Brief Life History of John
When John Mack was born on 6 March 1653, in Inverness-shire, Scotland, his father, John Mackgahye, was 25 and his mother, Lady Marian McDonald, was 25. He married Sarah Bagley on 5 April 1681, in Salisbury, Essex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 7 daughters. He lived in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States in 1682 and Lyme, New London, Connecticut, United States in 1697. He died on 24 February 1721, in Lyme, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 67, and was buried in Old Fox Farm Cemetery, Lyme, Saybrook, New London, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America.
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- John Mack, "Massachusetts Town Births Index, ca. 1630-1905"
- John Mack, Massachusetts, Marriage
- John Mack, "Find A Grave Index"
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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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The History of the Mack Family
New England Historical and Genealogical Society. Boston, MA. Page 13 The name Mack has been thought not to be the real name but only a prefix to some other name like McDougall, McKenzie, etc.; and th …
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