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Updated: Monday, 13 August 2001
Scottish Cormacks, MacCormicks, and MacCormacks are generally associated with either the Clan Buchannan or Clan MacLean/MacLaine, but they may also be associated with no clan at all. Here you'll find info about Cormacks and MacCormacks, links to clans, and other related info. Also we'll have info on spelling variants like McCormick, McCormeck, McCormac, etc.

My grandmother, Lila Dorothy was a Cormack (finally got the spelling). An episode I remember from before I was interested in family history-a 2nd or 3rd cousin had written a partial family genealogy and grandma had scratched out the Mac because "she was a Cormack!" (even though most of her life she used MacCormack as her maiden name. It may have been added to an official document and she figured it was easier to just go along...)
Another anecdote was that she was youngest child, conceived in Scotland but born in Colorado in 1903. Still haven't found evidence...but it seems unlikely since the family moved to Colorado about 1888! Her father was Francis Cormack (1858-1905), mother Dora Waters, and aunt was Mary Waters (1875-1929) from the Wick, Caithness, Scotland area. Dora, Christina, and Mary's father Peter Waters died in 1888 and is buried in the Bower churchyard in Scotland. A list of her ancestors is available.
My grandmother had at several sisters, Janet (1888-1905), Mary Catherine (Aunt Kate), and Christina (Aunt Teen), the later living in Karval, Colorado at some point in the 1950s or 1960s. Janet Cormack is buried with Francis and Mary in a cemetery in Elizabeth, Colorado. There were also brothers, David, Peter William (1898-1957), William, and Francis (1888-abt.1901) More family photos are available. Also available is an tree of the related Scottish families in PDF format.
I received a very interesting McCormick story from Bob L. Layne Hasbargen, Pacific Northwest Commissioner, Clan Maclaine of Lochbuie. Kevin McCormick has a slightly different telling. Also the Clan Gillean Webserver has an interesting page with Highland names in Gaelic.
Other Cormacks, McCormacks, and McCormicks on the Web
- Roger Barnes's page. Why, do you say is he here? His wife's Grandmother (Christina Waters) is my Great Aunt, hence connected to Francis Cormack, who married Dora Waters.
- Cormack, Newfoundland
- Cormack and Pheasant Familiy History Research on four families: the Cormacks, Nairns and Strachans, originating in Perthshire and Fife, Scotland and the Pheasants, originating in Lincolnshire, England.
- Lots of Cormacks from Orkney (and some from Caithness)
- Another Cormack line from Caithness [Daniel Cormack's Descendants]
- Caithness Community Website has lots of history and reunion information.
- Michael K. MacCormack's Genealogy site
- George Cormack's Thistle Roots genealogy service. He's not taking new work, but left the site up for reference.
- Gaelic singer Arthur Cormack (Gaelic Music.com) or on Amazon.
- The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald
- Cormac's Chapel-built in 1127 on the Rock of Cashel in County Tipperary, Ireland.
- Another MacCormack/MacCormick site
- Donna Marsh's McCormick Family Genealogy
- Kelly Bragg's Eastern US McCormick Genealogy page
- William Green Cormack Bible- Macoupin County Illinois
- Dave McCormick's McCormick info page. This one appears offline.
- A ton of Cormack-related images and documents (not necessarily proven related folks, but interesting!)
- Another Clan MacCormack page, this one in Nova Scotia [New Scotland] that isn't updated too often.
- An Irish McCormick genealogy page by Kelly Bragg.
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