McGuire Name Study Sandbox Page

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Surname/tag: McGuire

Key Findings

• McGuire and Macguire are variants of Maguire
• Maguire comes from an ancient Gaelic word "Mag Uidhir" which means "son of Odhar"
• Mag Uidhir refers to the Maguire Clan
• Maguire is first recorded as far back as 900 AD in Fermanagh
• The Maguire surname is still the most prominent name found in Fermanagh
• The Maguire's were kings of Fermanagh and ruled it successfully for centuries

Contents 1 Goals 2 The McGuire Surname 2.1 Clan 2.2 McGuires on WikiTree 3 Notables 3.1 McGuire 3.2 Macguire 3.3 Maguire 4 Migration 5 Sticker Template 6 External Links 7 Sources

Goals

This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about one surname and the variants of that name. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.

Track Migration paths all around the world.

Start a McGuire's to America page

Create a McGuire immigrants to Australia page

The McGuire Surname

This was the name of the ruling family of Fermanagh in the 13th-17th centuries. ^[1] The Gaelic version of the surname is "Mag Uidhir", meaning "son of Odhar". "Odhar" is a personal name meaning "the dark coloured one".

Clan

The McGuire Clan is an ancient, distinguished, family, first appearing in records in 956 AD in County Fermanagh where they went on to rule and by the year 1600 County Fermanagh belonged to the family. Fermanagh was known as McGuire's county from about 1200 C.E.

The Surname McGuire is still the most numerous in Fermanagh county. Their strong hold was the Enniskellin Castle.

McGuires on WikiTree

Notables

McGuire

• Alfred McGuire: American basketball coach and broadcaster

Macguire

Maguire

• Hugh Maguire: (?-1600) The Lord of Fermanagh from 1589 to 1600. He was a leader of the Maguire clan and played a key role in the Nine Years War against the English Crown from 1595 to 1603.

Migration

• to Australia
• to Canada
• to America

Can you add any other migration places to the list?

Sticker Template

A sticker can be added to the profile of your McGuire profiles by copying and pasting this template directly under the biography section:

{{One Name Study|name=McGuire}}

This template will automatically add the McGuire Name Study category to their profile and the sticker looks like:

External Links

• Maguire
• Maguire/Mcguire Family

Sources

1. ↑ Hanks, P., Coates, R., & McClure, P. (2016). Maguire. In The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. : Oxford University Press,. Retrieved 5 Jun. 2019, from https://www-oxfordreference-com.rp.nla.gov.au/view/10.1093/acref/9780199677764.001.0001/acref-9780199677764-e-25430.

• Hanks, P., Coates, R., & McClure, P. (2016). Maguire. In The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. : Oxford University Press,. Retrieved 5 Jun. 2019, from https://www-oxfordreference-com.rp.nla.gov.au/view/10.1093/acref/9780199677764.001.0001/acref-9780199677764-e-25430.