAIN OF THE GUARDS for William the Conqueror of Normandy.
Name: John De La Warde
Birth: 1015
Birthplace: FRANCE
Death: ?
Name: Mr NN De La Warde (or Fouques De Varde)
Birth: 980
Birthplace: FRANCE
Death: ?
-Exhibit B: From Warde History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms:
"The name Warde reached England in the GREAT WAVE OF MIGRATION following the Norman Conquest of 1066. THE NAME WARDE IS FOR A GUARD having derived from the Old English word ward, meaning guardian or watchman". - House of Names, 2000 - 2022
-Exhibit C: Ancient History Surname Ward
"The family name Ward is believed to be descended originally from the Norman race. They were commonly believed to be of French origin but were more accurately of Viking origin. The Vikings landed in the Orkneys and Northern Scotland about the year 870 AD, under their Chief, Stirgud the Stout. Later under their Jarl, Thorfinn Rollo, they invaded France about 940 AD, The French King, Charles the Simple, after Rollo laid siege to Paris, finally conceded defeat and granted northern France to Rollo. Rollo became the first Duke of Normandy (the territory of the North Men)". [Ward, Corra. "The Ancient History of the Distinguished Surname Ward". Genealogy, 2007]
-Exhibit D: African American DNA ethnic testing:
"I have looked at some of the research that was done by African Ancestry™ in Washington D.C. and it was astounding. The results showed that 30% of all African Americans DNA was traced back to Europe (England, Ireland, Russia, Germany, Italy, SCOTLAND and Wales/Britain). It's interesting that the very nations BENJAMIN FRANKLIN NAMED AS BEING BLACK IN 1751 are the same nations that African Ancestry is listing as places of origination for the blacks in America". -Professor Lee Cummings, 'The Negro Question Book Series: 1-7', 2012 - 2019
#2: Who were the FRENCH:
Exhibit A: From prehistoric times:
"These LITTLE BLACK WELSHMAN (Scots and Celts) SETTLED IN FRANCE". -James Anderson, 'Riddles Of Prehistoric Times', 1911
Exhibit B: In the year 1751
"In Europe the FRENCH are generally of what we call a SWARTHY COMPLEXION". -Benjamin Franklin, 1751
*NOTE:
Swarthy= A dark colored skin person replaced in English language with the word black. Used to identify those of very dark skin color, a dark complexion or a dark hue. See black!
Black= The Old English word for black is sweart (or swart). See Swarthy!
I have Irish ancestry, & I am from Australia. My great grandfather was Irish, but I have discovered that his surname may be English. My great grandfather & grandmother's surname was Hardgrove. My great grandfather came from Kilkenny country. I think. Hardgrove is a name that comes from Hargreaves & other variations. I also learnt that the war cry is shared by other surnames that are similar also.
My Suriname is found in Ireland transport English to be exact Border Reviers
Can you prove they were Border Reivers? Forster is a polygenetic English surname.
ive lived in reland my whole life thinking my fathers side of the family had a scottish/english surname. after seeing this video i looked into it some more and sure enough my surname has been replaced by an english surname
What is your surname?
McNally. Gaelic - Mac Con Uladh. Translates as "Son of the Hound of Ulster" So if you know your mythology on "The Tain Bo cuilege" I Have the name of one of Irelands greatest Heroes of Antiquity.
Also the McNally's were never part or belonged to a Larger clan or family tribe as all the other clan's thought the McNally's were too strong and it would be unfair and unjust to assimulate them into a larger clan. therefore the McNally Clan were outlaw and were hired by other clans in time of conflict.
Whoever told you that needs too be arrested this is like yankees saying gey are decent from Brian boru
Mcnally is son of Cú Allaidh its an ulster surname
Yes it was part of a larger clan mcnally is cenél eoghain meaning wild hound a tribe of tir eoghain or Tyrone in English
The hound of ulster is Cú Chulainn he had no clan amd no children there's nobody from the hound of ulster
Irish Lives Matter
Amen!
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Why? Who said they didn’t?
My surname is Bourke. Is Irish, Norman or English. I believe some of my ancestry came from Tipperary.
The name Burke/Bourke is likely to be of Norman origin (which explains the resemblance to the French name Bourque). I read once that the Burke family originally came from Caen, in Normandy.
@@kevinkelly1586comes from Burgh. OE a fortified place, East Anglia. William de Burgh founder of Irish House of de Burgh. b.1206 brother of Anglo/Norman Hubert de Burgh. 1st Earl of Kent. There are millions all over the world. Spelling varies. We were probably descended from a servant/worker on land. Who knows?1850s famine brought tens of 1000s of Irish people in one year to Liverpool. I'm mostly English/Welsh Norton, Evans Hartley, Burke.
My last name is chippendale as far as i no its english but my grandfather was a bergin from Ireland
(Childish I know but) May be descended from male strippers or furniture makers.....?
