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The Dalriadan clans of ancient Scotland spawned the ancestors of the MacKaskill family. Their name comes from an ancient Norse warrior name Askell, which means cauldron of the Gods and denoted son of Asgaill.
The surname MacKaskill was first found in living on the Islands of Skye and of Lewis (Scottish Gaelic: Leòdhas), where they held a family seat from early times and their first records appeared on the early census rolls taken by the early Kings of Britain to determine the rate of taxation of their subjects. On Skye, ancestors of the MacKaskill Clan occupied the district of "Rubha an Dunain, " where the ruins of the family residence may seen to this day.
This web page shows only a small excerpt of our MacKaskill research. Another 128 words (9 lines of text) covering the years 1795 and 1863 are included under the topic Early MacKaskill History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
The medieval practice of spelling according to sound and repeated translation between Gaelic and English created many spelling variations of the same name. MacKaskill has been recorded as MacAskill, MacAskill, Gaskell, Gaskill, MacGaskill, MacKaskil, MacKaskill and many more.
Another 32 words (2 lines of text) are included under the topic Early MacKaskill Notables in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.
Descendents of Dalriadan-Scottish families still populate many communities across North America. They are particularly common in Canada, since many went north as United Empire Loyalists at the time of the American War of Independence. Much later, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the highland games and Clan societies that now dot North America sprang up, allowing many Scots to recover their lost national heritage. Some of the first immigrants to cross the Atlantic and come to North America bore the name MacKaskill, or a variant listed above: Kenneth MacAskill, who arrived in North Carolina in 1750.