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ORIGIN OF THE . . .

The surname McClintock is the English conversion of the Gaelic name "Mac Giolla Fhionntog" which means the son of Ghillie of Saint Finnian. Ê Finnian is also spelled as Fintoc, which means fair-haired.Ê The Gaelic word ghillie, means in English, a male attendant or follower which in Irish and Scots Gaelic and present day English is usually used to describe gamekeepers.Ê The ghillies were the guides of the hunting and fishing parties who hunted game on the estates of their clan chief.Ê The ghillies also took care of the game, and hunting dogs, which were usually deer hounds.Ê They also protected the game from poachers.Ê The ghillie suits worn by the U.S. Military are camouflage suits adapted from suits worn by these ancient gamekeepers to let them move through the estates unseen from the animals as well as the poachers.Ê The Gaelic work "Mac" means the son of.Ê The literal translation of the name is the son of the servant of Saint Finnian.Ê It is possible that the sons of the man who was a follower of Saint Finnian, either in a religious sense or actual capacity as a gamekeeper or other servant were the first to be called by the name, Mac Giolla Fhionntog.Ê As there are no written records to establish the people Ê who served Saint Finnian.Ê It will never be known whether the original progenitor of the McClintocks lived during the same time as the Sain himself or was identified with him because he was a religious figure.Ê The Celtic name Gilchrist (Ghillie of Christ) is the follower or servant of Christ.Ê The first person to assume this Celtic name would not have lived in the same time as Christ, but may have followed Christian teachings.Ê The use of religious figures in surnames was common in early Ireland and Scotland when the use of surnames became necessary.

THE AGE OF THE McCLINTOCK SURNAME

No one knows when the present McClintock surname was first spoken or written.Ê It is as old as the fifteenth century as it appeared in the Dean of Lismore's book described later.Ê As the name was a Gaelic surname its English equivalent "Lindsay" was used when writing or speaking English as early as 1611 according to George Black's book "The Surnames of Scotland".Ê This practice was discontinued sometime before the sixteenth century and Lindsay was converted to McClintock as the English equivalent of the old Gaelic surname.Ê The use of Lindsay had the effect of making the McClintock name less common than it would have been. Ê The Lindsays occupied another part of Scotland and there is no reason to believe that there is any blood connection between them and the McClintocks.Ê Professor Black's (he was a professor at New York University) book contains the following poem by Ailean Dall to the Lochaber Volunteers in 1795 referring to a warrior from Glenara in Scotland in Gaelic:

"Clamar theid na h-uaislean cruinn

Gun Lindsay "bhith san airmh

Ga'n ainm Cailean MacIlliuntaig

Le thionnadadh an Gaidhlig"

This is the English translation:Ê How will the warrior chieftain gather, without Lindsay to be in their number?Ê By whom was known in Gaelic as Colin MacClintock.

The McClintock name occurs in a variety of English forms in the 16th and 17th centuries.Ê It appears in the Church records of Kenmore, Aberfeldy, Scotland as M'Ilandick, M'Illandag, M'Illandick, M'Lentick, in 1757. Ê Duncan McGellentak was a witness in Balquihidder in 1549.Ê John Macilluntud was a priest of the diocese Whiteherne in 1394.Ê William McClintoun was a messenger in Kyle in 1569, and Finlay MacKlintoun appears in the parish of Torphichen in1676. Ê The latest of the Breadallbane smugglers was James Meillandaig.Ê MacClinton is a variant of McClintock and can be found in the current telephone directory of Northern Ireland along with McClintock.Ê These are the only spellings listed in Northern Ireland as of 1998.

Until the seventeenth century the majority of Scots used a patronymic (son of) as a by name for all members of a family who claimed descent from a common ancestor when they felt the need of a surname.Ê Many people had no surname at all in ancient Scotland.Ê A person was usually known as Red Hector, or as Hector, son of John, son of Ewen.Ê As the population grew surnames were used to identify members of the same family.Ê This name was often a patronymic, which led to the patronymic type of surname (son of) becoming widely used among the Scots and Irish who were the descendants of the Gaelic speaking Celts.Ê The present day English equivalents of these old Gaelic surnames begin with Mac or Mc to continue the patronymic type of name.

