.(j;] so~rn ANGLlClSED SURNAl\lES lN rnELAND. Wordie.-The name is· an anglicised form of Mchlordie (Mac l\I uircheartaigh). Weaver.-The name Weaver in Scotland and those of the na.ne in Ulster have changed the name from the original about the 17th ccnlury, when some hundred Scottish septs discarded the ''Mac.'' Wcaver in the original Gaelic is ~[ac An Phigheadair. l t is found as McNider in Canada, but not in the land of its Gaelic origin, Scotland. Williamson.-'l'his name is of Scottish origin, anglicised fron. l\[' William. The name belongs to a sept of the l\I' Farlanes as also belongs the 'Villiams and l\[' Killiams in Aberdeen County. The name is rendered M' Quilliams in Galloway and N.E. Ulster, and Quilliam in the I.0.l\I. (which see). Warnock.-This name is the anglicisecl form of l\IcGilvernock in the 17th century, and the sept name is derived from one of the Gralnun family of Monteith, an ancient Pictish clan in Scotland. The name in Gaelic is Mac Gille-Mhearnoch, the son of the servant of St. Mernoch or Ernan. The name is found written as Mcilvcrnock in Knapdale North, in 175J, in Valuation Rolls of Argyle. In Co. Antrim and Belfast City we find the form McVarnock. Wynne, Wynn.-These two names are the angliciscd forms of two Irish sept names. In the districts about Boyle and Manorhamilton the name Guillen (0 'Gaoithin); in the districts about Carrick-on-Shannon the name Guiheen, a form of the first, arc changed to Wynne and Wynn. In the districts about Bawnboy, Co. Cavan, and other part~ of that County and its Southern borders the names Magee and M' Gee (0 'l\faolghaoithe) have been change·l to Wynne. This name Mulgee, changed to Magee and 1\f' Gee in Co. Cavan and the borders of the adjoining Counties to the South, was the name of an ancient sept in Co. Donegal, occupying a district to the North of that County, nnd it is very probable that the sept migrated South to CaYan about the time of the Confiscation of Ulster, or after the Siege of Derry, as at that time some few Co. Donrgal sept followed South in the retreat of James II., and settled in Fews, Co. Armagh, one of the septs being 0 'Toner, the Fews district of Armigh being, at that time and since, the refuge of many broken septs. The reasons that Mulgee or M' Gee and Guihin changed their names to Wynne arises, it may be safely presumed, from the word Gaoth, wind, entering into the construction of both names, It may be mentioned that this sept of J\[' Gee and Magee in Co. Cavan have no origin nor connec-
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