The Irish standard., 1897-02-06

ten at lengthto Mr. J. D. O'Connell of
.he Bureau Of Statistics of the Treasury
Department announcing that he has
made for publication in America an
sbridgment Of his large edition Of Irish
Pedigrees," which was published at
hbridgment Prof. Hart explains, moth
Ing pertinent to the subject has been
omitted, and he thus summarizes it's
contents says LIE Providence Visitor:
/. The nations which colonized Ire
land; 2, the origin of the Gaelic Irish
nation; 3. the ancestry Of each Irish
The volume; 4, the stock from which
the derivation Of each Irish surname;
6, the arnorial bearings of each Irish
family SO far as I have been able to col
lect them; Z, the various Anglicized
names assumed.
Prot. Harris letter to Mr.. O.Connell
then proceeds to give this very inter-
esting information concerning Irish sur
names:
Bearing on the origin of surnames in
Ireland, 1t may be mentioned that in
the Eleventh century the IRISH mon
arch, Brian Boroinhe (Boru) made an
ordinance that every Irish family and
clan should assume g. particular sur
name Tor sire-name), the more cor
rectly to preserve the history and gene
alcgy of the different Irish tribes. Each
family was hi liberty to adopt surname
and generally took their names from
some chief OF their tribe who was cele-
brated for his valor. wisdom, piety, or
some other great qualities. And the
members of a family, each in addition to
his own proper name, took, as COM
mon, the name Of their father or tbeir
ancestor, In the first case prelixing Max"
which means son; and In the other two
cases Ia (modernized o., which sig
nifies grandson or descendant Of and
In all instances the genitive case OF the
progenitcrs name followed the Mac
CT the 20.
I'm the early ages" writes DR.. Joyce,
"indiviluals received their names from
epithets implying some personal peculi-
aritics, such as color Of hair, complex
ion, size, figure. certain accidents of de-
formity, mental qualities - such as
bravery, ferceness, etc; and we have
only to look at the cid forms Of nam es
to remove any doubt we may entertain
of the truth OF this assertion
Thus your own family name, Con-
nell Tin Irish Ua-Conaill or O'Ccna1l)
is derived from Conall ("Conall"; Irish,
friendship), who is No. SO on the FAM
lily pedigree. And thus, also, another
Munster family, "MacGillicuddy" Tin
Irish, Mac Giolia Mochadha). is derived
from Gills- Mochodh ("giolla'; Irish, the
devoted Of; "noch," early; "odh," gen.
"odha," music}, who is No. 1l3 on that
family pedigree. IL time some members
Of this fine Old Irish family changed the
name to McElIycudd, McEllycuddy,
McElcole, McE]igot, McEligott McElli-
gott, Elliot. Eliot. McKelgol, McElli-
gold, Mcleod, McCloud, and Arch
deacon, all OF them ignoring the sur
name "MacGillicuddy" the original
Anglicized form of the fine old Irish
surname, MacGiolla Mcchadha. In the
list of Irishmen who served In the Span
!sh army in 1921, in the Kegimento de
Infanteria de Hiberna, was an Irish Of
flcer of the Elliot branch Of the Mac
Gillicuddy family.
Dispossessed of their pat.rimonies by
their own, or by the Danish or the Eng
lish invasion, or by the Elizabethan or
Cromwellian considerations in Ireland,
members of some ancient families set
tiled in Great Britain or on the Cont
nent, and there. from political, polemieal
on other causes, translated or otherwise
disguised their surnames to avoid being
considered Of Irish origin; while others
s5of our. people who may have remained
Ireland eYaded in the Anglicized
rms sofs their surnames any similarity
M rtyiIilnc ION of their IrisfsTafz