On 26 Feb 00, at 7:22, Mike Weber wrote:
Date forwarded: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 05:23:05 -0800 (PST)
Date sent: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 07:22:06 -0600
From: Mike Weber <popo(a)webound.com>
Subject: History
To: CARMACK-L(a)rootsweb.com
Forwarded by: CARMACK-L(a)rootsweb.com
Can anyone give me some information on the origin and history of
the
Carmack name. I am working on a book for my children and would
like to
include some history about the ancestors of Corneilus Carmack.
Thanks
Mike
Dear Mike
I picked up some information while at a Scotish highlland games. it
is has a copyright, but I will copy it for you.
The Ancient History of the Distinguished Surname
Carmack
I will skip the first part.........
The romantic chronicles of this ancient land were used to
determine the distinguished history of the Irish sept Carmack.
Works by O'hart, McLysaght and O'Brien, the Four Masters and
Woulfe, supplemented by church baptismals, parish records, and
ancient land grants formed the base material for researchers in
compiling this family name history.
The family name Carmack was first recorded in Munster where
they had been seated from very ancient times.
Several spellings variations were found in the archives researched.
Most of these were the result of families attempting to translate the
name from the Gaelic into English or vice versa. Amongst the
many variations of the name Carmack, from time to time, included
Cormack, MacCormack, McCormick, Cormac, Cormick, Cormyck,
Kormack, Kormick, Cormach, Cormich, Cormiche, Cormache, and
these changes in spellling frequently occurred. It was not
uncommon to find a name recorded several different ways during
the lifetime of the same person, when he or she was born, maried
and died.
The legendary kings of Ireland some 1500 years B.C., were
descended from King Milesius of Spain, the grandson of Breoghan
(Brian), King of Galicia, Andalusia
, Murcia, Castile and Portugal. Milesius, a great general/king, was
instrumental in defending Egypt from the King of Ethiopia. Milesius
turned his attention northward to Irland to fulfil and ancient Druidic
prophecy. He sent an army to explore this fertile island. On finding
that his son had been murdered by the three resident Irish Kings
(the Danans), Milesius gathered another army to take his revenge
on the Irish. He died before he embarked on the voyage. His
remaining eight sons conquered Ireland.
Heremon, the eldest son of Milesius, reigned in Ireland for fourteen
years, along with his brothers Heber, Ir, and Ithe. They named the
land Scota or Scotia, their mother's name, the land of the Scots.
This name would later be taken by the Irish King Colla in 357 A.D.,
when he was exiled to Scotland, leaving the name "Ir-land", land of
Ir, the youngest of the four sons of Milesius, to the Emerald Isle.
The four Irish kingdoms eventually broke into five separate nations
under the High King, or Ard Righ.
This great Gaelic family of Carmack emerged in later years in
Munster. The Cormacks of Munster were of great antiquity and
descended directly from Nathi, brother of Felim who was King of
Munster about the year 560 A.D. Cormac, a son of Cabhsan, was
the first chieftain to be called Cormack, and, of course,
MacCormack came later as a direct descendant, Mac or Mc
signifying the 'son of. The McCormack and MacCormick were a
clan which was widely dispersed in Ireland and were found in the
north in Ulster. In later years, after 1000 A.D. the named appeared
in Scotland in Adaman. The family name Cormac were Bishops of
Killaloe in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and by this time
the name had branched into the counties of Roscommon, Galway,
Clare, and Cork. In t he north they were found in county Down and
Derry, Notable amongst the family at this time was Bishop Killaloe.
In 1172 A.D., Dermott McMurrough, King of Leinster, in the
struggle for the position of Ard Righ, King of all Ireland, had
requested King Henry ll of England for assistance. Many proud
native Irish families lost their chiefships, territories and
possessions following 1172 and their spoils were divided amongst
the Norman knights and nobles, led by Strongbow, Earl of
Pembroke.
This was followed by Cromwill's invasion in 1640, when further loss
of land befell the unfortunate Irish people. Later, Ulster in the north
was seeded with Protestant Scottish and English.
In 1845, the great potato famine caused widespread misery and
poverty, and the exodus from Ireland began. Within fifty years the
population was reduced by more then half.
Many Irish joined the armada of sailing ships which sailed from
Belfast, Dublin, Cork, Holyhead, Liverpool, and Glasfow, bound for
the New World or to Australia. Some romantics called these ships
the White Sails, designed originally to hold 100 persons but which
frequently sailed with 400 and 500 people on board. Others, more
realistically, called these vessels the "Coffin Ships", when 30% to
40% of the passengers died of disease and the elements.
Some of the first immigrants in North America which could be
considered kinsmen of the sept Carmack and of that same family
included Daniell Cormack who settled in Virginia in 1643;
Chrisstopher Cormack settled in Annaplois Md. in 1731; Patrick
Cormack settled in New York State in 1804; Thomas Cormack
settled in Boston Mass, in 1850; Dennis Cormick settled in
Potomac Md. in 1730; James, Margaret, Peter, Rebecca Cormack
all settled in New York State in 1804.
.....
It also had a Coat of Arms the research had determined to be the
most ancient recorded for the family surname Carmack.
Hope this helps.
Mary Ann
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