Re: The name and its spelling
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The name and its spelling
8/05/00
In response to your question aboout Mc or Mac - I can only share what my family did.My ggrandparent (Jessie and Joseph McKellar) came from Scotland to Boston,MA around 1870.There was a tremendous amount of bias against the Irish in Boston around the turn of the century and in order to make it clear that they were from Scotland, not Ireland, the they adopted the MacKellar spelling.However, my ggrandparents have the name as McKellar on their gravestones while the next generation (my grandparents) have it as MacKellar which was how the family continued to spell it.I'm not sure if this relates to anyone else but was a story handed down in my family.