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McCunn
McCunn is a surname, originating in Scotland but now widespread in many countries across the world. Origins of the name The surname is probably a variant of ' McCune', the Anglicised form of ' MacEoghainn'. The personal name ' Eoghain' is a Gaelic form of the Latin 'Eugenius', meaning 'noble', borne by a third-century bishop and martyr. Another theory suggests McCunn as a variant of 'McKeown', which comes from the Celtic ' Mac Eoin' ('Eoin' being the Irish form of John). Family history The first recorded bearer of the name was Gilcrist McKwnne, circa 1370, in the Calendar of the Laing Charters during the reign of King David II of Scotland. The surname was introduced to Ulster by Scottish settlers during the plantation of the province and later many McCunns emigrated during the Great Famine of Ireland. Since then, the McCunn family has spread throughout the world particularly to North America. Notable McCunns * Hamish MacCunn, Scottish composer of ''The Land of the Mountain and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl McCunn
Carl McCunn (January 25, 1947 – December 18, 1981) was an American wildlife photography, wildlife photographer who became stranded in the Alaskan wilderness and eventually died by suicide when he ran out of supplies. Early life and education McCunn was the son of Donovan McCunn and Erika Hess. He was born in Munich, Germany, where his father was stationed by the United States Army. He was raised in San Antonio, Texas, graduated from high school in 1964, and enlisted in the United States Navy shortly after dropping out of Community college#United States, community college. McCunn served in the Navy for four years and was discharged in 1969. He briefly lived in Seattle, Washington (state), Washington, before settling in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1970. Alaskan excursion McCunn had lived five months on the Brooks Range in 1976. In March 1981, he hired a bush pilot to drop him off at a remote, unnamed lake approximately northeast of Fairbanks, Alaska, Fairbanks, approximately west of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Ruthanne Lum McCunn () (née Drysdale; born February 21, 1946) is an American novelist and editor of Chinese and Scottish descent. Early life Ruthanne Lum McCunn was born as Roxey Drysdale on February 21, 1946, in Chinatown, San Francisco and raised in Hong Kong. Her father was a Scottish American merchant seaman from Idaho, and her mother was from Hong Kong. Her parents met in the late 1930s when her mother came to San Francisco with a cousin to visit the World's Fair, where she met Ruthanne's father, fell in love with him and got married. Interracial marriage was illegal in California at the time so they drove to Washington, where a minister, who was a friend of her father's family, married them. For the duration of World War II, they lived in San Francisco's Chinatown. In 1947, her mother returned to Hong Kong with Ruthanne and her sister, where they lived in Sai Ying Pun. McCunn's first language was Cantonese, and she grew up surrounded by her mother's extended family. When sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huntingtower (novel)
''Huntingtower'' is a 1922 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan, initially serialised in ''Popular Magazine'' between August and September 1921. It is the first of his three Dickson McCunn books, the action taking place in the district of Carrick in Galloway, Scotland. Plot summary Having sold his Glasgow grocery-store business, 55-year-old Dickson McCunn decides to start his retirement with a walking holiday in the district of Carrick in Galloway. At a local inn he meets John Heritage, a poet and ex-soldier, as well as an unnamed young man who asks after a place called 'Darkwater' that nobody has heard of. McCunn and Heritage decide to spend the next night at the village of Dalquaharter where they are taken in by a local widow, Phemie Morran. They investigate the local big house, Huntingtower, where – although the place is ostensibly empty – they hear a woman singing. Heritage recognises the voice as that of a Russian princess he had fallen in love with from afa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas McCunn
RNLB '' Thomas McCunn'' (ON 759) is a Longhope Lifeboat Thomas McCunn ON 759 lifeboat stationed at Longhope in , Scotland,OS Explorer Map: Orkney - Hoy, South Walls & Flotta: Published: Ordnance Survey: from January 1933 until April 1962. During which time she was launched on service 101 times and saved 308 lives. After ''Thomas McCunn'' left Longhope she was placed into the reserve fleet for ten years before being sold and used as a pleasure boat. In 2000 she was bought by Longhope Lifeboat Museum. The lifeboat is now at the centre of a display in the old slipway at [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McCunn
John H. McCunn (November 2, 1820 – July 6, 1872) was born Burnally, Limavady, County Londonderry, Ireland on 2 November 1820 son of William McCunn and Martha attyMcKinley.Ballykelly Church of Ireland baptisms, Co Londonderry He belonged to a poor Irish immigrant family who arrived in New York City in the 19th century. He worked as a dockhand before training as a lawyer, and eventually becoming a judge. When the American Civil War began in 1861 he joined the Union Army as a Captain in the 69th New York Infantry Regiment before he recruited the 37th New York Infantry which he commanded as colonel. At war's end he was brevetted Brigadier General. He was a member of the infamous Tweed Ring William Magear Tweed (April 3, 1823 – April 12, 1878), often erroneously referred to as William "Marcy" Tweed (see below), and widely known as "Boss" Tweed, was an American politician most notable for being the political boss of Tammany H ..., which he aided by naturalising new ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dickson McCunn
The Dickson McCunn Trilogy is a series of three novels by John Buchan: '' Huntingtower'' (1922), '' Castle Gay'' (1930) and '' The House of the Four Winds'' (1935). Penguin published an omnibus edition, ''The Adventures of Dickson McCunn'', in 1994. Huntingtower Castle Gay The House of the Four Winds Characters Dickson McCunn Dickson McCunn is a fictional retired Glasgow Glasgow ( ; sco, Glesca or ; gd, Glaschu ) is the most populous city in Scotland and the fourth-most populous city in the United Kingdom, as well as being the 27th largest city by population in Europe. In 2020, it had an estimated popul ... grocer, the main character in the trilogy. References External links Gutenberg text of "Huntingtower" Novels by John Buchan Scottish novels Literary trilogies Novel series 20th-century British novels Novels set in Scotland {{Europe-novel-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McCune (surname)
