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McCandlish

{{Short description|Surname from south-west Scotland and sometimes north Ireland}}

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{{Infobox surname

|name = McCandlish, MacCandlish

|image = File:McCandlish, red, 1256x1256 square.png

|caption = McCandlish red tartan{{cite web |url= https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/qResults?searchString=McCandlish |title=Search Results [McCandlish] |date=2023 |work=TartanRegister.gov.uk |publisher=Scottish Register of Tartans |access-date=10 December 2023}}

|pronunciation = {{IPAc-en|m|ᵻ|k|ˈ|k|æ|n|d|.|l|ɪ|ʃ}}

|meaning = 'Son of Cuindleas'

|region = {{unbulleted list

|Scotland (south-west),

|Ireland (north) }}

|language = Anglicised Scottish Gaelic

|variant = McAndlish, McCanleis, McCaunles, McCandleish, and many others

}}

McCandlish ({{IPAc-en|m|ᵻ|k|ˈ|k|æ|n|d|.|l|ɪ|ʃ}}, {{respell|mik|CAND|lish}} is Scottish surname (and rarely also a given name), derived from Scottish Gaelic and Middle Irish {{lang|gd|Mac Cuindlis}} (among other spellings), meaning 'son of Cuindleas', an Old Irish given name of uncertain meaning.{{cite book |last=Black |first=George F. |author-link=George Fraser Black |title=The Surnames of Scotland: Their Origin, Meaning, and History |publisher=New York Public Library |edition=2nd |date=1962 |isbn=978-0-87104-172-2 |orig-date=1946 |at=p. 131, "Candlish"; p. 464, "MacCandlish" |url= https://archive.org/details/surnamesofscotla00geor |url-access=registration |via=Internet Archive}} A newer edition of this book exists (2015, {{ISBN|9781626540590}}).

Variants

Some variants include McAndlish, McCanalish, McCandelich, McCandelish, McCandish, McCandlash, and McCandleis, among others. Spellings with Mac were believed to be extinct by the first half of the 20th century, but still survive among a few families, primarily in the United States and Canada.{{cite web |title=MacCandlish Surname Definition |date=2022 |work=Forebears |url= https://forebears.io/surnames/maccandlish |access-date=10 December 2023}} As with other names of this sort, versions with M' were also attested until the early 20th century.{{cite book |last=Matheson |first=Robert E. |chapter=1242: M'Candless |title=Varieties and Synonymes of Surnames and Christian Names in Ireland |page=50 |date=1901 |location=Dublin |publisher=HM Stationery Office |chapter-url= https://archive.org/details/varietiessynonym00math/page/50/mode/2up |via=Internet Archive}}

The name is closely related to McCandless (from the same derivation), found in Scotland and especially the north of Ireland (Ulster).{{cite book |last=MacLysaght |first=Edward |author-link=Edward MacLysaght |chapter=Mac Candless |title=The Surnames of Ireland |edition=6th |location=Dublin |publisher=Irish Academic Press |date=1997 |orig-date=1957 |pages=35–36 |url= https://archive.org/details/surnamesofirelan0000macl_m7u6 |url-access=registration |via=Internet Archive}} Link is to 1985 edition, but pagination is the same. A newer edition of this book exists (1989, {{ISBN|9780716523666}}).{{Cite web |title=Surname Database: McCandless Last Name Origin |url= https://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/McCandless |access-date=3 April 2023 |website=The Internet Surname Database}} Some recorded north Irish variants are more similar to McCandlish, e.g. McCandleish, while some Scottish variants are closer to McCandless, e.g. McCanleis and McCaunles. McCandlish itself has also sometimes historically been attested in Northern Ireland.{{cite web |date=2023 |title=1901/1911 Census, Ireland / Search: McCandlish |url= http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/results.jsp?searchMoreVisible=false&census_year=1901&surname=McCandlish&search=Search |access-date=11 March 2023 |work=Search Census |publisher=National Archives of Ireland}}
The data can be visualised with maps provided here:
{{cite web |last=Griffin |first=Barry |title=MacCandlish Surname Maps of Ireland |date=2023 |url= https://www.barrygriffin.com/surname-maps/irish/McCandlish/ |access-date=11 March 2023 |work=Irish Surname Maps for the 1901 and 1911 Census of Ireland}}

It is etymologically but probably not familially related to {{lang|ga|Ó Cuindlis}}, 'descendant of Cuindlis', a literary family of Uí Mháine in west-central Ireland.{{Cite web |last=Woulfe |first=Patrick |date=1922 |title=Ó Cuindlis |work=Irish Names and Surnames / Sloinnte Gaelheal Is Gall |volume=II |page=93 |location=Dublin |publisher=M. H. Gill & Son |url= https://archive.org/details/irishnamessurnam00woul/page/92/mode/2up |via=Internet Archive}}{{Cite book |last=Koch |first=John T. |author-link=John T. Koch |title=Celtic Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia |date=2006 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9781851094400 |at=vol. 3, pp. 1119, 1121; vol. 5, p. 2102}} The earliest form of the given name can be traced back to an abbot from the 8th century called Cuindles.{{Cite book |last=Ryan |first=John |chapter=The Abbatial Succession at Clonmacnoise |editor-last=Ryan |editor-first=John |title=Feil-Sgribhinn Eóin Mhic Neill / Essays and Studies Presented to Professor Eóin Mac Neill |location=Dublin |publisher=Three Candles Press |date=1938 |page=499}} A revised edition of this book exists (1995, {{ISBN|9781851821808}}).{{Cite web |last=Woulfe |first=Patrick |date=1922 |title=MacCuindilis, MacCuindlis |work=Irish Names and Surnames / Sloinnte Gaelheal Is Gall |volume=II |page=68 |location=Dublin |publisher=M. H. Gill & Son |url= https://archive.org/details/irishnamessurnam00woul/page/68/mode/2up |via=Internet Archive}}

Surname

Given name

See also

{{Commons category|McCandlish (surname)}}

  • Candlish, a derived Scottish surname
  • McCandless (surname), a more common Scots-Irish form of the name, primarily found in the north of Ireland
  • Ó Cuindlis, a west Irish surname dating to the 14th century; anglicized as Conlisk, Cundlish, Quinlist, and several other variants

References

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Category:Surnames

Category:Surnames of Scottish origin

Category:Anglicised Scottish Gaelic-language surnames