Our Surnames, Books and Other Credible Sources



Ref.

MFHN: Surname article "A Look at the Mc(ac)A/I/Ninch(sh) Surname(s), and Where


    They Might be from in Ireland", http://www.mcaninch.net/Surname/mcsurpg1.htm


(and another copy) http://www.mcaninch.net/Newsletter/mfn05y97/m05p14w6.htm


(and) "Timeline: McA/I/Ninch Events in 1600's, 1700's, and 1800's, (northern) Ireland


    (McA/I/Ninch events, 1669 onward)", MFHN v.XXI n.3 July 2013 p.2013-20


    http://www.mcaninch.net/Newsletter/mfn21y2013/m21p20w6.htm


    (Notes) [49] [50] http://www.mcaninch.net/Newsletter/mfn21y2013/m21p28w6.htm





S.1.

(MacLysaght) [regarding] ". . . Mac and Mc (. . . [and] the now almost obsolete M') . . .


    There is no difference: Mc is simply an abbreviation of Mac." (in the Introduction)




"Mac Aninch, -Inch, -Ninch Ulster variants of the Scottish MacInnes" (pg.6),


"Mac Inch See MacAninch" (p.166), "(Mac) Innes Mac Anonghuis. The Scottish


    form of MacGuinness. Angus and Anguish are cognate" (p.167),


"Mac Ninch See MacAninch" (p.236), and


"Mac Neish, -Nish A sept of the Scottish clan MacGregor” (p.235) (sic, Clan Gregor),




The Surnames of Ireland, Edward MacLysaght, M.A. D.Litt. M.R.I.A., Sixth Edition,


Reprinted 1989, by Irish Academic Press Limited, Kill Lane, Blackrock, County Dublin,


Republic of Ireland; Sixth edition Dublin 1985; reprinted 1989, ISBN 0-7165-2366-3;



S.2.

(Matheson) (Sir Robert E. Matheson, Barrister-at-Law, Registrar General; Dublin)


(1901) Surnames and Varieties: "M'HINCH, M'Aninch, M'Inch, M'Kinch" (pg.53)


(1909) found exclusively in Antrim “Buick ... M'Killen, M'Murty, M'Ninch ... " (p.36)


(1909) "M'Ninch 5 entries in Birth Indexes for 1890, . . . found . . . all in Antrim" (p.64)




Special Report on Surnames in Ireland [and] Varieties and Synonymes of Surnames


and Christian Names in Ireland, Sir Robert E. Matheson, LL.D., originally in two parts,


1901 and 1909, reprinted 1988, Genealogical Publishing Co., ISBN 0-8063-0187-2



S.3.

(Black) "MacNinch, from MacAonghus, 'son of Angus', q.v " (p.552)


"MacAngus, 'son of Angus'. This form of the name is not common, as it seems early


    to have passed over to MacInnes, q.v." (p.453)


"MacInnes, MacKinnes, MacKinness. G (Gaelic) MacAonghais, 'son of Angus', q.v.


[Mc(ac)Aninch(sh), Mc(ac)Ininch(sh), and Mc(ac)Insh,spellings not listed in the book]




The Surnames of Scotland, Their Origin, Meaning, and History, by George Fraser Black,


Ph.D., pub. 1946, by New York Public Library, Fourth Reprinting 1974, Eighth 1986.






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