McCune is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Adam McCune (novelist) (b. 1985), American novelist * Alfred W. McCune (1849–1927), British-American railroad builder, mine owner, and Mormon * Barron Patterson McCune (1915–2008), United States federal judge * Bruce Pettit McCune (b. 1952), American lichenologist and botanist * Debbie McCune Davis (b. 1951), American politician * Earl McCune (1956–2020), American inventor, Silicon Valley entrepreneur, and electrical and telecommunications engineer * Emma McCune (1964–1993), British foreign aid worker * Elizabeth Ann Claridge McCune (1852–1924), Mormon missionary * George M. McCune (1908–1948), co-developer of the McCune–Reischauer romanization system of the Korean language * Grant McCune (1943–2010), American special effects designer * Isaac McCune (1884–1959), Canadian politician * Keith McCune (b. 1955), American author * Lisa McCune (b. 1971), Australian actress * Robert McCune (b. 1979 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacEoghainn
The Scottish surname MacEwen derives from the Old Gaelic ''Mac Eoghainn'', meaning 'the son of Eoghann'. The name is found today in both Scotland and Northern Ireland. Because it was widely used before its spelling was standardised, the modern name has several common variations. The earliest attested use is by a Malcolm MacEwen, who witnessed a charter in 1174. The surname occurs in a number of prominent families throughout Scottish history. Although author R. S. T. MacEwen claimed that all these families, with variant spellings of the surname indicating possible differing origins, probably originated in Clan Ewen of Otter, the history is more complex. The name has varied heraldic traditions, reflecting the various origins. The first MacEwen armiger was granted arms in 1743, and his achievement reflects his family's origins in Clan MacDougall. However a second grant of arms in the name made in 1793 to William MacEwan of Glenboig, displays Cameron symbolism in both its crest an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MacEwen
The Scottish surname MacEwen derives from the Old Gaelic ''Mac Eoghainn'', meaning 'the son of Eoghann'. The name is found today in both Scotland and Northern Ireland. Because it was widely used before its spelling was standardised, the modern name has several common variations. The earliest attested use is by a Malcolm MacEwen, who witnessed a charter in 1174. The surname occurs in a number of prominent families throughout Scottish history. Although author R. S. T. MacEwen claimed that all these families, with variant spellings of the surname indicating possible differing origins, probably originated in Clan Ewen of Otter, the history is more complex. The name has varied heraldic traditions, reflecting the various origins. The first MacEwen armiger was granted arms in 1743, and his achievement reflects his family's origins in Clan MacDougall. However a second grant of arms in the name made in 1793 to William MacEwan of Glenboig, displays Cameron symbolism in both its crest and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
McKeown
McKeown and MacKeown are Irish surnames originating both from the Irish '' Mac Eoghain'' ("Son of Eoghan") and '' Mac Eoin'' ("Son of Eoin"), which are pronounced identically: /mək ˈow ən/ or "McOwen". The surnames are associated with the Mac Eoin Bissett family. A family who arrived in the Irish Glens of Antrim in the 13th century AD with John Bissett. The family settled in the region with other Anglo-Norman families, marrying into local Gaelic families, adopting the Gaelic culture, laws, language and finding themselves totally assimilated into Irish life. It has been suggested that within Northern Ireland's borders there are McKeowns that have a totally separate historical lineage, immigrating to Ireland with Ulster-Scotch planters, settling there during the great plantations. This claim is difficult to substantiate, due to poor church or state records during the plantation period. However, the lack of frequency of the name "McKeown" (and its variants) within earlier Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Famine (Ireland)
The Great Famine ( ga, an Gorta Mór ), also known within Ireland as the Great Hunger or simply the Famine and outside Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis which subsequently had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole. With the most severely affected areas in the west and south of Ireland, where the Irish language was dominant, the period was contemporaneously known in Irish as , literally translated as "the bad life" (and loosely translated as "the hard times"). The worst year of the period was 1847, which became known as "Black '47".Éamon Ó Cuív – the impact and legacy of the Great Irish Famine During the Great Hunger, roughly 1 million people died and more than 1 million Irish diaspora, fled the country, causing the country's population to fall by 20–25% (in some towns falling as much as 67%) between 1841 and 1871.Carolan, MichaelÉireann's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulster
Ulster (; ga, Ulaidh or ''Cúige Uladh'' ; sco, label= Ulster Scots, Ulstèr or ''Ulster'') is one of the four traditional Irish provinces. It is made up of nine counties: six of these constitute Northern Ireland (a part of the United Kingdom); the remaining three are in the Republic of Ireland. It is the second-largest (after Munster) and second-most populous (after Leinster) of Ireland's four traditional provinces, with Belfast being its biggest city. Unlike the other provinces, Ulster has a high percentage of Protestants, making up almost half of its population. English is the main language and Ulster English the main dialect. A minority also speak Irish, and there are Gaeltachtaí (Irish-speaking regions) in southern County Londonderry, the Gaeltacht Quarter, Belfast, and in County Donegal; collectively, these three regions are home to a quarter of the total Gaeltacht population of Ireland. Ulster-Scots is also spoken. Lough Neagh, in the east, is the largest lake i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
