What is the origin of the name Lemuel? Is it a Spanish name?

Question

I have a great-great-great grandfather name Lemuel McMichael. He looks like he may be hipsanic but no one knows, so I wanted to look more into his name. I know the last name is Irish but what is his first name and what did it mean? I am just trying to find out what nationality he was.

Answer 1

yup hebrew, kind of biblical name, but it don't meant he is jew, almost the entire world names come from the bible,

Answer 2

Hebrew variation of Samuel. Doesn't mean he necessarily had any Jewish heritage.  Back 100 years or more ago a lot of Christians gave their children Old Testament names.

Answer 3

I'd agree with the others in that Lemuel is a Biblical name of hebrew origin. It was quite common in the 17 and 1800's for folks to choose biblical names for their children. The last name McMichael is deffinately Irish,Scotch or English.

Answer 4

Hebrew

http://www.babynames.com/Names/name_disp...

Answer 5

Hebrew. This is a biblical name.

Answer 6

McMichael comes from Scotland, not Ireland.

Lemuel is a French family name, and there is a coat of arms on file for at least one individual who bore that name:

houseofnames.com

Answer 7

sounds french to me

Answer 8

www.ancestry.com

Lemuel

Biblical name (possibly meaning “"devoted to God"” in Hebrew) borne by an obscure king who was lectured by his mother on the perils of strong drink and the virtues of a dutiful wife (Proverbs 31). He is mentioned by Chaucer in "The Canterbury Tales", where his name is carefully distinguished from the more familiar Samuel.   Lemuel Gulliver was the unusual name of the hero of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726).

www.behindthename.com says a possible nickname is LEMMY.

By the way, according to ancestry.com, this is the

McMichael Name Meaning and History

Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Micheil (probably earlier Mac Gille Mhicheil), a patronymic from a Gaelic form of the personal name Michael. (I believe the Mac/Mc means "son of". So, you see it is SCOTTISH, not Irish.

http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi...

Would this, by any chance, be him??

Name: Lemuel MCMICHAEL

s*x: M

Birth: WFT Est. 1823-1843

Death: WFT Est. 1857-1929

Marriage 1 Christiana H. ZOOK b: 29 MAY 1840

Married: WFT Est. 1854-1887

If so, this was on www.rootsweb.com

Lemuel C MCMICHAEL

Birth: Jun 1836 in PA

Death: Bef 1910

(Note: Philadelphia City Directory,1890,a teacher,address 832 N 21 ST.

There are 3 Lemuel McMichael in the U S Civil War Solders.1861-1865.)

        Married: Abt 1874  to:

Christiana H "Christa" ZOOK

Birth: Mar 1840 in PA

Death: date not stated

   Their Children

Richard B MCMICHAEL b: May 1875 in PA

Paul J MCMICHAEL b: Jul 1878 in PA

Her Father: Jacob M ZOOK b: Nov 1794 in Chester Co., PA & Mother: Christiana "Christie" HAUCK b: 23 Sep 1809 in PA.

His Father: Richard MCMICHAEL b: Abt 1809 in PA &

Mother: Mrs Bridget MCMICHAEL b: Abt 1809 in PA