Blair Collection > Surnames & place-names of the Isle of Man

72 Mecnx Suttnantcs.
IVPJOYCHENE,* M^'JOYENE* [1422], M'JOUGHIN [1430],
MacJoGHENE [1570], JOUGHIN [1657], JOGHIN
[1673].
Maughold, Bride, Andreas (c), elsewhere (u).
MacPerson [1430], M'^Pherson [1511] (obsolete),
'The parson's son.' It is a common name in
Scotland.
Taggart (sometimes pronounced Taggard), contracted
from Mac-an-t-sagart, ' The priest's son.'
In 1511, Otes MacTagart is entered for the
Mill of Doway. It was afterwards called Mullen
Gates, now Union Mills, in the parish of Braddan.
Compare (Gaelic and Irish) MacTaggart, Mac
Entaggart.
MacTaggart [1430], Taghertt [1540], Taggart
[1614], Tagert [1660], Taggard [1681].
Malew (vc), Ballaugh, Braddan, Marown, Onchan,
Maughold, Santon (c), elsewhere (u).
Ward, originally Mac-an-bhaird, ' The bard's son.'
' The sons of MAC-AN-BAlRD.'f
M*=Ward [151 i]. Ward [1660].
Very uncommon.
Mac y Cheery, ' The clerk's son,' has, in the Isle of
Man, been almost universally written in the Eng-
lish form of Clark, Clarke, or Clerk, but, though
rare, the Manx form existed.
Compare (Irish) Ua Cleirigh, which became
O'Clery.
Clerk is derived from the Latin dericus, the
* These names are in the British Museum copy only,
f Four Mast., Vol. L, p. 609.