SOME ANGLICISED SURNAMES IN IRELAND. 7 Brothers.-Anglicised form of Broderick and Broder (0 Bruadair), the old Donegal sept name. Brew.-Brew is the anglicised form of the I.O.l\I. surname McBreive (l'.fac Breatheamh), the "son of the judge," from britheamh, judge. The Norse term Deemster super· seded the Britheamh, or Judge, in the I.O.M., and those of the name Deemster is undoubtedly a translation of McBreive and Brew. Buchanan.-This Scottish name in Ulster and Scotland is known by the name of M' Whannan and Mewhannan in many parts of the two countries, from the ancient name of tho district of Buchanan in Stirling County, Scotland, which was Mac A'Chanonaich. The ancient clan name was McAuslan, the name being derived from Ausalan Buoy 0 'Kayn (O'Kane), the founder of the clan in the 11th century, a chief of a branch of the 0 'Kanes of Co. Derry. In the 13th century Gilbrid Mac Auslan, of the junior branch .of the clan, assumed the territorial name of Buchanan, dropping the surname Mac Auslan, and from him descended a family in Co. Tyrone, one of whose descendants was .James Buchanan, President of the United States of America. The senior branch of the clan still retain the ancient name of MacAuslan, from whom some families of McCausland settled in the 17th century in Co. Derry. In Gaelic, Mac Ausalain. Other anglicised forms are Jl.fcCaslan, in Co. Armagh, and l\fcAuslin and McCa~land in vn rious parts of Ulster. Black.-The name Black in Scotland and in Ulster is of distinctly Gaelic origin. It is onC' of the three colour names assumed by branches of thC' Clan Lamond (l\foLaomuinnM' Clymont) after their c1ispersal by tho Campbells of Argyle in the mirldle of thr 17th ~entury, in Gaelic MacGiolladuibh; the other two colour nam<'s b0ing Gray or McAreavy (MacGiolla-reahhaigh), also Reavy; the third being White or Mcilwain (l\fac Gioll-bhfriu). McTlduff and McElduffare two forms of thr name, and thesC' two names are anglicised Black, thC' lattC'r in Mid-Tyron<'. A sept of the McLeans in Arg~·lC' writ<' th0ir namC' l\foilghuie, further anglicised Huie an<l I-IouiC'. and likewise in Gaelic, Mac Giollft-dhuibh. Black was «nitten l\fcBl:wkie in the 18th century. Mcilzeguic (Black) is a form of the Clan Lamonc1 septnamc in Lanarkshire. Bradly.-This name is thr anglicised form of 0 'Brolchain in Derry and Donrgal. 'I'his name is found in Lancnshirc from an early date nucl, I helicYc, is of Norse origin. Amongst the list of Rectorn of Bury Pnrish Church we fiurl "Roger Brntlcley. Rector of Bury Parish Church, 1442."
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