"My name is spelled MacIntire, I
do not see it on your list so thought I would pass it on.
It was changed from McIntire sometime between 1914 and 1938. When
it was McIntire the c was raised and had a line under it with
two dots under the line. My Grandfather was Harold Sidney
McIntire and owned a milk business. Every week my Grandmother
had to write out the milk bills for his customers, this included
signing her name. She told me that one day she became so tired
of drawing a line with two dots under it below the c that she changed
it from McIntire to MacIntire. The reason I can give you a
time frame is based in birth records. My father was born in
1914 and his name was spelled McIntire, I was born in 1938 and my
name was spelled MacIntire.
I am a descendant of Philip McIntire who was captured by Oliver
Cromwell in the battle of Dunbar, Scotland on September 3, 1650,
and sold as a slave to the Saugus Iron Works which is now a National
Historical Site in Saugus, Massachusetts. Philip was transported
along with 150 others on the slave ship Unity to the USA in December
1650.
I am enjoying your WEB site, hope this is of interest to you.
Harold MacIntire"
