Mac or Mc ?

Mac or Mc in Scottish Gaelic means "son of".

There is no historical difference between Mac or Mc - they were originally used interchangeably and ancestry research on a particular family will often show records in one spelling , then later another. It is only in the latter half of the 1800's and in the 1900's that people started to get rather precious about " their" particular spelling of the surname.

From Brian Thomson Scot Roots
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