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RANKIN - The Rankins were hereditary pipers to the MacLeans of Duart. After the Chiefs of Duart lost their possessions the Rankins became pipers to the Lairds of Coll (also MacLeans).
The last of the Rankin hereditary pipers emigrated to Prince Edward Island. John MacCodrum the Uist Bard who flourished during the 18th century refers to the Clan Duille (as the Rankins were anciently called) as among the leading pipers of the day. When Dr. Johnston made his tour of the Hebrides with Boswell he was entertained by MacLean of Coll whose piper, one of the Clan Duille, played before the Doctor. There was also a family of Rankins in Ayrshire where persons of the name were small proprietors before the end of the 16th century.
John Rankyne was a burgess of Glasgow in 1456. In the 17th century in the records of the Scots Guards in France we have Ranequin Kennedy.
The name probably derived as a diminutive ('KIN' added) of a name similar to Randolph. The Irish recorded it as Raincin. There is no clan Rankin as such, therefore their Chief is the same as the MacLeans of Duart. There is a Rankin tartan, first recorded in 1882, but it is not readily available so the MacLean of Duart may be worn.
The Dalriadan clans of ancient Scotland spawned the ancestors of the Rankin family. Their name comes from the personal name Randolph, with the addition of the diminutive suffix -kin.
Spelling variations include: Rankin, Ranken, Ranking, Rankene, Rankine and others.
Also, first found in Ayrshire where they were seated from early times and their first records appeared on the early census rolls taken by the early Kings of Britain to determine the rate of taxation of their subjects.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Lawlin Rankin settled in Virginia in 1650; Andrew Rankin settled in New England in 1651; Alexander Rankin settled in Boston in 1764; Alexander, Andrew, David, Henry, Hugh, James, John, Robert, Thomas and William Rankin all arrived in Philadelphia between 1800 and 1870.
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My g-grandfather came to America back in the 19th. Family name "Rankin". I just got to look that up.
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A brief interweebs search of my family name took me back to Duke William of Normandy, 1066, Conquest, etc. Doesn't mean anything to me, though, because apparently just about every swingin' dick in his army started naming their kids after him as soon as he won. I sure as hell didn't inherit any of his heroism, power or riches, so (Need and 'air wank' smiley, 'zilla!)
Oh, and there's some Choctaw on the other side of the family. The good side...
Oh, and there's some Choctaw on the other side of the family. The good side...
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No air wank smiley, sorry.FBM wrote:A brief interweebs search of my family name took me back to Duke William of Normandy, 1066, Conquest, etc. Doesn't mean anything to me, though, because apparently just about every swingin' dick in his army started naming their kids after him as soon as he won. I sure as hell didn't inherit any of his heroism, power or riches, so (Need and 'air wank' smiley, 'zilla!)
Oh, and there's some Choctaw on the other side of the family. The good side...
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My old man once told me we were descended from a long line of coopers. - Other than that I have no idea about our family. 
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Much obliged...^^^Gawdzilla wrote:No air wank smiley, sorry.FBM wrote:A brief interweebs search of my family name took me back to Duke William of Normandy, 1066, Conquest, etc. Doesn't mean anything to me, though, because apparently just about every swingin' dick in his army started naming their kids after him as soon as he won. I sure as hell didn't inherit any of his heroism, power or riches, so (Need and 'air wank' smiley, 'zilla!)
Oh, and there's some Choctaw on the other side of the family. The good side...
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Works better this way:FBM wrote:Much obliged...^^^Gawdzilla wrote:No air wank smiley, sorry.FBM wrote:A brief interweebs search of my family name took me back to Duke William of Normandy, 1066, Conquest, etc. Doesn't mean anything to me, though, because apparently just about every swingin' dick in his army started naming their kids after him as soon as he won. I sure as hell didn't inherit any of his heroism, power or riches, so (Need and 'air wank' smiley, 'zilla!)
Oh, and there's some Choctaw on the other side of the family. The good side...
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Mom's side is 100% Irish. They emigrated in the late 19th Century and settled in Connecticut. Most of that family is still there.
Dad's side is a mix. His father is from Norway, and also had a bit of Swedish in his ancestry. He moved to Jamaica to marry my paternal grandmother during WWII (I think he was out of the country at the time of the German invasion of Norway, serving with a British merchant marine company). My grandmother's family had been in Jamaica for centuries, but is a mix of Scottish, English, Swedish, and possibly some others, and they trace their heritage back to the original colonists who set up sugar & slave colonies, who were themselves descended from Mary, Queen of Scots' extended family. My dad was born in Kingston Jamaica in 1946, but they emigrated to New York City in 1959, just after Castro took over in Cuba (and a few radicals threatened the same in Jamaica) but before Jamaica became independent from the British crown a couple years later.
And now we're American.
Dad's side is a mix. His father is from Norway, and also had a bit of Swedish in his ancestry. He moved to Jamaica to marry my paternal grandmother during WWII (I think he was out of the country at the time of the German invasion of Norway, serving with a British merchant marine company). My grandmother's family had been in Jamaica for centuries, but is a mix of Scottish, English, Swedish, and possibly some others, and they trace their heritage back to the original colonists who set up sugar & slave colonies, who were themselves descended from Mary, Queen of Scots' extended family. My dad was born in Kingston Jamaica in 1946, but they emigrated to New York City in 1959, just after Castro took over in Cuba (and a few radicals threatened the same in Jamaica) but before Jamaica became independent from the British crown a couple years later.
And now we're American.
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Gawdzilla wrote:Works better this way:
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: airwank :FBM wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:Works better this way:
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Both my parents are half Frisian, half Dutch. From my fathers side, my great grandfather was a fisherman, as were all the males for a couple of generations before him. From my mothers side they were all cattle farmers. There may well have been some wood or grain traders in my fathers side of the family, as the village they're from (Molkwar, 52°90 N 5°40 E) controlled a significant portion of the import from Scandinavia from the thirteenth century until the eighteenth century, but there are hardly any records from that area and period.
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Lancastrian Farmers, mostly. But, my auntie traced some lineage back as far as Alice Nutter. In the early 1600s.
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My surname Byrne implies that I'm a descendant of Brian, the King of Leinster in 1502. It emans 'Son of Brian.'
The Byrnes were also notoriously hard bastards to catch in the Wicklow mountains during English occupancy favouring guerilla warfare.
My Grandfather was a cooper for Guinness. My father opted for a life as a technician servicing ATMs.
My mums name McDaid means 'son of David'.
My mums father invented biscuits for Jacobs in Dublin (probably why I'm really protective of the meaning of 'biscuit').
The Byrnes were also notoriously hard bastards to catch in the Wicklow mountains during English occupancy favouring guerilla warfare.
My Grandfather was a cooper for Guinness. My father opted for a life as a technician servicing ATMs.
My mums name McDaid means 'son of David'.
My mums father invented biscuits for Jacobs in Dublin (probably why I'm really protective of the meaning of 'biscuit').
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Well my family mostly came from england and scotland then immigrated to South Australia (not convict we paid to get here. 
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