In the 1960-s - 70's my football team (Newcastle United) had a goal keeper (who also played for Northern Ireland) called Iam (William) McFaul - another variation on the spelling of this surname. cotyroneireland-request@rootsweb.com wrote: You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the CoTyroneIreland-D mailing list. If you no longer wish to receive these messages, please follow the instructions on http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/NIR/CoTyroneIreland.html Today's Topics: 1. Re: John McCollister Hutton, b. 1767, County Tyrone? (Ray) 2. Re: McFalls (Claire K) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:28:53 +1000 From: "Ray" Subject: Re: [CoTyIre] John McCollister Hutton, b. 1767, County Tyrone? To: "Judith Damewood" , Message-ID: <001a01c8d114$f656e4a0$4001a8c0@linda> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Hello Judy. Have you tried this organisation, which covers this surname?: http://www.clanmcalister.org/ AND as you say that you are new to Irish Research, this posting from a member of the Donegaleire list today, might also help you: http://www.irishgenealogy.ie/frame_1024.cfm : click on "Tracing your ancestors" in the top green area. good luck. ray in oz. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judith Damewood" > Hello, > I am a recent subscriber to this list, and have been told by a fellow > researcher that John McCollister Hutton came from County Tyrone. I am > wondering if anyone can tell me how I might find out whether this is true. > John reportedly immigrated to the United States from Ireland in 1784. He > married twice, having 9 children by his first wife and 6 by the second > wife. > He died near Franklin, Tennessee in 1832. I would appreciate any clues on > where to look; I am new to Irish research. > Judy Damewood > Hampton, Virginia, USA ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 06:07:35 -0400 From: Claire K Subject: Re: [CoTyIre] McFalls To: Donald Thompson Cc: cotyroneireland@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <74ACF502-5F8C-40FA-AC5F-DBBD32AE26CB@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed M-apostrophe is just another way of writing "Mc" or "Mac." not a spelling variation. I used to think it was a VERY old way, until I saw a WWII-era US newspaper headline re "General M'Arthur" -- so it was still in use in the fairly recent past, and not just in Ireland. Claire K. On Jun 18, 2008, at 1:21 AM, Donald Thompson wrote: > ...Notice how the > spelling has changed from Falls to M'Falls and now it is McFalls. ... ------------------------------ To contact the COTYRONEIRELAND list administrator, send an email to COTYRONEIRELAND-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the COTYRONEIRELAND mailing list, send an email to COTYRONEIRELAND@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COTYRONEIRELAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of COTYRONEIRELAND Digest, Vol 3, Issue 132 ***********************************************