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MCMACKIN Family History

Recorded in several forms as shown below, this is a surname of Olde Gaelic origins, from the region known as Galloway, in South West Scotland. Also well recorded in Ireland, It derives from the pre 10th century Mac Miadhachain, meaning the son of young Miadhaeh. The latter was an early personal name meaning honourable, quite unusual for Gaelic clan surnames, which tend to be nicknames for the first chief or nameholders, and quite brutally frank. As an example the famous Kennedy clan originate from a chieftain known to his many followers as "ugly head!" In this case the early recordings include examples such as Finlai Makmaykin also recorded as M' Makin in Wigtownshire in 1456, whilst William McMeekan was a christening witness at Templepatrick, County Antrim, Northgern Ireland, on March 20th 1815.