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The Name McAdoo
A popular theory on the origin of the surname McAdoo (correctly pronounced 'Mack-Uhh-Due') is that the name McAdoo is derived from an Anglicized form of the Middle Gaelic words Mac Conduibh or Mac Cú Dhubh referring to a family, tribe, sept, clan, or byname meaning a 'Son of the Black Hound Tribe'. The name is formed from a genitive construction of the Gaelic words Mac 'son of' + cú 'hound' + dhubh 'black'.
The hound referred to is most likely the Scottish (aka Highland) Deerhound, which is a fast, strong, wire-haired sighthound purposely bred to hunt red deer by coursing and deer-stalking.
Scottish sighthounds were bred from the same original Vertragus or Celtic Hound stock as Irish Wolfhounds to hunt by sight and speed rather than scent and endurance. Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, a Roman consul writing in 391CE, described seven "canes Scotici", that he got as a gift to be used for fighting lions and bears, as "viewed by all in Rome with wonder".
These hounds are probably the breed of hound depicted on the Hilton of Cadboll Stone, a Pictish engraving originally located on the Tarbat Peninsula in Easter Ross, Scotland, dated to 800 CE.
There are other alternative theories to the origin of the name, and maybe we can document more in this ONS. For now, let us leave it as those descended from the Tribe of the Black Hound.
There are also many spelling variants of the surname McAdoo caused, no doubt in part, by transcription errors, poor spelling by the original data recorder, illegible handwriting, or similar errors and mistakes in the documentary records. These include McAdow, McAdoe, McAdowe, Mackadowe, McKindoe, McAldo, McIndoo, and McIndue.
According to the website Forebears, the last name McAdoo is most commonly found in North America where 89% (87% US and 2% Canada) of the world's living McAdoo's reside
The surname McAdoo is found in 23 countries of the world, with descending incidence, in the United States, Northern Ireland, Canada, England, Ireland, Australia, Scotland, South Africa, Thailand, and Wales.
There are an estimated 4,758 McAdoo's living in the United States, and of those approximately 11% reside in Texas, 10% in North Carolina, and 8% in California.
Plantation of Ulster
- The Plantation of the Irish Province of Ulster was a carefully orchestrated plan by then King James, who at the time was both King James VI of Scotland and also King James I of England and Ireland, to populate lands in the old Irish 'Province of Ulster' that were abandoned by their ancestral native Irish Clan Lords and confiscated by the British Crown after the end of the Irish Nine Years' War (1594-1603) aka Tyrone's Revellion and the Flight of the Earls from Ulster to Spain in 1607.
- The Plantation involved a not necessarily voluntary migration of mostly Lowlander Scots and borderlands English tenant farmers from western Scotland and England to settle on the escheated lands granted to the original "Undertakers" beginning in 1609 and largely completed by 1613. Additional migration occurred thereafter as the granted estates were bought and sold.
- At the time of the 1609 Plantation, the Province of Ulster consisted of nine counties.
- These nine traditional counties of Ulster Province, included the six counties of today's Northern Ireland a part of the United Kingdom and three counties: Donegal, Cavan, and Monaghan which voted to be a part of the 'Irish Free State' upon the 1921 partition of Ireland. The three became a part of the 26 counties in the 'Republic of Ireland' when the name was changed again in 1948.
- The earliest documented McAdoo (so far) in Ulster is a James McAdowe listed on the Muster Roll of 1630 for the Barony of Raphoe, County Donegal, in service to the Lady Cunningham, widow of one of the original "Scottish Undertakers", Sir James Cuninghame Laird of Glengarnock (1580-1623) who originating from Ayrshire, a coastal county in the Scottish Lowlands located west of present-day Glasgow.
- The McAdoo ONS pages concerning the history and background of McAdoos involved in the Plantation are located here: Plantation of Ulster.
Community Migration
- It is clear from the records that the McAdoos most often migrated in larger community groups and only rarely as individuals or single family groups. The community groups included members of their extended families and their friends and neighbors. Prior McAdoo genealogy work shows certain surnames with McAdoo families occuring repeatedly in marriages from Ulster into one or more of the thirteen British colonies and continuing even into the next wave of westward pioneer settlement after the Revolutionary War into Tennessee, Kentucky, and the Ohio River valley territories and westwards into Missouri, Arkansas, and Texas up until about the 1880s. The voluntary migration out of Ulster to America reached its peak after 1718 and was largely complete by 1760.
