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Subject: Re: [DNA-R1B1C7] Lochlan" was Norse "Rogaland
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:52:43 EDT



In a message dated 8/15/2007 11:16:21 A.M. Central Standard Time,
writes:

In Irish Gaelic, "Lochlan" referred to someone of Viking or Viking/Gael
descent, and has yielded the names Lochlan, McLochlan, Lachlan, McLachlan
Loughlan, McLoughlan, Loughlin, McLoughlin, and others. I've read somewhere
that the term was originally applied to mixed Viking/Gaels from the
Hebridies. Later many of these mixed Hebridian tribes would become
Gallowglass - mercenaries - to Irish chieftains in Ireland - families such
as Sweeney, McCabe and others.



So far in the McLaughin Surname Project of about 50 participants we have
exactly 3 non R1b members, and these are all I haplogroups of various flavors, 2
of 3 are old I1c. . In our McLaughlin of Donegal group, the earliest to
assume this surname in northern Ireland (1023 AD.), all are R1b. The
O'Loughlins of Burren in Co. Clare appear to have had an ancestor named Lochlan at
least a generation earlier than the northern bunch (Annals of Ulster). Since the
Scottish pedigrees are untrustworthy, no one really knows when the Lochlan
ancestor of the Scottish Maclachlans lived.

O Corrain, in his article on the meaning of Lochlan, a term later used by
the Irish annalists for Norway, parted company with Marstrander and earlier
theorists and believed the term simply referred to the Hebrides and the
Vikings settled in the western Isles.

In the Clan McLaughlin Society we've long wondered if the adoption of
Lochlan as a personal name implied if nothing else intermarrige with the Vikings.
But nothing in the DNA seems to suggest a male Viking origin for the clan
as a whole (unless some Vikings were R1b1c7). The intermarriage theory might
still hold true - at least one McLaughlin High KIng of Ireland (or his son)
had a daughter who is named a wife of the Norse King of Mann in the Annals of
Mann.


John





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