128 Global WEADICK Family Members

WEADICK Family History

This curious and interesting surname is one of the more uncommon Anglicized forms of the Gaelic "Mac Mhadoc", composed of the Gaelic prefix "Mac", son of, and an Old Welsh personal name "Madoc", from "mad", fortunate. This sept were a branch of the MacMurroughs, a famous clan in Irish medieval history, who were of Gaelic-Irish, not Norman origin, according to the Book of Leinster, and whose territory was anciently known as "MacVadog's country" in Counties Wexford and Kilkenny. The sept were formerly called MacVaddock in English, and medieval and early modern Irish records contain many references to people of the name...