Mine were thrown off in the Philly ports after traveling in the luxurious sub-decks as “rebels, criminals and traitors”.
Meh.
Almost instantly, they took off down the Appalachian spine and wound up in southwestern PA, where many can still be found, “Mc” intact.
Apparently my branch dropped the Mc and Catholicism in the 1700s.
My gramma would drag me to ancient, decrepit Catholic cemeteries to lay flowers at the foot of the rocks that passed for tombstones.
She knew who and where each rock was.
“Mine were thrown off in the Philly ports after traveling in the luxurious sub-decks as “rebels, criminals and traitors”.”
Well that will teach you. I figure that my clan must have dropped Catholicism early on as well. No trace of it once they landed down South after the Revolution. But they may well have first chosen Maryland because of its once Catholic connection.