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

(Bxotxt Sintnamcs. 99
Criggard and Krickart (obsolete), contracted from
MacRichard, ' Richard's son.'
' MacRichard,' a.d. 1462 *
The MacRickards or MacRichards were
descendants of the MacWilliams.
Crickart [1649], Krickart [1657], Crigart [1664],
Criggard [1771].
The name was formerly common in the parish of Jurby.
Macsharry and Macsherry [151 i] (obsolete), is a
corruption oi MacGeoffrey, 'Geoffrey's son.'
'The Hodnets of the Strand, a Shropshire family, took
the surname of MacSherry,'! when they settled in Ire-
land.
We haYc Kxocksharry, possibly so called from
a proprietor of this name, though the derivation
usually given is from Sharragh, a ' foal.'
• Magrath MacSherry, Bishop of Conmaicne,' a.d.
12304
Since the Isle of Man became subject to
English rule a considerable number of English,
Scotch, and other family names have been im-
ported. Some of these have undergone some
corruption in insular use, while a few have even
been translated into Manx, often, of course, with
very grotesque misapprehensions of their mean-
ing. We mention here those which are known
to have been in use for, at least, several gene-
rations, omitting such as are of merely incidental
occurrence :
Four Mast., Vol. IV. j O'Donovan, p. 24.
X Four Mast., Vol. III., p. 250.