Celtic Guide

[Uncle Al]

For those interested in checking out any Celtic Heritage,
and apparel, you might find this link helpful.
Celtic Guide

Have fun with the link

Uncle Al

[Kirbstone]

Thanks for that, Uncle Al,

A distant cousin of mine fairly recently deceased at age 99 had a life- long close friendship with a Prof. of Genealogy at Trinity Col. Dublin. This guy successfully dug up a father to son unbroken lineage of my family & that of several other well-known Irish family names, (all anglicised over the last Millennium) starting two generations before St. Patrick in the 4th Cent.AD through to the Norman conquest in the 12th century, after which continuous records of Irish families were either destroyed or deliberately not registered with the new Sasannach overlords, until Catholic Emancipation in 1829, for which Daniel O'Connell was directly responsible.

In my own case the family name is Ua Chiarrmhaic (anglicised Kirby), the first of whom appeared in 648 or thereabouts. Other names also pop up along the line, e.g. Ua Dalaig (Daly), Ua Cheallaig (Kelly) and Ua Chahasaig (Casey) &c.
Over the centuries the 'Ua', meaning 'of the family of' was shortened to 'O' and frequently dropped altogether.

Mass alteration of unpronouncable & unspellable European names was done at a stroke at Ellis Island & other points of entry in the US & Canada, of course.

T.

[r.m.anderson]

Mass alteration of unpronouncable & unspellable European names was done at a stroke at Ellis Island & other points of entry in the US & Canada, of course.

Yeah like my paternal grandfather who migrated from Denmark and when passing thru Ellis the fellow in front was a Swede.
Thus my AndersEn was changed to AndersOn.
After years passed of not noticing it - way too much 'Red Tape' to unravel it stands.

Good thing it was not a west coast portal of entry - I think everyone has heard the STORY about the chinaman going through Customs & Immigration
who followed another chinaman who was asked a question he did not understand and said "Same Thing" - so that is how Sam Thing became an USA citizen.
Well that is how I heard it was told. LOL !

It is a wonder how names got to be what they are today.
My Anderson or Andersen is easy - Name was the son of Ander or Andrews(on).
Anderson is also Scottish as well as the Scandanavian form.

And a belated "Happy New Year" to everyone at the SkirtCafe Forum !

"Skirt-Kilt-ON"
rma

[jessimeon]

ooo my dads irish and ive been recently considered seeing if i can find my areas or clans pattern, anyone think this is possible? know any websites?

id secretly like to be from southern ireland for some reason...guess i just love Tommy tiernan but my dads from larne, prtty darn northern irish, never met the bloke but yeah ill try just google 'clans in the larne area' and see where i go from there i guess i just thought there may be a faster premade site for not just finding my clan but pattern/tartan, maybe one day i'll have the dosh to get my colours put on a kilt for me, thatd be pretty cool

[Uncle Al]

If you can't find a "clan" tartan you might consider a District or City tartan.
I have the Irish National Tartan which covers a wide variety of "quirks"

Uncle Al

[r.m.anderson]

An example and note about the Irish National Tartan.

Stillwater Kilts is the only authorized seller of the Irish National Tartan in the USA.

An example of the tartan and kilt can be found at the Stillwater Kilts website (cover page) - LINK:

http://www.stillwaterkilts.com/

A very attractive tartan and inexpensive compared to old country tanks !

"Skirt-Kilt-ON"
rma