McCarran History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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Ireland

Etymology of McCarran

What does the name McCarran mean?

The original Gaelic form of McCarran was Mac Carrghamhna, which is derived from the word "gamhan," which means "calf," and "carr," which has many meanings.

Early Origins of the McCarran family

The surname McCarran was first found in County Monaghan (Irish: Muineachán) located in the Northern part of the Republic of Ireland in the province of Ulster, where they held a family seat from ancient times.

Early History of the McCarran family

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McCarran Spelling Variations

Scribes and church officials, lacking today's standardized spelling rules, recorded names by how they were pronounced. This imprecise guide often led to the misleading result of one person's name being recorded under several different spellings. Numerous spelling variations of the surname McCarran are preserved in documents of the family history. The various spellings of the name that were found include MacCarron, MacCarroon, MacCarren and others.

Early Notables of the McCarran family

Redmond Caron (1605?-1666), Irish friar and author, born of a good family near Athlone, Westmeath. "He embraced the order of St. Francis in the convent there when about sixteen years of age and afterwards...
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McCarran migration to the United States +

A massive wave of Irish immigrants hit North America during the 19th century. Although many early Irish immigrants made a carefully planned decision to leave left Ireland for the promise of free land, by the 1840s immigrants were fleeing a famine stricken land in desperation. The condition of Ireland during the Great Potato Famine of the late 1840s can be attributed to a rapidly expanding population and English imperial policies. Those Irish families that arrived in North America were essential to its rapid social, industrial, and economic development. Passenger and immigration lists have revealed a number of early Irish immigrants bearing the name McCarran:

McCarran Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Henry McCarran, who arrived in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania in 1868 1

Contemporary Notables of the name McCarran (post 1700) +

Patrick Anthony McCarran (1876-1954), American politician, lawyer, justice of Nevada state supreme court in 1913, and U.S. Senator from Nevada in 1933-54
Elisabeth McCarran (b. 1978), British musician

Sources +

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)