Does anyone know any more about the name McQuerry,except that it is Irish?

Question

My last name is McQuerry,and i have "Black Dutch" in my ansestory.

Answer 1

www.familysearch.org has these varied spellings: MCQUARRIE ;  MCQUERY ; MCQUEARY ; MC QUARY ; &

MCQUARIE.

Listings were from the US; Scotland; Canada;  Panama Canal Zone; England; & Ireland.

An early listing is John MACQUARRIE--b.   Abt. 1681 in Laggan, Ulva, Scotland

In reference to your "Black Dutch" ancestry, this was on wikipedia--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dutch

     According to researcher James Pylant, based on his extensive survey of American families claiming Black Dutch as part of their heritage:

    "There are strong indications that the original "Black Dutch" were swarthy complexioned Germans. Anglo-Americans loosely applied the term to any dark-complexioned American of European descent. The term was adopted as an attempt to disguise Indian or infrequently, tri-racial descent. By the mid-1800s the term had become an American colloquialism; a derogative term for anything denoting one's small stature, dark coloring, working-class status, political sentiments, or anyone of foreign extract.

    Native Americans, mainly Cherokee, created a false, "Black Dutch" heritage to purchase land. This occurred often after the Trail of Tears,mainly in Oklahoma. The Cherokee would not admit to their actual heritage for fear the land would be taken away from them. In fact, many people born even in the early 20th century claimed Black Dutch heritage for this reason."

http://www.nativepeoples.com/article/art...

     In his search for the elusive "Black Dutch" in his own family, writer Jimmy H. Crane says in this article, published

January 10, 2006, "Many people who now live and have roots in northeast Mississippi, north Alabama, south Tennessee and other parts of the South are descendants of the “Black Dutch.”Both sides of my family’s characteristics range from dark hair, dark eyes and olive skin, to red hair, blue eyes and fair skin. It was not until June 1995 at the Iuka, Mississippi Heritage Day Festival that I really went into high gear and got into a serious search for the Black Dutch. Surnames with Black Dutch heritage that have been collected to date are all English names. What was recognized was that true Dutch names would be similar to German spellings and pronunciations. Names like Brown, Butler, Mayhall, Johnson, Tiffin and Massey for example somehow did not sound like Dutch or German.  But these were names with Black Dutch lineage.

    Here’s another notch to the handle: almost every time that Black Dutch was found, Indian lineage was found, and to date, a high percentage of association in the Iuka, Tishomingo, Itawamba areas has been established with the Cherokee. A representative of the Eagle Bear Clan of the Free Cherokees said that her grandmother told her that her family escaped the Trail of Tears.  They were forced to hide in caves and become known as Black Dutch to hide their identity. In a telephone conversation, I was told that other tribes besides the Cherokee also used the Black Dutch term, including the Chickasaws and the Choctaw. I believe the Creek descendants could have also used the term.

     Some people were "mistaken” for an Indian" when they migrated to Oklahoma in the late 1800's.  Census rolls in the Moulton, Alabama area in the late 1800’s show a family name listed as white; then ten years latter as Black Dutch; and then ten years latter as Cherokee.  The elusive question is, when did the term Black Dutch arise? A strong probability is after 1830, when the forced removal of the Cherokees from their homeland began.  It is understandable that the Cherokee, Chickasaw and others who remained behind had to come up with a cover-up in order to survive. No choice but to go underground, to become “white” in order to own land, keep their homes and survive, denying their Indian identity simply because it was the safest thing to do at the time. There is little doubt in my mind that many of the people who claim the Black Dutch or Black Irish descent are actually more of Native American descent that they really know.

   Before the Indian Removal Act in 1830, many Cherokee people were already mixed with white settlers ,  denied their ancestry and basically lived much of their lives in fear of being sent West.  Full bloods claimed to be Black Irish or Black Dutch, thus denying their rightful Indian blood. After being fully assimilated into the general population years later, these Irish Cherokee mixed blood descendants began reclaiming their Indian heritage. "

(So, have you thought you might have Native American ancestry, too??)

Answer 2

Mc sounds Scottish to me.

Our family is Irish and all of our relstives start their last names with O', as in O'Donnell and O'Dell.

Answer 3

McQuerry Name Meaning and History

Irish or Scottish: variant of McQuarrie.

McQuarrie Name Meaning and History

Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Guaire, a patronymic from a Gaelic personal name meaning ‘proud’, ‘noble’.

Surname: Mcquarrie

This interesting and unusual name is of Scottish origin and is the patronymic form of an Old Gaelic personal name "Guaire", the "mac", denoting "the son of". The derivation of this personal name is from the early Gaelic "gaurio-s", which is akin to the Greek "gauros", both having the identical meaning, noble or proud. In the Isle of Man the name has become Quarry, and in Ireland, Gorey. In the modern idiom, the variants include MacQuarrey, MacQuarie, and MacWharrie. One John M'Quarrie, from Lagan was denounced a rebel in 1674 and in Barony, Lanarkshire on September 10th 1797 one, Amelia McQuarrig married James McCalluna. The first recorded spelling of the family name is shown to be that of John M'Goyre, (witness), which was dated 1463, Ross, Scotland, during the reign of King James III of Scotland, 1460 - 1488. Surnames became necessary when governments introduced personal taxation. In England this was known as Poll Tax. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.

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Answer 4

Go to ancestry.com, and research name

Answer 5

Lass, McQuerry is a variation of Macquarrie, the clan having originated on the island of Ulva in the Inner Hebrides.  The first documentation of the name occurred after the death of a John Macquarrie in 1473.  The Gaelic version of Macquarrie is McGuire, which admittedly sounds Irish, but the McQuerrys/ Macquarries are very much a Scottish clan.

My great-grandmother, Minerva Jane McQuerry (1867-1953) was a descendant of a John Macquarrie who was transported to the American colonies as an indentured servant after he was captured following the Battle of Cullodeen.  After  being indentured to a Wilhelm Stout, he married Stout's daughter, Miranda.

The Macquarrie clan has an active clan web site:  http://www.Clanmacquarrie.org/