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Bev:
The name McLemore is an Anglicanization (Americanization, actually) of the Ayrshire Scottish McIlmorrow, which was in turn a Lowland version of the Highland name McGilmorie (from which the name Gilmore is derived). McGilmorie was the way the name was being spelled (sometimes) about the 1400's, after the name and family members thereof had come ashore and up into the Great Glen and western Perthshire from the Hebrides, particularly the Isle of Lewis, where the name was anciently spelled (in Gaelic) MacGillemuire, or something like that. The Clan MacGillemuire was founded by the ancient kings of Man and the Isles, or at least an offshoot branch thereof, and it was taken over in 1346 by a MacIan (a scion of the McDonald clan) named Ceadam MacMurich MacIan when he married the heiress of the clan. Though she insisted on his use of her surname as clan chief, it only lasted about a century or a century and a half, and by the mid to late 1500's it had definitely ended in favor of the Anglicanized version of his patronmic MacMurich (son of Morris) or Morrison, and it is as Clan Morrison that the ancient clan MacGillemuire is known today.
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