celtic surname question?
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it is a mix of Latin and Gaelic, you will find it after the Roman occupation of Britannia
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boy ive been looking for this question all day now , i tried to answer it when it was 1st posted but i got "knocked "off line?!?!? anyway i spend a lot of time in v.n.  the only time you see a direct translation of a western name is when  catholics take a common saints name  for confirmation and "vietnamify" it. paul becomes "Paolo".. its so they can pronounce it and it may just even be french or Italian ..ANYWAY there is no direct translation for Cecilia... but i can give you the closed thing and that would be, "CHI" pronounced "CHEE?"[ with a questioning sound , v.n. is very tonal]. its a pretty common girls name and means older sister... this would be an appropriate name for a first born girl... a you a 1st born?... i'm realy curious to know why you ask ... if i'm not intruding, my site name means "mr jon"... thats what they call me even though my name is joe?!?!?
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it's a sure thing the family came originally from scotland, you could try u.k. websites census.org.uk might help
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I think you may be right there. Charlotte might not have that chav ring to it, but in my experience being called Charlotte is a sure fire guarantee that you're a conniving witch.\n\nChloe and Christina don't have that chav sound either, perhaps it's just names where the Ch is pronounced  with a "sh" sound or like the ch in church
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This is a last name. It's origin is Scottish.\nDefinition: 1) One who came from the district of Buchanan, a location near Loch Lomond in Scotland. From the Gaelic elements buth, meaning "house" and chanain, meaning "of the canon." \nDefinition: 2) An anglicization of the German buchenhain, meaning "beech wood."
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Why do the others have their given name first? :)\nI have a theory... Many family names come from the place where you live. In English, for example, you say Richard of York. In Hungarian because of the grammar you say Yorki Richard. This can be a reason.
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Bhoys - An Irish pronouncement of boys, (Irish roots of club). \n\nhttp://www.pubquizhelp.34sp.com/sport/scottish_football_nicknames.html
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And you want us to??????????what?\n\noic.  I will try to look it up on my ancestry site if you want.I'll be back!\nI did find info but then I couldn't find the question again.  I'll come back and edit.
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In many cases last names derived from what people did for a living. Imagine a village where several men named "John" live. In conversation, you might distinguish between one John and all the others by saying "John The Blacksmith", or "John The Baker". Eventually, human nature being what it is, people would drop the "The", and you'd be left with "John Blacksmith" and "John Baker".\n\nAnother way last names came into being was as a method of indicating lineage or parentage. "John MacDonald", in Scotland, used to literally mean "John, son of Donald."
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Igstrike is basically right, but that's not the whole story. When the Romans came to Scotland, they found two distinct populations, the Britons, speaking some dialect related to early Welsh, and the Picts in the far North, speaking a language unknown to us, which may or may not have been Indo-European - perhaps develpoed from the language of the pre-Celtic inhabitants.\n\nAfter the Romans left, thse two peoples were joined by Anglo-Saxons in the South, and Scots in the West, a tribe who crossed from Ireland, bringing with them the Gaelic language.\n\nSo the "Scots" were from Ireland; but today's Scottish people are descended from a mixture of all four peoples (plus newcomers).\n\nWorth noting that Gaelic, still spoken in the Western Isles, has never been spoken in more thatn half the country; Scots English is at least as authentically Scottish. The Picts and the Welsh were absorbed by the others.
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The name Barratt only follows your father's heritage along the paternal branches of your family tree. It doesn't take into account at all the fact that your mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, etc. could have been directly descended from the Viking tribes.\n\nSorry I couldn't just say "Yes, Barratt is definitely a Norse surname". You've got more homework to do.
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I couldn't find this word in any dictionary. Is it spelled right?\nIt is used as a last name though.
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'Geman' is a surname basically found in Poland. Find a person with that surname, and ask this question - to get a conclusive and first-hand answer !\nYou can use the Yahoo! Search Engine, for this purpose.
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The Neece family comes from the ancient Scottish Dalriadan clans of the mountainous west coast of Scotland.  The name Neece is derived from the personal name NAOS, which is a dialectal for of Aonghus or Angus.  The Gaelic form of the name is MacNeis, which is derived from the earlier for Mac Naois; both of these mean son of Angus.  Thus the name Neece is a cognate of McAngus and McInnes.\n\nSpelling variations include:  MacNeish, MacNeice, MacNish, MacNess, MacKness and MacNeece.\n\nFirst found in Perthshire where they were seated from early times and their first records appeared on the early census rolls taken by early kings of Britain to determine the rate of taxation of their subjects.\n\nSome of the first settlers of this name were:  Thomas McNeish who settled in Philadelphia, PA in 1868 and Michael McNish who settled in Philadelphia, PA in 1866.\n\nFamily motto was:  "By Courage, Not By Craft."
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Doesn't seem to be any Celtic/Irish connection. His real name was Robert Leroy Parker.\n"Butch Cassidy (April 13, 1866 - 1908?), American outlaw, was born Robert Leroy Parker in Beaver, Utah, the oldest of thirteen children born to Mormon pioneers from England."
