MacAskill
MacAskill, also spelt Macaskill, is a surname. It is an Anglicisation of the Gaelic Mac Asgaill, meaning "son of Asgall". The Gaelic name Asgall is a reduced form of the Old Norse personal name Ásketill.[1] The name is borne by a noted family on Skye, the MacAskills of Rubha an Dùnain, who historically followed the MacLeods of Dunvegan, possibly serving them as early as the fourteenth century (although documentation is lacking).[2] In Gaelic the MacAskills are known as Clann t-Ascaill,[3] and Clann t-Asgaill.[4] In Scottish Gaelic, the surname is rendered MacAsgaill.[5] In Irish, the surname is rendered Mac Ascaill.[6] Early forms of the name on record in Scotland are Mackaiscail (in 1766), Mackaiscal (in 1769), and Macaiskill (in 1790).[7] An early form of the name in England is Mac Askil (in 1311).[8]
People
- Angus MacAskill (1825-1863), known as the world's largest "true" giant
- Danny MacAskill, a stunt cyclist
- Dianne Macaskill, Chief Executive and Chief Archivist of Archives New Zealand
- Glenn Macaskill, an author currently living in South Africa
- Ishbel MacAskill (1941-2011), Gaelic singer
- Kenny MacAskill (born 1958), a Scottish National Party politician
- Klara MacAskill (born 1964), a Hungarian born Canadian sprint canoer
Places
- MacAskills Lake, a lake of Inverness County, in north-western Nova Scotia, Canada
See also
Citations
- ↑ MacAskill (n.d.); McCaskill (n.d.).
- ↑ Martin (2014).
- ↑ de Bhulbh (1997) p. 258.
- ↑ Black (1971) p. 454.
- ↑ Mark (2003) p. 720.
- ↑ de Bhulbh (1997) p. 258.
- ↑ Black (1971) p. 454.
- ↑ Reaney; Wilson (1995) p. 290.
References
- 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 – via Open Library. (registration required (help)).
- de Bhulbh, S (1997). Sloinnte na h-Éireann: Irish Surnames. Limerick: Comhar-Chumann Íde Naofa Teo. ISBN 0-9530560-0-7. OL 316008M – via Open Library. (registration required (help)).
- "Macaskill Family History". Ancestry.com. n.d. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
- Mark, C (2003). The Gaelic-English Dictionary. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-203-27706-6.
- Martin, C (2014). "A Maritime Dominion — Sea-Power and the Lordship". In Oram, RD. The Lordship of the Isles. The Northern World: North Europe and the Baltic c. 400–1700 AD. Peoples, Economics and Cultures (series vol. 68). Leiden: Brill. pp. 176–199. doi:10.1163/9789004280359_009. ISBN 978-90-04-28035-9. ISSN 1569-1462.
- "Mccaskill Family History". Ancestry.com. n.d. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
- Reaney, PH (1995). Wilson, RM, ed. A Dictionary of English Surnames (3rd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-8631464.