Scotch-Irish Identity in America
- This group in America self-identified as Scotch-Irish and has been referred to as such since their arrival by American historians. The group may have been, and still may be, known from the strictly Irish perspective as 'Ulster Scots', or from the strictly Scotland perspective as 'Scots-Irish' but in America they were referred to on arrival, and are referred to today, as 'Scotch-Irish'.
- The Scotch-Irish were hard boiled, no-nonsense, Protestants (overwhelmingly Presbyterian) who, after 100 years in Ulster, were indurated to the hardships of frontier life along a dangerous border with an often beligerant local Irish indigenous population that their Plantation was intentionally designed by the English overlords to suppress. In arrival in colonial America the Scotch-Iriish quickly populated the western frontiers of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the Carolinas. They were clannish, kept to themselves and were not well received by the Quakers, the Puritans, and the Anglican English settlers in America when they arrived. That attitude changed during the Revolutionary War.
- The Scotch-Irish are not to be confused with the 410,000 documented and possibly another 1 million undocumented Irish immigrants (overwhelmingly Catholic but many of whom may have also been protestant Ulster-Scots) who later poured, in great numbers, into America after 1840 as a result of the Great Irish Potato Famine.
- In their attempts to suppress the indigenous Irish the English overlords unwittingly created the animosity of a second population with an axe to grind. And grind it they did in the American Revolutionary War. Scotch-Irish signed up for the Continental Line and state militias in great numbers, shoulder to shoulder with the true Irish they had met in good times and bad in Ulster. At the time the Scotch-Irish made up about 10% of the population of the colonies, they made up to 40% of the total American forces and over as much as 70% of the patriot army from Pennsylvania and the southern colonies. There are many texts on Scotch-Irish history in America, but the definitive one is the Social History by J.G. Leyburn:
- Leyburn, J.G. 1962. The Scotch-Irish: A Social History. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 408p. Digital reproduction in the archive.org collection. Not available as a copyright free PDF, but instead may be browsed and read in its entirety online at READ HERE.
- Leyburn also published a recommended reading short overview and summary of his studies of the Scotch-Irish in a 1970 issue of the American Heritage magazine that can be read online at The Scotch-Irish in the Melting-Pot: The Ethnic Group that Blended.
About the McAdoo One Name Study ("ONS")
The McAdoo ONS was created as a collaborative platform to collect, store, and share information on the McAdoo surname, including all of the variant spellings. The principal objective of the McAdoo ONS is to create a valuable resource and repository of information hoped useful for McAdoo family members, genealogists, and others who are researching or have a family interest in or ancestors of those with the McAdoo or McAdow surnames or other surnames associated with McAdoos by marriage or by living in the same community.
The McAdoo ONS is open to anyone and anyone may join by following the directions at Join the McAdoo ONS .
The list of McAdoo ONS members can be found at McAdoo ONS Membership List .
At the January 2023 start date of the McAdoo ONS, Wikitree reports 651 McAdoo profiles and variant spellings shows 61 McAdow profiles, 66 McAda profiles, 32 McAtee profiles, and 4 McAdoe profiles. Lets double those numbers in 2023 and ensure all McAdoo's everywhere are connected to the global Wikitree family.
How to Join
The McAdoo ONS is set as a "public" profile that any Wikitree member may read and utilize but only McAdoo ONS Members who are placed on the Trusted List may access and edit these pages or add content. There are no pre-conditions of membership and you may join or retire at any time for any reason.
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Scope and Extent of the McAdoo ONS
The McAdoo ONS is not limited to persons who are related biologically. The subject matter of any element of the McAdoo ONS is variable and may be changed and expanded at any time based on the unique interests of the study members. The following study ideas are starter studies. The scope can be amended and more lines of inquiry can be added as the members of this ONS deem appropriate.
