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MCFAUL Family History

This surname is of Scottish and Irish origin, and is an Anglicized form of the Old Scots Gaelic "Mac Phail", son of Pail, itself a Gaelicized version of the male given name Paul, from the Latin "Paulus", "Small". This was the name adopted by the Pharisee, Saul of Tarsus, after his conversion to Christianity on the road to Damascus (A.D. circa 34), and it was he, perhaps more than any other of Christ's followers, who played a significant role in establishing Christianity as a major world religion. The name was also borne by numerous other early saints, and it occurs in England before the Norman Conquest only as a monk's name...