Pat T wrote: > The Mac Cuindlis (MacCandless) name came from county Down. Are you sure that Cuindlis is actually a personal name? Bearing in mind the frequency with which the c in mac gets attached to the second part of a surname during anglicisation, I would say that on the face of it the surname MacCandless is actually an anglicisation of Mac Aindíles meaning son of Aindíles. -- SIABAIR (Old Irish) /shabba/ 'ghost', 'phantom', 'spectre'