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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/
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 😊💚
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.
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.
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.
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
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 :-)
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.
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.
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.
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
A more accurate description is that all the surnames of the British isles are are connected. Therefore, you can get Irish people with English, Scottish of Welsh surnames and visa versa.
Surnames on the Isles of Ireland and Britian are connected in many ways, but the point of my channel is to connect the dots for those people who wish to understand where their specific family line fits in this maze.
Ireland is not part of the British Isles - This is an antiquated British colonial term and ceased to apply to Ireland once the Act of Union ended in 1922 with the then creation of the Irish Free State ( Republic of, in 1949) The term is not used at an official State level by either the Irish or UK governments or at E.U. level due to the offensive nature of the term for for Irish Citizens. As it implies that Ireland is British. Ireland was never British. The view is held that this term British Isles is controversial in Ireland, where there are objections to its usage due to the association of the word British with Ireland. The Government of Ireland does not recognize or use the term and its embassy in London discourages its use. As a result, Britain and Ireland is used as an alternative description, and Atlantic Archipelago has had limited use among academics. Also in use is the acronym IONA which stands for the Islands of the North Atlantic. The term Celtic Isles was also considered, however because England is not Celtic but rather, Saxon, this term has not been used. They are also sometimes referred to as these islands. Or The British Isles and Ireland. You will not here mention of the term in Irish schools during geography or history lessons. You will never here a person use the term, The term however, is used on the UK among a very post-colonial insensitive ignorant populace, whom don't even see Ireland as a foreign country. The truth being, Canada, New Zealand, Australia are more British than Ireland could ever be, seeing as they are all members of the British Commonwealth with a British Monarch as the Head of their States. The British need to realize that their Empire is long over. Unfortunately their colonialist language still exists. Ireland is not a part of the Isles (no matter what you British or Anglo Irish seem to think) Mumbai is the capital of India, not Bombay, Myanmar is the name of the country in Asia, Burma. When you are wrong, it doesn't matter how many times you say it or how strongly you believe it - Your still wrong, and if corrected, you still revert to your original understanding, well then this is pure ignorance and false belief. British Isles has no official status.
@@cathalodiubhain5739 The term British isles is far older than the British Empire in fact it goes way back to the 1st century Greek historian Diodorus Siculus and refers to the 6,000 islands that together are known as the British isles.The largest or greatest in size of these islands is therefore known as Great Britain, which again has nothing to do with Empire. When the Scottish King James became king of England as well he then began to style himself the King of Great Britain ie the King of the whole larger island. Later when the British formed a world Empire it was of course known as the British Empire. However, the British Empire hasn't existed for 100years so why you keep referring to a long dead Empire, god only knows. Do you you still refer to the Carthagiania, Roman or Spanish Empires with such malice ? Men invented names for everything, and they can also change them, but these Isles were British long before the Scots, English or Welsh or indeed the Irish, and I dare say most people with continue to call them by that ancient name. Also all the peoples of the British Isles have Celtic roots, including the English whose DNA is 90% Celtic across the whole country except in East Anglia where even there it is still 68% Celtic. The Southern Welsh and Southern Scottish as well as the Majority of the English have only 10% Anglosaxon DNA, so 90% celtic. Therefore, we are all one people across these islands whatever ignorant racist and bigotted nationalists like to claim, dna doesn't lie !
@@johnbrereton5229 As I said in my last paragraph. When you are wrong, it doesn't matter how many times you say it or how strongly you believe it - Your still wrong, and if corrected, you still revert to your original understanding, well then this is pure ignorance and false belief. British Isles has no official status.
@@cathalodiubhain5739 You should realise by now, that just because you say something, it doesnt make it true and there were indeed many things you said that weren't true.
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?
Posting here under pseudonym, but being of Irish ancestry, and the Irish purity of my genes being maintained until my English mother coming into the mix. Being 5th generation English, I consider myself English. However I am totally proud of my Irish ancestry and Name. I have not disclosed for Internet privacy. I can disclose, I am a Mc.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Irish, Scottish, Welsh and English are all the same people. The kings and lords changed over the years and religion interefered quite a bit, but the working population was simply moved around.
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 :/
@@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.
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?
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.
This is a revelationl Thank you so much for educating us. I heard a well-known artist begin speaking by saying, "I'm Irish and I HATE the English." Now I know why. I also blame Queen Victoria for her treatment of the starving Irish. I hope the Republic will revive eventually and the Irish will mend. As for myself, I recently became aware that Irish surnames abound in my family tree. Erin go Bragh.
Thanks for this comment. I used to like the Irish but you've proven that you are a good, old fashioned, racist. I won't hate all Irish people just because a jerk, such as yourself, hates me for what happened 100 years before I was born.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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
By English do you mean Norman Franc...Strongbow was French spoke French and his teal name was Richard Declare. He borrowed the money to invade Ireland from a French Jew called Josca..
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.
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
@lombmusic07 Being Irish & Catholic aren't invariably synonymous; only with DNA analysis do you know all your true origins & migration routes: get real.
I have been told that the name Keaney is one of the most ancient and true Irish names, that the name was first recorded in the North of Ireland and is connected to several kings of Ireland and may go back to the time of Cú Chulainn, can this be true
I am afraid that is unlikely the myth of Cú Chulainn is set in the classical era 500 BC to 500 AD if he ever existed this well before the implementation of surnames in Ireland the oldest surnames in Ireland is debated between a few including the O'Canáin and O'Cleary which have links to the early 9th/10th century with most Irish surname coming from the 11/12th century, the Keaney of Ulster will have multiple origins including from Mac Cearnaigh, also from cearnach; they claim they were part of the Cenel Eoghain, the large group of families descended from Eoghan, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages, the claimed fifth-century monarch who founded the Ui Neill. dynasty
