MacCabe;
Variant Spellings; MacAbe, MacCabe, McCabe.
The MacCabes came to Ireland from the Hebrides in the fourthteenth century when they were hired as mercenaries by the O'Reillys and the O'Rourkes of Breffny. Later they formed their own sept and stayed on in Counties Cavan and Leitrim. As might be expected they were faithful followers of the Stuarts and as a result lost their estates after the battle of Aughrim in 1691.
In Irish the name is Mac Caba or son of the wearer of the hat. Caba in Gaelic is hat and in the case of the MacCabes refers to the distinctive hood the mercenaries wore when first they came from Scotland.
The bard Cathaoir MacCabe is remembered for his beautiful lament for the blind harper O Carolan. William Putnam MacCabe (1776-1821) was active in the 1798 rebellion being one of Lord Edward Fitzgerald's bodyguards. After the failure of the rebellion he went to France where he established a cotton mill near Rouen.
Edward MacCabe (1816-1885) became Archbishop of Dublin in1879 and a cardinal in 1882. Alasdair Mac Caba (1886-1972) founded the Educational Building Society in1935. In the present-day Eugene Macabe is a successful playwright and has had a number of his plays performed at Dublin's Abbey Theatre.
The motto of the MacCabe coat of arms is 'Aut vincere aut mori'.
Coat of Arms
MacCabe
Where the Family Lived (Blue Area)
Addresses for More Information
Ireland
Centre for Irish Genealogical and Local Studies, Carraig, Cliff Road, Windgates, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland. (Sean Murphy, MA, Director)
General Register Office, 8-11 Lombard Street East, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Telephone (01) 671 1000
Website http://www.doh.ie/manual/chap4/gere.htm
National Archives, Bishop Street, Dublin 8, Ireland.
Telephone (01) 478 3711
National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Telephone (01) 603 0200
Website www.heanet.ie/natlib
Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 66 Balmoral Street, Belfast BT9 6NYY, Northern Ireland
Telephone (01232) 251319.
Website http://proni.nics.gov.uk/index.htm
University College Dublin, Adult Education Office, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Website http://www.ucd.ie/delltti
Britain
Family Records Centre, London, England.
Website http://pro.gov.uk/about/frc/default.htm
Public Records Office, Kew, Surrey, England.
Website http://www.pro.gov.uk
General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Website http://www.open.gov.uk/index.html
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales.
Website http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.htm
North America
Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day Saints, Family History Information, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Website http://lds.org/en/ 2 how do I begin/0- how do I begin.html
Family Tree Maker’s Genealogy Site
Website http://www.familytreemaker.com/index.html
The Irish Ancestral Research Association (TIARA), P.O. Box 619 Sudbury, MA 01776, USA.
Website http://tiari.ie
Irish Genealogical Society International, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Website http://www.rootsweb.com irish/index.html
New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston Massachusetts, USA.
Website http://nehgs.org/main-01.htm
Australasia
Genealogical Society of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Website http://www.alphalink.com/au/esv
National Archives of Australia, Canberra, Australia.
Website http://www.aa.gov.au/AA_WWW/AA_Home_Page.html
National Archives of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
Website http://www.archives.dia.gov.nz
List of Links
Cyndi’s List of Genealogical Sites on the Internet: Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Website http://www.cyndilist.com/ireland.htm
UK and Ireland Genealogical Information Service.
Website http://www.genuki.org.uk
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