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Offline eilthireach

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Re: Urrach alias Fraser
« Reply #9 on: Wednesday 12 January 22 02:16 GMT (UK) »
uanachan. Are we seeing the whole image here. Has part of the word been cut at the right side?

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Re: Urrach alias Fraser
« Reply #10 on: Wednesday 12 January 22 04:04 GMT (UK) »
Maybe a longshot & not impossible I don't think but could it be a variant of Varich/Vurich/MacVarich/MacVurich (many variants) which may be Currie?

My 2 x g g/m was Margaret Currie when she married but on one of her 5 daughters' BCs (1857) she's MacVurich (the 'V' looks like a 'U') !

Slightly different spelling here...

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XYPV-FKM

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Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

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Re: Urrach alias Fraser
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 12 January 22 08:48 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: eilthireach on Wednesday 12 January 22 02:16 GMT (UK)
uanachan. Are we seeing the whole image here. Has part of the word been cut at the right side?

I don't think the word is longer,  Family search also shows Uarrach

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Re: Urrach alias Fraser
« Reply #12 on: Monday 07 February 22 23:23 GMT (UK) »
Looks like there are many Frasers in Killearnan who were known by that by-name. Various spellings Uirach, Uirrach, Uarach, Uarrach, dating from 1761 to 1804.

My guess would be they were originally from Urray or Orrin, much like the Hearachs (of Harris) and the Sgitheanachs (of Skye).

Unfortunately the meaning of the name is probably lost in time.

Alasdair
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