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Hello,\n\nYou didn't specify what Gaelic ? Okay here's the Scottish one. \n\nDè an t-ainm a tha oirbh?" (Jeh un TAH-num uh HAW-ruv?) What's your name?\n\n"'S mise.....(insert your name)." (SMIH-shuh...) "My name is..."\n\n"Ciamar a tha sibh?" (KIM-mer uh HAH shiv?) "How are you?"\n\n"Tha gu math, tapadh leibh." (HAH guh MAH, TAH-puh LEH-eev) "I'm well, thank you."\n\n"Dè tha thu a dèanamh?" (Jeh HAH oo uh JEE-ah-nuv?) "What are you doing?"\n\n"Chan eil mi a' dèanamh càil." (chahn-yel mee uh JEE-ah-nuv KAHL) "I'm not doing anything."\n\n"Tha mi airson Gàidhlig ionnsachadh." (hah mee EHR-sawn GAH-lik YOON-sa-hugkh) "I want to learn Gaelic."\n\n"A bheil an t-acras ort?" (Uh VEHL uhn TAH-krus orsht?) "Are you hungry?"\n\n"Ceart gu leòr. Tha an t-acras orm." (Kyarsht guh LYAWR. Hahn TAH-krus AW-rum) "You bet. I'm hungry."\n\n"Bu toigh leam bracaist a ghabhail." (Boo tuh LUH-oom BRAH-kawsht uh GAH-ull) "I would like to have breakfast."\n\n"Càit a bheil an taigh beag?" (KAHTCH uh vehl un tye bek?) "Where's the bathroom?"\n\n"An toir thu dhomh pòg?" (Un TUH-r oo ghawnh pawk?) "Will you give me a kiss?"\n\n"Cha toir, ach bheir mi dhut sgailc!" (Chah TUH-r, ach vehr mee ghoot skahlk!) "No, but I'll slap you!"\n\n"Slàinte mhòr agad!" (SLAHN-tchuh VORR AH-kut!) "Great health to you!" ("Cheers!")\n\n"Nach i tha teth an-diugh?" (nahch ee hah TCHEH un-DJOO?) "Isn't it hot today? (It's hot today.)"\n\n"Bha e brèagha an-de." (Vah eh BREE-uh un-DJEH) "It was beautiful yesterday."\n\n"Cò an caora sin còmhla riut a chunnaic mi an-raoir?" (Kaw uhn KEU-ra shin KAW-la root uh CHOO-nik mee uhn-royer?) "Who was that sheep I saw you with last night?"\n\n"Cha b'e sin caora, 'se sin mo chèile a bha innte!" (Chah beh shin KEU-ra, sheh shin moe CHYEH-luh uh vah EEN-tchuh!) "That was no sheep, that was my spouse!"\n\n"Tha gaol agam ort." (Hah GEUL AH-kum orsht) "I love you."\n\n"Tha gaol agam ort-fhèin." (Hah GEUL AH-kum orsht-HEH-een) "I love you too." \n\n"Chan eil fhios agam." (CHAHN-yel iss AH-kum) "I don't know."\n\n"Dè tha thu ag iarraidh?" (jeh HAH oo ug EE-uh-ree) "What do you want?"\n\n"Tha mi ag iarraidh briosgaid!" (hah mi ug-EE-uh-ree BRISS-kahtch) "I want a cookie!"\n\n"'S toigh leam briosgaidean gu mòr!" (STUH LUH-oom BRISS-kaht-chun goo MAWR) "I like cookies -- a lot!"\n\n"A bheil Gàidhlig agaibh?" (uh vil GAH-lik AH-kiv) "Do you speak Gaelic?"\n\n"Tha, beagan." (hah, BECK-un) "Yes, a little."\n\n"Dè thuirt thu?" (jeh HOORSHT oo) "What did you say?"\n\n"Can a-rithist sin?" (kahn uh-REE-isht shin) "Say that again?" \n\n"Chan eil mi a' tuigsinn." (chan-yel mi uh-TOOK-shin) "I don't understand."\n\n"Tha mi duilich." (hah mee DOOH-lich) "I'm sorry."\n\n"Gabhaibh mo leisgeul." (GAHV-iv moe LESH-kul) "Excuse me."\n\n"Ceart gu leòr." (kyarsht guh LYAWR) "Right enough" -- "Okay."\n\n"Tha sin glè mhath!" (hah shin gleh VAH) "That's very good!"\n\n"'S math sin!" (SMAH-shin) "Great!" -- "Terrific!" \n\n"Ma 'se ur toil e." (mah sheh oor TUL-leh) "please."\n\n"Tapadh leat." (TAH-puh LAHT -- also -- TAHplett) "Thank you."\n\n"Mòran taing." (MAW-run TAH-eeng) "Many thanks."\n\n"'Se do bheatha."
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MacDonald is from Scotland. The mac prefix means 'son of', so MacDonald means 'son of Donald'. The same applies for the variant McDonald.\n\nFor leedham, this family crest company says it is English and gives some history of it. Try other family crest companies and see if they agree. Often these firms have a one-size-fits-all approach where they tell customers that all the people with the same surname have the same history. This is nonsense for some cases, such as where a slave and slave-owner are both called Johnson. They just want to sell crests with as little work as possible.\n\nYou might post another question (here or on a genealogy forum) with a link to it, asking more experienced genealogists what they think of its validity.