Mac Somhairle

The Gaelic surname Mac Somhairle means "son of Somhairle".[1] The personal name Somhairle is a Gaelicised form of the Old Norse Sumarliðr[2] and Sumarliði.[3] The Old Norse Sumarliðr is composed of the elements sumar ("summer") and liðr ("seafarer").[1] As such, Sumarliðr and Sumarliði can be taken to mean "summer warrior",[4] "summer seafarer".[5] Anglicised forms of Mac Somhairle include: MacSorley,[6] McSorley,[1] Sorley,[7] and Sorlie.[7]

Forms of the surname have been borne by several families of note. For example, one such family was Clann Somhairle, descended from Somhairle mac Giolla Brighde (died 1164);[8] another was a family closely related to the Lamonts and descended from a late thirteenth-century eponym;[9] another was a sept of the MacDonalds[10] and Camerons,[11] descended from an armiger of Eóin Mac Domhnaill II, Lord of the Isles (died 1503);[12] the name was also borne by a branch of the MacDonalds settled in Ireland.[13]

People
  • Mac Somhairle (died 1247), Norse-Gaelic warlord active in Ireland, probably identical to Ruaidhrí mac Raghnaill (died 1247?)
  • Aonghus mac Somhairle (died 1210), representative of Clann Somhairle
  • Dubhghall mac Ruaidhrí (died 1268), King of Argyll and the Isles, also known as Dubhgall Mac Somhairle and Mac Sumarlaide
  • Dubhghall mac Somhairle (died 1175×), King of the Isles
  • Raghnall mac Somhairle (died 1191/1192 – c.1210/1227), King of the Isles

Citations
  1. Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1807.
  2. Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016b) p. 1807; Hanks; Hardcastle; Hodges (2006) pp. 356, 409; Reaney; Wilson (1995) p. 434.
  3. Reaney; Wilson (1995) p. 434; Black, GF (1971) p. 736.
  4. Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016a) p. xxvi; Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016c) p. 2490.
  5. Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016c) p. 2490.
  6. Bell (1988) p. 182.
  7. Hanks; Coates; McClure (2016c) p. 2493.
  8. Broun (2005) p. 95; Sellar (2000) p. 199.
  9. Black, R (2012); Broun (2005) p. 95; Bell (1988) pp. 117, 182; Black, GF (1971) pp. 564, 737.
  10. Black, R (2012).
  11. MacLysaght (1996) p. 194; Bell (1988) pp. 28, 182; Black, GF (1971) p. 564.
  12. Bell (1988) p. 182; Black, GF (1971) p. 564.
  13. MacLysaght (1996) p. 194; McCusker (1982) p. 457; Bell (1988) p. 182.
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References
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  • Black, GF (1971) [1946]. The Surnames of Scotland: Their Origin, Meaning, and History. New York: The New York Public Library. ISBN 0-87104-172-3. OL 8346130M.
  • Black, R (2012). "1467 MS: MacSorleys of Monydrain". West Highland Notes & Queries. 3 (20): 12–14.
  • Broun, D (2005). "Review of S Boardman; A Ross, The Exercise of Power in Medieval Scotland, c.1200–1500". The Innes Review. 56 (1): 94–96. doi:10.3366/inr.2005.56.1.94. eISSN 1745-5219. ISSN 0020-157X.
  • Hanks, P; Coates, R; McClure, P, eds. (2016a). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. 1. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-879881-1.
  • Hanks, P; Coates, R; McClure, P, eds. (2016b). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. 3. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-879883-5.
  • Hanks, P; Coates, R; McClure, P, eds. (2016c). The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland. 4. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-879884-2.
  • Hanks, P; Hardcastle, K; Hodges, F (2006) [1990]. A Dictionary of First Names. Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1.
  • MacLysaght, E (1996) [1982]. More Irish Families. Blackroek: Irish Academic Press. ISBN 0-7165-2604-2. OL 618032M.
  • McCusker, PJ (1982). "Ballentaken: Beragh in the 17th Century". Seanchas Ardmhacha: Journal of the Armagh Diocesan Historical Society. 10 (2): 455–501. doi:10.2307/29740972. ISSN 0488-0196. JSTOR 29740972.
  • Reaney, PH (1995). Wilson, RM (ed.). A Dictionary of English Surnames (3rd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-8631464.
  • Sellar, WDH (2000). "Hebridean Sea Kings: The Successors of Somerled, 1164–1316". In Cowan, EJ; McDonald, RA (eds.). Alba: Celtic Scotland in the Middle Ages. East Linton: Tuckwell Press. pp. 187–218. ISBN 1-86232-151-5.


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