When William Mack was born about 1794, in Liverpool, Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada, his father, William Soloman Mack, was 22 and his mother, Mary Burbank, was 28. He died in 1835, in Mill Village, Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 42, and was buried in Mill Village, Queens, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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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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