This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SeC.2ACI/79.213 Message Board Post: Not sure if this will help. I have this written from "The Surnames of Scotland" Black, Pgs 466, 467 at Peterborough Public Library, Ontario. In 1696, Gildow MacCaw was Commissioner of Supply for Bute, James Brown McCaw, 1772 - 1846 of Scots parentage and educated in Edinburgh, ranked as a leading surgeon of Eastern Virginia. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, the name of the Bute family had become Mackay. "Mac" has been also dropped in Caw, is a present day surname. M'aw 1675, M'Call 1649, M'Cawe 1636, Maccawe, (1604?) M'Kau, Mackaw, and Makkae,? 1506.Makaw, 1534, Maccaw is a current spelling of the name in Galloway. Hope this helps.