Irish families as septs of Highland Clans

[neloon]

The Gaelic first name "Uisdean" (from which come surnames such as Hutcheon, Hutchison, Houston, McCutcheon etc.) was a Gaelicisation of a Norse name which roughly meant "always a rock". However, this was, in turn, Anglicised as Hugh so you will certainly find Hughes, Hughson etc. as Scottish surnames today with no clear clan connection though you might like to look at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_of_Sleat

Alan

[NPG]

The Gaelic first name "Uisdean" (from which come surnames such as Hutcheon, Hutchison, McCutcheon etc.) was a Gaelicisation of a Norse name which roughly meant "always a rock". However, this was, in turn, Anglicised as Hugh so you will certainly find Hughes, Hughson etc. as Scottish surnames today with no clear clan connection though you might like to look at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_of_Sleat

Alan

Thanks for posting this Alan, very interesting information of which I was unaware.

[Roadkill]

interesting info. Thanks for replying! My mother has been doing genealogy research for years in her spare time and is still unsure about a lot. It seems records were not kept well in some poor rural parts of the south. Hopefully one of these days I will have it all together.