Chippendale is indeed English although a Gaelicised form does exist in Sipeandáil. Bergin is most definately Irish.
What about the name Brennan? I believe it comes from o braonain
Ó Braonáin. Just a little piece of advice...the pronunciation marks are important...as important as any letter.
Any Info on o 'Dalachain/Dullaghan ,supposedly from Irish O'Neil
It could be anything
Not all irish names are clans
Dullaghan is a personal name like quinn or kearney
It's not a clan so too speak it was adopted by a person and given too his kids
Dullaghan doesn't have a direct line and we don't know what it means
Some say it means son of the blind one from old gaelic blind being dull
Aghan being anglicised one
Like quinn means son of the chief but not a particular chief it is a name adopted by a singular person due too his achievement
Niall quinn was the first quinn named son of the chief because his father was del gcais the kings of munster
Kearney is named after conn ceathalact conn of the hundred battles who fought the hound of ulster it is not a clan name irish named their sons kearney because it was a popular name not because they are actually sons of conn
Irish don't have a born surname before occupation we had out first name and could Change our surname too a nickname or named after mythology like kearney
Dullaghan or dalachain and many other spellings is very old and is mainly found in america since mass migration.
My last name means “cleric” it was a profession name . Dna shows we are Irish , Scottish and English. Smaller amount of English. The name Patrick has been used in my family for generations. We knew we had Irish heritage but it was unknown the Scottish till DNA testing. I’ve noticed that there are people who have the profession aspect of surname did not realize they were Irish till DNA testing as most discussion are based on the typical O in a name forgetting that some may have the profession attached to their Irish heritage.
Scottish and Irish I believe are grouped in the same category in DNA tests so that might not necessarily mean you have Scottish ancestry though they are both very similar.
Price is a Welsh name. Coming from ap Rhys.
That is one of the many origins for the name in Ireland. Such as a corruption of the name O'Muirgheasáin
(Morrison)
Also Ó Luacháin of Connacht was changed to Price.@@Clans_Dynasties
My son sent his dna to 23 and me, and they said he is French, German and Irish. No mention of Scottish, even though our family claims to be Scottish.
Same here,
I recently did a DNA test and found I'm about a quarter Irish (which I've always had a feeling I might be so it was nice to discover it ) but it seems to be on my Dad's side who was adopted and never bothered tracing his real parents and family. I'm more interested to see if there might be Irish on my Mums side, Downes. Gone back about 4 or 5 generations and there isn't yet :/
My last name Skelton is English but yet im Irish. My great grandfather was from Waterford Ireland. Skelton was from Yorkshire Northern England in the 8th century
I'm Irish and my surname is Long. I thought perhaps its an English surname but as I was researching local history I saw that Longs came from Germany to nearby areas. I need to pay a geneaologist to research the surname. My ancestry DNA results were 97% Irish 4% Faroe Islands! Family lore also says we have Spanish ancestry.
3% Fareo Islands 😅😅😅
Cheers. What about those that took the soup and lost the O or Mc
Most of the translations happened before the Famine, Many people don't realise that it was the Gaelic revival in the 19th century that brought many of the O's and Mac/Mcs back
@@Clans_Dynasties I was one that didn`t now ta
@@waynemcauliffe2362 that’s most likely nonsense and as someone with ancestors from across the island it seems that they some had their name officially in English without the prefix but retained the information in Irish.
If you want to be that petty, should we say you’re descendant of viking invaders and distant cousin to the Cambro-Normans???
@@beaglaoich4418 Just what i`ve heard and read matey
If I was around ... I'd take soup too.
Not much use standing in a bog. starving to death singing Faith Of Our Fathers.
Look up Achill, Edward Nangle. Famine
He was jettisoned for helping the starving peasants
My Irish great grandmother was a Hughes, married to a Leary.
Hughes was originally a Welsh name. .
Hughes!! meaning son of Hugh of Germanic origin.
That would be a very Ecumenical question.
My Maiden name is Close. Was told its scottish. We did have an ancestor named Reazin told he came from Ireland.
What is the suffix -an? Cross-an Brenn-an etc
Were does names starting with Whit come from??
Dawson, McBrian, Collins, 3 of my grandparents...are these all from British isles?
As with all names, there will be multiple origin points on the Isles of Ireland and Britain, Dawson and Collins both have branches from Britain, but the Collins surnames has a famous Irish line from Limerick / Cork, while the Dawsons Irish line can be found in Wexford.
@@Clans_Dynasties We always thought my gt. grandfather, Henry Collins, was born in Lincolnshire where he grew up, but I traced his birth to 1846 in Cork. He was, with his family, a refugee from the Irish Famine!
Many irishmen moved to Lincolnshire, I heard the Hobhole drain was actually dug by them when I lived there, though I never verified it.
