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MCALEESE Family History

This interesting name is of Irish and Scots origin and in Gaelic takes the form of 'Mac Giolla Iosa', and means 'son of the devotee of Jesus'. There is a prominent Sept in Derry who bear this name. The dialectual variants are many in both Ireland and Scotland and include Mac Lleese, Mac Leese, Mac Lice, Mac Lise, Mac Lese, Mac Leish. One well known name bearer is the painter Daniel Mac Lise, who was of a family from the Scots Highlands and later settled in Cork, Ireland. In its present form the name is very rare, the closest recording to this spelling is of one Emma Jane Mc Aless, daughter of James Mc Alees and Elizabeth Porter was christened in Tradeston, Glasgow, Lancashire.