S.4.

(Woulfe) (original 'English-Irish' book, 1906, and the 'Irish-English' version, 1922)

(1906) The original 'English-Irish' book, 1906, lists both "Innes" and "Mac Innes"

    derived from the gaelic 'Mac Aonguis' (Innes, p.68, Mac Innes, p.80)

(1922) The 'Irish-English' version, published 1922 at the time of Irish independence,

    cross-references the gaelic 'Mac Aonguis' and 'Mac Aongurs' to this list: "MacEnnis,

    MacInnes, MacInch, (?) MacCance, MacKinch, MacHinch, MacNeese, MacNiece,

    MacNish, Mannice, Minnish, Mannix, Angus, Ennis, Innes, Hinchey, etc." (p.63)

Neither 1906 nor 1922 versions of Woulfe's books show anything else close to our

    current Mc(ac)Aninch(sh), Mc(ac)Ininch(sh), and Mc(ac)Ninch(sh) spellings.

(1906) Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall : Irish Names and Surnames, Collected and Edited by

Rev. Patrick Woulfe; Dublin, M. H. Gill and Son, 1906 (no ISBN/OCLC/LOC numbers)

digitized by Google Books, 3.7 Mb 119 pgs PDF file (books.google.com, Aug. 2020)

(1922) Sloinnte Gaedheal is Gall : Irish Names and Surnames, Collected and Edited

by Rev. Patrick Woulfe, Priest of the Diocese of Limerick, Member of the Council,

National Academy of Ireland; Dublin, M. H. Gill and Son, 1922 (sic, 1922, not 1923)

(no ISBN/OCLC/LOC numbers) digitized on Internet Archive, 6.8 Mb 136 pgs PDF

https://archive.org/details/irishnamessurnam00woul/page/n11/mode/2up  (Aug. 2020)

S.5.

(Oxford Dictionary of American Family Names)

"Angus (1479) Scottish and (less frequently) Irish: from the Gaelic personal name

Aonghus, said to be compose of Celtic aon 'one' + 'gus' choice. This was borne by an

Irish god and a famous 8th-century Pictish King" (Vol. 1, A-F, pg.42)

"McAninch (753) Northern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mag Aonghuis

(see McInnis)." (sic, "Mag Aonghuis") (Vol. II, G-N, pg.543)

"McInnis (2874) Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Aonghuis, a patronymic

from the personal name Aonghus (see Angus)." (Vol. II, G-N, pg.556)

"McNinch (420) Irish: reduced form of McAninch" (Vol. II, G-N, pg.561)

Dictionary of American Family Names, Edited by Patrick Hanks, 3 Volumes,

2128 pages, pub. May 2003, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

S.6.

(Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland)

"McAninch" "Variants: McAnish, McCansh" "Scottish Gaelic : relationship name from

Mac Aonghuis, see McInnes." "Local Gaelic pronunciation of the personal name

vocalized the gh and moved the stress to the second syllable, resulting in anglicized

spellings of the surname such as this and McNiece"

"McInnes" "Variants: McKinnis, McAninch, Kinch, Milhench, Hinchey" "Scottish

Gaelic : relationship name from Mac Aonghuis ‘son of Angus’. Compare McGuinness."

"Further information: This is the name of a Highland Scottish clan claiming descent

from Angus, brother of Fergus Mòr Mac Earca, legendary king of Dal Riata in the 6th 

century. Their traditional family seat was at Kinlochaline Castle in Morvern." (p.1782)

"McAnish" "McCansh" "(both) Scottish Gaelic : from Mac Aonghuis, see McAninch"

"Anguish" "Scottish, English : relationship name from an English mishearing of the

Scottish Gaelic personal name Aonghus, see Angus. See McAninch"

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