@@Clans_Dynasties That's very interesting, I wasn't aware of much Irish immigration into that part of England.The Irish ancestors I have on the other side of my family were all Catholics, but the Collins family were Protestant. This probably accounts for their easy integration into the local Lincolnshire population.
My surname is 100% Irish has been for generations .
Thankfully . And is from the west of Ireland / MAYO.
Singh?
My maternal grandfather' surname was Mayo...... descended from De Mayeaux and the Normans. Mayo Co is probably a hangover from the Norman conquest of Ireland.
@@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756 maybe you should research it .
Great name .
Im very proud to be Irish.
Currently reside in USA .
Great to know that about the name
@@eamonaugustine1262 Most Mayos come from southern England
@@presidentxijinpingspoxdoct9756 are you Chi s doctor ?
Taylor surnames, did it originate in Ireland
Indeed yes. We are Mc Canns from Ulster.
What about the last name of Kell?
Germanic -Rheinlands --loosely means "good"
I’d say it is. What you think?
What about cullen?
A lot of Irish names were Anglicised to the nearest English sounding surname. .
@dechannigan2980 - shhh, that upsets their 'story'
The oldest name in Ireland is 0' Breasail whose mother was Eiru
I have second cousins called MADDEN Which is the English translation for the Irish name MADDIGAN. It’s written in stone on the head stones of his ancestors in our old cemetery. Maddigan not madden.
Two distinct surnames.
I'm a 7th generation Canadian by the last name of Farley. My ancestors came over the pond from Ireland in 1825. The best I can do in my research is that we lived in County Armagh in the city of Tandragee. However, researching the origin of my surname indicates the Farleys came from somewhere in NW England. My conclusion is that we emigrated to Ulster as one of the Plantation migrates, but not certain. The name Farley does not appear in the list of English surnames involved in these migrations, so I'm baffled. Does anyone have a web address that might assist me? I grew up always believing we were Irish, but was told in no uncertain terms by an Irish genealogist that we were NOT Irish. So be it.
On the map i see Murphy, Kelly...no O'Sullivan. Funny its the third most popular last name. ☘️
Thank you for you comment, Most maps are just visual aids unless I'm talking about a specific family held area for example the ones shown in my O'Sullivan clan history video. I hope this helps.
My name is definitely Irish, O'Reilly , although it's spelt differently in Irish.
It is written. We are in end times. There’s no stopping it. Trust in our Creator and He will protect those who are His. There is a
beautiful new beginning coming after the death of this corrupt world. Hold tight to Father!
What went wrong is we allowed the psychopaths to make us afraid and we complied. DO . . . NOT . . . COMPLY . . .
@@benlotus2703 which psychopaths made us afraid
& afraid of what ?
@@kevcaratacus9428 !nvasion
Of course, because the Irish language is different! It is properly Ó Raghailligh.
Why are you here?@@benlotus2703
How do you account for Irish lords such as Edmund O'Brien (Baron Inchiquin, descended from Brian Boru himself) of Co Claire who were royalists and supported the cause of King Charles and King Charles II? Col John Fiztgerald was even from a Catholic family and went on to be very high in the military of King Charles and was with him in exile (and later supported Charles II).
Im sorry. i don't understand the question. How do I account for them in what sense?
@@Clans_Dynasties It wasn't really so black and white as what a lot of historians portray . You are portraying that folks had to change their surnames and what not (granted I guess you were talking about 1300 or something) but here we have all these royalist Irish, many of whom were not Old English and who had old Irish surnames and titles who were quite chummy with the English peerage without any name change whatever. So it seems to contradict your broad and sweeping statement. It was more nuanced.
@rdwwdr3520 This video clearly states that these are examples of how someone with a name associated with Britain may descend from a Gaelic lines so those with said names can understand why they may have changed including but not limited to laws that sought the destruction of the Irish language and usage of Irish names, although there were and always are some exceptions, though your example only add to my point since families that did retain lands and titles such as the Callahans, O' Brian's, and Maguires used anglicised versions of thier names instead of the Gaelic O'Ceallacháin, O'Briain and Mac Uidhir, your also using 1 point in history to try and argue against several centuries of laws and examples I stated, every century and the politics within it was completely different, I feel like you are implying that somehow an Irishman being loyal to England or later Britain is somehow either news too or an issue for me none of my videos are anti or pro any idiviual from history or thier politics including allegiances to England and later Britain, if you are finding any Nationalistic arguments within my videos I would say maybe take a look inwards at your own biases.
@@Clans_Dynasties No I get your point; overall you were making a (very interesting) point about how some otherwise English surnames may have arisen in unexpected ways in Ireland. Still, I sense in your video and many others' videos on Ireland, Wales and Scotland a propensity to speak in terms of nicely discreet groups whereas the sense I get is that things were more messy and it was more of a priomordial soup with a high degree of entropy there on the isles. And I think this is born out by DNA haplogroups. Things seems ro have been very dynamic rather than static. But no disrespect intended. Just my random impression.
