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Brannick (surname)
Brannick is the anglicized form of the Irish surname Breathnach Breathnach or Bhreathnach (meaning ''Welshman'') is an Irish surname, indicating an ancestor who was Welsh. It is the Irish-language version of surnames such as Brannagh, Brunnock, Brannick, Walsh, Wallace, and Wallis. However, it does not nec .... Notable people with the surname include: * James Brannick (1889–1917), English footballer * John Brannick (1830–1895), Irish whiskey distiller * Sister Maura Brannick, founder of Sister Maura Brannick Health Center {{surname, Brannick English-language surnames Anglicised Irish-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breathnach
Breathnach or Bhreathnach (meaning ''Welshman'') is an Irish surname, indicating an ancestor who was Welsh. It is the Irish-language version of surnames such as Brannagh, Brunnock, Brannick, Walsh, Wallace, and Wallis. However, it does not necessarily mean that the ancestor concerned was from modern-day Wales; Robert Bell notes that Wallace was a surname indicating a Briton native of Strathclyde or any part of the Latin name Wallensis meant just that. It can also refer to the Cambro-Normans (later Hiberno-Normans) that were of Norman origin, but came to Ireland via Wales. The name appears in twelfth-century records of Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, parts of the old Strathclyde kingdom ... Wallace has also been used as a synonym of Walsh." (Bell, p. 244). The best known bearer of the name from the area was Uilleam Breatnach (William Wallace). John de Courcy (1160–1219) planted significant numbers of Britons of Cumbria during his lordship of Ulster. Gaelic-Irish sources such ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Brannick
James Brannick (1889 – 10 August 1917) was an English professional footballer who played as an inside right in the Scottish League for St Mirren and in the Football League for Everton. Personal life Prior to becoming a professional footballer, Brannick worked as a dyer's finisher in a bleaching and dying works. After the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Brannick enlisted as a private in the Lancashire Fusiliers in Cheetham. His elder brother Richard was killed near Ypres in October 1915. Brannick was killed during the capture of Westhoek on 10 August 1917 and is commemorated on the Menin Gate The Menin Gate ( nl, Menenpoort), officially the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing, is a war memorial in Ypres, Belgium, dedicated to the British and Commonwealth soldiers who were killed in the Ypres Salient of World War I and whose graves a .... Career statistics References 1889 births 1917 deaths Footballers from Manchester English men's footballers E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Brannick
John Brannick (1830 – 2 July 1895) was an Irish whiskey maker, and founder and master distiller of the Dublin Whiskey Distillery Company. Early life and career Born into a Dublin family of whiskey distillers in 1830,"John Brannick (1830-1895)", General Register Office (Ireland). Brannick's father, Patrick Brannick was "for twenty-five years in the distillery of Sir John Power"."Revival of the Banagher Distillery", ''Freeman's Journal'' (January 23, 1890), p. 5. Brannick "spent considerable time" working with his father in Power's distillery, before going to work for the distillery of George Roe and Son, with whom he remained for nearly twenty years, from 1852 to 1872. Brannick "successfully acted as Chief Distiller for Messrs. John Power & Son and Messrs. George Row & Co. for many years".''Irish Examiner'' (February 1, 1888), p. 2. After briefly managing a distillery in Limerick, Brannick "returned to Dublin to superintend the building of the Dublin Whiskey Distillery at Jones's- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sister Maura Brannick Health Center
The Sister Maura Brannick Health Center is a primary care clinic located in South Bend, Indiana that focuses on medical treatment for uninsured patients. Also known as the Chapin Street Clinic, the clinic provides health and dental care to those who do not have access to Medicare or Medicaid and cannot afford private health insurance. The Health Center relies on 30 volunteer physicians and around 30 student and community volunteers, along with its one staffed physician and two nurses, to meet the needs of its 600 patients. History The Health Center was founded in 1986 by Sister Maura Brannick, CSC. A Holy Cross Sister and a nurse, Sister Maura wanted to provide basic medical care to the needy residents of South Bend who had very little access to the city's medical services. Sister's vision was to staff a small clinic with nurses and to recruit one or two physicians to accept referrals for the sickest patients. Once word about Sister's idea spread, the response from physician ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Surnames
English is a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots language, Scots, and then closest related to the Low German, Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is Genetic relationship (linguistics), genealogically West Germanic language, West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by Langues d'oïl, dialects of France (about List of English words of French origin, 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvae ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
