Guild of One-Name Studies
One-name studies, Genealogy
Study: McGeorge
Variants: MacGeorge
Category: 3 - A study where research using core genealogical datasets and transcriptions is well under way on a global basis.
DNA website: www.familytreedna.com/public/McGeorge/
Contact: Mrs Kay Campbell
I have been researching the McGeorge/Macgeorge name for over 30 years as this was my mothers line.
While researching this family I found that it was helpful to record all instances of the McGeorge/ MacGeorge name. I have put my findings into an Access database and also Legacy genealogy program
From this information I have been able to compile large family trees with the hope that one day I will be able to link them all together. I have given each large family a family number to help keep track of them
I have found that most McGeorge families worldwide originated from the Dumfries and Kirkcudbrightshire Scotland.
I would love to share my McGeorge information with you.
Extract from the 'Scottish Nation', or the Historical and genealogical account of all Scottish families and surnames' James MacVeigh, Dumfries, Scotland 1891
MacGeorge, originally Mac Jore, the surname of an old family which, from an early period was settled in Galloway. Towards the middle of the 17th century they had became divided into several branches - all land proprietors and all in the same district, chiefly in the parish of Urr.
There were branches of several distinguished Irish families settled in Galloway, such as the clan Carthy (called in that district as Macartney) and others: and the late Mr Brydson, the author of an excellent work on Heraldry, is of the opinion that the family Macgeorge is descended from the ancient Irish clan Mac Yoris, which had settled, he says, at an early period, in Galloway, and which in the time of Henry 11, was reckoned among the great families of Ireland. This is confirmed by the manner in which the name at and early period was pronounced and spelt in Galloway.
The McGeorge name is quite unusual. In England there were approximately
1871 228 people 1881 280 people Scotland 323 1891 369 people 1901 315 people
USA: 1880 500 people
Census: England: 1871-1901 plus some previous years. Dumfries and Kirkcudbrightshire 1841-1901 plus some other counties
BDMs indexes for England, Scotland, Australia and New Zealand
Wills: indexes for England and Scotland. I also have quite a few wills
Parish registers for England and Scotland
Cemetery headstones (MIs) for various places
USA: 1880 census, plus some others.
Dumfries and Galloway http://www.dumgal.gov.uk
Will index for Scotland: www.scottishdocuments.com