The McClintock surname was first written Gaelic, the language of the Celts.Ê The Celtic language was dominant in Europe from about 2,000 BC until 500 BC, which makes it one of the oldest written languages.Ê The Greeks described these people who lived north of the Alps Mountains as afraid of nothing but the sky falling. Ê They had a keen interest in learning and were a people of great ability. Ê They were always ready for battle, but were no match for the Roman Legions of Julius Caesar's army, who were highly controlled and organized.Ê The Celts were divide into three main tribes as can be fund from reading "Julius Caesar's Gaelic Wars".Ê The loose division into tribes with no central authority led to their downfall.Ê The Celts did manage to burn and sack Rome during the war but were finally defeated by the Romans.Ê After their defeat in Europe many of the Celts retreated to Brittany in France and Galecia in Northwest Spain.

A large number of them went to the end of the known world which was the emerald green island of Ireland and the British Isles.Ê During the four centuries of Roman occupation of Great Britain tribes known as the Picts, thought to be relatives of the Celts, harassed the Romans with terrorist raids from the Scottish Highlands.Ê The Celts were one of the first people to use terrorist raids in warfare. Ê The Roman Emperor Hadrian built a great wall to keep them from raiding his armies. Ê Remnants of this wall can still be seen today, Gaelic was written long before the English Language was commonly used (about the 10th century).Ê Latin and Gaelic was the language of the British people before English, the language of the Angles, was adopted.Ê The earliest written record of the McClintock surname is in the "Book of the Dean of Lismore" written in Gaelic and compiled by James and Duncan MacGregor.Ê James MacGregor was the Dean of Lismore.Ê Dean was a title for a head over then monks in a monastery.Ê James MacGregor labored at the Monastery of Lismore in Scotland for many years.Ê He was born about 1480 and died in 1551. Ê He was also the Vicar of Fortingall.Ê Fortingall was the parish of the church and the vicar is a priest who receives a salary from the church instead of the tithes of a parish.

(http://www.geocities.com/jleago/Mccorigin2.html)

ORIGIN OF McCLINTOCK/McCLINTIC FAMILY

The McClintockÕs are descendants of the ancient people who occupied western Scotland before the beginning of recorded history. They are believed to be descended from the Dalridians, a branch of the Irish Celtic Tribes who established the Kingdom of Dalrida in the highland region of western Scotland. They were the true Scottish Highlanders and were descended from the early Irish Tribal Kings. King Colla da Crioch, who was banished from Ireland in 327 AD, along with 350 tribal chieftains to the Scottish Highlands was the first known Irish King to settle in the Dalridia territory. The inhabitants of Northern Ireland had crossed over the Irish sea to the northern land throughout history, but had never established a permanent settlement. About the end of the 5th century, a wave of Christian Irish Celts from Scotia, as the Romans called Ireland, established the kingdom of Dalriada on the Kintyre Peninsula which reaches down to within 12 miles of Northern Ireland. The site of this ancient kingdom is in present day Argyllshire, Scotland.( the shire part of the word Argyllshire is the Scottish equivalent of the English word county, and is the root of the word, sheriff).

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DALRIADA

The traditional date of the migration of the Gaelic speaking Christian Irish Celts was 498 AD The leaders of the invasion were the three sons of Erc. They were Fergus, Loarn and Angus. The kingdom they established was called Dalriada(RiadaÕs portion) after the territory in the north-east corner of Ireland from which they came.

The kindred of Angus occupied Islay and Jura; those of Loarn occupied the district of Loarn(later spelled Lorne)named after its founder. The descendants of Fergus occupied Kintyre. The two sons of Fergus , Comgall and Gabran established the Cowal and Knapdale tribes, and the Kinelbadon tribe in Marvern. The society was a tribal system, and the land was occupied by tribes who established and maintained their own territorial boundaries. Disputes in the ownership of land was settled by combat. The only law was the law of the sword.

When the Irish Scots arrived in Scotland, the Picts, Britons and Angles were already there. The picts were a sturdy race, of unknown origin, who had dark hair, gray eyes, and high cheek bones. They were excellent warriors who were never completely conquered by the Romans who left the British Isles in AD 410. For the next 65 years all these races battled relentlessly for supremacy of this land.

(More at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mcclintock/origins.htm)