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From: "The Jansen Family" <>
Subject: Re: SURNAME CAGE
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 19:54:58 -0800


Could McCage be a misspelling of McCabe?
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From: Linda Merle <>
To: <>
Date: Thursday, March 30, 2000 7:20 PM
Subject: Re: SURNAME CAGE


>Hi Justin,
>
>We can give you some free information, but if you really want to get to the
>bottom of it, then you will conduct your own research -- taking more than
the
>10 minutes I did to do it! Free genealogy surname lookups are a lot like
>free medical advice.
>
>I see no evidence that there was a McCage. The name is very rare in
Ireland.
>It does appear on the list of English Adventurers who financed the English
>Civil War and therefore were awarded land in Ireland. There is in the Index
>to Griffiths Valuation one Cage -- Rev R W Cage in Westmeath. There are
>Caghans, Gagher 's, Cagley's.
>
>Though MacLysaght has no Cage or McCage there are 2 families in Galway:
>James and Redmond. Were these the descendents of the English Cage
>who went native? Could be, lots did. Possibly Galway local history
>knows who and what these people are!! Perhaps the remnants of a very
>small sept or -- assimulated English.
>
>At least just a few of them show up.
>
>I also check Black "Surnames of Scotland" - nada!!
>
>Linda Merle
>
>

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