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- (Click
on the Name to hear it pronounced!)
- Pronounced
MacBain in Scotland
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The "bh" in the Gaelic has a "bv" sound . The
"ea" has the harsh "a" . The "th" has an h
sound. the "ai" has the harsh "e" sound. This
becomes "Macbvaheen. This is why there are so many spellings of
the sound. For a long time, everything was spelled phonetically. There was
no set way. You can find one family member that spelled his name one way and
his brothers spelled it another way. Many records show the names
spelled the way the recorder spelled it, not the way the family spelled
it.
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- The Prefix of "Mac" means "Son
of". As time passed, many people dropped the a and put a line
underneath the "Mc" with two dots to show that the a was suppose
to be there. Later the lines and dots were dropped altogether. Some
times you will find M' which means the same as Mac. Mack is also accepted.
- (source:
) http://www.clanmacbean.net/
This website is dedicated to all of our
McVean (all spelling variations included) ancestors. My hope is to provide
a gathering place for the various McVean/McBean researchers for the purpose of
connecting our branches and sharing information.
If you have any McVean, McBean, etc.
information that you would like to share - please email me - David
McVean