Ancestral Origins
- One objective of the McAdoo ONS is to research and identify the possible ancestral origins of the first families to adopt and utilize the surname McAdoo. These may include studies that employ DNA methods. Click Here to go to the Origins page.
- Another place to start is one of the touchstone places that are directly associated with a McAdoo or with the name McAdoo. Click Here to go to a listing of historical markers, buildings, and places associated with McAdoos.
Gateway Ancestors
- A gateway ancestor is a person on your genealogical tree who descends from royalty or nobility and will connect your branch of the global tree directly to the aristocracy and royalty of one or more of the European countries. Almost everybody of European descent that is alive today has a gateway ancestor or two in their line. Finding yours will be an eye-opener. Look for them at Find Relationship.
Colville Gateway to Normans and William I
- Nancy Ann (Colville) Evans (1733-1790) is a Gateway Ancestor for those McAdoos who can connect to her through her daughter Elizabeth (Evans) McAdoo (1766-1804). Nancy Ann Colville has Norman ancestors that connect her as a grand-daughter in a direct bloodline to Guillaume (Normandie) de Normandie (abt.1027-1087) known to history as William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy, and William I King of England.
- The Normans are originally a Viking tribe led by Hrólfr (aka Rollo, and yes that "Rollo" from the TV series "Vikings") who was ceded the Duchy of Rouen by the French Monarch in exchange for Rollo's cessation of attacks on Paris and conversion to Christianity. Rollo, Count of Rouen, established the origins of what would become Normandy in northern France. Count Rollo is the 3xGreat Grandfather of William the Conqueror.
- Since William conquered England and assumed the English throne in 1066, his family and bloodline permeates England, Scotland, and Ireland's nobility from that year onwards. A bloodline connection to William I will lead to many other notable and historical family connections throughout the islands of Great Britain and Ireland.
What other Gateway Ancestors can we find?
Achievers
- Another objective of the McAdoo ONS is to identify and recognize those McAdoo's who achieved some level of prominence in their chosen career field, in politics, or in the military or government service or another public service. Click Here to go to the Achievers page.
Migrants
- Another objective of the McAdoo ONS is to identify and recognize those McAdoo's who migrated with their families and neighbors from their original home country to another country to take up a completely new life in a completely new place in search of opportunity and prosperity. Click Here to go to the Migrants page.
Pioneers
- Another objective of the McAdoo ONS is to identify and recognize those pioneer McAdoo's who moved and settled on new land located at the American and Canadian frontier western boundaries of "civilization", as they knew it, in order to again seek out new land, new opportunity and prosperity for their own families and those of the neighbors they moved with. Click Here to go to the Pioneers page.
Slaves and Slavers
- Another objective of the McAdoo ONS is to identify and recognize those McAdoo heads of household who were Slavers and owned Slaves, and also research and identify those Slaves who were manumitted by their owners or emancipated by law and upon gaining freedom retained the surname McAdoo to identity themselves. Click Here to go to the Slavers, Slaves, and FPOC page.
Direct Single-Family Lines
- Another objective of the McAdoo ONS is to identify and recognize those single-family lines descended directly from a migrant male McAdoo or from a McAdoo family who migrated from their original country of birth to a new county, either as a family group or as a community group in order to out opportunity and prosperity in a new country with their families and the neighbors they moved with. Click Here to go to the Family Lines page.
Categories
- The McAdoo ONS is a Category and may be used in conjunction with special sub-categories created for a special purpose to use in the filtering of certain Wikitree profiles and family groups in order to facilitate connections with ancestors and related family groups. In order to aid family line studies, any number of profiles may be categorized into any one or more of the McAdoo ONS Sub-Categories.
Priority Work Objectives - Things to do
"Devil John" McAdoo - Lullaby, Legend or Lie?
- A long cherished McAdoo family story centers around the tale of an American Revolutionary War patriot ancestor grandly nick-named Captain "Devil John" McAdoo profile John McAdoo Jr. (abt.1762 - bef.1820) an elected Captain in the Guilford County Regiment of the North Carolina state militia. The story goes he earned the sobriquet "Devil John" by his fearless, some might have said reckless, tactics in battle and his ruthless attitude towards Loyalist Militia who he blamed for killing his unarmed 15-years old nephew.
