McGonagall, Figg, and Tartans

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 88801

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Shaun Hately" <drednort at a...> 
wrote:

Frost: 
> > Anyhow, I'm trying to find McGonagall on the clan registries, and 
> > it's not coming up.  Moody came up under Clan Stewart, and 
MacNair 
> > came up under Clan Macpherson and Clan Macnaught.  Hmmm... Nope 
not 
> > finding MacGonagall (Most sights insert the "a" into "Mc" whether 
> > you want it there or not. :p *sighs*) 
> 

Shaun:
> A friend who is a professional genealogist has told me that 
> McGonnagall is an Irish sept, not a Scots one. Originating in 
> County Donegal, as McGonigle.

Geoff:
I have commented way back on the Scottish connections of the name 
McGonagall. It was the "Great McGonagall" who penned those 
excruciating verses about the fall of the Tay Bridge in 1879 and a 
number of equally Vogon-style poems. 

However,following Shaun's note, I've just done a quick search and 
found a website (www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk) devoted to the dear 
man -  Sir William Topaz McGonagall -  his parents were Irish but he 
was born in Edinburgh and brought up in Scotland.