Linda I noted your comment amongst those discussing Mc and Mac, and found your observations about your own family names interesting. I have noted in Scottish census records that my family's names have altered between records, and, as others have also pointed out, surnames were anglicised, as was certainly the case with the name 'McMillan'. My Archibald McMillan and wife Flora McIntyre came to Australia in 1853 from Oskamull, dying there in 1871 and 1870. On both death certificates, their mothers are listed as being Christina McCormack. We are pretty certain (thanks to assistance from Ian Phillips) that Archibald's mother was in fact Christina McDonald and it was Flora's mother who was Christina McIntyre (nee McCormack). Do you have any connection to this family? I am always hoping that someone on the list can make a connection to our family, but as yet ... no one! Regards Libby McMillan Message: 3 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 08:43:33 -0500 From: "Linda M. Towne" <manateemum@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] Duke of argyll To: sct-isleofmull@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <528F5F85.8050004@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1256; format=flowed I tend to agree - my experience is that Mc/Mac/M' are all interchangeable in the years when most people weren't literate - it just depended on how the minister/session clerk/census enumerator etc.. spellt it. Different branches of the same family often settled on different spellings once spelling became fixed. My line uses MacCormick but I have cousins who use McCormick and MacCormack and the name has shown up on records as M'Cormick and far enough back as McCormaig as well. Today we see different spellings as distinct names and would never assume that McKechnie and MacEachern were from the same family but that wasn't true 150 years ago when a family may have been McKechnie in one census but 10 years earlier or later they were MacEachern. Same with Mc/Mac