- McAdoo ONS Task:
- Is this profile, John McAdoo Jr. (abt.1762-bef.1820), really Captain "Devil John".
- Was Devil John the same John McAdow who was the one patriot killed in action at the battle between patriots and loyalists at Raft's Swamp on 15 October 1781 as reported in some historical accounts? Other historical accounts of the Battle at Raft Swamp report no patriot losses from the engagement.
- Or did Devil John survive the war and move to Middle Tennessee to take up revolutionary service land grants along with many other members of his Guilford County, North Carolina, family, and neighbors?
Lillis McAdoo Jack - First McAdoo in America?
- Lillis (McAdoo) Jack (1714-1793) is a candidate for the earliest documented McAdoo in America by virtue of her marriage to Patrick Jack (abt.1700-1780) in 1724 in Chambersberg, Pennsylvania, as reported in the Hunter (1877) sketch of the Jack family page 60-61. Therein also Lillis is described as "born in Ireland", most likely Ulster since she is also described as "a devout Presbyterian".
- Lillis and her Jack family are historically significant. The Jacks operated a tavern across the street from the Mecklenburg County Courthouse in Charlotte North Carolina at the May 1775 time of the signing of the Mecklenburg Resolves, NOT to be confused with the disputed Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence.
- Lillis is the mother of Captain James Jack (1731-1822) who is reported to have carried the signed Mecklenburg Resolves and presented them to the North Carolina Delegation at the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia, an act described in his DAR Ancestor file:A060807. He also served in the North Carolina Militia during the American Revolutionary War.
- McAdoo ONS Task:
- Identify the parents and siblings of Lillis McAdoo Jack.
- Create sourced profiles for them on WT including their places of birth and death.
James McAdoo Congressional Pardon
- A James McAdoo in Guildford County, North Carolina, is reported to have tracked down and, in an act of revenge, killed a Loyalist colonist who had killed James' unarmed teenage nephew. The revenge killing, and maybe the one which precipitated it, apparently occurred during the so-called Tory War.
- The Tory War was essentially a civil war between loyalist ("Tories") and patriot ("Whigs") supporters in the southern colonies that occurred after the regular British armies led by Lord Charles Edward Cornwallis KG PC (1738-1805) had retreated to the garrison at Yorktown, Virginia, where they made their last stand in the Revolutionary War. The Tory War was notably vicious and atrocities were committed by both sides. It was a war among neighbors and it got personal.
- James apparently sought and received a formal Pardon from either the Continental Congress or the North Carolina General Assembly for the act. On an inaccessible Ancestry.com family tree, there are copies of the record of the congressional pardon that was granted. A copy of this source document is an important note to include in the profile of the appropriate James, possibly this one: James McAdoo (abt.1754-1799).
- McAdoo ONS Task:
- Find and collect an image or transcription and citation for the Pardon of James McAdoo for the killing.
Connect the Branches: Gibbs - Rev. Sam
- There is no documented connection between the family lines of two "Notable" McAdoo's: Samuel McAdow (1760-1844) and William Gibbs McAdoo Jr. (1863-1941).
- The TreeTop McAdoo category for the William Gibbs McAdoo line is John McAdoo Jr. (1753-1830) apparently born on 17 April 1753 in Augusta County, Virginia. As noted in the research notes, this profile has some discrepancies that need further work to resolve.
- The TreeTop McAdoo category for the Rev. Samuel McAdow line is John McAdow (abt.1732-abt.1800) apparently born about 1732 in Ulster Province, Ireland.
- McAdoo ONS Tasks:
- Establish a sourced connection between these two McAdoo family lines.
- Extend each line back to establish their respective ancestors in Ulster and Scotland.
Connect Cumberland Compact Signers
- The Cumberland Compact was composed and signed in May 1780, by 256 settlers led by James Robertson (1742-1814) and John Donelson Jr. (1718-1785), at a Longhunter and native American trading camp near the French Lick aka the "Big Salt Springs" on the Cumberland River and near the site, the group would settle and first build Fort Nashborough and later develop it into Nashville, Tennessee.
- Two of the 256 signers of the Cumberland Compact present at French Lick in May 1780 were McAdoo's: Arthur and James.
