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MAWHINNEY Family History

This Gaelic surname recorded as Mawhinney, McWhinnie, McWhinney, McWeeney, McQueeney, and several other forms, is an Anglicized form of the Old Scots Mac Shuibhne, which translates as 'the sonm of the pleasant one'. The surname first appears on record in mid 13th Century, (see below), and has a very confused etymology, being associated directly with the clan MacKenzie, but also in Ireland being a synonym for the famous clan Buchanan. Today the surname is most associated with Ulster, and in particular County Antrim, but in earlier times it was most prominent in County Fermanagh, some fifyeen families being recorded in Petty's Census of Ireland undertaken in 1659.