Anglicised Surnames

find more than about five families of the name in Ulster who are of English origin, the ancestors of the Charlemont family coming to L'lster from Oxfordshire at the latter end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in the 16th century. 'rhosc of the name in Ulster and other parts of Ireland are anglicised forms of Irish sept names. lu South Tyrone nnd the districts of the bordering counties of nJonaghan and "1..rmagh, it is one of the anglicisetl forms of nfac Cathmhaoil (Campbell, which see). ln the districts of Omngh and Strabane, especially in the latter, the name ~rcCawill, one of the angliciscd forms of ~r ac Cathmhaoil, hns been changed to Caulfield anu M' Caulfield. In Omagh and Castlcdcrg <listricts, M' Cowell and :M' Cawell have likC'wisc been anglicised Caulfield. In the district of Kilkeel, Co. Down, M' Keown (Mae Eoghain) has been anglieised Caulfield. '!'his sept M' Keown "·ere in early timC's connected with the ancient church of Creggan ''of the Green Bushes,'' at Crossmaglen, and nnother sept of the ]'.[' Keowns were long connected with the ancient parish of Dcrrynoon, both parishes in Co. Armagh. Like"·ise, in the southern part of the county of Down, Cavanagh and M' Cavanagh has been angliciscd Cawfield and Caulfield, and in C'astern Tyron<', where thC' sept M' Cavanagh (Mac Caomhanaigh) was located, the Ulster Cavanaghs having no connection nor origin with the Cavanaghs and Kavanaghs of Leinster, who are correctly Mac ~rurrhadha-Caomhanaeh. The other references are, according to Father W"olfe, the O'Gamhnains (Goonan), in the counties of Galway anrl. Mayo, districts not specified; i\fac Conghamhna (Gaffney), in Mayo, district not specified; 0 'Gamhna (Gaffn<'y), by 0 'DonoYan, in mi <lland counties and Sligo. districts not specified; and hy F'nther Wolfe, nfac Cathmhaoil in ·wicklow and parts of Connacht, the Ulster form before referred to, and in this rasC' also, districts not specified. Sec Campbell. Cushman, Cashman.-Thrse two namC's are the later anglicised forms of th<' west Munster sept nmne. Kissane (O'Ciosain). Crowe.-'rhis nanH' is thP anglicised form of Mac Conchradha in North Munster. Callum. This is onC' of the anglicisC'd forms of McCallum (:Mac Caluim), which name was writt<'n ()'Callum in Argyleshire in the enrlv part of the 16th rPntury. Cloy.-This is onr of the anglicised forms of .McCloy (Mac Lughaidh), a MrLeod sept in the Isle of Arran. See Fullerton.

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