MacCracken

**Robertson** · 11th January 08, 03:37 PM

Is there any MacCracken (McCracken)'s out there? I'd like info. on what Clan.
I think Clan MacNaughten but a have read Clan MacLean too.

**RobertsonII** · 18th January 08, 09:17 PM

I'm one...Hey wait a minute?!?

**SteveB** · 18th January 08, 09:21 PM

Like father, like son...

**Livingston** · 18th January 08, 09:21 PM

You two just MacCracken me up...

**slohairt** · 18th January 08, 10:23 PM

MacNaughton would seem most likely. MacCracken was usually an Anglicisation of Mac Reachdainn, which itself was a corruption of Mac Neachdainn.

**M. A. C. Newsome** · 19th January 08, 06:09 AM

Second what Slohairt said. MacNaughton and MacCracken both stem from the same Gaelic root name. Just two different Anglicisations based on two different pronunciations of the same Gaelic name.

**Robertson** · 19th January 08, 09:11 AM

Thanks for the input *Elc. Scotland had Clan MacNaughton but* Clans and
Families of Scotland had them as a Sept. of Maclean. MacCracken (also
MacRankine) Mclean (if from Mull)? Thanks everyone (you too TJ)

**slohairt** · 19th January 08, 10:12 AM

Hard to say without some genealogical research. There were often families/clans with the same name but completely unrelated. Since "mac" surnames are patronymics based on a man's personal name, you can imagine there was more than one Neachdann back in the day! So, a family called MacNaughton/MacCracken were (obviously) MacNaughtons. Another family of the same name (though no relation) was a sept of Maclean.

Incidentally, I think MacRankine is usually Anglicised from Mac Fhraingin. A different name entirely.

**SteveB** · 19th January 08, 10:36 PM

Clans & Tartans of Scotland by James MacKay, London:2000 Lists MacCracken as sept of Maclean. However the only real way is through a thorough research of ones genealogy.

Steve

**BoldHighlander** · 19th January 08, 11:18 PM

Originally Posted by Robertson

Is there any MacCracken (McCracken)'s out there? I'd like info. on what Clan.
I think Clan MacNaughten but a have read Clan MacLean too.

A friend of mine (now residing in Australia) is a McCracken.

I have noted that MacCracken is claimed as a sept by *both* clans MacNaughten & MacLean, yet when I walked over to the MacLean booth last year to get membership info for my friend, their local reps got testy with me and claimed that MacCracken was not a sept of their clan!
Whatever...