- McAdoo ONS Task:
- Identify, profile, and connect Arthur and James to one or more of the known McAdoo family lines.
- Clues and Working Hypothesis:
- The Compact signers may be from any of the multiple McAdoo family lines in the Southern Colonies by 1780. However, Arthur McAdoo is the only McAdoo of the era to have the first given name, Arthur. It is an unusual given name among colonial-era McAdoo's.
- Arthur McAdoo (bef.1755-) The 1800 US Census shows an Arthur McAdoo living in a household of seven persons in the Pendleton District on South Carolina's western border with Tennessee. Given the propensity of Scotch-Irish McAdoo's to name children for parents and grandfathers it is reasonable to assume that there may be more Arthurs in this line.
- William McAdoo (bef.1744-) is shown on consecutive lines with Arthur on the same census in the same South Carolina district which suggests they are related as father-son or brothers. No age data was enumerated in the 1800 Census.
Identify Alphas of Other McAdoo Branches
- There are other branches of the McAdoo family in America that emigrated from Ulster or Scotland or perhaps Ireland or England. The males or heads of immigrating families are on arrival in America categorized as AlphaMcAdoos. An example is the family of AlphaMcAdoos headed by the James McAdoo II (1780-1843) who is also considered to be a TreeTopMcAdoo by virtue of the details and origin of his father are not yet known.
- McAdoo ONS Task:
- Identify AlphaMcAdoos and add the categories [[Category:McAdooAlpha, McAdoo Name Study]] and [[Category:McAdooTreeTop, McAdoo Name Study]] to the profile of a male head of the household of each family which arrives together, or to the profile of any McAdoo who arrives as a singleton.
Who is James McAdoo 1630 Raphoe, Donegal?
- James McAdowe is recorded on original page 262 of the 1630 Muster Roll in the service of The Lady Conningham Widdow of Sr James Conningham knt. undertaker of 2000 Acres her Men & Armes (sic). James McAdowe (sic) is listed in possession of personal weapons including a "sword" and a "snaphance" an early version of a flintlock musket with a flash pan.
- The fact that James McAdowe/McAdoo is recorded in the service of the Undertaker Sir James Conningham (aka 'Cunningham', aka 'Cunninghame'. the Laird of Glengarnock in North Ayrshire) (see also James Cuninghame (1580-1623)) is compelling evidence that James McAdowe was likely a tenant farmer on the North Ayrshire estate of Sir James Cunningham and his wife Catherine Cunninghame (abt.1580-) of Glencairn and was induced or compelled to migrate to his Laird's new estates in the Barony of Raphoe, County Donegal, Ulster Province.
- McAdoo ONS Task:
- Identify and source James McAdowe's parents, siblings, and children and connections to other McAdoo lines in Ulster.
Clan Cunningham Ayrshire Connection???
- The fact that James McAdowe/McAdoo is recorded on the Raphoe County Donegal Muster Roll of 1630 in the service of the Ulster Plantation Undertaker Sir James Conningham (Cunningham) aka James Cuninghame (1580-1623)), the Laird of Glengarnock in North Ayrshire, Scotland, is compelling evidence that James McAdowe was likely a tenant farmer on the North Ayrshire estate of Sir James Cunningham and his wife Catherine Cunninghame (abt.1580-) of Glencairn and was enticed to migrate to his Laird's new estates in the Barony of Raphoe, County Donegal, Ulster Province.
- McAdoo ONS Task:
- Research and identify other McAdoo ancestors in Ayrshire or other parts of Scotland.
The Uí Néill Irish Dynasties
- Is there a McAdoo name origin relationship to Domnall mac Áedo (abt.0570-0642) aka Domnall II, the 146th High King of Ireland and a member of the Cenél Conaill kindred of the Northern Uí Néill?
- McAdoo ONS Tasks:
- Can we document a link of the name McAdoo to the sound-alike name "mac Áedo"?
- Can we document links to the the Cenél Conaill kindred of the Northern Uí Néill?
McAdoo ONS Membership List
RL McAdoo - The McAdoo ONS Coordinator, head coach, and chief cheerleader.
