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

Manx Sui^namea.
the registers such entries as * 1598 An Ine ill-
WORREY,' i.e., ' An lUworrey's daughter ' ; ' 1609
Cally Pharick ine Gawne,' i.e., ' Cally Pharick
Gawne's daughter.' Here ine clearly means
daughter, as second Christian names were un-
heard of at the dates given. Ine and Inny, how-
ever, also appear as Christian names, as in Inny
Keig. In this case they may correspond with the
Irish female name Eithne, which has been cor-
rupted into AiNE and Hannah. Aine was one of
the grand-daughters of the Irish king Lear. The
name means 'joy,' 'praise,' and also 'fasting,'
according to Miss Yonge.
JoNY is probably a corruption of Johanna.
Mally is a corruption of Mary. Miss Yonge gives
MoisSEY as a Manx corruption of Mary, but the
name does not occur in the parochial registers.
Marriod and Marriott are also corruptions of Mary.
APPENDIX B.
Nicknames used in the Isle of Man.
In other than Celtic countries surnames have most fre-
quently originated from nicknames descriptive of the
personal peculiarities of some early ancestor. Thus in
England we find families bearing such names as
White, Black, Short, Long, etc. ; and amongst
the Romans, the cognomina Crassus, ' fat ' ; Varus,
' bow-legged ' ; Cincinnatus, ' curly,' and many
others, continued to be borne by the descendants
of the men to whom they were originally applicable.
That this mode of forming surnames is less common
among the peoples of Celtic speech is a fact which