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Originally Posted by RCMcKenzie
Mac is gaelic for "son of". O' means "grandson of". Mc and mac are used interchangeably between people of Scotch or Irish heritage.
There is no such clan name as McCreacherie or McCreachery etc. The closest I have heard of is the Scotch name McCeachern.
It's my guess that they were making fun of his older age, as in Mac "Creature".... Not a malicious slander just making fun.
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Very interesting. I had never known the gaelic meaning of those prefixes.
But if it truly was meant to mean "Mac Creature", then that could very well indeed suggest it to mean that he was a "creature of Irish descent." Terrific observation.