I am a McNeil from the Argyle area, and it’s interesting as I go back and see the lineage, my line, is interwoven with the Bruce clan, which I find interesting.

Excellent video. I'm a Gigha MacNeill and have always known we're two separate clans.

I have been tracing my family's roots back to Scotland. There are Mack's all over the borderlands that I can find as early as 1650. The name is listed as a Sept of Home and an allied family for MacKay and MacDuff. Y-DNA at least for my ancestor shows a connection to Lennox via MacFarlane. We don't know for certain when the Surname was created. A Mack is listed with a grant of Arms with the Lord Lyon. The Book of MacKay, suggests that Mack is an anglicized version of MacKay as they can be found in Berwickshire. Still, there is a suggestion that Mack came from the name Maccus, which is also where the name Maxwell comes from (Maccuswell). Obviously, some Scots when they came to America shortened their names, however, we believe that this is not the case in our lineage.

@thescottishclans

10 ай бұрын

Loch Sloy!!!

@spiritualistgirl

9 ай бұрын

The macus...sounds englishy...Latin ...theoos...us....so.mac....son.of...aye...feels.more.correct...justa.wee.mcneill..lassie....fay..doin...hope.we.just.end.up.realisin...we.are.aw,!...joak...tamsons...weans!!..

The castle from the Barra MacNeil crest finds its way into US army in the 1840s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corps_Castle and is eventually adopted by the Army Corps of Engineers. I'm not sure about castles in heraldry or even if the castle is.

MacNeils were royalty on their own but also married into European nobility. The English Talbots. The French Rober (Illegitimate descendants of 2nd Dyanasty French Royals and High ranking nobility from Austria.) Who escaped to Sweden, Finland, and The Americas with their heads. In America Roberts and MacNeil are close cousins.

The heraldry is more similar than people probably realize, the red hand of Ulster on both suggests a connection the Niall of the nine hostages hence the nine graves circling one of them, they both have the Lion rampant as well as well as both having the same ship and both alluding to water, variations can occur to reflect different achievements between branches and distinguish them as well...

@Mairiain

2 ай бұрын

Those aren't graves circling the red hand of Ulster. They're fetterlocks :)

@TempestFirestrike

2 ай бұрын

@@Mairiain that would make even more sense since that can mean a kind of shackle, hence 9 hostages...🤔

I've read somewhere that the Vikings adopted the last name's of the Irish clans like the MacNeils of Barra and the O'Neills of Niall of the nine hostages which is where the confusion of the clans origins. All i know about my family's history is that they used to live in Inveresk before they moved and settled in England when Robert Neill became the Mayor of Manchester. On my family tree as well that my dads dad did that says that I'm from the Njàl clan from Iceland.

@brucecollins641

3 ай бұрын

@kingedwardtheturbulentneil26. lol you are one o many that have read that nonsensical tale. macneil/ o'neil are scottish clans of norse origins. nothing to do with the mythical,made up tale of nial of the nine hostages. type in......who was queen scotia princess scota grave and other facts guidebook to life........you will see the origins of the mythical nial o the nine hostages .then......macneil clan shocked as dna checks force re-write of history....then.....origins-macneil and beyond|jeff macneil.......neil stems from the norse nils/nels. irish monks back in the day adapted other nations histories to suit ireland. the mythical columba being another one..

I am a mcneill, but so far I can get back to early 1700s, they were neill.. But mind the time just post culldoen.. Or Preston pans.. I was fascinated to find no Viking from my dad but my MacDonald mother.... Yah..stillll....I ter..marriageing!..lol....slancha!!

Did the Macneil's of Gigha intermarry with Clan Donald heavily?

@Falcarragh

2 ай бұрын

We were Gallowglas "soldiers" for the Mac Donalds

Genetics only work if you are male. If you have no living male relatives from your clan who you can reach, then you won't ever be able to find out which McNeill clan you come from. My ancestors, for example, can be traced back to northern Ireland (Ballycastle, Antrim) but I can't find out where they were before this. Very frustrating :)

From the Argyll area tracked through ancestry.

A Viking ship is still there from 1266! In largs.. And the barra.. Treats castle kisimul.. N...red ha d of ulster.. Perhaps they we were From Egypt then Ireland .. So the story goes.....

@brucecollins641

5 ай бұрын

@spiritualistgirl.........egypt and ireland??? they are of they are a scottish clan of norse origins.

@brucecollins641

4 ай бұрын

@@user-et5qs2en4c do you actually believe that tale? type in.......who was queen scotia? princess scotia grave and other facts.........you will also see the mythical origins of nial of the nine hostages. it's a fictional tale written in the 1600s. the books of ireland are all made up or adaptations of other nations histories. type in........scotia-wikipedia......

@brucecollins641

4 ай бұрын

@@user-et5qs2en4c lol...do you actually believe that?..a think you should research a bit deeper. type in........who was queen scotia? princess scotia and other facts guidebook to life.......she never existed. mac/mcneil are a scottish clan of norse origins as o'neil. there is no mention of the queen or her husband in egypt or greece