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McGaughey, McGoy, McCaughey, McCoy?
Little Bill
| 3/10/14
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Posted on 03/10/2014 1:12:12 PM PDT by Little Bill
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All your American Harps out there, Help!
To: Little Bill
Austrian here, so I only speak Austrian, can’t help you.
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posted on
03/10/2014 1:15:45 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
To: Little Bill
I haven’t done the DNA thing yet, but my ancestors on my father’s side were Scotch-Irish.
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posted on
03/10/2014 1:16:27 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
To: Little Bill
Scottish Gentile — Mac Goyim...
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posted on
03/10/2014 1:17:14 PM PDT
by
freedumb2003
(Fight Tapinophobia in all its forms! Do not submit to arduus privilege.)
To: sauropod
Still have your Kilt? Macmillan if I remember correctly.
To: freedumb2003
To: Little Bill
I haven’t done the tests but I am at least 4/1461 irish.
To: Little Bill
I highly recommend James Webb's The Fighting Scots Irish. I was able to find stories that linked to my wife's family. My mother was a McGee, grandpa however didn't hang around much and they immigrated to Canada. My wife's middle name is Boone, a descendant of Daniel through one of his indian wives. Family moved from Kentucky to Ohio. Another good book in this area is Riding With The Devil which brings the Scots down the whisky trail from Philadelphia into the hollers of Appalacia where they could grow corn and make whisky. Washingotn had the Whisky Rebellion to deal with. Eventually these people transporting shine hopped up their 39 Fords and such to out run the revenuers, got into showing off their fast cars and spawned NASCAR. They are the reason the cross of St' Andrew is on the Confederate flag which as you know is well displayed at NASCAR events.
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posted on
03/10/2014 1:30:07 PM PDT
by
dblshot
(I am John Galt.)
To: posterchild
On some nights I’m a fifth Irish.
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posted on
03/10/2014 1:30:57 PM PDT
by
dblshot
(I am John Galt.)
To: Little Bill
McCoy is USUALLY Scottish, although it could be Irish. (Mac Aodha is the old Irish - roughly translates to fire). McGaughey is usually Irish (Horseman). McCaughey is definitely Irish. Mac hEochaidh. (Son of Eochaidh.) It's pronounced Owey.
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posted on
03/10/2014 1:37:59 PM PDT
by
Darren McCarty
(Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
To: dblshot
Jamison or Murphy's, South vs Ulster
To: Darren McCarty
I was on a web site and did a search on McGaughey and ended up in Ulster. There a Black Protestant McGaughey was hurling Sulpher and Brim Stone on Quivering Papest Mcgaughey’s.
To: posterchild
Wherever four Irishmen are gathered, there’s a fifth.
To: Little Bill
I first thought this was a thread about country singer Neal McCoy. His real name is McGaughey, pronounced “McGoy”, but everyone was mispronouncing it as “McCoy” when he was starting his career, so he just went ahead and changed it. (His father was of Irish descent, and his mother is from the Philippines.)
To: Little Bill
I am pure blooded Dutch. I have been working on my family trees for over a dozen years already. It is not the easiest to get info on the Dutch in some provinces, as well as here in the USA after the US Census of 1940.
To: Little Bill
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posted on
03/10/2014 2:00:22 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(Fat Bottomed Girl: "What difference, at this point, does it make?")
To: posterchild
Not to worry: You’ll be 100% Irish a week from today!
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posted on
03/10/2014 2:00:44 PM PDT
by
Cyber Liberty
(H.L. Mencken: "The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.")
To: Little Bill
Ulster is tougher to trace since it could be either Scots-Irish (Scottish roots) or Irish there. There's similarities as both have Gaelic roots, but there are some differences with the surnames. The Mc and Mac names (son of) are used in both surnames.
If that side is historically Catholic, it's more likely (not always) to be "Green" Irish. If it's historically Presbyterian (not always), it's more likely to be Scottish.
Many names have been Anglicized both in the US, and in Ireland and Britain. McCarthy/MacCarthy/McCarty/MacCarthy is obvious, but one of my good friends has over 20 variations of his surname in Ireland alone. The four you mention could all come from the same name, or they could be different just due to pronunciations. Picture Paddy, Mick, or Jock arriving in the US or talking to George the Brit with the various Celtic accents. McCoy, McCay, McGoy, McKay, McGaha.
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posted on
03/10/2014 2:07:44 PM PDT
by
Darren McCarty
(Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
To: ZirconEncrustedTweezers
And it goes quick! Tullamore Dew.
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posted on
03/10/2014 2:08:41 PM PDT
by
Darren McCarty
(Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
To: Montanabound
My Grandmothers Mother was a McCaughey, my Grandmother married a McGaughey, gets confusing, she had a sister who Married a McCaughey, different branch.
I was down in the Delta in Mississippi and the McGaughey’s there pronounce it McGoy.
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