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From: "Carolyn & Michael McInnes" <>
Subject: Re: MacIntyre McIntyre
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 08:26:35 +1100

Hello John,

I agree there does seem to some variations in the Mc Mac within a family
group. We were Mc for most of the time & then about 1900 one particular
branch went back to Mac.
Some people believe that if you are Mc you are Irish & if you are Mac you
are Scottish. Maybe it was a case of if you moved around a bit the "a" was
lost in transcribing as was explained once by someone else. (Can't for the
life of me remember who !!!)
Their explanation made a lot of sense to me & that was that Mac was changed
to Mc with the c underlined to mean that there was an "a" there & that over
time it was simply forgotten.
There have been so many variations in the spelling of my surname alone
(McInnes) that to have changed the spelling of the name & not the Mac
doesn't make sense.
I have seen McInnes, McInnis, McGinnis, McKinnes. McKinnis, McAnch, McInish
& McInnish etc all with the Mac as well as just Mc & most in the one family
!!!!!
There have been a few people I have written to asking if they might have
someone familiar in their tree only to be advised that we couldn't possibly
be in related as they spell their name with an Mac no Mc.

I, along with John I don't want to offend anyone or start any long
debates,<grin> I just wanted to let John know what I had found.

Carolyn McInnes

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