[antir-heralds] Name Help: McCoy

[Ursula Georges]

James D Sena wrote:
> For those sources that do not cite a date you need a second source.  
> http://www.s-gabriel.org/ should always be a resource you refer to. 
> 
> http://www.panix.com/~gabriel/public-bin/showfinal.cgi?2520+0 has some 
> explanation of McCoy,

And Academy of Saint Gabriel Report 1336 has a bunch of 16th-century 
Scots renderings of the underlying Gaelic <mac Aoidh>:

http://www.s-gabriel.org/1336

> In period Gaelic cultures it was vanishingly rare for a name to be 
> constructed with a "middle"  (Or second given) name (Such as this 
> example, Gerald Rhys McCoy).  According to what I have read Gerald mac 
> Rhys mhic Aoidh would be more probable.

Except that Rhys is Welsh, not Gaelic :)

Ursula Georges.