354 Global LYCETT Family Members

LYCETT Family History

This interesting and unusual surname recorded in several spelling forms including Lisett, Lissett, and Lycett, can have two possible origins. It can either be of Irish origins and a derivation of the name (Mac) Lysaght, derived from the Gaelic Mac giolla Iasachta, and believed to mean "The son of the loaned one", or it may be from the English village of Lissett, near Bridlington in the East Riding of Yorkshire. In Ireland the Mac Lysaghts are a sub-clan of the O' Briens of Thomond, and in ancient times may have been used by the O'Briens as their fighting men, hence the name.Today in its varied spellings the name is now mainly found in Counties Clare, Limerick and Cork.