| ![Show Contents]() McCort History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms
- Origins Available:
 Scotland Ireland Early Origins of the McCort familyThe surname McCort was first found in Ayrshire (Gaelic: Siorrachd Inbhir Àir), formerly a county in the southwestern Strathclyde region of Scotland, that today makes up the Council Areas of South, East, and North Ayrshire. "MacCoard, Maccord, Maccourt: Maccord is an old surname in the parish of Ballantrae." 1 The same source notes the name is the "same as MacCuarta, MacCuairt, 'not improbably a corruption of MacMhuircheartaigh.' " 1 Early History of the McCort familyThis web page shows only a small excerpt of our McCort research. Another 132 words (9 lines of text) covering the years 1471, 1473, 1544, 1627 and 1890 are included under the topic Early McCort History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible. McCort Spelling VariationsSpelling variations of this family name include: MacCord, McCord, MacCoard, McCoard, MacCourt, McCourt, McCourtie, McCordie, McCourty, McCordy, M'Cord, M'Corde, Makcorde, Mac Cuarta and many more. Early Notables of the McCort familyMore information is included under the topic Early McCort Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.  Migration of the McCort family to Ireland
Some of the McCort family moved to Ireland, but this topic is not covered in this excerpt.
Another 124 words (9 lines of text) about their life in Ireland is included in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
| McCort migration to the United States | + |
Some of the first settlers of this family name were: McCort Settlers in United States in the 19th Century- Peter McCort, who arrived in New York, NY in 1827 2
| Contemporary Notables of the name McCort (post 1700) | + |
- John Joseph McCort (1860-1936), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, Bishop of Altoona, Pennsylvania, from 1920 until his death in 1936
- Black, George F., The Surnames of Scotland Their Origin, Meaning and History. New York: New York Public Library, 1946. Print. (ISBN 0-87104-172-3)
- Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
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McCort migration to the United States 