@rdwwdr3520 Yes. Some did cosy up to the crown in order to keep their lands however that doesn't mean they were inter marrying and mixing DNA as you suggested
I was told my family name RICE had the root OMAOLCRAOBHE but this is the first time I've seen it spelled like O' MAOL-CRAOBHE. I was told it means/meant something like "bald branch" or something originally but to the English overlords (or whatever) the Gaelic voicing sounded like how we say Rice. Supposedly, it was a family or clan that was part of the O'Neil crew around Armagh! Sorry if I'm butchering the terms, I mean no disrespect. Anyway, what's the best literal translation of O' MAOL-CRAOBHE? Great video BTW!
It is Ó Maol Chraoibhe historically but often incorrectly written Ó Maolchraoibhe today. It means descendant of the follower of Craobh. a personal name meaning "branch".
Our surname is Bates we believe it originated in Yorkshire, my elder brother had a friend from Ireland he asked if we originated in Ireland I believe the Irish Bates,s went across with Cromwell I have no evidence it’s just an idea
Masterbates
@@Breas-md6hc this infantile joke is about 60 years too late
@user-si4pb6zm4b - I'd keep that history hidden. Massacre and mass murder aren't popular
@@maskellmaolseachlainn6347 I take your point but it wasn’t me
@@NeilBates-k3t youtube will undoubtedly, yet again, censor this comment (I've replied to your comment a number of times already, but the free-speech warriors at youtube just love censorship) ... Obviously it wasn't you, but it's way past time that the British accept their vile, vicious, rapacious history. One way or another, you benefited from 'empire' (aka, genocide, massacre, mass murder, land theft, sexual violence, etc. ... On an unparalleled scale). Just own the dark, depraved side of your history for a change.
Well....My Grandmother's name on my father's side was Mary Gildr and yes that is the correct spelling, Apparently.
Was born in Belfast northern Ireland.
And that was her maiden name, before marriage.
I am to believe that she and my Grandfather from around Dunbarton of Scotland had the Scottish name Lennox, As both my Father's parents were both of Anglo Scandinavian Ancestor's , As my Father's original Ancestral name was once "Fitzflaad dating back in history before arriving in Scotland from over the sea's....But before 1040 it was changed to Lennox, as it was known in the Royal Court's in the history of King Macbeth of Scotland.
Then due to some rather bad behaviour, it was changed for the Third Time..
tracing the name that my Grandfather was also of Anglo Scandinavian Ancestor's.
What's up with the surname Stephens?
Edit: My surname is Stephens which I always thought was Anglo though I know of a co-founder of the Irish Republican Brotherhood known as James Stephens. My dad's surname is Barry and his dad was from Yorkshire. I think Barry is Irish. My grandma's maiden name is Masterson which I'm fairly certain is Irish
Although the majority of the surname probably have link to Britain thier are known usages of the name by the Native Irish.
Mac Giolla Stiofáin was anglicised to Stephen(s) And a branch of the O'Reillys used the surname Steven(s) aswell.
There may be more either I'm unaware of or lost to time.
100% agree I've used him a source in the past, you have to pay after after a few searches but you get a couple free a day, he has youtube channel to,
The chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army during the violent 70s was John Stephens who was from London.
@@glenros516 Andorra and Irish.....never heard that one.
@@Scotia6261 John Stephenson
Noted the surname Connolly was not mentioned.
There are two branches mentioned, 7:56 , 8:05 , although I couldn't put every name down due to the amount of names associated with the possible recruitment area.
Either though I'm English my surna.e Scottish. I do have Irish ancestry
Moore, Best, Foster and Stewart ancestors.
My surname originated in Ireland. It in no way came from England. Kelleher is an Irish Dalcaissian surname which came from relatives of Irish high king Brian Boru. The original Kelleher was a nephew of Irish King Brian Boru.
O'Keefe isn't mentioned. Tha clan was blessed by St Patrick and O'Neil chose paganism. There was a Pobal O'Keefe given to the clan. A Irish name thst lived on. It'd be interesting to here of O'caighm origins.
What about McNicholas Mayo
Bohola the stronghold
Mac Niocláis, a branch of the Cambro Norman Burkes.
Ó hAonghuis, O'hennis then just Ennis my name got knocked down hard
A pity Kalasnikovs couldn't be time-travel-smuggled back to the native Irish of the time(s).
@lombmusic07 Being Irish & Catholic aren't invariably synonymous; only with DNA analysis do you know all your true origins & migration routes: get real.
@lombmusic07 Is Gaeilgeoir mé fein agus 8 mbliana staidéir again.