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An excerpt from www.HouseOfNames.com archives copyright © 2000 - 2012

Origins Available: Borderlands, English, Irish, Scottish

Where did the Scottish MacAdam family come from? What is the Scottish MacAdam family crest and coat of arms? When did the MacAdam family first arrive in the United States? Where did the various branches of the family go? What is the MacAdam family history?

In ancient Scotland, the ancestors of the first people to use the name MacAdam were part of a tribe known as the Strathclyde Britons. The name is derived from the given name Adam, which is itself derived from the Latin name Adamus which means earth.

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Spelling variations of this family name include: MacAdam, MacAdams, McAdam, McAdams, MacCaw and others.

First found in Annandale, where they held a family seat at Kynemund and at Waterhead in the Stewartry of Kirkudbright.


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This web page shows only a small excerpt of our MacAdam research. Another 326 words(23 lines of text) covering the years 1189, 1329, 1460, 1728, 1792, and 1891 are included under the topic Early MacAdam History in all our PDF Extended History products.

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Another 36 words(3 lines of text) are included under the topic Early MacAdam Notables in all our PDF Extended History products.

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Some of the MacAdam family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt. Another 248 words(18 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products.

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Some of the first settlers of this family name or some of its variants were: William Adam who wrote an Adam Genealogy which is now part of the American Library of Congress; many in the New world dropped the Mac or Mc from their name. John Adam landed in America in 1685.

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  • Dr. David Lewis MacAdam (1910-1998), American color scientist
  • Dr. John Macadam (1827-1865), Scottish-born, Australian chemist, medical teacher and politician, after whom the Macadamia nut is named


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  6. Samuelsen, W. David. New York City Passenger List Manifests Index 1820 - 1824. North Salt Lake, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems International, 1986. Print.
  7. Burke, John Bernard Ed. The Roll of Battle Abbey. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing. Print.
  8. Best, Hugh. Debrett's Texas Peerage. New York: Coward-McCann, 1983. Print. (ISBN 069811244X).
  9. Weis, Frederick Lewis, Walter Lee Sheppard and David Faris. Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England Between 1623 and 1650 7th Edition. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1992. Print. (ISBN 0806313676).
  10. Matthews, John. Matthews' American Armoury and Blue Book. London: John Matthews, 1911. Print.
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The MacAdam Family Crest was acquired from the Houseofnames.com archives. The MacAdam Family Crest was drawn according to heraldic standards based on published blazons. We generally include the oldest published family crest once associated with each surname.

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