McDade - by Anne McDade Barrett, email
Oct 27, 2005
"July [2005] found me in the middle of
getting my McDade book ready for the printers. My book begins in
Glasgow, Scotland, in 1848 when my McDades escaped the Irish
famine...
In one of the late 1990s issues of the
O'Dochartaigh Clan Association Newsletters I saw the story of Conaill
and Eoghan, how the O'Doherty's et al were descended from Conaill and
how the sons of David Doherty came to be McDade/McDaid, McDevitt,
McDavits et al and other branch names...
In 2004 an Irish researcher out of Derry
gave the following information: In 1850 over half of all McDades
in Ireland were located in County Donegal; most of the rest were divided
betwen the adjacent parts of County Derry and County Tyrone. He
triangulated three family names for me -- McDade, Leonard, and
McCormick--to Donegal, townlands of Carrick (Donaghmore R.C. Parish) and
Braid (Lifford R.C. Parish)(both in the Diocese of Derry) -- about ten
miles apart. That is where I am on my McDade Ireland
research.
I have posted to www.mcdade.bravepages.com. This is listed as a Scottish McDade site and I have
corresponded with the powers that be over the past two
years.
Who is prepared to establish an Irish
McDade site? Do you know anyone that is specializing in McDade
research in Ireland? I don't feel qualified to lead a team...but I
am certainly interested in being on a McDade
team."