Mcwhirter Family History
Mcwhirter Name Meaning
Scottish (Ayrshire) and northern Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic
Mac an Chruiteir ‘son of the harpist or fiddler’, from Gaelic
cruitear ‘harpist’, ‘fiddler’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Name Distribution of Mcwhirter Families
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United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mcwhirter families
 29 - 55  10 - 28 |
 1 - 9  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Mcwhirter families
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24 - 46 9 - 23 |
1 - 8 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mcwhirter families
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134 - 266 45 - 133 |
1 - 44 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Mcwhirter Family Origin
Mcwhirter Immigration Information
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Mcwhirter Family Occupations
from 1880 Federal Census Data
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Mcwhirter Civil War Service Records
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