McCombe Name Study

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This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about the surname McCombe and ALL its variants. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect--and those that don't. Please contact the project leader, add categories to your profiles, add your questions to the bulletin board, add details of your name research, etc.

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Project Members

Richard Hollenbeck
Kimberly McComb

==Project Goals==

• To record the meaning of the surnames McCombe/McComb/McCombs
  
• To learn and record the history of surnames McCombe/McComb/McCombs
  
• To learn and record the different lines of McCombe/McComb/McCombs
  
• To research the migration patterns of McCombe/McComb/McCombs
  
• To assist in keeping the suggestion reports for the McCombe/McComb/McCombs names up to date
  
• To ensure that all McCombe/McComb/McCombs are properly sourced
  
• To assist in connecting all of the McCombe/McComb/McCombs to the main tree
  
• To assist in completing the profiles for all of the McCombe/McComb/McCombs orphans
  

===Currently===
Out of 157 McCombe profiles identified on WikiTree there are

• 30 suggestions on the suggestions report
  
• 1 unsourced profile identified
  
• 7 unconnected profiles identified
  
• 4 orphans identified
  

Out of 444 McComb profiles identified on WikiTree there are

• 41 suggestions on the suggestion report
  
• 0 unsourced profiles identified
  
• 53 unconnected profiles identified
  
• 54 orphans identified
  

Out of 511 McCombs profiles identified on WikiTree there are

• 43 suggestions on the suggestion report
  
• 0 unsourced profiles identified
  
• 67 unconnected profiles identified
  
• 53 orphans identified
  

Surname Meanings

Meaning of McCombe

This interesting and unusual surname is of Scottish origin, and is the Anglicization of the Gaelic "Mac Thom", which translates as "son of Tom", the Mac denoting "son of", and is often found recorded in England as Thom. Thomas, and its diminutive form Thom, is a popular medieval given name of biblical origin, which was an Aramaic byname meaning "twin", borne by one of Christ's disciples, best known for his scepticism. The surname development in Scotland since 1526 (see below) includes the following: Roger M'Com (1679, Kirkcudbright), and Robert McKome (1684, Carsfern). The modern variants include, McColm, McComb, McCome and McKomb. Among the recordings from Scottish Church Registers are the marriages of Robert Mc Combe and Margaret Ross on December 28th 1711, at Dalkeith, Midlothian, and of Archibald Mc Comb and Elizabeth Forrest on October 13th 1745, at Edinburgh, also in Midlothian. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Gilchrist Makcome, which was dated 1526, in the "Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland", during the reign of King James V of Scotland, 1513 - 1542. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling. ^[1]

Meaning of McComb

This interesting and unusual surname is of Scottish origin, and is the Anglicization of the Gaelic "Mac Thom", which translates as "son of Tom", the Mac denoting "son of", and is often found recorded in England as Thom. Thomas, and its diminutive form Thom, is a popular medieval given name of biblical origin, which was an Aramaic byname meaning "twin", borne by one of Christ's disciples, best known for his scepticism. The surname development in Scotland since 1526 (see below) includes the following: Roger M'Com (1679, Kirkcudbright), and Robert McKome (1684, Carsfern). The modern variants include, McColm, McComb, McCome and McKomb. Among the recordings from Scottish Church Registers are the marriages of Robert Mc Combe and Margaret Ross on December 28th 1711, at Dalkeith, Midlothian, and of Archibald Mc Comb and Elizabeth Forrest on October 13th 1745, at Edinburgh, also in Midlothian. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of Gilchrist Makcome, which was dated 1526, in the "Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland", during the reign of King James V of Scotland, 1513 - 1542. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling. ^[2]

Meaning of McCombs

Research Notes

The search for the meaning of McCombs

• "MCCOMBS." Mccombs Coat of Arms, Family Crest and Mccombs Family History. Accessed March 17, 2018. http://www.irishsurnames.com/cgi-bin/gallery.pl?name=mccombs&capname=Mccombs&letter=c.
• "Mccombs Family History." Ancestry. Accessed March 17, 2018. https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=mccombs.
• New Media Ltd. MCCOMBS Family Surname - Northern Ireland. Accessed March 17, 2018. https://www.emeraldancestors.com/family-surname?surname=MCCOMBS.
• New Media Ltd. MCCOMBS Family Surname - Northern Ireland. Accessed March 17, 2018. https://www.emeraldancestors.com/family-surname?surname=MCCOMBS.
• "The Largest Newspaper Archive for Family History Research." Last Name Meaning. Accessed March 17, 2018. https://www.genealogybank.com/last-name-meaning?lname=mccombs.
• "Mccombs Family History." Ancestry. Accessed March 17, 2018. https://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=mccombs.
• "The Surnames of Ireland." Google Books. Accessed March 17, 2018. https://books.google.com/books?id=fwxxSDG1a_cC&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38&dq=meaning#v=onepage&q=meaning&f=false.

Sources

1. ↑ "McCombe." The Internet Surname Database. Accessed March 17, 2018. http://www.surnamedb.com/surname/McCombe.
2. ↑ "McComb." The Internet Surname Database. Accessed March 17, 2018. http://www.surnamedb.com/surname/mccomb.