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SPELLACY Family History

This rare and interesting name is of Irish origin, and is the Anglicization of the Gaelic 'O'Spealghusa', which is thought to translate as 'vigourous scythe', from the elements 'speal', scythe, with 'gus', vigour, and may have originated as a nickname surname for a particularly strong and fast worker. The name is generally found in the form (O)Spellissey, but is also recorded as Spellacy, Spilisy, Spillicy, Spellicy, Spellessy and Spellesy, and is prevalent in County Clare, where it originated. Recorded in 'The Famine Immigrants', is one Patrick Spelecey, a labourer aged eighteen years, who departed Liverpool on April 11th 1846 aboard 'The Queen-of-the-West', bound for the Port of New York.