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Subject: [DEKENT] McINTYRE--Lesson to be Learned!
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 09:33:50 EDT

Good morning,

While doing research on my Thomas McINTYRE & Bridget NORTON
at St. Peter's Catholic Church (a German Parish) in Reading, Berks Co.,
PA. I came up with their marriage:

Thomas Mc ENTIGART & Brigitta NORTON 26 Nov 1848
wit: Jacob CASSIDY & Elizabeth NORTON
pg. 10

(my correction)
Thomas McINTYRE & Bridget NORTON 26 Nov 1848
wit: James CASSIDY & Elizabeth NORTON (sister)

And the birth of their first child:

Mc INTAGGERT (McINTYRE) Jacob (James), b. 1849, bapt. Dec 1849
son of Thomas McINTAGGERT & Bridgitta (Bridget) NORTON
sponsors: John NORTON & Margarita (Margaret) BOYLEN
pg. 71

The children born to Thomas after this date had the surnames of
McFRITZER-McINTIRE-McINTYRE & continued as McINTYRE into the
next generation, in Chester, Delaware Co., PA. I assumed a German
Roman Catholic Priest was having a hard time spelling/writing
McINTYRE in Latin. Well, was I wrong!!! The name was & is Mac
or McENTAGGART & it later became known as McINTYRE!! :)

I came to this conclusion while searching for Thomas McINTYRE in
the Civil War Records. In the 182nd Reg't, Co. H., 21st Cavalry, Berks Co.
PA,--was a Thomas Mc GONGERT! I got to thinking, why am I coming
across these 3 Irish names ending in GERT-GART--this is very unusual!

So, I went to my books on Irish names--in "The SURNAMES of IRELAND"
by MacLYSAGHT, I found Mac ENTAGGART. Ahh, so there is an Irish
surname spelled similar to what I have been finding. Now, you do have
some Irish surnames like HAGGERTY-HEGARTY-HILFERTY-HOGARTY but
of course they have a Y on the end. I looked in the whole BOOK--
there wasn't another Irish name, I could find, that ended in GERT-GART!!!
This is what it says:

Mac ENTAGGART Mac an tSagairt (sagart, priest). An Ulster name with
many variants, e. g. (Mac) Taggart, Attegart, etc. Even Tiger has been
recorded. It is perpetuated in the place-name Ballymacataggart in
Co. Fermanagh.
Note: It is similar to the "Gaelic" spelling of McINTYRE--Mac an tSaoir.

Ballymacataggart:
County: Fermanagh
Barony: Lurg
Parish: Derryvullan
Poor Law Union in 1857: Lowtherstown

This is what I found in the SSDI:

No--MacINTAGART
No--McINTAGART
No--MacINTAGERT
No--McINTAGERT
No--MacENTAGART
No--McINTAGART
No--MacENTAGERT

Jean McENTAGERT
03 Mar 1934 20 Aug 1996 34654 (New Port Richey, Pasco, FL) (none specified)
082-26-2278 New York

Margaret McENTAGERT
06 Nov 1883 Oct 1966 11377 (Woodside, Queens, NY) (none specified)
083-40-1161 New York

Joseph McENTAGERT
05 Jul 1927 Sep 1968 (not specified) (none specified)
103-24-8474 New York

Mae McENTAGERT 01 Oct 1893 Nov 1972 07716 (Atlantic Highlands, Monmouth,
NJ)
(none specified) 148-26-7616 New Jersey

Hence, if you are looking for a McINTYRE (or any of the other
variations), you many want to look for Mac ENTAGGART (or a
variation of it) in early records--especially when they first came over!
If I only found 4 McENTAGERT in the SSDI & very few at ancestry.com
& other websites:

1. It means there are very few that came to the US
2. Most of them changed their name to McINTYRE! :)

Happy hunting, Helen (DCGS)

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