MEESHACK - couldn't find as given but did find: \ MISCHAK (German of Slavic origin) A version of MICHAEL which comes originally from the Hebrew "Micha-el" ('Who is like God?'). I'm almost positive I've seen the name "Meeshack" in the Bible, or at least heard it in connection with some book of the Bible. Source: A Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges. Barbara Melinda Strong wrote: > Thanks! I just now got an email from my father-in-law, who found our Mash > Hall in the Ancestery.com database. Apparently Mash was the name he went by, > but his actual given name was even more unusual---Meeshack! Is that a > surname as well? Or maybe biblical? The ancestry file says the family were > Scots who first settled in the Ulster area of Ireland before immigrating to > the U.S., settling first in Pennsylvania. > > Melinda > > -----Original Message----- > From: LaChance [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 12:15 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [SURNAME-ORIGINS] Mash Hall ca 1830-1907 > > MASH (English) Variation of "MARSH", a topographic name for someone who > lived > by or in a marsh or fen. > Source: A Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges. > Barbara > > Melinda Strong wrote: > > > Just discovered the full name of my husband's 3rd great grandfather, Mash > > Hall who was born in Tennessee in the 1830s, and moved to Missouri and > then > > Collin Co, TX after the Civil War. > > > > His first name is unmistakably MASH. This is per both census records and > > deed records. > > > > Anyone ever seen this as either a first or last name? It is new to me. > > > > ============================== > > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > > your heritage! > > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp
on 6/4/01 8:52 PM, LaChance at [email protected] wrote: > MEESHACK - couldn't find as given but did find: > \ MISCHAK (German of Slavic origin) A version of MICHAEL which comes > originally > from the Hebrew "Micha-el" ('Who is like God?'). I'm almost positive I've > seen > the name "Meeshack" in the Bible, or at least heard it in connection with some > book of the Bible. > Source: A Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges. > Barbara > > Melinda Strong wrote: > >> Thanks! I just now got an email from my father-in-law, who found our Mash >> Hall in the Ancestery.com database. Apparently Mash was the name he went by, >> but his actual given name was even more unusual---Meeshack! Is that a >> surname as well? Or maybe biblical? The ancestry file says the family were >> Scots who first settled in the Ulster area of Ireland before immigrating to >> the U.S., settling first in Pennsylvania. >> >> Melinda >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: LaChance [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2001 12:15 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [SURNAME-ORIGINS] Mash Hall ca 1830-1907 >> >> MASH (English) Variation of "MARSH", a topographic name for someone who >> lived >> by or in a marsh or fen. >> Source: A Dictionary of Surnames by Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges. >> Barbara >> >> Melinda Strong wrote: >> >>> Just discovered the full name of my husband's 3rd great grandfather, Mash >>> Hall who was born in Tennessee in the 1830s, and moved to Missouri and >> then >>> Collin Co, TX after the Civil War. >>> >>> His first name is unmistakably MASH. This is per both census records and >>> deed records. >>> >>> Anyone ever seen this as either a first or last name? It is new to me. >>> >>> ============================== >>> Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate >>> your heritage! >>> http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog >> >> ============================== >> Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >> Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. >> http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com >> >> ============================== >> Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! >> http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego were the three men in the fiery furnace. Sue
> Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego were the three men in the fiery furnace. > > Sue > THAT'S what I was trying to REMEMBER! I knew there were three names involved but couldn't quite bring them to the fore. Thanks. Barbara
From Daniel 1:7 "The chief official gave them new names: to Daniel, the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego." (NIV) The story continues to Daniel 3:30. I think this is the Meshach you are thinking of. Iris [email protected]