14 SOME ANGLICISED SURNAMES IN IRELAND. Callister.-This is the anglicised form of McAlister (Mac Alasdair) in the I.0.M., and is found in the districts to the north. Caird.-This name in Scotland is the anglicised form of Mac NaCeardadh. It is also anglicised Tinkler in the West of Scotland. Comish.- Mac Thomais. This is the I.O.M. form of the Scottish name M' Comish and McOmish. See Cammaish. Cain, Caine.-These names are of Manx origin, ancl the Gaelic of the surnames is, according to Moore, Mac Cathain. Cunningham.-'rhough there are about five or six forms of this south-western Scottish name, the one given is the most common. Several Irish sept names have been anglicised Cunningham and its various forms, namely: In the district of the Glenties, Co. Donegal, we find M' Cunnigan (Mac Cuinneagain); in the districts of Castleblayney ancl Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan, Kennigan and Kinnian, respectively (0 'Cuinneagain and 0 'Cuinneachain); at Lisburn, Co. Antrim, ancl in Co. Derry Coonaghan (also 0 'Cuinneachain) ; and in western Derry, eastern parts of Donegal, and in Tyrone, Conaghan (0 'Connachain), the latter also in North Connacht. It is also anglicised from Kinahan in Southern Ulster (0 'Cuinneachain) ancl Conagan in Orghiall (0 'Connagain). Casement, Caseman.-This is the anglicised form of the I.O.M. name, Mac Easmuinn. This name is of Norse-Gaelic origin, its earliest form being :Mac As-mundr. It was written Mac Casmoncle in 1429, ancl Mac Casmund in 1511. The Casement family of Co. Antrim came from Ramsay, I.O.M., about the beginning of the 18th century. Carthur, Carter.-Mac Arthair. See Arthurs. Carson.-1'his name is of Picto-Cymric origin in the ancient kingdom of Strathclyde, and was written in the early centuries Ap' Corsane, and later Corsan. One of the name was Vicar of Dumfries in 1400, ancl Sir John Ap' Corsan flourished in 1469. One of the name was Provost of Dumfries. Crawford.---Crawforcl in central Ulster ancl the north-west is the anglicisecl form of the Ulster sept name, Cravigan (Mac Crabhagain), though some families of the name in N.E. Ulster are of Scottish origin. Cuffe.-The name Cuffe has been assumed by some of the Durnins (O'Doirnin) in Co. Mayo, an old Co. Donegal }/
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