Susan (Knight) Gore - Researcher of the Rev. Samuel McAdow family. Archivist for the Historical Foundation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
Jaynie (Flippen) Anderson - Researcher of the McAdoo and Flippen names.
MG (Mettler) McAdoo - Researcher of the McAdoo, Mettler, and Branstrator names.
Cheryl Baker - Researcher of family lines that include McAdoo's.
Bibliography and Reference Library
The Bibliography and Reference Library includes lists and links to selected papers and websites with research reference sources that are related to genealogy or to the history, geography, culture, and times of a particular place occupied by McAdoo families during some period in time. Many of the selected historical texts are in the public domain, copyright expired, and available for free download in PDF or another format at the referenced links indicated. Some of the selected reference materials include comments and annotations by the ONS coordinator.
Bibliography - Early America
- Click Here for those entries in the Bibliography and Reference Library that have content relevant to McAdoo genealogy or to the history, geography, culture, and times of McAdoo families and other Scotch-Irish colonials and early Americans living in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, and other places west. For brevity, there is little here regarding the New England colonies or states.
Bibliography - Scotland
- Click Here for those entries in the Bibliography and Reference Library that have content relevant to McAdoo genealogy or to the history, geography, culture, and times of McAdoo families and their neighbors living in Scotland.
Bibliography - Old Ulster
- Click Here for those entries in the Bibliography and Reference Library that have content relevant to McAdoo genealogy or to the history, geography, culture, and times of McAdoo families and their neighbors living in the nine original counties making up the historical Irish province of Ulster.
- County Antrim
- County Armagh
- County Cavan
- County Donegal
- County Down
- County Fermanagh
- County Londonderry
- County Monaghan
- County Tyrone
Bibliography - Ireland
- Click Here for those entries in the Bibliography and Reference Library that have content relevant to McAdoo genealogy or to the history, geography, culture, and times of McAdoo families and their neighbors living in the 23 counties of Ireland outside of the nine original counties making up the historical Irish province of Ulster.
Bibliography - Canada
- Click Here for those entries in the Bibliography and Reference Library that have content relevant to McAdoo genealogy or to the history, geography, culture, and times of McAdoo families and their neighbors living in Canada.
Bibliography - Peerages
- Click Here for those entries in the Bibliography and Reference Library that have content relevant to genealogy and history of the system of Peerages, or hereditary and non-hereditary titles and noble ranks, in England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Research Aids
Listed below are some research aids applicable to the McAdoo ONS study. I'll be working on uploading content to them, and could use your help! Add away.
Heraldry: Tartans - Tribes - Septs - Clans
- Click Here to go to a page with a quick overview of the medieval feudal "Clan" system practiced by both Highland and Lowland Scots and to some extent Ireland. See the same page for a brief summary of the coat of arms and other heraldry devices and the major Clan affiliations of Tribe McAdoo.
Historical Context and Timelines
- Click Here to go to a page containing a brief timeline of the historical events leading up to and during the times of en masse migration from Ulster and from Scotland to the American British Colonies prior to 1776; and a general timeline of the background events involved with the struggle for political control of Ireland.
Historical Maps and County Boundary Changes
- Click Here to browse a set of useful historical maps of the southern British Colonies in the Americas and future states Tennessee and Kentucky. These maps clearly show the trails, tracks, and traces used for wagon transportation and the location of the main navigable rivers. The set also includes interactive animated gif files which show the progressive development of county boundaries within a province or state over time.
Tree Tips, Tweaks, and Treasures
- Click Here to go to a page with an annotated list of tips, tweaks, browser extensions, and other useful utilities and reference aids in in researching McAdoo family lines.
Placenames Old Ulster and Ireland
- In order to assure consistency, the McAdoo ONS shall employ a set protocol for utilizing Irish place names associated with WT profiles created as a part of this study. The protocol is described HERE.
- The Ireland Project's pages for County Donegal.
- The Ireland Project's pages for County Tyrone.
- The Ireland Project's pages for County Fermanagh.
- The Ireland Project's pages for County Londonderry.
Scotland Places
- The Scotland Project's pages for: Ayrshire
- The Scotland Project's pages for Dumfriesshire.
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