Brief Life History of Margaret
Margaret Mack was born about 1721, in New Monkland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. She had at least 1 son with Robert Thomas.
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1802 · John Playfair publishes summary of James Hutton's theories of geology.
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Name Meaning
Scottish and English: from the Old Norse personal name Makkr, representing an Old Irish name Mac ‘son’ Latinized as Maccus. It was once thought that Maccus was a form of Magnus , but this is not so.
Scottish and Irish: possibly from a shortened form of any of the many Scottish and Irish surnames beginning with Mac- ‘son’, a nickname that occasionally became encoded as a nickname and thence perhaps as a genuine surname, but the evidence for this is thin.
North German and Dutch: from the ancient Germanic personal name Macco, Makko, a pet form of a compound name with the first element māg- ‘kinsman’. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine). In North America, this surname is also an altered form of the much more common Dutch variant Mak .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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